We’ve been hearing a lot about the wind, cold and snow in parts of the U.S. — here in the Southwest we have the opposite problem. Kaitlin sent me this link about an outdoor fire ban in Angel Fire, in the northern part of the state.
Beginning January 10, 2018 at 7 A.M., outside fires and open burning will be prohibited.
This prohibition is due to the lack of precipitation, high winds, and the continued drying out of fuels throughout the Village of Angel Fire.
And Andy has ordered a log rack to hold his fire wood so he can get it off our porch and away from the house.
We’ve been enjoying the sunshine, but life is seldom perfect. Sooner or later the land will have another fire.
January 15, 2018
sadly those kind of events, do seem to return …
here we have been having some sort of record summer, although any time we get a storm, it seems to be very heavy rain – a few days and the wind carries it somewhere else. Then it’s back to sweltering hot (not as hot as Sydney was last week) but still blistering…and then it will get all sticky/humid.
today some lite rain earlier, which then cleared but it’s blustery… which might be the reason no contractors – or there might be some other reason…
One can never tell with contractors. 🙁
We would have trouble with both the sweltering heat and the hot and humid. We tend to wilt in the heat, and usually our winters aren’t very severe — they don’t drag on the way they did in upstate New York.
I don’t think there will be a concrete pour this week, as rain is forecast and it’s certainly blustery which might mean that a pour would start “mounting the fence” or similar…
there are currently about 9 counties under a burn ban in our state.
we’re extremely dry. we just stay in drought mode anymore.
here in the central part we’ve had no real measurable precipitation of any kind for almost three months now. and of course the wind is always the problem and the danger if there should be a fire. it’s never calm here!
tonight it’s to drop very low in temp. and the wind is blowing straight 20/22 mph with gusts up to 29/30mph. hard on man and beast.
it’s seems like a wise idea about the wood at the cabin. possibly even wise for any termites looking for a home in the summer too! anyway. couldn’t hurt!
I know, your weather sucks! According to the U.S. Drought Monitor parts of OK have extreme drought, most of NM is moderate drought, and maybe short term. We will have to see.
The unusual thing about the woodpile is the concern so early in the year.
We seldom have the same weather every year. Not sure what year it was but there were tornadoes up north of here in January I think. We had our ups and down, but it seems like whatever we get – it’s just to an extreme.
We may have snow tomorrow … we’ll see! 🙂
We have wildfires here, but seldom have tornadoes. We live on the second floor, so don’t know what we would do if a tornado came.
I notice you like the Poldark books. I’ve never read any, but I just finished watching the latest PBS series. Andy and I watched the original version years ago, but there are only a couple of parts we remember. It would be interesting to compare the two. We saw the first one in black and white, so the scenery in this one is spectacular.
I read the Poldark books years ago, I used to read any series that was in similar vein. Maybe it’s time to do that again…
We are having strange weather too. After almost record breaking cold, the day temperature has gone up to summer levels and the nights warmer. It is forecast that from tonight it will plunge down again.
Weather does keep us on our toes. 🙂
We’ve missed out on the ice and snow, thank goodness, but we’ve had plenty of cold. We use our fireplace insert when it’s too cold for the heat pump to keep up. This morning at 3:30 it was 16.5° outside and the heat pump was maintaining at the 68°F setpoint we keep the house at. At 5:30, outside had dropped to 12.5°F and the house was down to 66°F — so we have a fire this morning.
We had burn bans for much of the fall after a wet spring and early summer followed by months of no precipitation at all. In the last month, we’ve had a little over 4 inches of rain, but, according to the Drought Monitor, we are still in moderate drought. 4 inches may sound like a lot until you take into consideration that we average 48 inches a year. When you are in drought conditions, one month of average precipitation will not be enough.
Good luck on getting more precipitation. We certainly could use some.
It’s been cold and wet here in the Canadian Pacific North West—but it’s always like that in the winter months, so nothing new here! I love all of these weather reports!
I love the weather reports too!
Here in Minneapolis/St Paul we have very little snow. That means a drought here come spring when there won’t be enough snow melt to dampen things down. So a good winter means a poor spring.
I figure we might as well enjoy the sunny winter since like you we will be paying for it.