This is an odd weather year. A lot of rain, cloudy, cooler, mostly. My grass is still green and growing. On the up side, the fireflies are out and Mrs Pete and daughter are on the front porch watching!
Weather. There is a storm out over Junction City and Ft Riley headed east. you should see it early next morning if it holds together. Good for peas and cabbage.
My future weather forecast. Looks like my weeds are getting a head start again this season!
Tuesday morning fog then preparing for ALERT DAYS Wednesday and Thursday
PLANNING THE NEXT 24 HOURS: After morning fog thins out, weather conditions will become partly sunny along with light northwesterly winds. Temperatures will climb into the mid to upper 80s before settling into the low to mid 70s overnight. Overnight, showers and thunderstorms will be moving through Minnesota and Iowa, impacting Wisconsin closer to daybreak on Wednesday. A few of these storms may still be severe with strong winds and smaller hail as the main threats.
EXTENDED FORECAST: ALERT DAY conditions then return later Wednesday afternoon; storms will develop across parts of northeastern Iowa and southeastern Minnesota then race into western Wisconsin. These storms will likely bring an isolated tornado threat as well as damaging wind gust and large hail threat through the early morning hours on Thursday. Dry conditions take back over, briefly, before a second round of severe weather returns to southern Wisconsin. This second round of severe weather on Thursday will also pose an isolated tornado threat, strong wind threat and large hail threat. Make sure that you’re staying with News 3 Now for the latest forecast and severe weather coverage. Drier and cooler conditions are expected on Friday.
Diana here: Mainly I’ll be buttoning up the greenhouse (no plants are in there now - too hot!) and throwing a few bungee cords over Grover’s doghouse on the porch so he doesn’t blow away!
Running errands today, as usual for a Tuesday, then hunkering down. Will work on some more jam when I bring home more sugar. Going to try and get the dogs all out today for some exercise. Woof!
Looking forward to clean up come Friday. *Rolleyes* Beau & Crew return on Saturday. They treed a LYNX yesterday - not on purpose, it just got tangled up in their running of a black bear. No dogs or people or animals were hurt.
Our forecast heat index is 105 deg. F today. That’s not gonna be very comfortable, esp. as a lot of it is humidity. At least it is / will be breezy though.
I had a pretty fair amount of cleanup this morning, after last evening’s storm, but it was all little stuff and leaf litter - no major damage. It would appear we got about 1-3/4” of rain in an hour, most of it in about 15 minutes. Then in the early A.M. we got ~ 1/4” or so at a more moderate rate.
Just after the heavy stuff ended, we heard the chickens clucking: I’d left the “run” door open as some birds go caught outside and took shelter where they could. I ran out and discovered the biggest opossum I’ve ever been close to, in the coop. All the birds that had come back had exited, with a modest batch of black feathers in one spot - evidently the opossum momentarily got hold of one bird, then decided the few eggs in there were easier fare than chasing down birds on the loose. I ran and got my .22 pellet rifle - one shot to the head and Mr. ‘Possum stopped breathing in seconds.
So, after getting small branches in the driveway cleared, and so on, I went in back to check to see if all that run’s birds had returned. (Many overnighted on our back porch.) Gut and boil Mr. ‘Possum for the chickens, or bury him?
He was gone! So, it appears we still have yet another significant varmint visiting. :-(