Posted on 10/17/2019 2:04:52 PM PDT by Red Badger
A Tropical Storm Warning has been issued for parts of Florida as the tropical system in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico was given a 90 percent chance of becoming a tropical depression within the next 48 hours, according to the National Hurricane Center’s 2 p.m. Thursday update.
“Potential Tropical Cyclone 16” has maximum sustained wind speeds of 35 mph and is forecast to move northeast later Thursday at 8 mph. The system is 600 miles southwest of the mouth of the Mississippi River, as of the 2 p.m. update.
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Ping!..........
Lol right over my house.
Bring some rain!
For months it has rained nearly daily here in SFL.
Good for my plants, but the weeds ARGGHHH ! ! !
Can’t keep up with the weeds using my weedwacker so I bought one of those torches you connect to the bbq tank. It’s easier but they still come back. That thing sounds like a jet engine. Wonder if I could smelt with it :-)
We need it too, in FWB!.................
Here I am in Key West for the week ... grateful it’s not coming near me. Will be home on Saturday (Tampa area), and hoping for a calm end to this year’s hurricane season. I always appreciate these FR threads.
Up here at the Red Neck Riviera, it has been a drought since about 2 weeks prior to the last hurricane that went up the east coast.
So basically no rain since August, except for yesterday.
Here in the Panhandle we have had a drought for most of the summer......................
Yep!
I assume you guys have experienced the same drought that Milton has.
Absolutely! The water table is so low my lawn pump has a hard time getting started!.................
Get some goats!....................
I’ve spent so much money on water bills watering my lawn :D
I’m just using a standard hose sprinkler though.
There are dead patches where the sprinklers can’t reach ...........
I know I’ve got those, and I can’t quite understand it.
I put the sprinkler in a spot that I can see clearly needs watering.
I turn it on, watch it a bit, make sure it’s covering and cycling properly.
Turn it off about an hour or two later, come back the next day, and the same spot looks like it received zero water!
I’ve got 7 food tall beggar ticks...bidens with the cute white daisylike flowers ...the rain made them take off and kept me off the mower. They are good fodder for the critters though, and pretty tasty and tangy for people when cooked as a green. Raw flowers taste carrotlike... but we still cannot eat them faster than they grow. It’s a butterfly jungle out there this year.
I’m in Pasco Co and it rained every @#$% day this summer ...my water table is at the surface even after a couple recent weeks without rain. Got rewetted yesterday...so I hope this system gives you guys our share .
Here in Tampa we use a lawn service for chemical and fertilization of lawn and ornamentals. I do the cutting and pruning and trimming. Company insert with the latest invoice says Brown Patch is right around the corner. Triggered by rainfall, excessive irrigation, or extended periods of high humidity resulting in leaves being continually wet for 48 hrs or more. There is a preventative treatment available through most lawn service companies. What it is we don’t know. We pay fifty bucks a month for our small lawn and yard treatment. It looks great most of the time so we are not sweating it right now.
Yep. They’re forecasting that initially, the highest rain chances here in Bammy will be along and south of I-85 (I could hit it with a rock from here), then Saturday everyone along and east of I-65 is getting a drink. 2”-4”, locally higher amounts. We’ve been parched for months. The downside for us is, it’ll just knock another layer of pine straw out of the trees and add to the carpet in the front yard I haven’t mowed yet because the grass hasn’t grown for two months. The driveway and sidewalk already look like the floor of a barn. I need to get out the leaf blower next week so I can see where the yard stops and the concrete starts. LOL
I hope the cotton crops are all in!.................
Quick!
Take a scream capture (er, screen capture) before Trump is accused of thinking it will go over Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina and North Carolina!
Oh wait. It’s already going over Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina and North Carolina. 8<)
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