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Our predicted 83 for Sunday ended up 90

elkwc
10 years ago

It looks like two more days right around 90 and then Wed night and Thursday could be around freezing. The predicted lows went as low as 28 but gradually inching up. I feel both nights will be around 32 or just below from what I've heard so far. Will try to listen to the Don Day report today. I guess when they miss the high by 7 degrees I have a hard time believing they can hit the low much closer. I waited to drop plants in the ground. Next weekend for sure. The main reason I waited was the soil temps aren't where they need to be yet. Getting close and sure the next two days will elevate them some more. The weekly roller coaster doesn't seem to want to end. Jay

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  • mksmth zone 7a Tulsa Oklahoma
    10 years ago
    last modified: 9 years ago

    I hear ya Jay. We were so tempted to go ahead and put our peppers, eggplants, cukes and melons in but with thursday and friday nights so low we decided to wait one more week. that seems to be the normal now, waiting one more week. Our tomatoes have been in for a couple weeks and we have been covering them but its getting old for sure.

    mike

  • Okiedawn OK Zone 7
    10 years ago
    last modified: 9 years ago

    Jay, Our weather misbehaved about as badly as yours, or alternately, the forecasters were about as far off on our forecast as they were on yours. Our forecast high was 79 and at our house the thermometer (mounted properly in the shade and 5' above ground) hit 87 degrees.

    Today looks to be a repeat. Our forecast high is 85 and it is just noon yet and it already is 84 degrees here, so I expect we'll get close to 90.

    When I woke up this morning, I had decided I would go out and put pepper plants in the ground today. The bed I'm going to plant them into already has some cool-season and warm-season plants in it, so I have to cover it up anyway on cold nights....but then they dropped our forecast low for later in the week from 39 to 37, and I chickened out. The peppers will have to wait a few more days.

    Last week we had a forecast low of either 36 or 37 (it changed a lot during that day and I lost track) and I covered up everything because they so often are wrong, and then we had fairly heavy frost and an overnight low of 28. This weather makes me crazy. Another thing that makes me crazy? When the NWS issues Frost Advisories or Freeze Warnings for counties near us, but not for us. Then, at 9 pm or 11 pm, they issue one for us, when it is far too late and too dark and you cannot run out and cover up plants in the dark...not once the snakes are up and moving around like they are now. That happened recently too. I just cover up plants when there is any chance we might have a freeze or frost. It is getting really old and most of the potatoes now are just about too tall to cover with row cover.

    It hasn't been too hard to get cool-season stuff planted, but I'm having a hard time getting warm-season stuff in the ground. I cannot plant much more in new areas because it takes all the row cover I have to cover up previously planted areas.

    This is the worst roller coaster year for temperatures in at least a decade. At least in 2011 and 2012 when it turned hot early, it stayed hot.

    Mike, I'm glad you decided to wait, and I'm glad I decided to wait, but it is driving me crazy.

    A lot of people here have covered their plants up on Saturday night and I didn't even bother, and I have been covering them a lot. I won't cover them unless I think we'll go below 40 degrees. Yesterday I saw people had buckets over their plants and I hadn't covered mine up and we down to 41 degrees, which was much lower than forcast. I think the weather is making everyone overly cautious here and extra paranoid. Of course, that 28 degrees last week really got everyone's attention! We are over a month past our average last frost date, but you wouldn't know it by the weather we're having.

    The latest we have had freeze damage or frost damage here at our house has been May 3 or 4 (5 of the last 7 years), so it will be really unusual if we have another cold front after this week's cold front has come and gone. I'd like to think that when I cover up everything this week, it will be for the last time this spring. It seems ridiculous to be having highs near or in the 90s and lows in the 30s still, especially this far south.

    We wanted weather that was different and better than what we had had the last two springs, but this weather is just as bad...only in terms of cool temps instead of hot ones.

    Dawn

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