How's the Weather ?

[HersheyMint]

Wow, that lighting was close. I see you are in Southern California, and I read in the news today that a woman and her dogs were struck by lighting and killed down there.

I heard about that. So .

 

[Kelly]

104 here today and over the weekend. Cold front is moving in on Monday!! The high will be only 90!!

 

[Marsha Cassada]

104 here today and over the weekend. Cold front is moving in on Monday!! The high will be only 90!!

It is not too bad in the shade here in southwest Oklahoma. 109 degrees. The mornings and evenings are pleasant.

 

[HersheyMint]

It is not too bad in the shade here in southwest Oklahoma. 109 degrees. The mornings and evenings are pleasant.

Wow!

 

[Lindy Hagar]

That is brisk, Lindy! Is that typical for your area? This morning we were at 44 degrees but it is warming up fairly quickly.

Yes MaryFlora, that is typical here in Winter. I'm in the southern hemisphere though.

 

[Lindy Hagar]

It is not too bad in the shade here in southwest Oklahoma. 109 degrees. The mornings and evenings are pleasant.

Wow! 109. That reminds me how much I love summer. I'm very accustomed to heat. We are now heading into the coldest winter month..and mud & repairing rugs. Brrr. I'm lucky my ponies love coming into their warm stables each night.
x Linda

 

[Marsha Cassada]

We had three lovely days of 70-80's! Light breeze. Gorgeous! I wish I could have played outdoors with my horses more, but appointments one day and all day working at the Polls on the other. What a waste!

 

[Marsha Cassada]

Supposed to be 100 all next week. I need to keep a close eye on the animals and up the water on the garden. It happens every summer!

 

[HersheyMint]

We have a break in the heat this weekend . Highs in the 80’s and lows in the 60’s. By next Wednesday back up into the 90’s and 100’s.

 

[Ryan Johnson]

OMG please send some here , this is one of the worst winters we have had , cold & rain , rain rain rain and more rain

 

[HersheyMint]

OMG please send some here , this is one of the worst winters we have had , cold & rain , rain rain rain and more rain

I wish we could meet in the middle for a trade. Rain is needed so much here.

 

[MaryFlora]

That’s hard, Ryan, wet and cold is just miserable. Like HersheyMint said, I wish we could share!

I think mud is harder than snow to deal with, you must be frustrated to say the least. Do you have a covered arena by any chance?

 

[kimbalina]

Actually I don’t mind the rain… I spent a year and a half in London and I quite like wet weather… I like it even more now that we are on rainwater tanks!! Our tank was half full/empty before this latest downpouring and of course is now overflowing. I wish we had another tank already to store overflow. We’re so slow at getting anything done!! We’re lucky that we’re on a bit of a slope so drainage is reasonable and we haven’t been affected like others.
A beautiful, crisp, sunny winter’s day today. The sun is out and soaking up the rain a bit. This is my first ever day of not having the children around. They are at my mother’s and I am excited I will get to spend the day weeding uninterrupted. Might finally try hooking up some baskets onto an old surcingle and have Apaché carry the weeds for me, munching down the grass as he goes.

 

[HersheyMint]

We've been in a heat wave for the last 2 weeks with temps over 100.
Now, we have a heat advisory for the next week. Temps predicted 106 and up. No breeze either. I know some of you are in a heat wave too. I just hope we get some cooling soon.

 

[MaryFlora]

Definitely time for all equine activities to be slow and easy or full stop isn’t it? When it is that hot it must not cool down much at night either.

The weather has been a series of extremes world wide it seems. I can’t help but wonder if our upcoming winter will somehow be the reverse side of your tough heat waves?

 

[Silver City Heritage Farmstead]

HersheyMint, it seems any chance of rain and cooling temperatures is passing over the Central America area and meandering out to see. What chances you have from the north are all troughing up and over. They've been dropping back down with severe weather in MaryFlora's part of the world lately.

This year's early and mid summer weather seems to be extremes to North and South, with just plain heat in the middle.

My concern is similar to MaryFlora's with the addition of this: Ryan has had cold, cold and wet wet wet. I wonder how that will be mirrored here?

 

[Marsha Cassada]

Nice little rains this week at last. Of course we are having the house painted this week! And i gave my horses a bath. Temps better but it's pretty humid.

 

[HersheyMint]

For those of you who might be affected by the hurricane on the east coast, I'm hoping you all are/ will be safe

 

[Capriole]

Going through another heat wave right now...it's supposed to go down to the low 80s next Thursday (Oct 6) ...but, it seems it's always at least 5° hotter than it's supposed to be. Still, it will be better than the +100s it's been.

 

[Marsha Cassada]

We had a few cool days but it's back into 90's. Mornings are lovely, though, and easy to play outdoors. Evenings are nice too when the sun goes down. Days are getting shorter! Just when it's nice to go outdoors. Booo.