After weeks of warmer than normal weather, weather swung the other way and we had freezing temps for a few days. Had to cover up the weaker & less freeze tolerant trees. I don’t see damage to my earlier than normal blooming trees yet: all citrus, all stone fruit, one avocado 🌱🤞
On Twitter, Matt Roberts, an atmospheric science student, showed a spike in atmospheric pressure at Half Moon Bay airport around 4am. Likely caused by the Tonga eruption. Looked at my weather station and it registered a spike after 4 am. Impressive. Minor(?) tsunami inbound.
A very frosty morning today. My weather station read a low of 29°F just after midnight.
I had rain gage issues the last big rain & wind storm. A mast pole was slightly loose so I wedged it in tighter. I also added weight to the bottom of the structure. It is level and the tipping bucket is not sticky. Hope that increases accuracy in wind despite shrubs.
Perfect field weather today.
Cooler weather = bread baking season. My partner made Sourdough specifically for stuffing. Excellent priorities.
Saturday, September 18, 2021 →
Cooler weather today meant I could finally cleanup the backyard garden. I can’t believe how hardy pepper plants are. Most were still alive despite a few months of zero irrigation.
Saturday, September 18, 2021 →
Good morning! The weather in Northern California is starting to feel like fall. 😍
I love fixing cracked main drip line tubing and a bad pressure regulator seal in 100°F weather. I took this as an opportunity to remove previous temporary fixes and an unnecessary valve.
Yesterday’s max temperature at my Orland, CA station was 115°F.
Covered up the avocados again in advance of today’s 110°F weather. Every time we do this it gets simpler and better. Wrapping the sheet around a ladder is genius.
No surprise why I spent today processing raw photos. Cool that Carrot Weather can report on my weather station.
40 tomatoes harvested today at just over 7 pounds. During cooler weather a few weeks back they managed to set fruit, so lots more on the way. Our peppers, grown for mainly hot sauce, are ripening nicely.
Ooof. Though I have a suspicion my weather station measures higher than it should. It topped out at 111°F today.
Sunday, April 18, 2021
The humble shrub that’s predicting a terrible fire season. I like the rust color of dried out chamise flowers. I don’t like where this fire season is headed.Friday, April 16, 2021
MeteoBridge reports my weather station data to all sorts of services. To be rid of IFTTT, I finally set MeteoBridge up to send an email if certain weather conditions happen. And FastMail, to my surprise, has a rule Action for notifications! Yeah, definitely don’t need IFTTT anymore.We planted all our indoor pepper and tomato starts. The Serranos looked most distressed prior to transplant 🤞🌱
We got some pea-sized hail today!
Started prepping the garden rows today. Great weather and perfect soil moisture. Was surprised how well the electric tiller did. 🌱
The preceding sunset was way more picturesque than Jupiter and Saturn 😜
Sunset during our isolation vacation at the North Coast of California.
Moonlight over the Pacific. Above the moon, Jupiter and then Saturn.
Wednesday, November 18, 2020 →
Sundown at Trinidad, California. We’re hunkered down here for a few nights, completely self-sufficient and not likely to go anywhere. Not a bad choice with this view. I have a feeling this is the last time we’ll risk going somewhere until vaccinations.
Good morning. This morning’s sun rise almost makes up for my neighbor being obsessive with their sheet metal shelters and sheds.
The rainy season in California is right around the corner, so I just cleaned the rain gage & other weather station components of summer’s dust and ash. Meanwhile, the mandarins are slowly ripening.
I’m looking forward to winter. Summer was far too long.
TBH, Fall is grilling season here.
Sunday, October 11, 2020
If you have a weather station with Meteobridge, I’ve made a iOS Siri Shortcut so Siri can tell you about current conditions. You can tweak the weather report using variables on Meteobridge’s template page along with other small shortcut adjustments. By default it reports current temperature, humidity and gusts in the last hour. You’ll likely want to change the shortcut’s name. I chose simply “Yard” since Siri on HomePod finds it unique enough to not do something else.Been a few years since we first wanted to mulch the backyard. Weather got nice so here we go with 10 cu yd of chips!
Wednesday, September 9, 2020 →
Today’s obligatory wildfire smoke scene. Halide app made it dead easy to override auto white balance.
