Really begining to hate the weather here

old · Jan 18, 2010

Had the snow and then real cold and now up into the 60s during the day and low 40s upper 30s at night. Big problem is that the ground is still frozen down about 8 inches or so but the top is soft as @#%#$ and you can get stuck fast so fast that it isn't funny. Put the little truck in the shop this evening to put on new front brakes and went to back it out and go park it when yep got it backed out and heading where I wanted it when it sank in about 8 inches and is now stuck big time

fixerupper · Jan 18, 2010

You mean there is such a thing as soil? We in NW Iowa haven't seen black since Thanksgiving. And where there's snow there's fog.

We just got home from a quick trip to Bettendorf to see my sis and the whole 325 miles going to there was mostly foggy and coming home today was worse. I couldn't see where to turn off of roads I've driven for years. Then when I was ten miles from home the fog left and it was clear as a bell. They're talking freezing rain for Wed.-Thurs. Might make a few more roofs cave in with freezing rain on top of the snow. Every few days I hear of another hog confinement or machine shed roof giving way. Oh well, every day we make it through this is one day closer to spring. Jim

BillinCentralMO · Jan 18, 2010

I know what you mean Old. We tried to do some chores over the weekend and as the day wore on , it got sloppier and sloppier. I was thinking , though Spring is only a couple months away. I'm thinking about morel mushroom hunting already. Hope you get the truck out.

glennster · Jan 18, 2010

well, just think rich, in about 8 weeks it will be time to plant onions!!!, then down your way, the ticks and chiggers 'll be out in full force!!!. a few weeks after that , it 'll be too hot to bale hay, and everybody will be wishin fer snow again!!

Billy NY · Jan 18, 2010

Yep , same thing happens here, slicker then grease on top, frozen underneath, though it's been consistently cold til this week, 40's are sure welcome, after being up on a barn roof framing for several weeks which sure has been some cold miserable work !

CLTX · Jan 18, 2010

It's supposed to be in the upper 70's here in the Houston area later in the week. We were in the mid-teens a little over a week ago which is well below the average low for this time of the year, and now swinging the other way with about 15* above the normal high temp. I have seen years when it did not freeze the entire winter. I had to mow the lawn every other week from Thanksgiving through the rest of the winter. I would prefer that over the northern winters though.

ChrisinMO · Jan 18, 2010

My wife got stuck twice on our lovely county roads this last weekend. Several spots that are rapidly becoming bottomless pits. Good thing the tractors don't mind, otherwise the pickup would still be out there on the road....

I took a walk around our fields this PM. The places that weren't churned up by feet, hooves, or wheels are starting to feel more firm. We need sunshine and wind to dry up the muddy areas, though.

Christopher

old · Jan 18, 2010

Or and this may sound funny a good rain to warm up the ground and let the water go down where it needs to be instead of sitting at the top 6-8 inches

ChrisinMO · Jan 18, 2010

I know a good hard and steady rain would do the job almost overnight, but I just can't stand the mud anymore and so I intentionally avoided all mention of rain! Well, weather and soil conditions like this should just make us appreciate the bone-dry soil of July, August and early September more, right?

Christopher

old · Jan 18, 2010

It is all a balance so yes no and sort of. Right now I just wish I could get down to the creek and haul in a few loads of gravel but I know better and doing it one bucket at a time costs way to much and is slow very very slow when you have to haul it a 1/3 yard at a time from 1/4 mile

El Toro · Jan 19, 2010

Heavy rain is coming into CA and may be moving your way later this week, then we will get hit.
Hal

rustyfarmall · Jan 19, 2010

(quoted from post at 18:45:15 01/18/10) Had the snow and then real cold and now up into the 60s during the day and low 40s upper 30s at night. Big problem is that the ground is still frozen down about 8 inches or so but the top is soft as @#%#$ and you can get stuck fast so fast that it isn't funny. Put the little truck in the shop this evening to put on new front brakes and went to back it out and go park it when yep got it backed out and heading where I wanted it when it sank in about 8 inches and is now stuck big time

Temps in the 60s and you're complaining? We haven't been much above 30° since Thanksgiving and we've still got 6 ft. high snowbanks. To top it off, the fog has been so thick that we can't see much further than 1/4 mile, and it's been this way for about a week now.

rrlund · Jan 19, 2010

So you're saying it's best that I stayed up here and didn't move down there 10 years ago like I wanted to?

Bob Kerr · Jan 19, 2010

Freezing fog here in western Indiana. O" the joy! At least when you fall down off the slick sidewalk and land in the yard it is soft mud.

old · Jan 19, 2010

No but what I am saying is this time of year if you want to go any place you better stay on pavement or figure that you need to drive a 4X4 truck or a tractor or you will be stuck

old · Jan 19, 2010

Ya we have the fog also it is just that right now if you try to walk any place or drive any place other then a paved area you better figure on getting stuck or loosing your shoes

Mike (WA) · Jan 19, 2010

My grandparents migrated out of Missouri in the teens- they were down around Lebanon, which I don't believe is too far from you. Glad they came to this part of the country- Temp was 60 yesterday, sunshine. (But that's about 20 above normal for this time of year, so not always that balmy). But very temperate most of the time- highs in summer average 75-80, not much rain in summer, plenty in winter.

eastexan · Jan 19, 2010

(quoted from post at 08:55:42 01/19/10) Ya we have the fog also it is just that right now if you try to walk any place or drive any place other then a paved area you better figure on getting stuck or loosing your shoes

Boy, did you strike a memory with me!
Milking the cows back in the 50's, there was many a time our cow lot would get about 1+ foot of mud and manure combo.
One of my jobs while I was a kid was lugging a bucket of feed from the feed room on one side of the cow lot, to the barn where the cows were being milked on the other side.

I had to wear Daddy's big rubber boots that were WAY too big for me, and while hurrying along sometimes one boot would get stuck and I'd come out of it. If I was lucky, I would get a leg all nasty. But other times I'd go SPLAT, landing face down in it. A farm kids worst night mare.

AAHHH, those good old days. :mrgreen:

Ronnie

Nancy Howell · Jan 19, 2010

Know what you mean. We got 22 inches in Oct. It keeps raining about every week. Got an inch Sat. and 70% chance for rain Wednesday and again this Sat.

The ground is so saturated, there's almost 100% run off right now. Not much we can do at the farm, ground is just too soft.

old · Jan 19, 2010

The problem here is the frost is only out of the first 4-8 inches of the ground so all that snow we had that has melted stays in the first few inches so the top get muddy and you can't do a thing other then spin and then you go no where. Got a truck stuck on flat ground yesterday and by this morning it was sitting down to the point the tires where all the way covered with mud to the rims

Really begining to hate the weather here

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