by Greg Alder | Nov 25, 2015 | Vegetables, Weather |
Not spring. Maybe elsewhere, but in Southern California now is the time. I had almost forgot this lesson, and I hadn’t planted one of the rows of the vegetable garden, until about a week ago when I recalled all of the advantages of growing in the fall. For one,...
by Greg Alder | Aug 31, 2015 | Weather |
Just as there’s always a cold snap or two every winter, we get a couple heat waves every summer that challenge the plants. We just made it through a second August heat wave, where five days were over 95°. Two weeks ago we had four days over 95° and a new daily...
by Greg Alder | Jul 27, 2015 | Weather |
It seems a tautology that rain reduces drought. Yet our water picture is so surreal that the National Weather Service just said, “. . . local rainfall in Southern California does not necessarily help the drought situation.” How so? It hinges on the meaning...
by Greg Alder | Jul 22, 2015 | Weather |
On July 18 and 19, Southern California received a whopper of a tropical storm, and our part of San Diego County got more rain than anywhere. Our yard took in 1.65 inches, but a few miles down the road 4.1 inches fell during those 48 hours, according to the National...
by Greg Alder | May 24, 2015 | Weather |
Just out of curiousity, how far off is our current water usage from the amount of rain that falls on us? Our land is 1.32 acres, and the average rainfall here is 16 inches. This means that an average of 573,150 gallons of rain fall on the land each year. Our roof...
by Greg Alder | Jan 31, 2015 | Avocados, Weather |
The low temperature at the Ramona airport on New Year’s morning was 25 degrees, one degree above the record low. The temperature sensor under the eaves of my porch bottomed out at 30 degrees. (The porch’s shelter keeps it a couple degrees higher, but we’re...
by Greg Alder | Jan 28, 2015 | Weather |
On the eve of the winter solstice, December 20, I got to thinking about how warm it had been. We still hadn’t had anything near a frosty morning. The winter before (2013-2014) we had some chilly nights in late November and our coldest spell of the whole winter...
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