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Change in the weather

It's 4:40 pm here right now. We hit 70° just after 12 noon. 63.6° right now, but it's that time of day. It'll hit us later tonight. How wonderful. :x
 
We've had a south 40mph wind all day with gusts much higher than that! Made it tough digging post holes. Did get a cow preg checked and sold today. Weather guessers claim we will get rain/snow tonight and tomorrow. We'll take whatever she sends our way. Wind is dying and swung around from the north now.
 
We are in SD. It was 55 degrees this morning early and started dropping. It's 8 degrees now. We took a drive up to Lead and on south of there. It was 27 degrees in Deadwood and foggy, 52 degrees south of Lead, blue sky and the sun was shining. Air inversion is crazy stuff. Supposed to only get to 12 degrees tomorrow and then back in the 30's and 40's.
 
leanin' H said:
We've had a south 40mph wind all day with gusts much higher than that! Made it tough digging post holes. Did get a cow preg checked and sold today. Weather guessers claim we will get rain/snow tonight and tomorrow. We'll take whatever she sends our way. Wind is dying and swung around from the north now.
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You know it's windy when the post holes keep blowing away. Lord help the Utahns. :roll: :lol:

It was -50c here on the mountain this AM. Warmed up to -20 for a bit and is -30 at 7 PM Cows got fed without incident.
 
It was -35C when I was feeding this am. Yesterday was colder with a nasty wind out of the northeast. Didn`t waste much time getting a bale out to the cows & they were happy to see me coming. Supposed to moderate mid week......hope so!
 
72 currently supposed to be 30 with freezing rain tomorrow. You northern boys don't know what your missing with that crap.
 
4Diamond said:
72 currently supposed to be 30 with freezing rain tomorrow. You northern boys don't know what your missing with that crap.
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Oh yes I do. I drove thru Missouri last year on Christmas eve or the 23rd I don't remember which for sure but you guys had some of that prior to our arrival holy crap that was a mess.
 
Yesterday the pump froze up in the pump house because the electric heater in there decided to retire. Spent the day warming it back up, only to find out once it thawed (well after dark) that the frost took out the seal.
Today replaced the pump and got the replacements and bulls back on water.
In the meantime yesterday the feeding tractor decided to eject the rear engine seal. Kinda thought buying new might alleviate such inconveniences but apparently thought wrong. So today put the herman nelson on the T7.210 and finally got her fired up this afternoon only to find that because the urea tank was froze solid 1000 rpm was the limit. Sent Dad out to feed the cows with it, unsure if it would make it back to the yard and went to borrow the neighbours tractor to feed the first and second calvers, calves and bulls. Fortunately by the time Dad was done feeding the cows that tractor had rectified its problems and as it sits everything is fed and those that were expecting water got it. Been a long damn day, but the good news is tomorrow is supposed to be much warmer, somewhere around -20 so I'm looking forward to that for sure.
 
Funny thing about the cold, when the wind went down -20 C seemed pretty mild. Went back in and put on a lighter jacket. The heater calved in our wellhouse as well. Fix was easier than yours though Silver. Power was out during the windy cold for 10 hours as well, reminded me of Gcreek and why I appreciate the powerline hooked up to the farm. The generator independence burns fuel for sure. :!:
 
per said:
Funny thing about the cold, when the wind went down -20 C seemed pretty mild. Went back in and put on a lighter jacket. The heater calved in our wellhouse as well. Fix was easier than yours though Silver. Power was out during the windy cold for 10 hours as well, reminded me of Gcreek and why I appreciate the powerline hooked up to the farm. The generator independence burns fuel for sure. :!:
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You would think that with all the "juice" runing through your place that you could keep thing's going just on osmosis :wink: :wink: nicer day today.
 
Hayguy said:
per said:
Funny thing about the cold, when the wind went down -20 C seemed pretty mild. Went back in and put on a lighter jacket. The heater calved in our wellhouse as well. Fix was easier than yours though Silver. Power was out during the windy cold for 10 hours as well, reminded me of Gcreek and why I appreciate the powerline hooked up to the farm. The generator independence burns fuel for sure. :!:
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You would think that with all the "juice" runing through your place that you could keep thing's going just on osmosis :wink: :wink: nicer day today.
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No kidding Hay Guy, Solar at one end that is mandated to have a safety shut down when the power from the grid is off (at least if I want to sell power to them) and then enough power to supply half of California going right by with no way to tap in. So the default is burning a bit of diesel fuel supporting that other industry that is rather important to our economy. A plan to go all the way off grid is not ruled out. I want to be like Gcreek when I get big. :wink:
 

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