Wind!

[Faster horses]

The wind started howling last night. It tried to rain but the wind won. It's supposed to blow harder this afternoon,
up to 50 mph!!! So how about the wind where you are, asking anyone reading this?
Even at church the person who makes the announcements thanked God for the wind...and then everyone
laughed.

 

[Puzzled]

Am still getting bouts of wind and rain here. Flood waters are starting to recede. Don't think the wind has been as high as you are getting.
Funny as a little kid growing up on the coast I thought the wind was only a problem here, later I learned in blows inland, too.

Right now it is sunny and warm, seems pretty calm out today.
Nice not seeing the livestock soaking wet with their butts to the wind. Some days the horse almost tries to back across the pasture rather than face the storm.

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

We got a very welcome inch of rain over night. Surprisingly not windy

 

[webfoot]

It was pretty windy here yesterday but nice a calm today. I never heard what it did yesterday but I would guess 30 mph.

 

[Nicky]

Been a very windy spring here too

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

I spoke to soon yesterday. After an nice soaking rai it cleared off and the wind blew hard until evening, Nice out today,

 

[Older Whiskey]

Branch breaking windy here early last week, but last few days calm and sunny. Unseasonably cold in the morning, but warm by afternoon with a very gentle breeze.

We shall see what late April and early May bring. Generally we have very high gust (70-80 MPH) storms moving thru. They don't last but sure can cause a lot of damage. If out and about on the tree lined back roads, I have my small chain saw with me. A few years ago it took me 2 hours to go one mile after I made my escape from a sheltered area. To clear a path, I had to cut the uprooted trees in smaller pieces that when I was young. :LOL:

 

[Puzzled]

Those higher gusts have a tendency to rearrange the vegetation. Then in the spring when the maples, willows, alders etc. leaf out and there is heavy rain and higher winds, the weight of the leaves seem to make the trees more vulnerable to damage.

 

[webfoot]

It sure blew here yesterday evening and early this morning. We live in a hole. I joke that the wind has to blow straight down to hit us. Well it found a way to weave through the hills to hit here.

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

It sure blew here yesterday evening and early this morning. We live in a hole. I joke that the wind has to blow straight down to hit us. Well it found a way to weave through the hills to hit here.

My Mom always said the wind picked up speed coming down the hills.

 

[Silver]

It’s been a windy spring here so far. And it hasn’t blown in any moisture yet.

 

[Nicky]

Yes, yesterday was miserable and today looks to be also.

 

[webfoot]

The weather forecast says 30 mph with gusts to 50 mph. I don't know what it blowing out there now in mph, I just hope my cows can run fast enough to catch up with the hay.

 

[Older Whiskey]

Nice calm day yesterday, so I did my ranching (4 hours lawn mowing and weed eating). Then the wind hit and I reassessed my earlier resolve that my aching body was worth this agricultural eye candy.

Nice today, so all the fallen branches are picked up, but all those seed pods will stay till next mowing.

Anytime you complete anything ranching you want to remember, make a mental photo or take a camera one, because it might change quickly.

Today, I fertilize with triple 16, so there won't be any chance of rain tomorrow. Hopefully no or low wind so I can run the sprinklers.

 

[Faster horses]

We had fertilizer spread yesterday afternoon based on the Winter Storm Warning that was issued.
Very seldom does a plan come together, but it started snowing late evening yesterday and it's
still snowing. Not piling up much, melting as it comes down, PERFECT!! And we are thankful. It is
white outside. Thank you, Lord!

 

[Peach]

 

[jodywy]

was in Cheyenne Monday and Tuesday, for Board of Ag meeting. Sue said wind was bad at home Monday, she sledded new calves up behind a wind break. Balls of net wrap blew off a pile and rolled all over. 80 degrees Wed, and 6 inches of snow yesterday. Calve born yesterday doing great.

 

[Older Whiskey]

I don't mean to be a whinner on this Sunday morning, but the wind here is getting old. 2 1/2 months is enough of these stiff cold Northeast winds. I skipped my back roads morning walk. The flash flood and thunderstorm yesterday, had the dust damp, so no worries about dirt in my face, I just didn't want to brave the wind.

 

[webfoot]

The wife is down in Goldendale right now. The north side of the Columbia Gorge. Every evening she calls me and she says the wind is really blowing there. The saying down there is the wind blows 360 days of the year. The other 5 it is just changing direction.

 

[Nicky]

It has been awful this year