Wild winds lashed Western New York the past couple of days. Our Japanese Maple still had leaves before the 60 mph winds hit. You can see what the Japanese Maple looks like after the wind storm. The red leaves are everywhere! Snow is in the forecast. I have Big Orange ready to go! How’s the weather where you are?
Winds and heavy rains. I waited for a lull before venturing out to the mailbox.
Bob, we had strong winds and some rain. That beats a couple feet of snow!
You would not believe the winds here yesterday–I actually saw a house fly overhead with a little girl and a dog in it!
I told you you wouldn’t believe it….
Dan, I didn’t know you moved to Kansas! Or Oz!
Weather on the Northshore of Lake Pontchartrain has been very mild for this time of year–we’ve even been close to 80 for our high temp on a couple of days–but all that changed overnight. I woke up this morning and it was 60 inside the house. I turned on the heat (first time this season) and went to let the dog out. It was a brisk 43 outside. We’re expecting some severe rain/wind for early this coming week, but that will blow through by Thursday. A couple of days next week are projected to be close to 80, so I guess I’ll be running my air conditioner again before winter truly arrives.
Deb, November weather here is usually cold and snowy. But we’ve been about 20 degrees above Normal and not a speck of snow…yet!
The towers of the Ren Cen here were swaying. Lots of trees down.
Patti, we had plenty of traffic lights out and some isolated power outages. Wild weather!
We were mostly sunny and cool yesterday, with the wind getting stronger as the day wore on. Today we’re like Deb (!) – 43 – but the winds and the heavy gusts make it feel below freezing. Leaves are everywhere. But they are predicting mid-60s this week.
By the way, that is one beautiful tree!
Sunny and beautiful here, following a few overcast days. Big Orange would be sad and eternally idle here, I’m afraid.
Nice day yesterday, and today looks even better. Supposed to have strong storms next week, though.
Bill, El Nino seems to be working in our favor.
We’re finally done with the horrific heat. It’s been just glorious, though I have put 2 blankets on the bed, rather than just a sheet. I’ve kept the blankets on at night, but still haven’t turned on the heater. It’s been 3 years since I’ve had the heater on. I just bundle up with a robe and throw.
We did have really heavy winds a week or so ago. We’re also set for a lot of rain due to the anticipated El Nino.
Maggie, you would not want to see our heating bill last winter when the Polar Vortex paid us a visit!
I think El Nino will be “a good thing” for the Northeast overall.
Jeff, I agree with you on El Nino. But we also have to watch out for the Polar Vortex!
el nino is a good thing for roofers. It’s hoped to help with the drought, but the paper today said it wouldn’t be as good for that as we hoped.
I’m glad not to have “real” heating bills. I feel your pain, George (and others)
Maggie, last November’s seven feet of snow collapsed thousands of roofs around here from the weight of the white stuff. Roofers were in high demand! Fortunately, we had just replaced our roof and gutters and they held up fine. But our neighbors on both sides of us sustained damage from the Snow Event.
What a coincidence!
Seven years ago after we had to fell our pear tree next to the house my wife wanted a small tree that would not grow too fast – and what did she find in Keszthely here near the Balaton: A vörösvirágú juhar i e a red-leaved maple aka Japanese maple …
It’s about two meters high now and every visitor remarks how nice it is …
So, george, how old is your tree? If ours grew as large as yours, we’d have to cut something away, because it’s only five meters from the door …
We’ve had very warm weather here in Hungary, the weather people just wrote that yesterday was the warmest in November in the last 100 Years:
23 Celsius, around 74 Fahrenheit
That was really good for us to work in the garden, bringing in all plants into the garage that don’t like freezing temperatures …
Btw, do you know the “alternative method” for calculating Celsius to Fahrenheit or vice versa?
Wolf, the Japanese Maple was here when we moved into this house 16 years ago. The house is 28 years old so I suspect the Japanese Maple is close to that age. My wife loves this tree! It’s so colorful in the Fall.
Thanks, George! So we have a few more years before we decide whether to cut anything …
Btw we also collected all those leaves already, our tree lost them all at the beginning of November.
Wolf, the way we learned it was 9/5 Celsius + 32 to get the Fahrenheit.
Jeff, you’re right – but there’s a nice variation of this which I got from a firefighter in the airforce which we met in a bar in Savannah …
And it is even symmetrical in a way:
To get from c to F you add forty to the number and then multiply by 9 and divide by 5 to get from Celsius to F – in the end subtract the 40 again.
To get from F to C you also add 40 to the number, then multiply by 5 and divide by 9 – and then again subtract 40 …
And it’s easy to remember following the old rule that “everything is bigger in the USA” (just joking).
We had wonderful Fallcolor here, but two storms, both with high winds as well as rain, ripped most of the leaves away, similar to your experience. Our trees now have next to nothing left, except one Coral Bark Maple which is still full and bright yellow, though it’s in the windiest area. More storms expected next week, but the weekend, while gloomy, was dry and only “breezy”.
I wandered around the backyard picking up all the branches that came down in the wind.
Our leaves were all down a couple of weeks ago. I don’t rake; I mow. The hoses are now in. The water is turned off. The snowblower comes out Thanksgiving (my brother-in-law switches it out with the lawn mower and starts it up to be sure all is in working condition). We’re ready for winter.
By the way, with or without leaves, that Japanese maple looks lovely.
Beth, Diane loves the Japanese Maple. We’ll be bringing in the hoses this week. Big Orange is ready to go.