Good Morning!!!!!!

[mike89]

 

[Gunner55]

Mornin all, we had 43 early & we may see 48. Had a light mist & a bunch of wind when I stepped out early too. The neighbor had .057" yday when we got his boat back to his place about 11. Barely enough to settle the dust on the gravels .......................but better than nothin. 'Bout time to go get a paper, have a good day.

[Boar]

Morning, ginna do stuff and some other things.

[LPS]

Morning boys.  It is a cool windy day here.  I went to bed around 10 last night and it was spitting out.  This morning we had a hair over 3/4" of rain in the gauge.  We got that elm tree all cut up and stacked so of course that meant a fire.  LOL  Had a great time as it was a nice fall afternoon.  Sounds like you have great day planned Boar.  LOL   I think I will take it easy at least for awhile.  We shall see. 

[glenn57]

Morning fellers.  Wet windy bluster here. Brother and the 2 girls just left.

Blew out the waterlines yesterday  so that's done. With my son still here would like to knock a small dead pine down,  bring boat back from the little lake, and finish winterizing fish cleaning house.

[Bobberineyes]

Mornin peoples 50 here and windy, the leaves are dropping fast. Paper drank and coffee is read so looking to run some errands shortly.  The kid, I and pooches went out looking for roosters yesterday,  holy moly was the orange army out thick, by 7:30 the first 3 areas we went to were surrounded.  Finally did find a spot to walk but all seen were hens, Maisy did good on her first hunt, followed Remi at first but broke off eventually and did get a hen up, so she should just get better as the year goes. Anywho I best get at it.....See ya!!!

[Dotch]

Mornin' fellow gulag comrades! 44 at choretime heading for a high in the low fitties. 20 mph NW winds gusting up to 40. Looks like the alien found the wife so both of us have the crud. No leaf watching today altho next weekend will likely be better anyway. At least I don't have to worry about the Mrs. chasing me around the house. Got all my errands done yesterday so will putz with some stuff. Like boar, it's always good to have goals. 

[markn]

Just got home from Emmaville. 10.4 mpg on Friday with a quartering headwind, 12.6 mpg coming home with a quartering tailwind. I was pulling the tandem trailer with the tractor and wood splitter on it. We did get all eight trees cut up, split and in the barn. Time for a snack, nap and then clean out truck and put toys away. Later......

[Gunner55]

Had ~.8" in 1 gauge & ~.7" in the other. Neighbor's said .567". Not even 50 yds between all of 'em.

[Dotch]

That's one of the things that always makes me laugh here after a rain gunner. Someone in town will come in & claim they had x amount of rain so their gauge has to be right. Even though they live on the other side of town. The gauges vary a lot too. A lot of folks here get free seed corn co. rain gauges or from some other outfit giving them away for free. The old adage that you get what you pay for likely applies.

I see the MN Dept. of Ag here in MN is looking for people to participate in their new weather station network. Like your neighbor's gauge, I believe it will measure the precip down to thousandths. One drawback (there are several) is these new stations still won't measure snowfall. That's something that has been crucial in recent years. Without it, estimating how much available soil moisture was impacted would be difficult. This last winter in particular, people were guessing the profile was nearly empty when in fact it was in our case, nearly 80% full down to 4'. That had a major impact when it started raining and didn't quit this spring. Drainage systems were overwhelmed much quicker than anticipated. The criteria to qualify for these weather stations is rather restrictive and given the fact the MN state govt. is involved, I am skeptical. And, it's all electronic. If that system goes down, and it will, you got nothin'. At least with a system involving manual gauges & observations, you're still covered.     

 https://www.mda.state.mn.us/weather-station-host