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Outside My Window ~ 7.03.2016
Outside my window….is a cool 70°F with heavy cloud cover afternoon. Lots of humidity too ~ 87%. It poured rain this morning….all morning. The flood canal in back was well over the banks and the side yard was deep with standing water. The grounds are saturated now. I like how everything is so clean….so lush and green…after a rain. It isn’t raining now – hasn’t been for a couple of hours. It is about 2:50 Sunday afternoon and the skies look like they may not be finished with the rain. There is a 40% chance of rain in my area for the rest of the night. Unless there is considerable…
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Outside My Window ~ June 26, 2016
OUTSIDE MY WINDOW…is a relatively warm day. Current temperature is 76° with 55% humidity. It is a bit muggy outside which is why I am inside. It would probably be a good beach day though. I haven’t been to the beach in a while though….I can’t tolerate the heat and humidity like I once could….or maybe I don’t want to tolerate the heat and humidity any more. It sure does wear me down a lot faster since I have gotten older. Along with the heat we have blue skies, sunshine and some puffy clouds here and there. I don’t believe there is a chance for rain today – or tomorrow…
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Outside My Window ~ 3.08.2015
Credits for the Outside My Window composite can be found here. Outside my window…is an amazing day! It is a far cry from last Sunday when it was cold, wet and still far too much snow was on the ground. At 1:00 we are sitting at 64° with sunshine and blue skies. Fabulous! There is snow here and there ~ mostly piles of snow that hasn’t melted ~ and I was a little surprised to see there are still some patches of ice in shady areas, although I bet they are gone now. Sunshine and warmer weather, oh how I have missed you. I’m definitely looking forward to spring. I’m…
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Outside My Window ~ 01.18.2015
Credits for the Outside My Window composite can be found here. Outside my window…is heavy rain and moderate temperatures. I woke up to 57° and cloudy skies at around 7:30 this morning. It may have dropped a degree to two since then but still not too cold. I have taken a lot of my plants outside to enjoy the rain this morning…they do so much better with rain water than tap water. I still have my rain barrels (I did end up going back and getting a second barrel a year later) that I use throughout the year for watering but taking them outside for their drink saves me time. This…
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Outside My Window ~ 01.04.2015
Outside My Window…is a unbelievably warm day and not at all like the photograph I choose as the background outside my window above. We currently have mostly cloudy skies and a temperature of 71ºF….yes, you read that right. A high of 76ºF has been forecast for today. Hardly what I would expect for January 4th. But don’t get too excited folks because we are going to drop about 30º for tomorrows high of only 46ºF and really get a jolt on Thursday when our high is only forecast for 28ºF. Crazy ass weather. We have been snow free thus far this winter and thunderstorms are in our forecast for today.…
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Outside My Window ~ 4.06.2014
Outside my window…is a cool late afternoon in southeast Virginia. Plenty of sunshine, blue skies but not quite as warm as it was for the past couple of days. We have been see-sawing this spring….it rains or snows one day and then it warms up only to cool down to an unseasonable cool temperature. The cycle has been running that course for several weeks now. I think it is safe to say we have experienced our last frost, but I’m still not putting the plants out nor planting any seedlings yet. It was 45°F when I woke up this morning and I don’t believe it has broken the low 50’s…
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Outside My Window ~ 2.02.14
Outside my window…is blue skies and sunshine as well as moderate temperatures. We are currently sitting at 55°F with an expected high of 60°F today. Loving it! In the span of a week we had two snow storms with a total accumulation of approximately 9 inches. The first snow came the evening of January 21st with a total accumulation of around 3 1/2 inches. The temperature stayed cold enough for that snow to hang around until last Monday until we finally warmed up enough for all the snow to melt. Last Tuesday another front and coastal storm moved in and this time we received a total accumulation of 5 1/2…
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Outside My Window ~ 11.10.2013
Outside my window…is a chilly but beautiful morning. When I took Turbo out for his walk it was 45°F with plenty of sunshine and clear, blue skies. We were actually a little warmer than yesterday when we experienced what I would say was our first hard frost. The temperature when I went out for a walk at 6:30 am was 35°F. The cars, rooftops and grass were covered in frost. The mornings have been chilly while the days have been generally mild with temperatures ranging from the low 50’s to mid 60’s. We did have a few days since I last posted in the low to mid 70’s which were not too…
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Outside My Window ~ 10.13.2013
Outside my window…is yet another cloudy and rainy day. The rainfall pattern goes from drizzle to pouring rain to light rain to drizzle….rinse and repeat….for the 7th straight day. We did need the moisture but this has been a bit of over kill in that department. I read on Friday that we had received 4 to 6 inches of rainfall in our area…I would add about another inch and a half to that for Friday night, all day Saturday and this morning. I don’t know which end of the spectrum we are on but I will say that I had pulled the level down in my water barrels to about half before this storm and…
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Outside My Window ~ 10.6.2013
Outside my window…is the dawn of a new day. One of the things you have to “love” about being a dog owner is he doesn’t know the difference between a Sunday morning or a Monday morning…rise and shine at our normal 5:30 a.m. time for his morning walk. Even though I managed to put him off for a half an hour it was still dark was we walked. I see a nap in my future for today. Right now we are at 65°F with the sun just now making itself known. Our forecast high for today is 88°F….I want this Indian Summer weather to go away….NOW. I know people in…