We’re close to the lake and the Atlantic isn’t over 15 miles as the crow flies so we don’t get frost until mid October sometimes. I still have tomatoes on the vine this year so far. Mid 40’s here but scattered frost around us. We pay for that with heavy snow and a lot of ice at times and heavier storms in the summer than average. Last spring frost is usually fairly early for us too compared to just inland.
Anticipated doing the fireplace this weekend. But temps did drop until after bedtime. We started using our fireplace on weekend for the atmosphere. Still waiting.
We usually start getting first frost Mid-October but might not get a killer frost until the end of the month. Course every now and then it snows on Halloween. Might just be a couple flakes but it counts.
The cooler nights are arriving here in central PA, I'm getting anxious for the frost...... I'm sick of the hot, humid, muggy, soaking wet conditions that we've been stuck in for months.
It's getting cooler here as well, going up to 68f today, have to clean my stove and run my brush thru the pipe and might end up starting a fire real soon
I lived on the FES for many years before I was married and I remember well how much the lake affects the weather. 3blocks from lake... Spring always seemed cold, summer would have odd days where it was foggy in hot weather, and trees near light posts would hold onto leaves longer than by my folks in the burbs. Winter was a bit milder... With rain instead of the snow...
Unfortunately that's not funny. It's a beautiful area in which he lives. Just outside of lake Tahoe by a state/ national forest. As beautiful as that area of the country is, I'd rather deal with mostly predictable winter storms and cold weather than forest fires, mudslides, and earthquakes. SkidderDone , my wife is from NorCal and I've spent a bit of time from Sacramento and north.
Yeah that close to the lake gets really odd weather. We're about 3 miles from the lake. We don't get that craziness, where it's cold in the early spring, but we get the "frost protection" of the big lake. I've got two different friends that live closer to the lake, one family is 1/2 block off the lake in Port Washington, and the other in in Bayside a couple blocks off the lake and living that close really changes things. Cold Springs from a cold lake can really shorten growing season. It's funny, but the Great Lakes are not really lakes, but rather freshwater seas. A body of water that big really does affect weather.
Ever go out on Michigan far from shore ? It feels for all intents like the ocean. Mid lake on the ferry in a storm is pretty intense.
On Sept. 9 my wife and I and another couple went on a 5 hour tour of light houses in Lake Huron. Tour started from Mackinaw City. We encountered rough water with seas running 4-6 feet. We were doing some hard slams going over the waves. There were a few getting a bit green around the gills and one person did get sick. The tour was cut short by an hour and a half as the captain carefully made his way back to port. There were some onboard that enjoyed the ride including my wife and me. People that had started out sitting on the top open deck got drenched and came down inside, some having to crawl on the floor of the upper deck to get to the stairs.
Yeah we love it here (politics aside ). I hear ya on the predictable weather vs. fires, earthquakes and mudslides but you take the good with the bad. If we were just allowed to manage our forests properly rather than abandoning them because of the crazy environmentalists we wouldn't have nearly the issues with fires that we have. Sure we would still have fires but not nearly as frequent and not nearly as extreme.
Lol. We came back from a trip to Holland and what started out as gray and foggy as we left the harbor in Muskegon turned into 8-10ft rollers mid lake and was still 4-6 with the Milwaukee breakwater on the horizon. The cars the aft deck were moving a little even chained down. The same ship lost its bow door from a wave impact a few years earlier. Big lake = big weather. My folks have a place on lake Michigan and at least once a year there is a hellacious storm that changes the shoreline, washes up stuff that I didn't think could move underwater or bends their pier in ways that give me fits trying to fix.
Already had the first frost a little while ago snow is in the extended forecast for next Sunday into Monday
