Special weather statement :

Read the special statement in the weather forecast , just north of us :

"...A COLD LABOR DAY WEEKEND EXPECTED ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTHCENTRAL
ALASKA...

ARCTIC AIR WILL MOVE IN BEHIND THE CURRENT STORM SYSTEM RESULTING
IN COLDER THAN NORMAL TEMPERATURES ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTHCENTRAL
ALASKA THIS WEEKEND...ESPECIALLY DURING THE OVERNIGHT AND EARLY
MORNING HOURS. THE COLDER AIR WILL ARRIVE FIRST IN THE NORTHERN
SUSITNA VALLEY AND ALONG THE DENALI HIGHWAY FROM CANTWELL TO
PAXSON FRIDAY NIGHT...POSSIBLY PRODUCING SOME MINOR SNOW
ACCUMULATION BEFORE PRECIPITATION TAPERS OFF LATE FRIDAY NIGHT.

SKIES WILL GRADUALLY CLEAR OUT FROM WEST TO EAST ACROSS SOUTHCENTRAL
FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT. TEMPERATURES WILL DIP INTO
THE 30S IN THE TYPICALLY COLDER LOCATIONS EARLY SATURDAY MORNING.
EVEN COLDER TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED BY EARLY SUNDAY MORNING...
WITH TEMPERATURES IN THE 20S FROM THE NORTHERN SUSITNA VALLEY TO
NORTHWEST COPPER BASIN AND IN THE 30S FOR MUCH OF THE REMAINDER
OF SOUTHCENTRAL ALASKA. "

& At the Fair
I could see fresh snow in the mts North of Palmer,
on the peaks , up the Matanuska Valley

 

Dave, it was 39F. at the shop this morning when I got there.
Betcha a moose steak vs. an elk steak, I get snow before you do.

 

Yea
At your elevation you could have snow anytime now.

To be in the 30s at night this week. Forecast for 36° Friday night.
Frost anytime now , if it clears up.
Raining now, 53°.

I gotta get the steak first, still out there running around somewhere. LOL

 

Bogy, I just took this over to the girls next door and I told them when the jet stream starts to dip south we'll be in for this, I won't tell you what one called me!

 

Lies I tell yeah.

Actually last year we had something like that in September. My phone exploded.... "Ah... Its cold in my house, I need wood"
Talk about waiting to the last minute!

 

LOL
You have such a way with women.
Cold weather is like parallel parking, most want nothing to do with it .

 

I'm heading for the ocean soon, when I get back "weather come as you may" cold, snow, wind, but I'd prefer no power outages

 

I went back over to tell the girl that called me an azz that if she didn't apologize bogydave would send down a low pressure system that would sit an spin over her house all winter long, she apologized.

 

Those temperatures for Woodwidow and myself only seem to come for a week or so around wintertime! And rain you don't have to shovel, but it's the continual gray overcast that really makes one miss the sun and that brightness after a snowfall!

 

Have the leaves fallen off there yet Dave

 

They are just starting to change color. Had a couple laying in the yard.
I cut the grass today despite this "snow warning"

Was 42* in the AM, got up to I think 59*. A bit chilly.

 

Starting to fall, will start falling more from here on out.
Light frost here last night, Zucchini plants look sick.

Was at moose camp last night , heavy frost there. Leaves falling big time when the sun came up.

Some trees looking yellow, some still mostly green
Ran out just now, took a couple pics:

 

My cherry by the pool is turning and dropping pretty good, gonna get the winter cover on by this weekend.

 

Keep the pictures coming especially when the leaves really start to turn. Without any real serious frosts the leaves on the alders never turn they just fall off .

 

Next trip to moose camp should be some good colors.

Yea
same for our alders. They drop green leaves. Tough plant.

 

Around here don't really get much color. It's all yellow what does change. No nice reds, orange, and all that like in Maine.

Between that, always overcast, and the soggy everything with all the rain and the stink of rotting leaves (I can't describe, but imagine the bottom of a septic tank mixed with a dead hooker) fall isn't all that nice.

I wouldn't mind summer as we had about 3 days of somewhat "warm" and that was about it. I can count on one hand the times I actually was sweating while working.