It’s Dogwood winter in our region. The dogwood trees are blooming lovely. The weather is cold, rainy and messy, but at least it’s heading towards warmer clear days.
Here’s wishing you all a sunshine filled weekend!
Tag: weather
1- 12-2017 Weather Report – rainy, warm & windy
1-12-2017 67° Windy, Cloudy and rainy
The wind feels like a warm Spring wind, it’s amazing.
If it wasn’t so dreary and damp out it’d be a lovely day.
This post ends up my 12 days of January weather reports.
Now I’ll wait and see how they compare to the months ahead.
There’s a gnome-hater in our midst. I’m not sure what critter it is, but hate gnomes, it does. I stand my gnomes up and within a night or two, something knocks them all down.
I suspect that the critter was foraging and knocked them over when it rooted underneath them with it’s nose… or it hates standing gnomes. 
Wishing you all great weather the rest of the winter.
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*just a note* – I had to drill holes in the bottom of my mushroom birdbath to keep it drained and dry because when it held water, it peeled and turned icky and stunk. It’s real disappointing.
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1-10-11-2017 Weather Report – rainy
It’s 57° a cloudy gray rainy day today. The bird bath is full of rainwater instead of snow.
I decided to wait and do the weather report for the 10th day and 11th day together since both days were forecast to be the same warmer and rainy.
Only one more day and then I’ll have the first 12 days of the weather this year to compare the next 12 months too.
Here’s hoping this 11th day of 2017 is good one for you.
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1-9-2017- weather report – snow slowly melting
1-9-2017 8 am
25° clear & cold
The snow is slowly melting away…
except for our back porch 
Hopefully all the snow will be gone by the evening.
Forecast for the day is in the mid-40’s and mostly sunny.
Wishing you a week of sunshine and smiles.
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1-8-2017- weather report – frosty
1-8-2017
5°
Clear and cold.
Heavy Fog made a frozen coating on the trees & plants.
There’s still have quite a bit of snow laying around.
Hopefully there will be enough sunshine to melt it away.
The forecast for the highs today are near 30°.
We’re thankful for the clear skies.
I hope your 8th day of 2017 is sunny and pleasant.
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1-7-2017- weather report – sunshine
1-7-2017
14° Sunshine, clear and cold
Thankfully we didn’t get much snow. The sun is shining beautifully. The roads are already clear, so hopefully the snow will be gone by Monday.
My husband told me yesterday evening that now that we’ve had snow, he’s officially ready for Spring. lol I totally agreed with him.
Hope you all are having a pleasant weekend.
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1-6-2017- weather report – it’s snowing
It started snowing around 6am this morning it was 29°
I took some photos around 8am, it was 19°
It’s still snowing. I doubt we get much, but we’ll see.
Is it snowing in your region this 6th day of 2017?
Stay safe and keep warm.
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1-5-2017- weather report
37° Cold & dry with heavy cloud cover
(there’s snow showers in the forecast but there hasn’t been any so far)
Hope your 5th day of 2017 is a going great.
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1-4-2017- weather report
Shelibean enjoyed the warmth of the sun shining in.
Sunshine and partly blue skies is a welcome change.
36°, a bit windy, partly sunny
Hope your 4th day of 2017 is a full of sunshine & smiles.
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Weather Forecast Folklore
It’s been cloudy and rainy these first 3 days of 2017, the temperature has been between the 40’s and mid-60’s (Fahrenheit). It’s a nice 64° today, the sun even peeked out for a few scattered random minutes. I raced outside with my camera to try to get a photo of the sunshine. Unfortunately, everything is so tan, brown and gray winter colors that the sunshine didn’t show up. However, I managed to get a photo of the sun making shadows of our fence by my rainchain garden. And then the sun saw my camera and raced behind the clouds and the rains came again. No rainbow though.
Depending on what folklore one is exposed too, supposedly there’s certain days of the year that forecast the weather for other times of the year.
One of them I’ve heard is that the weather during the first 12 days of January is supposed to predict the weather for the 12 months of the year. So, based on that, it could be moderately cool and wet the next three months.
I guess, I should mention that in the lore the precipitation can be interchangeable: rain for snow, fog for rain. I guess wet and dampness equals any form of rain, snow, fog, ice or dew. Folklore is very flexible that way. 😉
Just for fun, I hope I can remember to make a note of the weather for all 12 days, to see how they compare to the rest of the months of the year.
How’s the weather been in your region so far this year?
Do you know any folklore about the first 12 days of a year and weather?
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