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  • From: "Elizabeth Pike" <pike AT always-online.com>
  • To: "market farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Weather forecasting...
  • Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 22:26:19 -0500


Once again, pup hit send before I was finished-Here's the corrected version!

Interesting. The one sign I look for the most is the old "red sky at
night,
sailor's delight, red sky in the morning, sailor's take warning." It has
proven extremely true. 2 days before Hurricane Floyd, the morning sunrise
was the reddest I've ever seen, though the hurricane itself was a pussycat.
In other instances, I can tell if the weather man's forecast for an upcoming
storm is really as bad as he says. It's the very first thing I look for
every single morning.

I can usually count on a frost on nights with no clouds or wind & forecast
temps in the 40s. If we get a frost during the first 2 weeks of October, I
can usually count on 4 more weeks of frostless nights. If the first frost
occurs in the 3rd or 4th weeks, I must prepare long term protection of
plants until they're harvested (row covers, mulch, etc) as we will have
numerous frosts.

And as for snow, if the jet stream dips low & we've got cloud cover south of
us-we'll get snow. Usually foretold by a ring around the moon! (sorry,
voodoo anyone?)

April 15 is usually our last frost & March 15 our last hard freeze. If we
have rainy weather during the first week of March, our hard freezes are
generally over. I've found the same to be true for April.

I can tell by my cats & other animals when a hurricane is approaching (they
get very jumpy), though I prefer the NOAA internet sight for exact info!
When the eye is above us-they calm down.

I'm as fascinated by weather as by farming.

Liz
Morningstar Gardens
Pollocksville, NC






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