Crazy Weather Thread (Rapid City: apartment, cities, place)

[Jammie]

The rule in olden days was that you could plant flowers on Memorial weekend, but not before. We CAN get freezing temps/frost until then, but it's so rare that I plant flowers in early to mid-May. We've had to cover them a few times in the past, but generally it works out. They actually don't thrive until June though.

That's for the southeastern part of the state and I know you'll live in western So. Dak. so if it's different there, I hope someone will post.

[DannyBanany]

Gardening here varies and can be risky if you start too soon. My mom grows a garden and last year we started planting about mid-May. Year before we had started in April. This year we might not get it up until June. Luckily, our record snowfall has saturated the ground. I'm planning on some nice big tomatoes this year!!! The only trick is to figure out when to plant!

So far this year Rapid City's gotten about 95 inches of snow! The most EVER!

[rjl78]

Boy howdy there is quite a bit a water still standing around Brown and Day Counties. Interesting US-12 out of water and the railroad tracks standing out of water.

[DannyBanany]

We're only getting little spits of rain this morning in Rapid City but up in the high country they got about an inch of SNOW!!!

[BusySocialWorker]

We planted our garden last week - the early spring veggies (broccoli, strawberries, onions, lettus etc) - we will to tomato / cuces / peppers in about three more weeks.

We will also plant flowers this weekend (only potted) so I can brin them in the garage if it gets too cold overnight - we always start planting flowers mother's day weekend

[Jammie]

Rumor has it that it snowed in the Hills this morning. Anyone know if that's true?

[OMALL26]

On KOTA they showed a house around Lead and they had 4 to 5 in's on their deck.

[DannyBanany]

Originally Posted by Jammie

Rumor has it that it snowed in the Hills this morning. Anyone know if that's true?

It's true! About an inch on the Wyo/SD state line. In the high country. It spit hail for about a minute in town today.

[stockwiz]

I was looking over the map of tornado hotspots

http://www.gis.ttu.edu/center/ESRIMa...adoes_8x11.pdf

and noticed that oklahoma city is 360% above average for tornadoes in the US. Generally I've found severe weather to be pretty much a non-issue around brookings.. all the tornadoes and hail are either down south of sioux falls, or west out by Mitchell. Usually they fall apart before they get here.. we just get heavy rain.

Back where I used to live in eastern WI, just 3 miles from lake michigan, there was never tornadoes either. The lake would cause any tornadoes to fall apart once they get within 10 miles of the lakeshore, and also hail would dissipate too.. so if I wanted to see some good hail I would have to drive 10-15 miles west to see it. I don't see that as a bad thing though, probably a good thing!

This -20 stuff in the winter is a new thing for me though!

[debey]

Originally Posted by stockwiz

I was looking over the map of tornado hotspots

http://www.gis.ttu.edu/center/ESRIMa...adoes_8x11.pdf

and noticed that oklahoma city is 360% above average for tornadoes in the US. Generally I've found severe weather to be pretty much a non-issue around brookings.. all the tornadoes and hail are either down south of sioux falls, or west out by Mitchell. Usually they fall apart before they get here.. we just get heavy rain.

Back where I used to live in eastern WI, just 3 miles from lake michigan, there was never tornadoes either. The lake would cause any tornadoes to fall apart once they get within 10 miles of the lakeshore, and also hail would dissipate too.. so if I wanted to see some good hail I would have to drive 10-15 miles west to see it. I don't see that as a bad thing though, probably a good thing!

This -20 stuff in the winter is a new thing for me though!

Never "trust" that it's going to miss you..........