Showing posts with label Urban Homestead. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Urban Homestead. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

I'll Believe It When I See It and Other News

Issued by The National Weather Service
San Francisco/Monterey, CA
3:38 pm PST, Tue., Feb. 22, 2011
... COLD STORM SYSTEM TO IMPACT OUR AREA STARTING ON THURSDAY...
... SNOW LEVELS EXPECTED TO DROP CLOSE TO SEA LEVEL BY FRIDAY NIGHT...
AFTER A QUIET WEATHER DAY TODAY AND WEDNESDAY... A RETURN TO COLD WINTRY CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE SAN FRANCISCO AND MONTEREY BAY REGION BY THURSDAY. A STRONG STORM SYSTEM CURRENTLY IN CANADA WILL DIVE TO THE SOUTHEAST AND BE NEAR THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA FRIDAY NIGHT. AHEAD OF THE LOW... RAINFALL WILL SPREAD ACROSS OUR AREA STARTING THURSDAY AND CONTINUING INTO FRIDAY. RAINFALL AMOUNTS COULD EXCEED HALF AN INCH FOR CITIES WITH MORE THAN AN INCH POSSIBLE FOR HIGHER ELEVATIONS. SNOW LEVELS WILL DROP THROUGH THE DAY AND BE UNDER 1500 FEET FOR MOST OF SAN FRANCISCO BAY AND BETWEEN 2000 AND 2500 FEET ON FRIDAY. SIGNIFICANT SNOW ACCUMULATIONS WILL BE POSSIBLE FOR LOCAL MOUNTAIN RANGES. EVEN COLDER AIR WILL CONTINUE TO FILTER IN THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT WITH SNOW LEVELS POTENTIALLY DROPPING DOWN TO SEA LEVEL.
We brought the banana in the house tonight just in case and if the temps really do drop that low all the seedlings in the greenhouse will need to come in as well.

In Other News
If you have been following the story on the Dervaes Family claiming to have trademarked the terms Urban Homestead and Urban Homesteading... well it made our local paper today. You can read about it on line at SFGate. You can also keep up on this story on Facebook at Take Back Urban Home-steading(s)

Snow... Really!