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Bug .. LOL .. YES we are getting old but we are doing it gracefully !! Thats what I tell the kids ..

36 degrees here at 11pm .. Brrrrr ...

... Record cold high temperature set at Lincoln on Saturday...

The high temperature at Lincoln on Saturday was only 49 degrees.
This is the coldest high temperature on record for October
6... breaking the old record of 53 degrees which was set in 1952.

Well my tomato plants struggle against mother nature was lost .. after three nights of temps below freezing the plants have started wilting .. picked a little over a half a bushel .. will wrap them in newspapers and hopefully will have fresh tomatoes for Thanksgiving ...

Lower Cal .. that would be a treat having tomatoes all year long ..

We covered the plants but the 29 degrees for three night in a row was just too much for them..

My pecan trees are just now starting to drop their nuts. This is only the 2nd year we have had a crop as the trees are only 15 years old and starting to mature..

Ylee .. didn't think you would get frost this go around..

Hope you have planted the pecan trees where they have plenty of room .. they will get quite large .. I planted 3 trees, with 2 of them starting to produce now and one that hasn't produced a nut yet ...

Not sure if there are male/female trees or not ..

97L is starting its move to the north this morning ..

According to our local paper, The Peoria Journal Star, Peoria County farmers have had yields between 20 and 200 bushel an acre ..

Thats a enormous difference from one field to another.. pity the poor farmers with the 20 bushel yield ..

Got .3 inches of ran overnight .. before it cleared and cooled down to 30 degrees but the feel like temp was in the 20's this morning with the wind .. only up to 50 so far today ..

Fox .. yes its that time of year ...

Ylee .. did you get a frost ???

HGW .. thanks for explaining that ..

Finn .. a bushel is a unit of measurement to weigh or measure dry grains ..

DAY 2 CONVECTIVE OUTLOOK
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
1228 PM CDT FRI OCT 12 2012

VALID 131200Z - 141200Z

...THERE IS A SLGT RISK OF SVR TSTMS ACROSS A BROAD PORTION OF THE
CENTRAL U.S....

...SYNOPSIS...
A PROGRESSIVE MID-/UPPER-LEVEL TROUGH IS FORECAST TO SHIFT OUT OF
THE ROCKIES AND INTO THE CENTRAL U.S. THIS PERIOD...WITH
ACCOMPANYING FASTER FLOW FIELD ALSO SPREADING EWD WITH TIME.
MEANWHILE...RIDGING ALOFT IS PROGGED EITHER SIDE OF THE TROUGH --
AFFECTING BOTH THE SWRN AND SERN PORTIONS OF THE U.S. DURING THE
PERIOD.

AT THE SURFACE...A COLD FRONT IS FORECAST TO CROSS THE PLAINS WITH
TIME AS THE UPPER SYSTEM ADVANCES...TRAILING FROM A SOMEWHAT
ILL-DEFINED LOW EXPECTED TO SHIFT EWD ACROSS THE UPPER MIDWEST
REGION THROUGH THE SECOND HALF OF THE PERIOD. THIS LOW/FRONT WILL
BE A FOCUS FOR WIDESPREAD CONVECTION AND ACCOMPANYING SEVERE WEATHER
POTENTIAL.

...THE CENTRAL CONUS...
A COMPLEX SCENARIO CONTINUES TO EVOLVE FOR THE DAY 2 PERIOD...WITH
SOME MODEL DISAGREEMENT ON SYNOPTIC-SCALE SYSTEM PROGRESSION --
PARTICULARLY ACROSS THE CENTRAL AND SRN PLAINS -- COMBINING WITH
QUESTIONS REGARDING BOUNDARY LAYER EVOLUTION TO RESULT IN FAIRLY
SUBSTANTIAL UNCERTAINTY REGARDING BOTH LOCATION AND DEGREE OF SEVERE
POTENTIAL.

CONVECTION WILL LIKELY BE ONGOING FROM PARTS OF W TX NEWD ACROSS THE
CENTRAL PLAINS INTO THE UPPER MIDWEST/UPPER MS VALLEY REGION EARLY.
THIS PRECIPITATION/CLOUD COVER -- PARTICULARLY FROM THE MID MO
VALLEY REGION NEWD -- MAY HINDER APPRECIABLE AIRMASS DESTABILIZATION
THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. THUS -- DESPITE A FAVORABLE KINEMATIC
ENVIRONMENT...DEGREE OF SURFACE-BASED SEVERE RISK REMAINS IN
QUESTION...SUPPORTING A SWWD SHIFT IN SEVERE WEATHER PROBABILITY
THIS FORECAST.

WHILE ONGOING CLOUDS/PRECIPITATION WILL LIKELY AFFECT MORE SRN
PORTIONS OF THE RISK AREA AS WELL...HINTS OF POTENTIAL FOR SOME
DESTABILIZATION BEHIND AN INITIAL BAND OF CONVECTION ARE EVIDENT --
PARTICULARLY GIVEN THE HIGHER THETA-E BOUNDARY LAYER EXPECTED IN
THIS AREA. GIVEN THIS POTENTIAL...AND A BACKGROUND WIND FIELD
SUPPORTIVE OF ORGANIZED/SUPERCELL STORMS...AN AFTERNOON/EVENING
INCREASE IN SEVERE THREAT FROM NWRN MO/ERN KS SWWD INTO WRN N TX
REMAINS POSSIBLE. WHILE DETAILS REGARDING POTENTIAL STORM MODE
ACROSS THIS REGION ARE UNCERTAIN...THREAT FOR HAIL AND DAMAGING
WINDS ALONG WITH ISOLATED TORNADOES EXISTS.

FARTHER NE...LIKELIHOOD FOR A MORE MOIST ADIABATIC LOWER AND MIDDLE
TROPOSPHERE ALONG WITH A MORE VEERED/SWLY BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW FIELD
SUGGESTS THAT DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN SEVERE POTENTIAL IN
THIS REGION.

AS CONVECTION SHIFTS EWD OVERNIGHT AHEAD OF THE PROGRESSING
SYNOPTIC-SCALE SYSTEM...EXPECT A GRADUAL DECREASE IN SEVERE THREAT
CORRESPONDING TO THE DIURNALLY STABILIZING AIRMASS -- PARTICULARLY
ACROSS NRN PORTIONS OF THE RISK AREA.

..GOSS.. 10/12/2012

Skye .. I hope so too but the high Saturday is suppose to be 77-78 degrees and with that cold front diving down it all plays out for severe somewhere ..