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    Yes, it greened up to 3500 feet last week. I put in a more modest 25 tomato plants. I have around a dozen pepper plants. 8 rows of corn around 40 feet long each. 4 rows of cabbage. 3 rows of potatoes. A row of sweet potatoes. 15 cucumber hills. 8 watermelon hills. 5 zucchini hills. 10 cantaloupe hills. 5 big max pumpkin hills. 4 rows of sweet onions. 2 rows of peas that are already knee high and in full bloom. 3 rows of green beans. I'll plant 2 more rows of corn at least in a few weeks and more beans too.
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    With 75 tomato plants, everyone you know should be in tomatoes all summer long.
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    I've had to start carrying water from the creek to my garden. Right in the midst of sprouting time it's turns hot and bone dry.
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    Too wet to plow. The ground here is soaked, even 2-3 sunny days in a row only dried the first inch or so out. If it rains for the next 7 days like currently predicted, it'll have to get hot and dry for 4 or 5 days before I can get the ground turned to get ready for corn and other things.
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    Just installed about 150 sweet onion bulbs and 3 thirty foot rows of peas. Probably roll out some cabbage soon. Then it'll be time to prepare for tomatogeddon. I'm going for 2 pounders this year.
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    Since they are poisonous to humans without being heated, can animals eat almonds?
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    Still looks like mid-winter here. Cloudy and 40s isn't likely to aid in the spring springing. It's probably gonna be a couple weeks here. If it dries out I'm going to plow and plant some peas, onions and lettuce. Big if right now though.
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    The Southern Valley will probably be greening up towards the end of March if I were guess. It's usually mid-April or so here.
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    I've had just as many issues with power and other damage from heavy, wet snow here as I have with freezing rain. My last major power outage was from 8 inches of wet snow in December 2009. This also happened in 2004. They wet snow wreaked havoc in the pine trees and brought them down on power lines. My last major issue with ZR in that regard was 1998 when we had 3 days of rain at 28 degrees, 2.5-3 inches of ice and Christmas week without power.
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    Since this is winter related and will hopefully stay near the front page, I'm posting this here. I've wondered for years what exactly MRX uses for it's criteria when issuing winter products. I easily exceeded both WSW criteria last February and never moved out of a WWA. I suspected this happened quite a few times but never was clear on exactly what the standards were.
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    Well with April here I'm going to put my winter numbers in this thread. Total Snowfall: 23.2 inches. Biggest snow: 8 inches February 12th-13th Lowest temp: -8 on January 29th.
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    Welcome!

    John1122 replied to Mr Bob's topic in Tennessee Valley

    The weather in your part of Alabama is very similar to the TV area of Alabama and in severe weather, storms that effect your area often propagate into Eastern Tennessee. In other words, I'd love to see you post more here and I'm sure our other posters from all parts of the Great Valley area would as well.
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    It was a series of upper lows rotating around a large parent low to the north. It snowed for about 36 consecutive hours. 6.5 inches here, I remember it was around the first time there was a secondary deer season from just before Christmas into New Years. I can remember one very heavy bout on the front end, I had went down to a gas station to get gas for my 4 wheeler for hunting and it was pouring down half dollar+ sized flakes. Got about an inch in 20 minutes. It would be very light snow, then heavy burts for the next day and a half or so.
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    The Johnson City event was 1-27-98. The Plateau/Highland Rim event was a week later on 2-4-98. I had 18 inches of snow, Scott County got over 24 inches and most of the area was without power. Two very similar storms. My two most unique storms are the December 2009 event that dumped 4-8 inches of snow over most of Campbell County while mainly rain fell in every direction and a March 1997 event that dropped 5 inches on me in a very elevation driven event. There is a farm with a large barn right at the top of a steep drop here. There was 5 inches on one side of the barn and barely an inch on the other side of it. I doubt I see anything like that again in my lifetime. I had an uncle driving here from Texas that night and he said the snow was manageable until he got to that crest at the barn, then it was just a white out the rest of the way.
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    This got me to thinking about the trend of warmer winters since 1998ish. My earliest winter memories start around 1975. I decided to look back at my grandfathers low temp records for here to see how often we slipped below 5 degrees here in the winters since then. 1975: 4 Degrees December 19th 1976: -5 January 9th 1977: -10 January 19th - Also -7 January 29th with several other subzero days. 1978: -2 January 11th 1979: -10 February 10th 1980: 4 February 2nd 1981: -2 January 12th 1982: -14 January 17th - many days below 0 with a -10 on Jan 11th 1983: -8 December 25th, -4 on December 24th. 1984: -2 January 21st, 0 on the 20th and 22nd. 1985: -28 January 21st, -22 January 20th. 1986: -5 January 27th and 28th 1987: 2 January 27th 1988: 0 February 6th 1989: -10 December 22nd, high was 0 that day. 1990: No temps below 5. 1991: 0 February 16th 1992: 2 January 16th 1993: 0 March 15th, blizzard was good. 1994: -14 January 19th, -10 18th, two other days below 0 in the month. 1995: -4 February 8th, -1 on the 7th. 4th-14th was very cold and snowy. Last yr for my grandpa. He died Mar 16th at 90. 1996: -20 February 5th. 15 inches of snow on the ground. Last extreme cold event (below -5 imo) in East Tennessee. 1997: 1 January 11th 1998: No temps below 5 1999: No temps below 5 2000: 5 December 22nd 2001: 2 January 3rd 2002: No temps below 5 2003: -4 January 18th (last sub zero) 2004: 2 December 20th 2005: No temps below 5. 2006: No temps below 5. 2007: No temps below 5. 2008: 4 January 20th 2009: 0 January 16th 2010: 3 December 14th 2011: 4 January 14th 2012: No temps below 5. 2013: No temps below 5.
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    This is the 30th anniversary of the frigid Christmas of 1983. My low was -10, my high was 6 degrees. It was an odd pattern, it would warm up and rain, change to snow showers, then be really cold. Then repeat. The entire second half of December went that way in 1983.
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