Gut tells me that we might be in for a wild ride this winter. At least out west anyway as the jet stream has been running more radical with changing air masses, long sweeps running north and down south.

 

I'm not a paid weather man so could be   wrong.

 

Just make sure you get plenty firewood in and truck's ready to roll.

Edited August 24, 201410 yr by JAG1

LOL.....  actually,   the  kernel itself!

There are  corn stoves  that  has  a little  auger,  that  dribbles  in 2-3  kernels   every  10-15 seconds..     a  five  gallon  bucket  (1/2 bushel)  lasts  about  a day.

There is  a  tiny  little  blower,  dampner,  and  a    very expensive    control board   to  manage the whole  show..

 

They  kinda   'fizzled'  out  when  corn   hit  7 bucks  a  couple years ago...  but   corn is  very low  3 dollars now,  might be some   interest again.

With the "price" of commodities now................it's way cheaper to burn wood!!!

I already pre-bought 800 gallons of propane which should get me through the winter, plus I have about 80% in my tank now. Last winter with the cold weather I used almost 1,000 gallons. I hope I have it figured right this year. Oh, I got it at 1.649/gallon this year. The going rate for pre-buy in 1.849/gallon here.

WOW, I paid 1.39 summer fill price this year, took 1150 gallons to fill both of my 1k gallons tanks from last year. If I do not run the furnace in my shop I can go a little more than year on a thousand gallon tank for just my house but I keep my shop just above freezing 35-40, I have a shop thermostat that goes lower than a normal t-stat and I don't have it insulated very well or fully finished yet either inside.

 

If the way this summer are any indicator of the winter it is going to be another cold one, this summer has been very cool and very very wet and foggy as of late. Hope we don't get pummelled with snow, extended forecasts say normal to light precip but colder than normal again....................sigh We are only in the 50's and 60 the last several days with lows in the 40's, nomal average highs are at or above 80 and 60's at night for this time of year. Had to throw an extra blanket on the bed and find a jacket today.

I know what you mean for temperatures. The high for today is supposed to get to 68*. 50* when I got up this AM.

It's going to be around 92 in Portland today. We need to do a coal rolling parade by the next Algore convention.

I am starting to think I am living in Seattle here....................cold and rainy again was supposed to be low 70's today and only 10% chance of rain, not going to pass 60 and has been raining for 4 hours straight now.

 

Our ground feels like walking in a rain forest very soft and all of the prairie and lawns are greener than they have ever been which for seeing green in the open prairie much past the end of July early August on a good year in this part of the country is rare.

http://guide.sportsmansguide.com/news/farmers-almanac-winter-2015-brrr/

Check it out

If yesterdays unusual August rain was an indication.... man it rained so hard for about 30 mins. Washed out some of my road and I've never seen raindrops plop down so large before. I think some came from that last hurricane from the Mexico coast that dissipated northward. It was cool as I watched one of the biggest monster looking clouds develop right over us. 

Edited August 31, 201410 yr by JAG1

It rained in the cascades yesterday. We got 1/2" total. Unusual to have a campfire in early bow elk camp. Drying out stuff. No shelter.

I am starting to think I am living in Seattle here....................cold and rainy again was supposed to be low 70's today and only 10% chance of rain, not going to pass 60 and has been raining for 4 hours straight now.

 

Our ground feels like walking in a rain forest very soft and all of the prairie and lawns are greener than they have ever been which for seeing green in the open prairie much past the end of July early August on a good year in this part of the country is rare.

 

 

Be up there in just over a month W&F.