Here's what it looks like for me, Edmonton, Alberta, Zone 3:

Oct 1

Mostly cloudy, a flurry; coldLo 28ð

Thu

Oct 2

Sunny and colder44ðLo 22ð
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Fri

Oct 3

Milder with clouds and sun57ðLo 40ð
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Sat

Oct 4

Nice with partial sunshine64ðLo 38ð
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North of SLC,

In our area (Silicon Valley, CA)
Hot... no rain.

Wed
Clear
86ð
61ð

Thu
Clear
91ð
63ð

Fri
Clear
95ð
63ð

Sat
Clear
91ð
61ð

Sun
Clear
82ð
61ð

Silicon Valley, CA ? Ronny ? sure.
At the peak of summer our temperatures were cooler that what you have now. Seems to me that your season is just getting better :-)

Don, you are done. Sorry !
Djoy, Hang in there a little longer. You might get some Indian summer or something.
Actually, we are having better than normall weather here. But it can end any time without any notice. :-)D

Still hanging in there (barely), here in CT. I'm about halfway between Hartford and Long Island Sound, about 20 miles inland. Plants, especially my Bhuts, have slowed down ripening significantly. These temps have been pretty consistent for the past couple of weeks, except for last weekend where we had a 3 day stretch of low 80's.

Be in the mid-90's here today. Small cool front coming through today, so it'll cool down to mid-eighties. Hopefully there'll be some rain with the front. Just don't want any hail or high winds. Sixties at night. Plants are loaded with green peppers and flowers.
Wonder if capsaicin will cure Ebola?

Tom, where are you at ?
Thou your profile indicates zone 8, but it does not help much. Zone 8 in FL, TX, CA, GA, WA .. are not the same.

Mike, your temps in CT are few degrees warmer than ours in WA. It looks nice thou. I have lived in CT (So. Fairfield cty). You have pretty fall weather. Up here fall is the start of rain season. But so far its ok.

Have a nice fall weather, ye'all !

seysonn

I'm concerned about Saturday morning. Might have to run the sprinkler on the garden for a few hours. I expect frost. Kansas City.

This post was edited by kclost on Thu, Oct 2, 14 at 10:35

seysonn,

yes, silicon valley... San Jose to be more specific. It is about 50 minutes to San Francisco.

We are just starting our Indian Summer here. I do not expect it to get super cold until late NOV-DEC

Usually my plants are good outside until early November. Hoping for the same this year.

It is supposed to be 93 degrees at the beaches in Los Angeles County this week-end and even hotter further inland. Fortunately I am less than three miles from the beach, but it will still be hot. I do not ever get a frost where I live, and so my pepper plants grow and produce throughout the winter, as well as my tomatoes, when I plant them. I have a lot of peppers getting ripe at this time, but I also have a lot that are green and that are flowering. When it is this hot, I have to water more often, however, and one plant is particularly prone to wilting - it might need a larger pot. I have all my plants in pots because my soil is too poor and does not drain, thereby causing root rot for a lot of plants, although bananas do fine.

This has been the hottest year in SoCal in over 100 years.

Lars

Beginning Friday night my garden sheets will be in full use covering up the 25plus buckets/pots... on my patio. The plants out in the garden will be on their own - too much area to try to cover.

Mpls area 7 day forecast

Still pretty warm for a bit.

Seysonn,
Bastrop Texas, just east of Austin.
Where we USED to get 32" of rain annually....

What a diversity in weather.
Let take a snap shot of the temperatures across the land.

NorthEast and NorthWest are almost identical.

Southeast and southwest are pleasantly summer like.
I feel sorry for those who are in that BLUE hole. They seem to be starting winter already. We were driving through parts of cascades (In WA) last Monday. It felt like going to snow.

All I can say is that: "Enjoy While it Lasts". I am personally a summer person.

we've had thunderstorms passing through since pre-dawn, so far I've gotten 1.25" of rain. Looks like it might be over, cold is coming in. This is our 7 day, gonna dip down tonight, and I live in the country so I figure it will be in the upper 30's out here.
Pam

94 and humid today. Thunderstorms building just to the NW a County away. They need to start building to the WSW if I can hope for any rain out of them.

At least the weekend will be 56 - 82. Looks like a good time to mow my yard for the 3rd time this year. Amazing how much longer lawn mowers hold up during a 7 year drought!

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Update: Woohoo... it's gonna be a direct hit. Hang on Irene!

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This post was edited by mecdave on Thu, Oct 2, 14 at 20:55

We normally avg 75-80 (days) a/ 58-64 (nights) during Oct.; however we have this random cold front coming through a/ it will mid-up 40's. Hopefully nothing decides to stop growing b/c I have hundreds of buds (40plants worth), all green, just now starting to turn.

Pam, Dave Itight,
You are ok, to me. Night lows is not that important. Our nights lows were better than 80% in 50s in the dog days of summer. Now dipping into high 40s. My pepper surprisingly are doing fine, especially mild and sweet ones. I have lots of green pods, thou. I might bring my mini hoop into play when it gets colder. Good thing about peppers is that they are manageable in 45" tall hoop. And then Of course they are in pots.

Today's high was 68F. tomorrow will be 75F. I drink to that :-)

Got pounded last night by storms. Lightning all around, and some real near strikes. Maybe some of it took down dead trees that I've been cutting. Too bad that it rained enough so where I can't get the PU down the fence-line to pull down the trees away from the fence. No pepper damage that I could see by flashlight. Probably gonna be 55 or so this AM.
Friday is a good beer day...

still getting warm enough to keep the peppers happy here, also i can water much less cause we've been getting rain and it's not 100+.

In the midst of our first FALL Santa Ana. It's warm, but I can handle THIS kind of heat. The monsoonal crap seems to be behind us for another year.

Hoping El Nino shows his pretty face this winter or I may have to give up my hobby.

Kevin

Here is a link that might be useful: 10 day

Man our temperature dropped 15 degrees in about an hour in KC. Was 57F this morning now 45F.

I bet we get our first freeze tonight. And I'm fishing in a bass tournament in the morning. :-(

Hard freeze this morning: 25 degrees F with wind. Obviously all the outdoor tender crops are toast. However, I have some peppers in high tunnels under row cover that made it through. I'm trying to get all my Chile de Arbol ripe but I'll probably have to pull the plants before the next freeze,

The front came through DFW yesterday like a freight train. Gusts up to 90mph that took down many trees. Power was out to half the city - 15 hours here, and the internet just came back in the last hour. Temps might actually get down to 50F tonight....

Dennis

It is snowing right now a hundred miles to the north. We have possible snow tonight and tomorrow with temps dropping below freezing for the first time tomorrow night. I picked all my remaining ripe peppers yesterday and letting the weather stop my plants before I finally pull them probably next week. Time to admit the season is over for me.
Bruce

At noon today it was 101F.
Going to be 105F tomorrow...

SNOWING????!!! YOW!!!!

well, it supposedly got down around 32-33 last night, but, peppers and tomatoes look no worse for wear. And with 80's next week, looks like my season is still going strong...

105?? YUCK!

hey, OKgrowin where you located? you definitely gotta be south of me as your temps look a bit higher than ours. I'm outside of Tulsa.
Pam

PNW is hanging in there. Our weather change is very slow and gradual. We neither get real HOT summers nor HARSH winters.

So what we see in this forecast is about 8 degree cooler than our summer weather in average.

Come Monday it will get back to normal. Only good thing about the two cold nights (Sat/Sun) it's full sun so soil gets a good warm up.

No frost in the near future!

SEASON EXTENSTIONS:

I am calling back my mini hoops from retirement home (pictured below), to shelter some of my peppers during cool October and early November. So that my unripe pods (a lot of them) have a chance to mature and get color.
Standing at about 48" (peak) they ( I have 2 of them) are suitable for most of my potted peppers.

Yeah ! gotta beat the mother nature in its own game. hahaha

Only 95 today. S.Ca.-San Fernando Valley.

That is nice, Smoke
Our high was 75F. Still a heat wave for this time of season.
I see a 59/44F in the forecast 10 day from now. I think the fat lady is on her way to here to sing:-)

Highs and lows for the last 24 hrs

And my local... With record highs and lows.... Stay in green please!!!

dj

Hi all,
We broke a record here today 88 degrees. Old record was 85. Supposed to cool down a little but stay unseasonably warm for the rest of the week. My plants are loaded and I have 2 gallon ziplock bags full waiting for the dehydrator.
Randal

No frost or freeze here yet. But it sure getting cold.
Temperatures are dropping fro 70s to 50s in about a week.

Here it is.

Here is a mini hoop sheltering some of my peppers.

I just want the pods have a chance to get ripe and not trying to save the plants.

Got a MFG part # or URL for directions to build the hoop house?

It depends on the width and height you want.
With 1/2" pvc you cannot make it very wide in tall. The length of standard pvc is 10ft. So you can neither make it very wide or tall. So for bigger hoops you would need like 3/4" EMT and a bending system.

Search google videos on " how to make a hoop house ?"

The sun:rain ratio has been perfect for almost a month now. Since weather calls for 8days of 80-87 w/ full sunshine it's time for some "high quality h2o."

Northeast,
You can also make hoop houses out of 1/2" EMT. It also comes in 10' pieces. Make a form out of blocks of 2X and screw them to a sheet of ply. Draw up how big you want the hoops, mark the EMT, and wedge a block to hold the tubing. Have a helper hold the sheet down, and bend away. It helps to make the form a little smaller than the finished hoop, as the EMT will "spring back" some. These hold up to wind better than poly and will last for years. Secure by driving a short 2X4 stake in the ground and putting a 1/2" EMT clamp on it.