02/25/25 16:24: N Q: silversquirrel I could never handle your heat, even if it is dry. At least when it's cold out I can put more clothing on.
Yesterday it was 50° out, light weight jacket time. The snow has mostly melted but I'm sure we'll have some more before spring which is ok because even if we get dumped on, at this time of the year it melts fast.
02/23/25 21:15: silversquirrel: Hi NQ and Homely. I'm enjoying the weather here in the Phoenix area. This is the reason we put up with sweltering summers. 82 degrees and partly sunny. And dry. We're having a surge in flu and norovirus. Apparently having nice weather doesn't prevent our getting The Crud. Here's hoping that you both get to enjoy an early spring. Groundhog be damned. Hello to Stargzr if you're still checking out Opentopia. Hugs, AZ Sue aka Silver Squirrel ðŸ¿ï¸
02/22/25 20:32: N Q: Homely that's sad that you didn't get to use your deck yet but it's something to look forward to once it does warm up, on the otherhand your garden sounds like it might be a lot of work ! hopefully once it does warm up that the ground will thaw fast.
02/22/25 20:27: N Q: Homely when I first checked this cam out, it had crowds of people in the upper and lower crossroads but then they parted and a parade came through on both roads, they must have done a circle around the buildings. It was a long parade with band after band and very little space between the bands, must have been noisey and yes a celebration to break up winter is needed.
Two weeks ago we had our hot air balloon celebration, a celebration created to break up the dreary winter and this year the balloons took off from a school parking lot that's winthin my view so I had a great view of it and it did uplift my spirits, which has been needed with all of our minus temps !
02/22/25 19:13: Homely: N Q, I think we get your warmer weather starting on Monday. Woke up today to 21 degrees in the meantime. It's supposed to go cold again, though, after that warm breakthrough. They're saying we will stay quite cold until mid-March. At that rate, don't know when I will ever get my garden going for the spring. Our weather broke in the fall so quickly that I never got to finish putting it all to bed for the winter, either. We were having lovely weather in October and we put a new deck on the back of the house and LITERALLY the next day it snapped cold and has stayed that way since. Never got to use the deck at all, and my garden remained half taken down from the season. What a year!
02/22/25 19:08: Homely: I missed the celebration, N Q, but February can be so dreary that I'd take just about any excuse for a celebration!
02/22/25 14:26: N Q: 147 web cams are available as of the last scan. You're one of 16 current visitors today.
It's a far cry from the 6000+ webcams that Opentopia once had.