Hi Correction to mine messages, i wrote "It has many places in U.S.A. and word" it should have been it has many places in U.S.A. and worldwide. Sorry of the wrong writing text, but perhaps you guessed it what i meant. Hi Brandon7 thanks of your message and you liked that link as you said it was interesting. I know what you meant in backround of your message, not many dare to forecast so detailed in future than that internet site. I meant long range weather forecast, many internet site have weather forecast say for example for next 6 days. So it is that way good to see someone have long range forecast. About that accuracy you mentioned, site says 83% accuracy. I don't know what is that site determination of being accurate, is that someday high temperature is same side of compared of normal high temperature, or weather condition, or daily high temperature is exactly same in actually what was forecasted. But still i see your point Brandon7 about accuracy, as we don't know what weather will be in future, this may give us some tip about it. Buy it or not. I meant you believe that long range weather forecast or not, that is your choice. I think this can be think same way as stock market buying tip of buying some company share. You can take the tip, but it is your responsible to think if that share will rise in value. If someone gave you tip to buy that company share, it doesn't have to mean it will rise in value, so the risk is for you. But it is possible to rise that share value. If the tip giver say that share will rise 100 % in next 1 year, you can take the tip again, but there is no guaranteed this will happen, it may rise only 60% next 1 year, rise more than 100%, loss 60% of value or anything between those for example. Point here is it is your taks to analyze that share risks and possibly value rise, as you take risk about that share if you buy it. Main point was you can take tip but it is your responsibility to do conclusion about it, do you belive it or not. If you apply that to the that long range weather forecast site, you can again take it, but it is again your risk for thinking is it accurate or reasonable forecast or does it make sense in common sense. You said someone should do research project into the past predictions. I think that site do not have old days predictions which is already gone (Date i meant.), that way we could see those, so i think way to do that accuracy would be write down prections and compare actual weather as the day passes. That would be quite a task if you want to analyze all of those places which site has, there is alot places available, also you should also someway to determine what is being accurate i think. I think in common sense and way the overall picture is enough detail.

Dorothy, How wonderful that Glenn is so close to retirement and that y'all will be able to have the greenhouse....what fun! I bet you'll be able to grow anything you want within reason...though probably not melons or southern peas and other heat lovers. You know, if you wanted to heat it, I know Randy has mentioned before that he heats his with a wood stove. The cats are big brats. When I first start seeds, they want to lay on top of the clear dome over the freshly-seeded flats. I just squirt them in the face with water in a little spray bottle and, if that doesn't work, I add a drop or two of TKO orange oil or Realemon lemon juice because they don't like it. After they are spritzed in the face a couple of times, they mostly stay off the plant shelf and away from the plants....as long as the plants are not catnip or catmint. When I transplant catnip and catmint into the ground, I put tomato cages over them so the cats can't squash the plants flat before they have a chance to grow. Once the plants are tall enough that they are branching out, I remove the cages and the cats occasionally find the catnip or catmint and roll on them or chew on them, but they really don't hurt them too badly. I try to keep the door to the guest room closed when the plant shelf has plants on it, but sometimes other people in this family leave that door open and then I have to scold the human being who left it open and the cats who seized the opportunity to go explore the plants on the seed-starting shelf. I have one cat who likes to bite seedlings off, especially while they are quite small. So, even though it is only one cat who usually misbehaves, they all are basically banned from the guest room from Feb.-May. Heaven help us when a guest actually comes to visit during that time, because they have to be reminded (nicely, of course) to close the door to the room when they leave it. LOL The cats are not a problem during the day because they spend their days outside, but they have to be inside the house or garage at night to stay safe from predators so sometimes they get into the plant room and have a little kitty cat wild party. I used to leave them on the screened-in porch all night and they liked that, but then a racoon tore a hole in one of the screens to come inside after the cats (Tim got the raccoon before it got a cat) and that was the end of them using the screen porch as a sleeping porch. Dawn

Reed, I feel sorry for Tulsa. This morning Dr. Forbes distinctly mentioned Tulsa having a '7' TorCon more than he mentioned OKC, though at one point he said the storms would form near OKC and move towards Tulsa. The issue will be how violent they are when they form...even if they form in the OKC area, they could be violent from the start or they might gain in strength as discrete cells merge together into a squall line. I think today I wouldn't want to be in Iowa either. We have crazy wind here today. I guess it must be from outflow boundaries from yesterday's storms. I have gigantic trees north of my garden and they were dancing back and forth in the wind so much that it was scaring me and I came inside to get away from them. If a tree is going to fall on my garden, it needs to do it while I am not in the garden. Wulfleton, I am sorry you're feeling homesick. Count your blessings every single day because you do have a lot to be grateful for. Oklahoma has beautiful weather in April and October. The rest of the year we just cringe, hold our breath and hope for the best. The good thing is that once you have learned how to successfully garden in OK, you can garden anywhere. Today's weather likely won't turn out to be nothing, but maybe we'll luck out and the worst storms will hit sparsely populated areas so at least fewer people are harmed that way. Dawn

At about 5:45 am every day, I go outside in my bathrobe and "check" the weather. Red sky in the morning, sailor take warning and I take my umbrella with me when I leave the house at 6:30. Red sky at night, nice sky in the morning, sailor's delight, no umbrella. If it's just a little brisk at 5:45, I wear a sweater or light jacket because it'll warm up by the time I come home and I'll be carrying whatever I've worn. If it's really cold, heavy coat and other gear - yes, I lived in the TC so I also know downright bitter cold. In the winter, I always wear some type of shoe/boot that can withstand snow. In my normal daily routine, as long as I don't get drenched with rain, I don't care too much about what the weather is. I have hairspray at work. If I'm going out of town for some number of days, I google the newspaper of my destination city and check what's going to be happening. Because there's not a darned thing I can do to affect the weather, I don't both too much about it.