the garlic is safe
The ground is still frozen, some snow left.. and it rained. Rained quite a lot. No place for the water to go but up and into the back yard. But…
Cool Clouds
The approaching herringbone cloud formations coming in just in front of a large low pressure system that will give us a lot of rain. Not a good thing when the…
Canadian Organic Growers Eco Farm Day 2013
We had a great time at the Canadian Organic Growers Eco Farm Day 2013 this past Saturday February 23rd, 2013 in Cornwall. The theme was Water Management and we were…
blizzard aftereffects
This is the northeast wall of the roll off roof observatory. It gets the worst of the nor’easter storms and blizzards. Unfortunately the sheer force of the driving wind tends…
Amazing difference in one day
Pretty amazing what one day can do. On the right is 2013 January 29, about -9 deg C. On the left is 2013 January 30, about +13 deg C. Accompanied…
summer growing days revisited
We looked at the weather station data again and decided to go with the heavy frost (-3c) instead of the light frost (-1C) definition for a few reasons. 1) In…
Summer growing season summary
Data mining our weather station data shows the number of growing days in each summer here at the StarlightCascade Gardens over the years. We use the last day of -1…
Not a problem
Here it is Tuesday morning October 30th, 2012 and we have survived without issue. All around us there are power outages, sometimes affecting thousands, but ours stayed up all night.…
Hurricane Sandy prep
As of early this morning (Monday Oct 29, 2012) Hurricane Sandy was predicted to pass right over our house, but now the latest prediction shown (Monday afternoon) has it passing…
Fall’N’Stars in Review
FallNStars is a star party held annually and jointly with the RASC Belleville Centre and Kingston Centre. We switch leads each year to share the work and responsibility. 2012 was…
Fall’N’Stars 2012
This was our 13th annual Fall’N’Stars Star Party (including the inaugural DSNOS). We’ve been at the Boy Scout Camp Sagonaska for 12 years now. The Event started on Friday September…
Tornado < 15km away
Scary.. and we didn’t even know it. On Saturday September 8th, 2012 around 10:00 Edt, a tornado touched down just west of Odessa, about 10 minutes south of us in…
Weather sensors
Weather sensor positioning is very much a fine art. Over the 10 years of running a weather station here at Starlight Cascade Observatory & Gardens, we have moved the sensors…
Weather Summary 2012
hmm good for another table (of weather data from the starlightcascade gardens) month 2012 average temp (day & night) rainfall (mm) january -4.2C 51mm february -2.1C 11mm march 5.6C 47mm…