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Up early, so I put my chicken in the oven to bake while it is cooler.  Mid 80's yesterday, and warmer today.  I refuse to run the ac this early in the year!!
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I agree, we've had lots of days in the 80s, even high 80s and one day at 91 and lots of dry wind. Watering my garden in April is a first for me and I also refuse to install the air conditioners.

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In Northern Montana, we are still burning the wood stoves,  temps are in the 30's or less overnight.
It got up to the lower 70's for a few days and then it snowed again.
It will get hot here soon, when it does the humidity will be 20-30% or less.
Of course, we cannot plant the garden until June...
Blizzards, mountains, grizzly bears, and wolves, and it's over 60 miles to the nearest stoplight.
Yeah, I like it here just fine year-round.

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We have perpetual spring where I live - until the summer drought.

However, the normal low is 6C (42.8). Last night it dipped to 3C (37.4) and the forecast is for two more nights like that... sigh... I've got a mom that I *know* hatched 1 gosling, and I'm going out shortly to see if any more made it (Muscovy mom, so only 3 eggs, because goose eggs are huge compared to Muscovy eggs). Talk about bad timing!

And here I was hoping I could try planting the tomatoes out early as they're getting leggy. I was going to protect them, but I can't protect from only 3C!

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I just turned off the furnace for the SECOND time this spring. We had a quick freeze weekend so I had to turn it on for two days.

I'm relishing the cool mornings and warm afternoons so far.

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we're on the other end. last week we had an early fall cold snap, got out my sweaters, socks, and the crockpot, ripped out the summer plants, put in the winter seeds.

this week, it is supposed to get up to 30C here and down to 45% humidity, both of which are way beyond normal. So much for bean soup in the crockpot! And I'll be watering the garden...
 
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I am in sunny Texas, in the Hill Country, and almost in West Texas.

It is hot almost year round except when it is 5 degrees in the wintertime.

I use my oven for storage.

Occasionally we make something for dessert when we have one of those cold says.

Most of the time I use my toaster oven to make casseroles, some chicken, etc.

Air fryers and Instapots are really handy to keep from using the big oven.

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I'm in the Missouri Ozarks.  We have ALL. The. WEATHERS. Sometimes, in a single day. The thermometer and barometer have both been bouncing like crazy, bringing lots of rain & storms (& REALLY screwing with my arthritis, fibro, & lupus!). We've gone from daytime temps in the 80°F+ numbers to night time lows in the low to mid 30°Fs. I've decided to direct sow, just so I don't have to try to figure out how to harden the plants off...

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Just to help complete the diversity described up-thread: It's up to 36F with a cold rain and blustery winds. I'm happy as a clam with how warm it's been. Last year at this time there was still a foot of snow left from the 3.5 that hung out all winter.
 
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