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Tom Velardi
Joined: Mon Oct 29, 2007 10:20 pm Posts: 4337 Location: Kyushu, Southern Japan (33.607N latitude)
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Winter won't quit!
Today's (3/27) temperatures at 6 AM. Man, would Old Man Winter give it up already?!
My thermometer read 0.5 C this morning and there was crystalline frost in the vegetable patch across the road again. Yesterday the surrounding mountains had a mantle of snow after an overnight storm, though it melted in the afternoon sun. Currently we are getting temperatures more in line with February, not late March. The effect has been that all the winter flowering plants have bloomed later than normal while later blooming plants are more or less flowering on time. Odd winter that just won't give up.
Last edited by Tom Velardi on Sun Mar 27, 2011 1:20 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Dave Bindon
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Joined: Tue Oct 30, 2007 4:15 pm Posts: 1113 Location: Pagrati, Athens, Greece
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Re: Winter won't quit!
Here, winter tried one final (unusually late) push around 8/9th March, but spring has now won the battle. Overnight lows of 12-15C, and days in the low 20s. The plants (and I) are loving it!
_________________ Dave Pagrati, Athens, Greece Jul/Aug av.: 33C day, 23C night January: 13/6
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Sun Mar 27, 2011 8:42 am |
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Steven
Joined: Sun Aug 10, 2008 4:02 pm Posts: 2486
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Re: Winter won't quit!
Tom, it seems your bad luck sticks with you.
Here it almost feels like early summer, with a +25°C during the last days. We have sunshine fo over a week now, no clouds on the blue sky and the coldest nights were well above freezing. The air is filled with the strong scent of the wild cherries (Prunus avium) which are in full flower now. All the coming days will be in between +15 and +18°C and on the weekend nearing the 25°C again.
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Tue Mar 29, 2011 4:14 pm |
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Kev Spence
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Joined: Mon Oct 29, 2007 3:59 pm Posts: 10902 Location: Loughborough, Leics, central UK
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Re: Winter won't quit!
If it helps Tom we dropped to -0.4 C this week though we have been around 16 C in the day except for last weekend, obviously because we are not at work, cold miserable and 7 C..
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Tue Mar 29, 2011 6:01 pm |
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Craig Gibbon
Joined: Thu Feb 05, 2009 6:54 pm Posts: 90 Location: Cork, Ireland
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Re: Winter won't quit!
Hi All,
Here in South Africa, were still experiancing summer temps here. We should have started cooling down already, but the temps are still high. What I noticed is that we had an unusually cool January and February (Which is our hottest part of the year) and now the temps seem to have come back with a vengeance! So it seems as if summer is late by two months!
Regards,
Craig
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Dave Bindon
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Joined: Tue Oct 30, 2007 4:15 pm Posts: 1113 Location: Pagrati, Athens, Greece
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Re: Winter won't quit!
What are your winter temps like, Craig?
_________________ Dave Pagrati, Athens, Greece Jul/Aug av.: 33C day, 23C night January: 13/6
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Tom Velardi
Joined: Mon Oct 29, 2007 10:20 pm Posts: 4337 Location: Kyushu, Southern Japan (33.607N latitude)
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Re: Winter won't quit!
Finally, winter seems to be letting go a bit. And yet the low temperatures have been consistently below 10 degrees - today is an exception - 16 C when I got up. Still, this is the coldest start to a new year for many, many years: Average Temperature (Jan/Feb/March/April) : Normal ('71-2000) (6.4 6.9 9.9 14.8 ) 2011 (3.8 8.2 8.8 13.5 ( as of 4/15) So in a normal year the four month average should be around 9.5 C, but so far this year the three and a half month average is 8.6 C. Back in mid 80's there were a string of cold winters. The coldest year recorded then was '84 coming in a 7.7 C for the same four month period. The upshot is that plants I've been growing out in the garden that looked like good bets are now looking pretty fried or in some cases out and out dead.
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Albey
Joined: Tue Apr 05, 2011 12:49 pm Posts: 831 Location: Christchurch NZ USDA Zone: 9b
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Re: Winter won't quit!
Not bad guys, but are your plants looking like these unfortunate's from somewhere in Northern Ireland. This is what -16° to -18°c does to 'trachycarpus fortunei and Phormium tenax'
Trachycarpus fortunei
Phormium tenax
_________________ Rod.
Hottest Month 23.5°c / 14.0°c
Coldest Month 11.5°c / 3.0°c
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Alexander
Joined: Tue Oct 30, 2007 11:55 pm Posts: 3344 Location: Leidschendam, The Netherlands. (52 N latitude)
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Re: Winter won't quit!
Well at the end its not the average weather but the extreme weather what determins what you can grow or not in the long term.
Alexander
_________________ Living to close to the arctic circle!
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Craig Gibbon
Joined: Thu Feb 05, 2009 6:54 pm Posts: 90 Location: Cork, Ireland
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Re: Winter won't quit!
Dave, Our average Winter temps are 10 to 12 C minimum to 24 C Maximum in winter.
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Tom2006
Joined: Fri Dec 10, 2010 4:25 pm Posts: 265 Location: BROUGH UK
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Re: Winter won't quit!
Winter wont leave us either. Sub zero temps again tonight!
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Alexander
Joined: Tue Oct 30, 2007 11:55 pm Posts: 3344 Location: Leidschendam, The Netherlands. (52 N latitude)
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Re: Winter won't quit!
_________________ Living to close to the arctic circle!
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ferni
Joined: Fri Oct 25, 2013 6:28 am Posts: 177 Location: West - Germany
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Re: Winter won't quit!
In istanbul
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Fukuoka Scott
Joined: Wed Aug 28, 2013 2:32 pm Posts: 958 Location: Fukuoka, Japan
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