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» FYNFAN - Re: Whether Your Weather...
In response to Whether Your Weather... posted by Cercis:It's been a beautiful winter - first time in years I can remember a January where we didn't get a frost in the first two weeks of the new year. It's been in the low 80's during the day, 50's and 60's at night, no humidity, gorgeous sunshine, appropriate postcard weather for Florida winters - BUT today we have had about 2.5 inches of rain all day long and its still coming down. Lightning struck my house at 8:15am so we did not have electricity this morning, I thought I had lost my computer.
The landscape is doing wonderfully though and with this cold front going through the temps for the next week will be in the high 60's, sunshine and lows in the 40's at night. Perfect for the Scottish Highland Games tomorrow!
-- posted by FYNFAN
» biogardener - Coldest ever
Manitoba has the coldest temperatures on the continent so far this winter with temperatures dipping lower than 40 below in the morning and not warming up that much during the day. It took till January 9 for me to get the sidewalk dug out from the blizzard which started December 30, and since January 13 we have been having a second blizzard. Let me explain that what most people call blizzard is merely a snowstorm. Blizzards only happen in the prairies. The temperatures are extremely low and the winds very strong. During a blizzard, no one goes outside. After a blizzard, there is a lot of ozone in the air like there is after a thunderstorm, only much stronger. You can smell and taste ozone. Shoveling during a blizzard is useless, because the wind will fill in any shovelled area within minutes. Shovelling after a blizzard is easy, because it is all powder snow on account of the extreme temperatures. It is, however, dangerous, unless you really take it easy. The ozone concentration causes heart attacks.I wouldn't change places with anyone with wet snow, though. It is too slippery.
-- posted by biogardener
» Kirk_Johnson - Oregon Coast
In response to Coldest ever posted by biogardener:It hasn't been a very eventful winter on the southern Oregon coast. We haven't had the windstorms that we usually get. By windstorms I mean hurricane force winds - 100 miles an hour isn't unusual.
We had a bit of wet snow a week ago, but it melted before it hit the ground. It is rare for it to snow at all here, but last week it hailed so much that it looked like a light snowfall.
My plants seem to feel that it is colder than usual. My 'Christmas Cheer' rhododendron usually blooms a week or two after Christmas, but the buds aren't even starting to show color. I have a young acacia tree in bloom and my winter flowering heath bloom all winter, but my garden is mainly just very green right now.
-- posted by Kirk_Johnson
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Georgene A. Bramlage
- Mudslides, blizzards, etc.
Traute's description of a blizzard reminded me of The LIttle House on the PraireMy Antonia by Willa Cather.
I have plant envy whenever I think of gardens in the US Northwest...right now Kirk's garden sounds pretty good...though there seems to be freaky weather in the Columbia River basin...apple country? Of course Jerri on the eastern side of the mountains doesn't get such great weather.
Now we have snow cover so perhaps my plants have a chance...we go from very cold to warm to icing to snow (last night) and then back to warm. My landscape is B & W, with shades of brown and green thrown in.
Folks around here have been raising a lot of money for various charities involved with rescue work in SE Asia.
English / Scottish / Irish readers...how is the weather in your part of the world?
G.
-- posted by Georgene A. Bramlage
» ennazusluap - Re: Mudslides, blizzards, etc.
In response to Mudslides, blizzards, etc. posted by Cercis:hello there.. here in beautiful Colorado on the 20th of Jan it is 66 degrees and I was outdoors with a tank top and shorts.. I can not believe that it is the middle of winter and I am enjoying the sunshine.. I'm sure the cold will return in full force but for today I will enjoy what God has offered.. Have a great day and take time to smell the flowers..
Suzanne
A Lupie girl in a Lupie world..
-- posted by ennazusluap
» biogardener - Scenes of my childhood
Twelve days ago today, I got a phone call from one of my teenage buddies in Germany. We were part of a group of teens who spent every Sunday afternoon on bicycles, exploring the neighboring mountains and countryside. She told me that Germany is having an unusually warm spring, and that the spring flowers are out in bloom. Normally, the do not start blooming until the end of January.Having lived in the prairies so long, I had almost forgotten that Germans think of spring as starting that early. My birthday is in mid-March, and in Germany, that is considered the middle of spring. It wasn't until we moved to Winnipeg that I realized that the calendar does not admit to spring until 2/3 of the way through March, and in the prairies we have neither spring nor autumn, just summer and winter and a couple of weeks in between when the weather can't make up its mind.
I miss spring. It is my favorite season with lime green leaves on trees rather than the dark green ones.
-- posted by biogardener
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Georgene A. Bramlage
- Re: Scenes of my childhood
Traute,
How nice to hear from "old" friends...I have a friend (my daughter's M-I-L) who lived in Germany (southern part, I believe) until her early 20s. She is still very much in contact with her "girl friends." They visit, telephone, send food 
, send baby & wedding gifts...are very much an extended family.
Now...judging from what you said about the weather, without going to an international weather site, I would say your friend (and originally you) is from somewhere in the south...perhaps near Switzerland? You know, perhaps you have mentioned exactly where, but if so I have forgotten.
The TV ads for trips to Australia are very appealing to me right now and I am haivng a hard time not thinking about tulip time in Holland.
We are in the minus F. temperature degrees this morning...
G.
-- posted by Georgene A. Bramlage
» biogardener - Not at all
Not at all. I have lived in many areas in Germany, all of them in the northern half. My friend was telephoning from Hildesheim which is just 29 miles south of Hannover. That is about as central as you can get. This early spring is unusual, 3 weeks earlier than expected.-- posted by biogardener
» Kirk_Johnson - Oregon Coast
We have had an unusually warm week on the southern Oregon coast. It has been in the high 40s at night, even when the sky is clear. We usually get frost on clear January nights. It is rare for temperatures rarely go much below freezing. My 'Christmas Cheer' rhododendron is almost ready to open its blooms. It is usually at that point during the last week of December or the first week of January.-- posted by Kirk_Johnson
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