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Post by xdrix on Feb 25, 2023 17:48:07 GMT -5
The flowers of our apricot tree are open but we wait frost up to -3°C 26,6°F the next week with t° between 5°C 41°F and 9°C 48,2°F the day.
A lot of lakes are a very low level at the end of the winter.
Some departement are still in warn drought since the end of the last summer.
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Post by xdrix on Mar 6, 2023 9:24:26 GMT -5
February was a historicaly dry month at france.Up to 31 days without rains at the mosts dry placements.
March will be rainy but probably not sufficient.
2 mm in february at Paris for example for a normal of 42mm.
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Post by flowerbug on Mar 18, 2023 8:26:21 GMT -5
we had a few nights down to 19F to 17F but then it rained and most of the snow is gone again, then last night and this morning and today it is snowing again.
we have some flowering early bulb irises up and out. showing some early color, but they are under the snow now.
in a few days we'll be back to 40-50F and melt all of this again.
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Post by flowerbug on Apr 4, 2023 16:34:31 GMT -5
very mixed weather recently. from well below freezing up to 65F. some flowers will be retreating already and others just showing up (the earliest daffodils should be out in a few more days). glad to have more rains than ice recently. the rivers are low so this will help recharge the ground for spring/summer. currently about to get rained on again for a day or two.
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Post by RpR on Apr 4, 2023 21:47:59 GMT -5
Snowed today for the last time, 50s by Easter and 60s by mid next week.
Still feet of snow on the garden.
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Post by xdrix on Apr 7, 2023 1:02:31 GMT -5
March was fortunately more rainy than the normale and no signs of heatwave for this moment.Some frosts at -2°C 28,4°F the last week.
7°C 35,6°F this morning and 12°C 53,6°F this afternoon.
t° between 5°C 41°F and 21°C 69,8°F for the next week.
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Post by xdrix on Apr 21, 2023 13:11:21 GMT -5
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Post by flowerbug on Apr 23, 2023 14:24:50 GMT -5
time to change the thread title again?  weather here went from too warm too early back to more seasonal and some rains and even snow. frosts overnight here or there still. |
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Post by RpR on Apr 23, 2023 23:14:09 GMT -5
Snowed today for the last time, 50s by Easter and 60s by mid next week. Still feet of snow on the garden. Liar, liar pants on fire ... we had five inches of snow last week a week after seventie and eighties F. As I type this majority of the next ten days are in teh 40s with hard 26 degree freezes at night. I have not uncovered my roses yet as temp. in the twenties will kill, as I found out the hard way in the past. Potatoes need ground temp. above 45 so plantin potatoes would be a fools folly. In Minnesota such weather is not abnormal, but then again sub-tropical temps. with highs in 90s and dew points of 75 degrees are not abnormal either. Minnesota has never has sub-zero weather in May but the record in April is -22 F. I prefer what we have now to the tropical alternate. |
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Post by flowerbug on May 13, 2023 17:56:47 GMT -5
it is still cool here some nights, but so far no more frosts are in the forecast for the next week, so i think my pea and bean sprouts will be ok even if the beans are slightly challenged by lower temperatures.
always a risk those may not make it. the peas will be ok.
not much rain here recently (a light sprinkle this morning was not enough) and i've had to water to make sure the seeds i planted would sprout.
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Post by xdrix on May 27, 2023 17:32:16 GMT -5
Some thunderstorms. The weather is hot with wind dry wind.t° between 11°C 51,8°F and 27°C 80,6°F.
Extrems rains at spain and italy after a long drought period.Up to many months of rain fall in some hours.
Hails in the france south.
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Post by flowerbug on May 28, 2023 9:06:29 GMT -5
the forecast for next week has three days in a row of over 88F. no rains for quite some time. we had our plumbing blow out last week too so that was required to be repaired or we'd have no gardens this season.
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Post by RpR on Jun 2, 2023 15:22:24 GMT -5
Twenty degrees above average and very, very dry.
Not looking good as the drought can come back in the blink of an eye.
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Post by flowerbug on Jun 4, 2023 7:40:53 GMT -5
it is sad to see but pretty much the same here, no rains for weeks, very hot the last week, but at last temperatures are moderating. i should be able to finish planting the gardens inside the fence today and tomorrow. keeping everything watered for sprouting then takes up more and more time.
we did have a momentary chance of rain in the forecast yesterday afternoon but that didn't even appear to be possible. our next chance of rain in the forecast is for this coming Saturday (almost a week from now). one of the large drainage ditches that goes through our property is running, but very low. i've not seen it go dry before.
i'm glad our well is pretty deep, but i also don't want to stress it too much during times like this as i don't want it to pull water from the direction of the septic drain field (which is a ways down flow from the well so it should be ok, but i still don't want to cause possible problems).
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Post by RpR on Jun 13, 2023 12:35:32 GMT -5
Still very, very dry.
A few days of near normal temps. but they are going back up.
Supposed to rain this coming Friday, needed very badly.
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