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Post by philagardener on Jan 23, 2016 21:50:05 GMT -5
20+ inches of snow in Philly, 30+ to our North in Allentown! Temps headed back down into the 20s. Stay warm, East Coast gardeners!
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Post by flowerweaver on Jan 23, 2016 22:17:40 GMT -5
Sending all of you who are cold and getting buried under snow warm wishes. Today the first wildflowers--wind anemones--began blooming, two weeks early!!! It was freezing when I got up but became t-shirt weather by afternoon. Pulled up all the irrigation lines, tilled the potato field, and burned off the bean field today. And so it begins!   |
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Post by RpR on Jan 24, 2016 0:43:15 GMT -5
Well we had two weeks with a fair amount of sub-zero weather, never worse than the teens where the main weather stations broadcast from and we had two weeks of asinine dangerous low temp. warnings with there bs of wind-chill etc.
Apparently some people got tired of this exaggeration of how horribly cold it was as after the first week and contacted the stations as all the weather people started saying "We know this is not record cold, that there has been a lot colder days with far worse weather but blah, blah, blah ..." to justify their asinine exaggerations.
There I got that off of my chest, I feel better now.
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Post by philagardener on Jan 24, 2016 6:39:29 GMT -5
The storm is over for us and we are digging out now from about 2 feet of snow. Thanks, flowerweaver , for your post - Spring surely is waiting under there! |
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Post by steev on Jan 25, 2016 19:47:33 GMT -5
When I walked mornings to school as a kid there would often be "Valley Fog"; one morning it looked weird, like dots slowly falling and disappearing on touching anything; next day's fish-wrap reported a rare phenomenon called a "pogonip", when fog droplets freeze in the air.
Owls are awesome; my favorites are the Elf owls that look like feathered eggs on stilts; there's something inherently hilarious about them, to me.
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Post by gilbert on Jan 30, 2016 18:29:13 GMT -5
It was 65 F and sunny today in Denver, but the temperatures are dropping fast. It will get down to 27 F tonight and start snowing this evening. We are predicted to get around a foot of snow over the next few days.
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Post by reed on Jan 30, 2016 18:33:54 GMT -5
67 F here today with sun and wind. Things really drying out fast. I suspect we will have another cold spell maybe a wet snow storm or two but real winter is likely over. It just has that feel to it.
One of those you better be ready to plant at first opportunity years or miss the window between cool wet and hot dry. It seem to get shorter and shorter all the time.
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Post by gilbert on Jan 31, 2016 22:08:44 GMT -5
Snow coming down here, we will see how much we get.
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Post by richardw on Jan 31, 2016 23:53:18 GMT -5
After a few damp cool days today is much warmer, light winds and 28Cdeg
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Post by farmermike on Feb 1, 2016 2:01:06 GMT -5
The morning today was cool and mostly sunny (high of 54F), but in the afternoon a sudden squall came out of the northwest. My 2 year old was napping, so I decided to close my eyes for a minute, but was quickly awoken by howling wind and small branches clattering across my roof. When I looked out the front door I could see sheets of sunlit hail blowing by against the storm-darkened sky. It was very beautiful and dramatic, but then was over as quickly as it began (10-15 minutes total).
The kid slept through the whole thing without a peep.
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Post by steev on Feb 1, 2016 2:30:59 GMT -5
As I drove home through Orinda, it was splattering slush-balls.
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Post by mskrieger on Feb 1, 2016 12:30:57 GMT -5
Yes, I've noticed the days are getting longer. We have a few minutes of light at 5pm if I leave work on time! It's great. And we also had temperatures hit the 40s F the past couple of days...smells wonderful. Too early to know if it's really spring though. Last year February was just one continuous snowstorm.
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Post by prairiegarden on Feb 1, 2016 16:17:26 GMT -5
We've only had about a week of really cold weather all winter, and very little snow, maybe up to 4 inches altogether. It was actually above freezing here the last week.It's a bit colder today and they are predicting another week of the usual -20C ish cold temperatures next week. I was beginning to wonder just how early it would be possible to plant peas.. the top fraction of an inch of the ground was actually thawed day before yesterday. Normally you can't really get into the gardens at all until at least late April.
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Post by khoomeizhi on Feb 1, 2016 17:54:54 GMT -5
it hit 65 today. been raining for much of the past few hours. i guess we'll be back to the more normal 40's and 20's later this week...
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Feb 1, 2016 20:48:31 GMT -5
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