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Post by byz on Jul 19, 2010 7:46:28 GMT
Well this may seem a bit early ;D
However I noticed that the black berries in my garden are well ahead of most years (like last year) and so are my tomatoes.
Also the Atlantic has suddenly cooled down and loss of Arctic ice has dramatically slowed in July!
So hold on to you hats here we go for Autumn 2010
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Post by scpg02 on Jul 19, 2010 8:37:53 GMT
Hadn't you heard? This is the hottest year on record.  |
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Post by byz on Jul 19, 2010 12:16:04 GMT
Well I've been out in the garden this morning and I came across ripe Blackberries !!!!! In the middle of July !!!!!!  This is the earliest I've seen since the early 1980's. If you remember then we used to have very cold winters, so I wonder if the berries are producing earlier so that they don't miss the opportunity later in the year. Last year the first ripe blackberries I saw were in the first week in August (and I made a really good jam from them), but this is much earlier. |
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Post by hunterson on Jul 19, 2010 12:19:42 GMT
I hope it is a good crop.
When the panic that has taken over climate science recedes, I think more people will be able to note that weather is highly variable over time.
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Post by rippleeffect on Jul 19, 2010 15:05:17 GMT
We're finally into summer/autumn here in SoCal after an incredibly cold start to the year. Our autumns are mainly hot/dry with lots of fires and the occasional monsoonal storm.
On that subject of arctic ice. I find is really funny that a month ago the headlines where "Arctic ice extend lowest on record" to today being "Ice near record extent for the date"
What a difference a month makes. This just points to that extreme variability. Neither side should focus on day to day numbers.
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Post by douglavers on Jul 19, 2010 22:05:53 GMT
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Post by lyrch75 on Jul 19, 2010 23:00:15 GMT
Hard to tell what is going on here (NE Ohio). We had an incredibly cold wet spring and early summer. Now the July heat finally arrived and tree leaves, lawns, and some crops are browning up due to the 'shock' to their systems.
Once things have settled in will have a better idea.
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Post by stranger on Jul 20, 2010 0:10:43 GMT
The harupices said the entrails, herbs, hymenoptera, and other augurs of the trade predicted a late spring, short and hot summer, an early fall, and a bitterly cold winter. So far they are on target.
Normal here for the day is 96 to 98, actual was 91. Cool enough that I made a shovel do some work and rolled paint on a floor for an hour, without overheating. The first time in a triple decade that conditions were that comfortable.
Back in the 1930's school "took in" the first Tuesday in September, and it was in the high 80's. By the first of October, the highs were in the 70's and frost was either on the way or coming.
By Halloween, it was usually bitterly cold at night, aiding the teen agers mission to turn over privys. With someone inside if possible.
I expect much the same weather this year for 33 degrees or so N, 90 degrees W.
Stranger
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Post by sigurdur on Jul 20, 2010 3:21:07 GMT
I know everyone thinks I am nuts when I mention looking at the clouds.
The cloud banks here have never really lost their "fall" look. Even today, with temps in the mid 70's, they just have that mid to late fall look about them.
I can't explain why they look that way, I just know the high clouds of mid summer have not shown up yet. We have approx 30 days left of summer temps, and then the decline to fall starts.
With the cold in the Arctic, the only salvation for my area may be a very stong La Nina.
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Post by byz on Jul 20, 2010 7:00:16 GMT
I know everyone thinks I am nuts when I mention looking at the clouds. Not me ;D I've been watching clouds since the 1970's and they have changed depending on the prevailing climate. I've noticed recently that the Spring cloud formations have began to look like they did when I was a teenager. Here in the UK the clouds change depending on many different factors as we have so many influences (due to being a small island off a peninsular shaped continent) ;D |
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Post by lyrch75 on Jul 20, 2010 16:09:12 GMT
I know everyone thinks I am nuts when I mention looking at the clouds. Not me ;D I've been watching clouds since the 1970's and they have changed depending on the prevailing climate. I've noticed recently that the Spring cloud formations have began to look like they did when I was a teenager. Here in the UK the clouds change depending on many different factors as we have so many influences (due to being a small island off a peninsular shaped continent) ;D ..and here I thought it was due to you all drinking tea where coffee is the answer  |
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Post by byz on Jul 21, 2010 17:51:01 GMT
Well we've had a few days of quite high winds, unusual for July. Wales has had high rainfall following the pattern of the last few summers. And horror of horrors the wind snapped off the main stem of one of my tomato plants  |
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Post by birder on Jul 22, 2010 20:32:49 GMT
Birdwise, autumn has already started. There was a heavy passage of Swifts heading south as early as the 4th July with 21,000 birds seen over Spurn Point (English east coast) that day.
Waders are returning from their artic breeding sites.
The Wyre Forest in Worcestershire was almost devoid of birds today.
Regarding farming, in Lincolnshire the farmers are already harvesting their corn crops, which does seem early.
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Post by scpg02 on Jul 23, 2010 2:51:31 GMT
Well we've had a few days of quite high winds, unusual for July. Wales has had high rainfall following the pattern of the last few summers. And horror of horrors the wind snapped off the main stem of one of my tomato plants You need the topsy turvy, grow your tomatoes upside down.  |
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Post by byz on Jul 25, 2010 21:51:35 GMT
Loads of first blackberries are now ripe, plus my tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers are way ahead of usual. Also noticed this morning that the spiders are acting more like it was late august |
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