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Post by walnut on Mar 10, 2021 18:44:04 GMT
That cold wave killed lots of plants here that we have had for many years. The almanac had been migrating our cold hardiness zone line to the north, and I knew it was going to revert back at some point. I thought that azaleas were fairly cold hardy? I'd like to know how cold it actually got at this specific spot. Must have been really low.
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Post by missouriboy on Mar 10, 2021 19:51:14 GMT
That cold wave killed lots of plants here that we have had for many years. The almanac had been migrating our cold hardiness zone line to the north, and I knew it was going to revert back at some point. I thought that azaleas were fairly cold hardy? I'd like to know how cold it actually got at this specific spot. Must have been really low. 2018 was slightly colder at my location, but we also got 18" of snow that buffered the ground to an extent. This years cold lasted more days. I have lost no plants that I know off, but most of them (including lilacs) are pretty hardy. Will be checking the buds on lilacs and peach trees. No observed damage so far. Thought about azaleas once but thought that might be pushing it. Have been seeing videos of the Central Florida azalea bloom this year. Spectacular. Where is your nearest recording location?
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Post by nautonnier on Mar 10, 2021 20:08:37 GMT
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Post by walnut on Mar 10, 2021 22:19:47 GMT
That cold wave killed lots of plants here that we have had for many years. The almanac had been migrating our cold hardiness zone line to the north, and I knew it was going to revert back at some point. I thought that azaleas were fairly cold hardy? I'd like to know how cold it actually got at this specific spot. Must have been really low. 2018 was slightly colder at my location, but we also got 18" of snow that buffered the ground to an extent. This years cold lasted more days. I have lost no plants that I know off, but most of them (including lilacs) are pretty hardy. Will be checking the buds on lilacs and peach trees. No observed damage so far. Thought about azaleas once but thought that might be pushing it. Have been seeing videos of the Central Florida azalea bloom this year. Spectacular. Where is your nearest recording location? The Tulsa airport says -14F but they always seem to report a little high. Looking around for another record but haven't found just yet.
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Post by missouriboy on Mar 11, 2021 0:17:29 GMT
2018 was slightly colder at my location, but we also got 18" of snow that buffered the ground to an extent. This years cold lasted more days. I have lost no plants that I know off, but most of them (including lilacs) are pretty hardy. Will be checking the buds on lilacs and peach trees. No observed damage so far. Thought about azaleas once but thought that might be pushing it. Have been seeing videos of the Central Florida azalea bloom this year. Spectacular. Where is your nearest recording location? The Tulsa airport says -14F but they always seem to report a little high. Looking around for another record but haven't found just yet. The thermometer in my kitchen window got to about -9. The official airport station about 10 miles south of town shows -8. Today I noticed that the peach tree buds are starting to swell slightly. But there is nothing more optimistic than a peach. I hope they are right. My onion and garlic bulbils that I spread and slightly covered last fall are sending up tiny shoots, hundreds of them, now at 2 inches tall in the last week. Very hardy. But takes two seasons to get a 0.5 to 0.7 inch bulb. Nothing kills them and nothing else eats them. Very tasty to me and the tops make fine greens. I may have 100 square feet or so of nutrition in the ground and another 1000 or so at the farm. The jerusalem artichokes are forming hedges ... tubers about the size of very small potatoes. They are very invasive but nutricous. They also give you gas in quantity. I may smell like onions and fart a lot, but I will not starve. Bambi will provide the protein if things get tight. And neighborhood cats had better watch out.
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Post by walnut on Mar 11, 2021 1:15:00 GMT
The Tulsa airport says -14F but they always seem to report a little high. Looking around for another record but haven't found just yet. The thermometer in my kitchen window got to about -9. The official airport station about 10 miles south of town shows -8. Today I noticed that the peach tree buds are starting to swell slightly. But there is nothing more optimistic than a peach. I hope they are right. My onion and garlic bulbils that I spread and slightly covered last fall are sending up tiny shoots, hundreds of them, now at 2 inches tall in the last week. Very hardy. But takes two seasons to get a 0.5 to 0.7 inch bulb. Nothing kills them and nothing else eats them. Very tasty to me and the tops make fine greens. I may have 100 square feet or so of nutrition in the ground and another 1000 or so at the farm. The jerusalem artichokes are forming hedges ... tubers about the size of very small potatoes. They are very invasive but nutricous. They also give you gas in quantity. I may smell like onions and fart a lot, but I will not starve. Bambi will provide the protein if things get tight. And neighborhood cats had better watch out. I heard a poor kitten meowing in pathetic misery after dusk before that cold, I tried to help it but she was too skittish. Doubt she made it.
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Post by missouriboy on Mar 11, 2021 2:02:12 GMT
The thermometer in my kitchen window got to about -9. The official airport station about 10 miles south of town shows -8. Today I noticed that the peach tree buds are starting to swell slightly. But there is nothing more optimistic than a peach. I hope they are right. My onion and garlic bulbils that I spread and slightly covered last fall are sending up tiny shoots, hundreds of them, now at 2 inches tall in the last week. Very hardy. But takes two seasons to get a 0.5 to 0.7 inch bulb. Nothing kills them and nothing else eats them. Very tasty to me and the tops make fine greens. I may have 100 square feet or so of nutrition in the ground and another 1000 or so at the farm. The jerusalem artichokes are forming hedges ... tubers about the size of very small potatoes. They are very invasive but nutricous. They also give you gas in quantity. I may smell like onions and fart a lot, but I will not starve. Bambi will provide the protein if things get tight. And neighborhood cats had better watch out. I heard a poor kitten meowing in pathetic misery after dusk before that cold, I tried to help it but she was too skittish. Doubt she made it. With the cold and the snow covering, we were putting out seeds for the birds. Lots of them taking the offering. I leave the dead flower stalks and their seed heads standing till spring. Lots of birds feeding on those as well. Saw my first red-tailed hawk today, circling through the neighborhood. Good sign. It's gotta be spring.
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Post by sigurdur on Mar 11, 2021 3:40:48 GMT
Rather noticeable deviation.
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Post by Ratty on Mar 11, 2021 12:54:00 GMT
Rather noticeable deviation. Lines up with the Brunt Ice Shelf breaking away on 26th February.
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Post by missouriboy on Mar 11, 2021 16:43:44 GMT
Rather noticeable deviation. The deviants in Washington are poorly equiped to deals with deviations elsewhere. Apparently "it takes one to know one" is not applicable in this case.
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Post by missouriboy on Mar 12, 2021 3:30:21 GMT
Front Range and Western Plains to get Buried
A slow-moving, blockbuster storm is likely to bring the biggest snowfall in decades to parts of the Front Range of the Rockies and western Plains states this weekend, possibly challenging all-time records for some cities. On the warm side of the storm, the first spring season severe weather outbreak threatens Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. While the first round of snow is falling Wednesday in Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska and South Dakota, it's the next round, starting later Friday and reaching its apex on Sunday, that will make traveling near impossible, with snowfall rates of 2 to 4 inches per hour. Wind gusts over 45 mph are likely on Saturday, ramping up to 60 mph on Sunday, meaning blizzard conditions will be widespread. It's still early, but computer models see the bullseye of heaviest snowfall stretching from Denver and Boulder in Colorado northward into Cheyenne and Casper, Wyoming and northeastward into Scottsbluff, Nebraska and Rapid City, South Dakota. In these areas, 2 to 3 feet of snow may be common. There's even some chance that isolated locations will pick up as much as 50 inches of snow during this elongated, six-day series of weather events. www.cbsnews.com/news/snow-storm-winter-weather-tornadoes-rockies-plain-states/
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Post by nautonnier on Mar 12, 2021 3:31:17 GMT
Is this the storm Mo'boy
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Post by missouriboy on Mar 12, 2021 3:40:51 GMT
That be it! And having been on the business end of a couple of these, ya wanna stock up, batten down, and prepare to do a lot of shoveling when she's over. And depending on how wet it is, if you have a slightly flat roof, you'll be up there clearing the excess between major bands. For Flagstaff, AZ Historic Snowfall: 300″+ Posted on March 13, 2019 by Snowbowl Marketing Today’s snowfall pushed us into the 300″ club and subsequently into the top 5 highest snowfall numbers over the past 21 years. With well over a month left in the ski season, we can’t wait to see where we end up! Top 5 Snowfall in the past 21 Years 2018-19 305″+ 2009-10 321” - ME Got 4 feet in two days, by end of winter, front-end loaders required 2016-17 329” 1997-98 330” 2004-05 460” - ME
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Post by nautonnier on Mar 12, 2021 3:45:22 GMT
That be it! And having been on the business end of a couple of these, ya wanna stock up, batten down, and prepare to do a lot of shoveling when she's over. And depending on how wet it is, if you have a slightly flat roof, you'll be up there clearing the excess between major bands. That is why the Nordic countries have steeply pitched roofs everywhere the snow gets itself off the roof.
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Post by Ratty on Mar 12, 2021 4:43:29 GMT
That be it! And having been on the business end of a couple of these, ya wanna stock up, batten down, and prepare to do a lot of shoveling when she's over. And depending on how wet it is, if you have a slightly flat roof, you'll be up there clearing the excess between major bands. That is why the Nordic countries have steeply pitched roofs everywhere the snow gets itself off the roof. Police station, Wee Waa in central Western New South Wales where it never snows: Description from Waymarking.com:
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