"Summer" weather 2014

[Yann]

I lost several Androsace due to flood, water reached my raised bed and now roots are rotting in the saturated soil.

[Matt T]

It's starting to feel quite autumnal!

[Maggi Young]

"Himalayan plants seek cooler climes -  Race is on to record mountain biodiversity before it is lost."

http://www.nature.com/news/himalayan-plants-seek-cooler-climes-1.15771

[Anthony Darby]

First day of spring here and it's Baltic. 11^oC and just tipping down. Haven't had rain to speak of all winter, and just when the kids go off on national tournament week the heavens open!

[johnralphcarpenter]

Glorious weather today in Aberdeenshire. Did the five bridges walk around Ballater in perfect conditions.

[Anthony Darby]

Tuesday it was 20^oC and sunny. Butterflies about. 

[Maggi Young]

Snow falls in Calgary - http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/09/09/calgary-weather-calls-for-another-september-snowfall-warning/ 

[David Nicholson]

Mid 70's last four days here!

[Anthony Darby]

70s? 

[David Nicholson]

In old money of course

[mark smyth]

Mid 70's last four days here!

24C which is great.

We've had a great week this week with day time temps 20 to 22C but quite chilly at night

[Lori S.]

Snow falls in Calgary - http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/09/09/calgary-weather-calls-for-another-september-snowfall-warning/

If you want to see the depressing result (ugh, I'd rather not!), this was at about 8pm on Tues., Sept. 9 Monday, Sept. 8th after 10-15 cm snow:
 

The snow remained on the ground overnight, and then it snowed another 10-15 cm through through the early hours on Wednesday, so that the roads and sidewalks were covered in slush this morning (along with complete snow cover elsewhere).  The snow has melted off the roads and sidewalks in my area now but is still ankle-deep wherever it sits on the ground.   

We've lost 2 trees so far - the trunk of the green ash in the backyard split pretty well to the ground on Monday night, and today the Caragana arborescens 'Lorbergii' has had all its branches broken off the trunk.   

[Maggi Young]

Mmm, I guess you haven't cycled to work in the last few days, Lori? 

Funny you have had this experience with the Caragana - we recently removed a couple of Caragana arborescens pendula from our front garden and were shocked to find how brittle the branches were. On inspection we saw that the centre of the wood was discoloured and seemed to be either diseased or dying but we couldn't determine why that would be the case.
The plants were not huge - about 2m tall with a canopy spread of around the same - they were approx 30 years old.
Having found the interior damage to them we felt a lot happier about having decided to remove them, since it seemed they might soon have collapsed anyway.

[Matt T]

Sunrise, 7'ish today.

[Robert]

If you want to see the depressing result (ugh, I'd rather not!), this was at about 8pm on Tues., Sept. 9 Monday, Sept. 8th after 10-15 cm snow:

The snow remained on the ground overnight, and then it snowed another 10-15 cm through through the early hours on Wednesday, so that the roads and sidewalks were covered in slush this morning (along with complete snow cover elsewhere).  The snow has melted off the roads and sidewalks in my area now but is still ankle-deep wherever it sits on the ground.   

We've lost 2 trees so far - the trunk of the green ash in the backyard split pretty well to the ground on Monday night, and today the Caragana arborescens 'Lorbergii' has had all its branches broken off the trunk.   

Lori,

What a mess! I heard about this storm. Somehow it does not seem completely unusual. My brother and I were caught in a storm in Glacier Park about the same time of year - 10th of September. 15 miles to the trailhead! No fun getting out.

It sounds like you had some major damage. How about the rest of your garden? Too early to tell? Around here a quick change to cold weather can cause a lot of damage as it did last December. Anyway hope for the best.