Weather.... late 2009

[Gwenblack]

 Four nights in a row with temp at -10C in our caravan shelter........ so much for the warming effect of the Beauly Firth..all very scenic but we should have moved to the Canaries!!!!  Does a thick frost coating protect vegetation as a coating of snow is said to do ?  VEry nice viewing the garden from the house!!!!!

[David Nicholson]

...........As a session singer...


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Emmylou Harris is another of my heroines, I have everything she has ever recorded. "After the Goldrush" is one of my all time favourite albums Maggi.

[maggiepie]

David,  do you mean Neil Young's album or did Emmylou also have an album of the same title?
Wrecking Ball is one of my alltime favourite albums, had almost forgotten about it. I think it's about time I dragged it out and started playing it again.

[David Shaw]

Slightly colder than us, Gwen. For the last three days the temperature has never gone above -2C and going down to -7 at night. The appearance of the frost is just wonderful The forcast is for cloud to roll in later tonight and for it to warm up a little - at the moment I am not convinced!

[David Nicholson]

David,  do you mean Neil Young's album or did Emmylou also have an album of the same title?
Wrecking Ball is one of my alltime favourite albums, had almost forgotten about it. I think it's about time I dragged it out and started playing it again.

No Helen, I meant Neil Young's album "After the Goldrush".

[Lori S.]

Speaking of cold weather, I don't believe there are any forumists from Edmonton, Alberta, but nonetheless...

From Calgary Herald article:
EDMONTON — Sunday marked the coldest Dec. 13 in Edmonton’s history.

Environment Canada recorded a frigid -46.1 C, or -58.4 C with wind chill, at the Edmonton International Airport at 5 a.m., Environment Canada meteorologist Pierre Lessard said.

The old record of -36.1 C was set last year, he said.

Edmonton is 277 km north of here.

[Lesley Cox]

Does a thick frost coating protect vegetation as a coating of snow is said to do ? 

Oddly, it does, or at least a coating of ice does. In Central Otago where NZ's best stone fruit are grown, apricots, cherries, peaches etc, some orchardists spray their blossom with water in early evening. The water freezes and makes an ice coat around each flower and protects it until next day, sometimes for days at a time if the temp doen't go above freezing point.

[Anthony Darby]

Lovely clear frosty night tonight for watching the Geminids. I saw seven in twenty minutes!

[cohan]

David and Tony,
Mary and I are heading off next Sunday night to be at Newgrange for the Winter Solstice. However, we won't be in the chamber - I believe only 50 people are allowed in each year, 10 each day on the five days around the 21st of December. These lucky 50 have been picked by lottery from an application of approximately 30,000.
Paddy

i've read about this place... should be very cool to be there for the solstice..

[cohan]

Speaking of cold weather, I don't believe there are any forumists from Edmonton, Alberta, but nonetheless...

From Calgary Herald article:
EDMONTON — Sunday marked the coldest Dec. 13 in Edmonton’s history.

Environment Canada recorded a frigid -46.1 C, or -58.4 C with wind chill, at the Edmonton International Airport at 5 a.m., Environment Canada meteorologist Pierre Lessard said.

The old record of -36.1 C was set last year, he said.

Edmonton is 277 km north of here.

youch! i'm not sure about this morning, but yesterday's minimum for Rocky Mtn House was -31.2; -38s forecast for tonight and tomorrow night..

[Lesley Cox]

-58C with wind chill? This is Antarctic. How can people bear to live in such a climate?

[johnw]

-58C with wind chill? This is Antarctic. How can people bear to live in such a climate?

Apparently good Primula collections at the Devonian Gardens in Edmonton.  Probably Meconopsis too. 

johnw

[cohan]

-58C with wind chill? This is Antarctic. How can people bear to live in such a climate?

not that i wouldn't rather it were warmer, but on the plus side, we have a lot of sunshine, even in winter (when i moved to toronto, i thought the sun went behind a cloud in september and didnt come out til may!), and wet and cold are two different seasons, generally..
anyway, the only places in canada that have mild winters have very wet gloomy winters, and or mucky, or both, and the mildest being coastal, they are also prone to gales, so really, we dont have any good options, only the choice to pick which kind of unpleasant weather you can best live with...lol

[Lesley Cox]

Apparently good Primula collections at the Devonian Gardens in Edmonton.  Probably Meconopsis too.  
johnw

Likewise above the Arctic Circle in north Norway. (space here for shivering smiley)

[cohan]

the christmas trees are all decorated 

... some quick shots around the yard, and a few on the road..
no time to load them here, right now, so just a picasa link..
http://picasaweb.google.com/cactuscactus/December112009#

there's been a bit more snow since those were taken, and the piles of snow near the house and by the van look higher in person--around waist high now..
this morning somewhere around -39..warmer by midweek, near/to freezing..