Weather.... late 2009

[art600]

Promised 20 cm of snow tonight  - it is only going to be -4 C but when you have become used to unseasonal warm days, that feels much colder.  Brrrr...

[Maggi Young]

Snowing here in Falkirk!

must be quite bad..... they had a weather/road warning for the Falkirk area on the radio 

[Tony Willis]

Snowing here in Falkirk!

And in Chorley! We have had to put the heating on for a few hours a day.

[cohan]

-39C...
cohan what about snow? We have had -30C three nights. It's about -25C now. And there is no any snow.  I said good by to my collection.

olga, right now we have around 30 cm of snow on the ground in most places, though it tends to be much shallower in wood areas;
i have a more lasting snow cover usually than lori, but we can easily have -20 or colder before the snow, and when we sometimes get melting in february, we can have exposed areas and -30 or worse again..
i'm just beginning planting here, so dont know much about what can take the exposure and what cant, i am encouraged by lori's experiences, but i also belong to a group of people from alberta, saskatchewan and manitoba, mostly, and some of them are always worried about adequate snow at the beginning and end of the season--they grow a lot of lilies, daylilies, irises etc...

[David Nicholson]

Flutter of snowflakes hit South Eastern England:

BBC News suggests necessity for sufficient safety measures commensurate with a least a minutes warning of nuclear attack:

Meanwhile the rest of the country smiles sagely and just gets on with it

[Lori S.]

i also belong to a group of people from alberta, saskatchewan and manitoba, mostly, and some of them are always worried about adequate snow at the beginning and end of the season--they grow a lot of lilies, daylilies, irises etc...

WOW, pointless worrying even in our climate!!!

[Lesley Cox]

Had an email from Marcus in Hobart this morning. 33C yesterday down to 12 today and pouring rain. It's just 26C here and such a strong nor'west wind. I'll have to hold Teddy down when he goes for a walk today. He'll be blown away. Weather forecasters are telling us to tie down everything. It was hard to keep my little car on the road when I came home from town an hour ago.

[cohan]

i also belong to a group of people from alberta, saskatchewan and manitoba, mostly, and some of them are always worried about adequate snow at the beginning and end of the season--they grow a lot of lilies, daylilies, irises etc...

WOW, pointless worrying even in our climate!!!

that's what i think! i might wonder and hope with new plants of unknown hardiness, i might even put branches around to cut wind and hold snow, but once they are out there, i will NOT be worrying about temperatures and snowfalls/melts! that's all part of hardiness, and if i want to grow stuff that's not hardy, i will grow it under cover..

[Olga Bondareva]

cohan and Lori
Thank you for calming me.  

[art600]

The Met Office got it right.

The photos show my front garden with at least 10cm of snow.   The red car has been abandoned at some time.  My bungalow is at the bottom of two hills and the right hand one is steep and impossible until gritted.  Need to go out later.....

[Paul T]

And I hear that Paris itself (in France that is, not Texas) got a rare dump of snow today as well.

Unfortunately we only got 4mm of rain, somewhat disappointing when others are talking about pouring rain and over an inch etc.    Ended up sunny most of today after the rain skipped us. 

[Luc Gilgemyn]

The Met Office got it right.

The photos show my front garden with at least 10cm of snow.   The red car has been abandoned at some time.  My bungalow is at the bottom of two hills and the right hand one is steep and impossible until gritted.  Need to go out later.....

Your garden looks great Art... and not a weed in sight ! 

[Anthony Darby]

Temp was -6^oC when I left home at 8.10 a.m. -2^oC half an hour later at work.

[art600]

The Met Office got it right.

The photos show my front garden with at least 10cm of snow.   The red car has been abandoned at some time.  My bungalow is at the bottom of two hills and the right hand one is steep and impossible until gritted.  Need to go out later.....

Your garden looks great Art... and not a weed in sight ! 

Luc

There were none in the front garden before the snow    The back garden is another matter 

[cohan]

cohan and Lori
Thank you for calming me.  

hopefully everything will be fine nothing you can do till spring, anyway! hope you get some snow and milder temperatures !

good luck to everyone with winter weather! we are much milder now, but maybe more snow over the next few days-hopefully we will avoid the freezing rain forecast further north..