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Is it Spring yet Dad?
« on: March 17, 2010, 09:11:37 PM »
After about a whole week of high pressure bringing us clear blue skys with a little warmth in the sun as the days progressed and early light frosts the baraometer has started to fall again. Today was warmer than of late and I could garden without scarf and hat, but a thoroughly grey day with long periods of drifting mist coming down from Dartmoor. I would rather be cold and have sun than warm with a "fug". The forecast shows a fairly extensive "low" sweeping in from the Atlantic later tomorrow with heavy rain and gales on Friday. Still, I need not fill the watering can.
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Re: Is it Spring yet Dad?
« Reply #1 on: March 17, 2010, 09:14:31 PM »
without a scarf! ::) it's t-shirt plus jumper weather here. +14 today.

4 weeks no rain. Please, someone send steady rain for about 6 hours
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Re: Is it Spring yet Dad?
« Reply #2 on: March 17, 2010, 09:30:24 PM »
We've had some very warm weather recently, although with quite chilly nights. But the 10-day forecast is rain in some form or other every day from later tonight, so I'll try to send some up to you, Mark!! Due north, so that it misses David  :)
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Re: Is it Spring yet Dad?
« Reply #3 on: March 17, 2010, 09:55:58 PM »
without a scarf! ::) it's t-shirt plus jumper weather here. +14 today.

4 weeks no rain. Please, someone send steady rain for about 6 hours

15c here and same problem with the lack of rain.

The chief climatologist said we were 2.5c warmer this past winter.  

Now everyone is complaining spring is perilously early. Here we won't be out of the frost period until May 1.

Streets full of college kids in green t-shirts and flagons in hand.

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Re: Is it Spring yet Dad?
« Reply #4 on: March 17, 2010, 10:57:00 PM »
Oh yes, St Patrick's Day yesterday. The relatively small Irish population that we have in New Zealand is lobbying the Govt to make it a national holiday. Don't think they'll get far.
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Re: Is it Spring yet Dad?
« Reply #5 on: March 18, 2010, 12:53:58 AM »
Oh yes, St Patrick's Day yesterday. The relatively small Irish population that we have in New Zealand is lobbying the Govt to make it a national holiday. Don't think they'll get far.

Still St. Patrick's Day here, yay says McMark :D although sometimes I feel as Irish as Mick Dundee ;D  Need to one day visit Ireland and explore my roots. Already been exploring my stubbornness ;D :o ;D

After this past weekend + Monday, 3 days of gale force winds and 10" of rain (mixed with sleet and some hail), and subsequent flooding and numerous road and bridge closures, were followed by two warm sunny crystal blue-sky days to 60 F (16 C), everything is starting to pop.  Judging from the past 10 years of digital photo records, this spring is 2 weeks ahead of all the past 10 years!  Supposed to be a long stretch of warm and mild coming up, 70 F predicted for tomorrow  :o :o :o
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Re: Is it Spring yet Dad?
« Reply #6 on: March 18, 2010, 10:03:54 AM »
Spring three weeks late here. 8oC when I left the house at 7.55 a.m., which is milder than of late.
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Re: Is it Spring yet Dad?
« Reply #7 on: March 18, 2010, 10:29:47 AM »
This week the temperature in Huddersfield has reached 10deg C for the first time since the middle of December so the feeling here is that spring has finally arrived. With luck the February Gold will be out by April.
There are millions of crocuses out around the town which the council has planted over the last few years (700 000 purple crocuses planted just last year - they import a machine from Holland to do the planting). I must try to get some pictures.
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Re: Is it Spring yet Dad?
« Reply #8 on: March 18, 2010, 10:47:29 AM »
14c here yesterday and  my February gold have finally opened their first flowers six weeks later that last year. That is the first time that the temperature has risen above 10c since the 18th of December. The soil in the garden is bone dry and everything that I plant has to be copiously watered. The forecast folk have promised rain for the past two nights but we are still waiting for it, we would normally be up to our knees in water at this time.
Sounds a kind of funny  me looking for rain.  :-\

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Re: Is it Spring yet Dad?
« Reply #9 on: March 18, 2010, 06:41:45 PM »
we have been at or more often above normal temps most of the time since january, and have had very little precipitation since december; however, we had so much (by local standards, nothing like down east) snow in december that there is still a lot on the ground here-bare around trees, paths, buildings, but still several inches to over a foot in other areas, including most of my yard--in spite of having been above freezing days and mostly sunny for all of march but one day--we have been up to around 10-14C several times.. a slight cool down now, but still above freezing days (the 7 day range of highs is -1 to +11)..

we are better off than some areas of the province--especially north and east, where it has been dry for a couple of years, but some more snow now would still be a good thing for the moisture..possible flurries in the forecast for a couple of days, but nothing significant..

some of the pussywillows are out (in the wild) but still at the small and tightly closed stage...

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Re: Is it Spring yet Dad?
« Reply #10 on: March 21, 2010, 05:15:11 PM »
Like Canada it would seem, we still have snow on the ground here in Bulgaria. We had heavy late snow falls about 8-10 days ago accross the country. The melt is now fast as day temps of +20c and night temps of upto +14c clear the winter away ( I hope.... )
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Re: Is it Spring yet Dad?
« Reply #11 on: March 21, 2010, 05:36:02 PM »
Like Canada it would seem, we still have snow on the ground here in Bulgaria.

Hristo - Here in eastern Canada, Halifax in particular, we were 20c yesterday.  A night time temperature of 14c is a very long way off here, perhaps June. Today we are 6c though it feels warmer in the sunshine. No cucumbers or tomatoes for instance can go out on the coast until after 17 June.

The Hamamellis have been in flower for ages and still are perfect.  The only other shrub I see moving quickly is Viburnum x bodnantense Dawn and it was showing colour in December.  Daphne mezereum must have been given a jolt by yestrday's warmth but there are none in this neighborhood.

Mercifully the Magnolias are not moving. 

I wonder which Stachyurus species is the hardiest?  Philip MacD. just sent a glorious shot of a sp. in his garden.  Any ideas as I know nothing about  them.

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Re: Is it Spring yet Dad?
« Reply #12 on: March 21, 2010, 05:37:53 PM »
I'm hearing complaints now about how the cold winter may have hurt the wildlife, which makes an interesting change from how warm winters hurt the wildlife ::)  Hopefully it hurt the slugs and snails which have become a nightmare the last few years :P
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Re: Is it Spring yet Dad?
« Reply #13 on: March 21, 2010, 05:53:05 PM »
Here too the Hamamelis were really good this year, some lasting almost two months in the unusually cold, dry weather 8)
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Re: Is it Spring yet Dad?
« Reply #14 on: March 21, 2010, 06:11:25 PM »
1st day of spring and another warm day of +14C. The forecast rain, again, didnt fall on my garden.
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