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Re: Weather winter 2010/2011
« Reply #645 on: January 27, 2011, 08:39:05 PM »
Tried to post and nothing happened so am trying again.  Continued snow here and the pictures are of the growing "marshmallow" on a table and also my favorite trough starting to disappear in the snow.  The deep snow is keeping the antlered rats out of the garden, may it snow a foot a week!  It was -16F the other morning but today it has warmed up to a balmy 30F.
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Re: Weather winter 2010/2011
« Reply #646 on: January 27, 2011, 10:55:36 PM »
Very cool Marshmallows.  I particularly like the perfectly matching tiny, tall ones on the backs of the chairs.  Hard to believe that such tall stacks of snow stay on such narrow chair backs.  Something I've never seen in real life, not being in a snow area.  Very cool.  Thanks. 8)
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Re: Weather winter 2010/2011
« Reply #647 on: January 28, 2011, 02:22:46 AM »
Here's an image from this morning.  Snow piled on some Belgian Fence espalier's.  One of them is a Cox's Orange Pippin.
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Re: Weather winter 2010/2011
« Reply #648 on: January 28, 2011, 08:54:14 AM »
Arnold,

That is so cool.  It's amazing how so much can be held by so little.
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Re: Weather winter 2010/2011
« Reply #649 on: January 28, 2011, 04:04:16 PM »
Very cool picture, Arnold.  This last snow was on the wet side and seemed to be able to cling to almost anything.  Some years ago we had a wettish snow with a lot of wind.  Everything became ice towards the end of the storm and the next day all the barb-wire fencing had incredible hanging "beards" of ice.  Unfortunately, it was before the digital camera came into my life.
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Re: Weather winter 2010/2011
« Reply #650 on: January 28, 2011, 05:00:58 PM »
Thanks, I'm hoping not to see more next week.  It's getting hard to throw the snow higher and higher on top of the heap.
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Re: Weather winter 2010/2011
« Reply #651 on: January 28, 2011, 05:05:09 PM »
Sorry, Arnold, but I'm praying for a foot a week until April.  It keeps the antlered rats away.
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Re: Weather winter 2010/2011
« Reply #652 on: January 28, 2011, 07:14:36 PM »
Nice shots Anne and Arnold!
Since we are on snow shots, here are a couple from 10 days ago-- we since had more than a week of above 0C daytimes (still well below at night), and most of the snow fell off of trees and shrubs, but there is still plenty on the ground and any flat surfaces!
Temps are dropping again, and we could have another 10-15cm give or take over the next couple of days..

Yesterday was +11C daytime, Monday is forecast to be -18C daytime.. still, no -40 as we could have in January!

pic 1 me shovelling part of the drive (you can't see the driveway from this angle, but I am not up to my hips in the snow..lol
pic 2 me behind a Philadelphus--you can see the snow can pile up even on very narrow twigs, though in this case the pile is  supported by small twigs on various sides!
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Re: Weather winter 2010/2011
« Reply #653 on: January 28, 2011, 07:55:54 PM »
Astragalus:

You can come over next week and do some therapeutic digging for me.  You'll feel so much better. ;)
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Re: Weather winter 2010/2011
« Reply #654 on: January 29, 2011, 12:04:20 PM »
Arnold, Astragalus, Cohan,

We need a way to transmit some of these temperatures, as it would be nice to get a bit of your cool air.  As I mentioned in the Dactylorhiza topic, we're forecast 35oC, 37oC, 37oC, 34oC, 33oC, 35oC and 33oC for the next week.  Our lowest night temp is 19oC (highest is 21oC), other than tonight which is to get down to 14oC.  I am NOT looking forward to this week at all. ::)
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Re: Weather winter 2010/2011
« Reply #655 on: January 29, 2011, 04:17:13 PM »
Quote from: Paul T on January 29, 2011, 12:04:20 PM
Arnold, Astragalus, Cohan,

We need a way to transmit some of these temperatures, as it would be nice to get a bit of your cool air.  As I mentioned in the Dactylorhiza topic, we're forecast 35oC, 37oC, 37oC, 34oC, 33oC, 35oC and 33oC for the next week.  Our lowest night temp is 19oC (highest is 21oC), other than tonight which is to get down to 14oC.  I am NOT looking forward to this week at all. ::)

At least I'd be able to put the bed socks away ::)
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Re: Weather winter 2010/2011
« Reply #656 on: January 30, 2011, 04:53:51 AM »
Some pictures taken last winter of the garden prepared for deer during the winter.  Yes, I know it looks like Stalag 17, but it keeps them away.
Constant replanting gets really old pretty quickly.  Lots of snow is a happy alternative.
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Re: Weather winter 2010/2011
« Reply #657 on: January 30, 2011, 08:48:55 AM »
Astragalus, that's what I should do at my cabin against the deer and sheep ;D

But it has no effect against slugs, I'm afraid ;)
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Re: Weather winter 2010/2011
« Reply #658 on: January 30, 2011, 10:04:18 AM »
Like Cohan we've had a week of temperatures above zero and melting most of the snow which had arrived in early november. This has also resulted in local flooding, but nothing serious. Yesterday I noticed a strange optical phenomenon in the southern sky just above the horizon. It didn't last long, but I did manage to get one picture. Any ideas as to what this is?

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Re: Weather winter 2010/2011
« Reply #659 on: January 30, 2011, 07:34:36 PM »
That must be sunrise  :D
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