Extreme cold for the Southern AZ, NM, and West Texas

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Sat Jan 08, 2011 9:26 am

Well...I just talked to my nieghbors in az and they said it only got down to 13F/-10.5C so they stayed 3 deg. warmer than the low for the closest town did.
I might have even been warmer sence my property is a few feet higher than my nieghbors are. Good news for my saguaros.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Sat Jan 08, 2011 10:04 am

That does sound encouraging, Aaron.
Thanks goodness!

Barb

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Sun Jan 09, 2011 7:56 pm

http://www.getoutdoors.com/getoutdoors/ ... on/44.html

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Mon Jan 10, 2011 8:27 am

Interesting article, Aaron, thanks.

Livestock grazing would severely affect seedlings.
Plus they didnt' mention seedling poaching.

Barb

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Mon Jan 10, 2011 11:44 am

I think when I plant some this year, I will look for some places under brush and hope for the best.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Mon Jan 10, 2011 11:59 am

some places under brush

The article quoted young saguaro often do well under some sort of canopy to protect them from the sun when young.
That'll work well for you.

Barb

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Tue Jan 11, 2011 4:30 pm

lucky1 wrote:
some places under brush
The article quoted young saguaro often do well under some sort of canopy to protect them from the sun when young.
That'll work well for you.

Barb

Thats what I hoping for, Might also keep the javalina for eating them.

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Tue Jan 11, 2011 4:37 pm

Well my place in Texas tied a record low today 15F/-9C

I've be looking for a warmer area in Texas, hard to find that balance of warm winters and liveable summers.

TerdalFarm · Post by **TerdalFarm** » Tue Jan 11, 2011 7:43 pm

Aaron,
W and I are, too. We're thinking the Gulf coast for a decade or so from now.
Where is your Texas land? --Erik

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Tue Jan 11, 2011 9:42 pm

TerdalFarm wrote:Aaron,
W and I are, too. We're thinking the Gulf coast for a decade or so from now.
Where is your Texas land? --Erik

Cornudas/Dell City area. I was thinking about the Brownsville area, but I need the mountains so now I thinking some where by Bigbend area. I also like places where I can stargaze away from cities. I was thinking Marathon, Terilinga, or maybe Presidio. I like Marfa and Alpine, but they may be just a little colder than I want. I'm sure I will change my mind in a week or so.

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Wed Jan 12, 2011 6:49 pm

TerdalFarm wrote:Aaron,
W and I are, too. We're thinking the Gulf coast for a decade or so from now.
Where is your Texas land? --Erik

What area are you thinking Erik?

TerdalFarm · Post by **TerdalFarm** » Wed Jan 12, 2011 7:16 pm

We are not close to ready to retirement. also, we have ties here that will keep us here for several years.
W's company is expanding in south Texas, so #1 would be where the jobs are.

I like the broader Corpus area, but have not been south of there. We might make a road trip to check it out.
Any suggestions? It is all driveable from here whenever we have a few days off. --Erik

tropicman · Post by **tropicman** » Wed Jan 12, 2011 9:40 pm

Sent my son down to the Rio Grande area,said look to see if you can find me 2 to 5 acres,they call it the Texas Riviera.
He called me and said It would take all my money just to get 1 acre!
So a quarter of a mil won't go to far there!!!LOL

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 8:09 am

TerdalFarm wrote:We are not close to ready to retirement. also, we have ties here that will keep us here for several years.
W's company is expanding in south Texas, so #1 would be where the jobs are.
I like the broader Corpus area, but have not been south of there. We might make a road trip to check it out.
Any suggestions? It is all driveable from here whenever we have a few days off. --Erik

I have not been to Texas yet, so I personaly dont know what would be a good area. I get most of my info off the net and I have a few friends that moved to Texas. I hear mostly good things about the state. My one friend lived in the Brwonville area and liked it so much he moved back, said it had weather much like south Florida, but he said he missed the mountains. You can find nice homes there in the late 90s/2000s yr brick homes very cheap. Like well below what you can buy here, $50-60 thousand cheaper.
I would love to post some real estate sites but not the forum for such. I would love to have a place there but just to far to travel too, I dont fly.

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 8:39 am

tropicman wrote:Sent my son down to the Rio Grande area,said look to see if you can find me 2 to 5 acres,they call it the Texas Riviera.
He called me and said It would take all my money just to get 1 acre!
So a quarter of a mil won't go to far there!!!LOL

I'm not sure about there, but in the lower Rio Grande McAllen/Brownsille you can find some nice lots for around 10-15 thou. And if you look around enough you can find 1-5 arces in the county for 4-10,000 thou. but takes alot of looking and of cource wont be on the beach.

However I lost out on a SE Texas beach front property about 900 ft/maybe less from the beach with water/sewer/phone at lot line. $6000

I did not have enough money at the time.

The other night on tv I seen a home in Florida sell for about 50 thou, about 1500sq' and was in the 90's/2000s I wonder how prices can get any lower.

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 9:06 am

I was looking at a blog I follow. It's writen by a retired couple that stay the winter in Cochise county. Well I noticed they went to Bisbee yesterday and from looking at thier pics I don't see any winter damage from the 10F/-12C they had ealier. Strange if I had those plants in my yard and it got 10F everything would be toast.

I hope they dont mind me posting their blog.

http://thebayfieldbunch.com/

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 9:19 am

Neat blog, Aaron, great pics.
Especially the first one...motorhome parked in the desert.

Yup, plants look good to me too.
Likely because temps get into the 60s during the day?

Barb

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 9:27 am

lucky1 wrote: Yup, plants look good to me too.
Likely because temps get into the 60s during the day?

Barb

Must be why, The ground and plants probaly never get very cold after a good day warming.

Wont be long and I will see how my cactus are doing. May or June and I'm atta here. Sorry but I think people will hear this a few times until I leave.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 9:35 am

hear this a few times until I leave

No need to apologize.
I'm with you...but reminded of the saying "all dressed up with no place to go"

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 9:50 am

lucky1 wrote:No need to apologize.
I'm with you...but reminded of the saying "all dressed up with no place to go"

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 9:19 pm

Because this thread has been all over the place. Here is some fun on climate change.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdxaxJNs15s

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 9:36 pm

we folks ... all over the place? never

Good chuckles in the video.
Barb

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 5:42 am

A better vid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr5O1HsTVgA&NR=1

Okanagan desert-palms · Post by **Okanagan desert-palms** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 5:30 pm

Here is some more fun with climate change debate. Bob Carter explains what has happened with C02 and our planet Earth. Science is still about debate right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOLkze-9GcI

John

Reduce, reuse, recycle.
Question everything your told!

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 5:36 pm

Good one!

Science is about hypotheses...

Heard this saying? "if I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong".

Barb

Okanagan desert-palms · Post by **Okanagan desert-palms** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 5:38 pm

But big Al said the debate is over?

John

Okanagan desert-palms · Post by **Okanagan desert-palms** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 5:43 pm

Aaron thanks for the funny flip side vid.

John

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Thu Jan 20, 2011 5:52 am

Good vid, thanks for sharing.

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Mon Jan 24, 2011 6:15 am

Well...it looks like the big filiferas made it through the cold Bisbee had this winter. I think they got down to 8f/-13C.

Scoll down in the blog to see the big Bisbee palms.
http://thebayfieldbunch.com/

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Mon Jan 24, 2011 9:57 am

Those two palms have seen a lot in their long lives.
Probably sneeze at -13C at that age.

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Mon Jan 24, 2011 5:01 pm

lucky1 wrote:Those two palms have seen a lot in their long lives.
Probably sneeze at -13C at that age.

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 6:16 am

El paso TX, wed is forecasted for a high of 26F/-3C and a low of 10F/-12C. Thats crazy.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 9:06 am

Deep system...

Nice to see your AZ sticker is back in the double digits C...

We're now paying for the recent mild weather -12C 10F at my house. :verycold:

and with little snow on the ground, there'll be some damage to the old Y.filamentosas.
They seem to like at least a foot of snow on top to keep leaves nice.
Already showing yellow/beige leaf edges but will bounce back.

Trachy hut interior reads 29.6 F, so that's good.

Barb

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 11:44 am

lucky1 wrote: We're now paying for the recent mild weather -12C 10F at my house.

Trachy hut interior reads 29.6 F, so that's good.

Barb

You must have some of that cold that is heading our way. I have 0C/32F at noon in the shade, so it's not to bad here in the sun. But I guess if you are seeing cooler temps it wont be long before we do.

That old tracky is loving it.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 12:17 pm

Our latest satellite shows half of the continent affected...press PLAY to animate.

http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/satellit ... es=1&clf=1

As though anything would be animated in this cold! :lickice:

I may move in with the Trachy if firewood runs low...

Barb

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Wed Feb 02, 2011 3:29 pm

West texas tonight 2/2/11 low is going to be -2f/-19C I doubt if the robustas are going to live through this cold spell. Only 9f/-13C for a high. This is to dam cold, this is a bunch of

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Wed Feb 02, 2011 5:50 pm

My neighbors called tonight to tell me that the weather in AZ is way to cold. They said it got down to 13f/-10C and was only 30f/-1C at noon. He said they have never seen it this cold in Feb. The end is ahhh coming.

I hope he's wrong.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Wed Feb 02, 2011 6:06 pm

Oh man, Aaron, me too!

How many years have your neighbors lived there?

Sure hope the next ice age isn't starting at 33 N, Arizona.

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Wed Feb 02, 2011 6:09 pm

http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_17274935

I hope to find pics later this year and see how the palms look if they are there at all.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Wed Feb 02, 2011 6:35 pm

They got snow too, didn't they?
Then there's a good cover on the palms.
Chin up!

Barb

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