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JordanNL
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What was your low this winter?

Post by JordanNL » Mon Mar 28, 2011 3:44 pm

Mine was -12.4 C or 9.7 F.



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Paul Ont
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Post by Paul Ont » Mon Mar 28, 2011 5:40 pm

That's a nice mild winter Jordan. My location in Kingston has never had a winter warmer than USDA 7a; Toronto had one year with a low of something like -14C... But that was the non winter of 2002 (or was it 2001?). This winter we hit -17.5C (0f) downtown and -20C (-5f) at the airport.

My place in Kingston hit both -27C (-16f) and -30C (-22f) this past winter. Coldest winter in a few years.

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Post by hardyjim » Tue Mar 29, 2011 7:51 am

-8F here,actually not as many nights below 0(F) this year
and I don't believe any days below 0(F).
Quite a change from the past few winters!
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Post by igor.glukhovtsev » Tue Mar 29, 2011 9:02 am

Paul Ont wrote: But that was the non winter of 2002 (or was it 2001?).
Paul, there was a winter 2001-2002 when I moved to Toronto. My first job was a landscaping there. I remember the guys were saying about that winter like "it was a joke"! By the way my lowest was minus 23 (C) but the mean January was minus 12C. It's kind of crazy 'cos the average January is minus 5-6 C normally.
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Post by lucky1 » Tue Mar 29, 2011 12:37 pm

-19C here.
Too bloody cold, no matter how brief it was.

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Post by CTPalm » Tue Mar 29, 2011 4:32 pm

-6F here - Coldest winter I can remember.

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Post by Cameron_z6a_N.S. » Tue Mar 29, 2011 4:48 pm

It was fairly cold here this winter, but what scared me more than the absolute low of -17.2 C (1 F) was the number of times there were temps of -15 C (at least 10), and -12 C (at least 25). The one good side is that my thermometer is on my deck, so temps in the sheltered area of the yard would have been a bit warmer.
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Post by canadianplant » Tue Mar 29, 2011 6:19 pm

-37C at the airport, but -32C in my yard...
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-30 C

Post by TerdalFarm » Tue Mar 29, 2011 7:03 pm

-12 F at he Tulsa airport Feb. 10; -13 F at the Tulsa Jones airport in south Tulsa (where NWS gets Bixby data); -22 F (-30 C) at the state weather station in Bixby, although that is several miles closer to Tulsa and so gets some of the urban heat island effect. My electronic thermometer read "LL" that morning but worked later when it warmed up. Too cold for a thermometer?!?

Needless to say, massive devastation. Photinia and some Phyllostachys (as examples) in Tulsa are going to make it but both genera out around here are dead. Southern Magnolia and boxwood are the BLE champs, as is anything that was under the snow.

That snow (record amounts) kept the soil warm. We had a very warm January (remember that photo of W and I dozing in tank tops and shorts the last Saturday of January?) which meant the soil did not freeze deeply. Thus, I now have Canna and Musa popping up through thick mulch among very sad looking "palms."

The rapid warm-up (100 F in a week) may have helped, too. So, it can't really compare to Paul and Jesse's winter :D

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Post by sidpook » Wed Apr 06, 2011 3:49 am

Could someone post a link for reliable weather data/records, ie past temps for one's town? I can nnever find any ....Thanks
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Post by DesertZone » Wed Apr 06, 2011 5:52 am

-13.6 F/25.3C
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Post by canadianplant » Wed Apr 06, 2011 6:50 am

Looks like im the coldest!!! Im not sure if i should be pround or not :shock:
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Post by lucky1 » Wed Apr 06, 2011 9:29 am

Mike, on this wunderground link (I've selected Dover New Jersey, but that's not your city, so change that)...down the page on the left side, there's a History and Almanac section.

http://www.wunderground.com/US/NJ/Dover.html

If that doesn't give enough information, try your nearest airport.
They usually have lots of historical data.

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Post by sidpook » Wed Apr 06, 2011 1:22 pm

lucky1 wrote:Mike, on this wunderground link (I've selected Dover New Jersey, but that's not your city, so change that)...down the page on the left side, there's a History and Almanac section.

http://www.wunderground.com/US/NJ/Dover.html

If that doesn't give enough information, try your nearest airport.
They usually have lots of historical data.

Barb

Thanks Barb!!
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