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canadianplant · Post by **canadianplant** » Fri Apr 13, 2012 6:00 am

Man, this year has been anal! ALmost 6 months of record temps, and JUST when things are really waking up, I get this:

http://www.theweathernetwork.com/weathe ... _savedcity

Thats right, 17C saturday with a low of 5C, and monday a high of 0c, and 3 nights of around -7C.

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Fri Apr 13, 2012 7:10 am

Jesse, it not TOOOO bad: look at the all-time weather records at my place:

APRIL MAX MIN
1 April 25.9 (2004) -9.0 (1949)
2 April 24.8 (1938) -7.7 (1963)
3 April 25.8 (2005) -10.3 (1966)
4 April 24.6 (1999) -7.8 (1966)
5 April 24.9 (1965) -5.2 (2011)
6 April 25.0 (1969) -6.3 (1957)
7 April 30.2 (1969) -8.7 (1934)
8 April 27.4 (1955) -6.3 (1960)
9 April 29.2 (1955) -10.2 (1952)
10 April 25.8 (2000) -9.9 (1979)
11 April 29.0 (1978) -10.8 (1979)
12 April 25.6 (1929) -5.4 (1960)
13 April 27.6 (1952) -7.3 (1950)
14 April 29.3 (2001) -10.5 (1983)
15 April 28.0 (1946) -6.5 (1950)
16 April 29.0 (1938) -10.9 (2003)
17 April 28.5 (1988) -9.0 (2003)
18 April 33.2 (1946) -4.2 (1930)
19April 28.8 (1946) -4.1 (2008)
20 April 27.8 (1959) -5.1 (1989)
21 April 28.2 (1993) -4.1 (1917)
22 April 28.0 (2011) -7.2 (1937)
23 April 30.6 (1927) -5.1 (1937)
24 April 32.0 (1927) -6.4 (1999)
25 April 31.5 (2011) -5.7 (1984)
26 April 29.4 (1972) -2.1 (1917)
27 April 31.1 (1985) -2.3 (1936)
28 April 31.8 (2006) -3.3 (1943)
29 April 31.5 (1997) -0.9 (1947)
30 April 31.0 (1997) -3.6 (1932)

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Fri Apr 13, 2012 8:07 am

The temp ups and downs can be a little tough to take this time of year!

canadianplant · Post by **canadianplant** » Fri Apr 13, 2012 8:25 am

Oh, its only.... 3 degrees C below normal for the low. Not bad at all, but since its been so mild, and/or right on average, things are a bit ahead of schedual. My russian olive bud burst yesterday, and my apple is not far behind (the native/naturalized stuff is fine).

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Fri Apr 13, 2012 4:37 pm

That's crappy Jesse, after a warm late winter.
You can hope that it's a wonky forecast.

Like your highs, Igor, but the lows BRRRRRRR
Fortunately lows are mostly many years apart.

Barb

seedscanada · Post by **seedscanada** » Fri Apr 13, 2012 5:08 pm

Booooo. No one wants to see those temperatures.
Adam

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Sat Apr 14, 2012 7:54 am

The nice things about the east cooling down is the west warms up.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Sat Apr 14, 2012 9:58 am

the west warms up.

I guess I'm too FAR west

have you seen that mess, Aaron, out in the Pacific that's heading this way?

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

Wearing a down vest today...

Barb

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Sat Apr 14, 2012 8:30 pm

lucky1 wrote: I guess I'm too FAR west
have you seen that mess, Aaron, out in the Pacific that's heading this way?

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

Wearing a down vest today...

Barb

That looks bad, but I think it will us here. Next 10 days highs in the 60's-70's just perfect.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Sun Apr 15, 2012 12:02 pm

Glad the mess is missing you Aaron.
But I've not seen it "sweep" so low in a long time.
Even N.CA had cold winds and rain last week from this thing hanging around.

Barb

canadianplant · Post by **canadianplant** » Mon Apr 16, 2012 6:36 am

The weather man LIED. IT was supposed to snow last night, turns out we had 5 HOURS OF FREEZING RAIN/ICE PELLETS! Things that bust buds, 4 clematis, raspberry, black berry, russian olive are frozen. The apple is covered, the bamboos were covered, ALL of my seedlings outside were iced over.........

On top of that.... -12 C tonight............................

What are the odds things made it?

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Mon Apr 16, 2012 11:03 am

Oh no, Jesse!

ALL of my seedlings outside were iced over

Can you put them in an unheated garage at least?
Or a cool basement?

Barb

canadianplant · Post by **canadianplant** » Mon Apr 16, 2012 2:29 pm

Oh, theyre in the ground. I havnt planted anything crazy, just some cool season veggies. Still....

Paul Ont · Post by **Paul Ont** » Mon Apr 16, 2012 2:52 pm

Ok. This is crazy. jesse you're showing 21F right now, and it is 26C here right now. Wow.

canadianplant · Post by **canadianplant** » Mon Apr 16, 2012 3:47 pm

Its cold, but not 22F. We got almost 30mm of rain, it changed to freezing rain, then to ice pelets, then to mix, then to snow, then it stopped... There are non frozen puddles everywhere, and stuff is slowly melting. Its around 0C (yeah cold)...

Nothing was covered... and its gonna be -12C tonight....

Paul Ont · Post by **Paul Ont** » Mon Apr 16, 2012 4:38 pm

YUCK! That's as cold as it got all winter here in T.O. (yeah, mild winter; Ktown hit -21C)... Good luck!

canadianplant · Post by **canadianplant** » Tue Apr 17, 2012 5:26 am

Wasnt any colder then -6C or -8C at my house, the airport recorded -10C. If we warm up fast today, I think things may have a decent chance....

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Tue Apr 17, 2012 6:31 am

What do you have uncovered?

20F will take out a lot of plants.

canadianplant · Post by **canadianplant** » Tue Apr 17, 2012 7:11 am

Heres the good thing Jim. I have NOTHING major planted, as my season was just getting going. The lilacs havnt even opened buds yet. I forgot about my Rhodo "hellikki", but im sure its fine, aw crap and my azalea (just reembered). The apple is uncovered (buds werent open), my russian olive (just opened buds), veggie seedlings, crape vines (again, not bud burst). Pretty much anything that had closed, yet swolen buds I left alone. Same with spring bulbs. THe only things that sprouted were chives, bee balm and a few other random ground covers

I covered my rose, bamboos, and clematis (the buds JUST opened the day before the freezing rain

)

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Tue Apr 17, 2012 1:30 pm

oh, I thought you had PALM seedlings outside

Saw your snowy -5C morning.
I won't tell you what I said to the TV.

Barb

canadianplant · Post by **canadianplant** » Tue Apr 17, 2012 7:50 pm

In retrospect, the ice might have protected some things from the cold. IT also showed the moderatign effect of the lake. You went near the airport, they got 2 inches of snow. Any further away then that, they got a foot. The closer to the lake you got, the more freezing rain.mix there was. It was actually cool to see it in pictures from the different areas here!

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Wed Apr 18, 2012 12:16 pm

the ice might have protected some things from the cold

Something only a Canadian would say...

TimMAz6 · Post by **TimMAz6** » Wed Apr 18, 2012 4:39 pm

those are some cold temps Jesse..............are more of these cold temps coming your way? I hope not.

canadianplant · Post by **canadianplant** » Wed Apr 18, 2012 6:30 pm

Naw, nothing like that. lowest forcasted is -6C (yeah cold, but only 3C below average lows, concidering the long term above average temps weve had, this is nothing). Everything is fine. I may have lost a random bud here or there but everything is ok. Just over paranoid

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 6:44 am

Weather is insane and so unpredictable...we have had NO rain for months and a deficit of 6.8 in and no=w we are getting a Nor'Easter...YAY!!!!

canadianplant · Post by **canadianplant** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 7:07 am

With climate change comes more unpredictability weather wise. Weve been getting less and less snow here over the last 10 15 years.

I hope that Noreaster gives you a good few inches of rain (without flooding of course

)

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 7:37 am

canadianplant wrote:With climate change comes more unpredictability weather wise. Weve been getting less and less snow here over the last 10 15 years.

I hope that Noreaster gives you a good few inches of rain (without flooding of course )

It should give us at least a 1.5 inch total at the least...We're pretty lucky here in NJ, sandy soil absorbs pretty well. Thanks

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