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lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Sat Nov 20, 2010 5:04 pm

Jay was kind enough to add this (bottom icon, under "View more Emoticons")

:lickice:

chances are it'll get lots of use this winter!

Barb

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Sat Nov 20, 2010 7:02 pm

High of 13F or -10.5C on Wed and a low of 0F or -17.7C

This is the kind of thing that hurts plants. I still have flowers out. Same thing happened last year. And it snowed today.

Where is my global-warming. We need to burn some tires.

JK

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Sat Nov 20, 2010 7:49 pm

Aaron that sudden temp drop does hurt plants.
A foot of snow would help with insulation.

Have you ever thrown an old blanket or two over your Y.rostrata, brevifolia etc. for these early and sudden temp drops?

Barb

Post by **Jay-Admin** » Sun Nov 21, 2010 2:12 am

And I added this one for you too Barb :verycold:

Paul Ont · Post by **Paul Ont** » Sun Nov 21, 2010 5:04 am

Let me try that :lickice:

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Sun Nov 21, 2010 7:04 am

You can put this one right after when it gets that cold here!:puke:

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Sun Nov 21, 2010 9:23 am

lucky1 wrote:Aaron that sudden temp drop does hurt plants.
A foot of snow would help with insulation.

Have you ever thrown an old blanket or two over your Y.rostrata, brevifolia etc. for these early and sudden temp drops?

Barb

I don't with the bigger plants, unless it drops to say -10F/-23.3C but I do have a bunch of towels that I will put over the smaller plants come wed. I don't want to make babies out of my plants. They gotta be tough or die around here.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Sun Nov 21, 2010 12:44 pm

They gotta be tough or die around here

...the trick is to get them old enough for them to be tough...glad you cover your beauties when necessary, Aaron.

Thanks Jay.
That's the only funny thing about the cold...the smilies.
Like they say "a picture tells a thousand words"... or in this case, a thousand BRRRRRRs.

Poop, it's cold, and getting colder.
You know it's cold around here when nobody wants a beer...
Barb

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Sun Nov 21, 2010 1:17 pm

lucky1 wrote:
They gotta be tough or die around here
...the trick is to get them old enough for them to be tough...glad you cover your beauties when necessary, Aaron.
Barb

I talk tough but you know they are just like my dogs "spoiled".

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Sun Nov 21, 2010 1:41 pm

Good, I thought so, Aaron!

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Sun Nov 21, 2010 7:16 pm

Just look at this graph!
the next couple of nights are going to be brutal :verycold:

http://www.theweathernetwork.com/fourte ... k_lt_14day

Stay warm and safe everybodeeeeeeeeeee!
Barb

Paul Ont · Post by **Paul Ont** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 7:46 am

Wow. barb- Bundle both yourself and you plants... I'm not even going to post our long term forecast right now. I don't know why we're getting away with the mild weather (maybe the lake temps are helping?), but I am worried...

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Mon Nov 22, 2010 8:29 pm

The Okanagan's windchill overnight will be -27C -17F
plus it looks like Vancouver is breaking a 25 year record for cold tonight.

Yikes...look at this Vancouver palm in snow/wind (CBC lousy pic):

Yup, time for the new smileys again:
:lickice:

Barb

Paul Ont · Post by **Paul Ont** » Tue Nov 23, 2010 7:15 am

That's not fair! I want snow! Why can the West Coast have the cold and snow and all we get is lousy rain (at least it was above 10C, had it been below it would have been unbearable)? We want our weather back

!

Seriously though. I do want to be able to skate on the pond in time for xmas. Give me that much at least! All I'm getting is this (we might get a freeze over the next few nights):
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/fourte ... k_st_14day
At least the garden is seeing some solid sub-freezing temps:
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/fourte ... k_st_14day

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Tue Nov 23, 2010 7:25 am

Paul Ont wrote:That's not fair! I want snow! Why can the West Coast have the cold and snow and all we get is lousy rain (at least it was above 10C, had it been below it would have been unbearable)? We want our weather back !

Seriously though. I do want to be able to skate on the pond in time for xmas. Give me that much at least! All I'm getting is this (we might get a freeze over the next few nights):
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/fourte ... k_st_14day
At least the garden is seeing some solid sub-freezing temps:
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/fourte ... k_st_14day

Paul, I remember a winter 2005-2006 when the Winter started in the second decade of February...
Barb, sorry for your place's minus 16 C...

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Tue Nov 23, 2010 7:09 pm

Forcast is -5F for tonight. Looks like we may brake our old record low of -4F/-20C.

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Wed Nov 24, 2010 4:10 am

[quote="lucky1"]Jay was kind enough to add this (bottom icon, under "View more Emoticons")

:lickice:

Remember this from the movie anyone??? Great Movie...."You'll shoot your eye out"

http://static.tvguide.com/MediaBin/Gall ... Story1.jpg

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Wed Nov 24, 2010 4:12 am

Paul, I remember a winter 2005-2006 when the Winter started in the second decade of February...
Barb, sorry for your place's minus 16 C...[/quote]

Why does your weather sticker say smoke??????? (forest fires...??)

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Wed Nov 24, 2010 4:16 am

lucky1 wrote:Jay was kind enough to add this (bottom icon, under "View more Emoticons")

chances are it'll get lots of use this winter!

Barb

Whoa, Barb! Good luck with the cold there! Tht's cold!!

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Wed Nov 24, 2010 4:18 am

igor.glukhovtsev wrote:
Paul Ont wrote:That's not fair! I want snow! Why can the West Coast have the cold and snow and all we get is lousy rain (at least it was above 10C, had it been below it would have been unbearable)? We want our weather back !

Seriously though. I do want to be able to skate on the pond in time for xmas. Give me that much at least! All I'm getting is this (we might get a freeze over the next few nights):
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/fourte ... k_st_14day
At least the garden is seeing some solid sub-freezing temps:
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/fourte ... k_st_14day
Paul, I remember a winter 2005-2006 when the Winter started in the second decade of February...
Barb, sorry for your place's minus 16 C...

Igor, Why does yorurweather sticker say "smoke?"

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Wed Nov 24, 2010 5:08 am

sidpook wrote:
Igor, Why does yorurweather sticker say "smoke?"

Mike, thanks for asking... I would call it SMOG. An airport area is the lowest, the coldest, the most polluted, the less developed part of the city. Too many poor people populating this area have no money for using natural gas for heating mostly coal or fire wood, or even plastic trash, so sad.

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Thu Nov 25, 2010 7:31 am

Broke our all time low for the day wich was -1F/-18.3C. We had cold well beyond our records. My house -13.6F/-25.3C The offical temp was -7F/-21.6C

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Thu Nov 25, 2010 7:51 am

DesertZone wrote:Broke our all time low for the day wich was -1F/-18.3C. We had cold well beyond our records. My house -13.6F/-25.3C The offical temp was -7F/-21.6C

OY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Thu Nov 25, 2010 8:20 am

Ouch, Aaron.

That Arizona sticker is pretty appealing right about now!
How many years until you move to your property in AZ?
...or maybe it's weeks

Cowtown Palm Society · Thu Nov 25, 2010 11:24 am

The global weather is screwy

!

Can anybody beat this spread for November?

High: 23.6 C, 74.5f
Low: -30.8 C, -23.4f

Actually, by the sounds of it Aaron might be close.

Paul Ont · Post by **Paul Ont** » Thu Nov 25, 2010 12:03 pm

Not even close...

Max Temp: 13.7 °C
Max Temp.Date: Nov.23 2010
Min temp: -0.6 °C
Min Temp. Date: Nov.19 2010

I can't get my damn weather sticker to come up, I thought I followed those instructions to the letter... I would make a lousy computer programmer.

http://www.theweathernetwork.com/your_w ... ity_thumbs

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Thu Nov 25, 2010 5:21 pm

Cowtown Palm Society wrote:The global weather is screwy !

Can anybody beat this spread for November?

High: 23.6 C, 74.5f
Low: -30.8 C, -23.4f

Actually, by the sounds of it Aaron might be close.

No...I can't beat that.

High: 21.1C, 70F
Low: -25.3, -13.6F

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Thu Nov 25, 2010 5:36 pm

lucky1 wrote:Ouch, Aaron.

That Arizona sticker is pretty appealing right about now!
How many years until you move to your property in AZ?
...or maybe it's weeks

I told my wife we will be moving down there as soon as I pay off our house, say 10-15 years. I almost have enough to buy a home there now but would have nothing for retirement.

It gets cold there also, they had a low the other night of 21F/-6.1C. But I think 21F there is nothing like 21F here. It does not say that cold for very long and warms up in the day time.

By the way how cold did your area get last night?

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Thu Nov 25, 2010 5:41 pm

I just thought of this...last night was the secound coldest night I have seen sence I have lived here "16 years". I think the coldest I have seen here was -14F/-25.5C.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Thu Nov 25, 2010 7:49 pm

as soon as I pay off our house

Good for you, Aaron.
Careful what you wish for...we're "done" (happily).
Then one day we woke up and we were old, but at least we still wake up.

Seems the worst cold is behind us for now.
Coldest was Nov.23 -19.3C -2.7F
Windchills were brutal though...easily -25C.

Temps creeping up slowly.
Nov.24 -17.7C
Nov.25 -12.2C
We're supposed to be near freezing for a high by Saturday.

Our 14-day f'cast shows below normal.
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/fourteenday/cabc0312

Might be a heck of a long winter.

Seems your worst weather parallels ours; you just don't get it very often, which is great.

Barb

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Fri Nov 26, 2010 7:09 am

lucky1 wrote:
as soon as I pay off our house
Good for you, Aaron.
Careful what you wish for...we're "done" (happily).
Then one day we woke up and we were old, but at least we still wake up.

Barb

That is the sad part, just when finance becomes easier, life gets harder.

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Fri Nov 26, 2010 7:27 am

Thanks for your Pearce AZ weather sticker. At least I know that a town at 31° 54′ 18″ N has a such terrible climate. I could not believe!

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Fri Nov 26, 2010 7:36 am

just when finance becomes easier

...we spend our money on plants.

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Fri Nov 26, 2010 7:38 am

lucky1 wrote:
just when finance becomes easier
...we spend our money on plants.

Barb, we spend our money on PLEASURE!

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Fri Nov 26, 2010 7:52 am

igor.glukhovtsev wrote:Thanks for your Pearce AZ weather sticker. At least I know that a town at 31° 54′ 18″ N has a such terrible climate. I could not believe!

They have a very interesting climate. My nieghbors had a low of 18F/-7.7C last year and the year before they had 12F/-11.1C. But yet they grow aloes, saguaros, w. robutas, w. filiferas, dactylifera palms etc. What blows my mind is that 30/40 miles away in the town of Bisbee there are 2 palms that have seen -9F/-22.7 in 1987. They are 85 years old and look like the have never seen cold before.

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Fri Nov 26, 2010 8:02 am

DesertZone wrote:
igor.glukhovtsev wrote:Thanks for your Pearce AZ weather sticker. At least I know that a town at 31° 54′ 18″ N has a such terrible climate. I could not believe!
They have a very interesting climate. My nieghbors had a low of 18F/-7.7C last year and the year before they had 12F/-11.1C. But yet they grow aloes, saguaros, w. robutas, w. filiferas, dactylifera palms etc. What blows my mind is that 30/40 miles away in the town of Bisbee there are 2 palms that have seen -9F/-22.7 in 1987. They are 85 years old and look like the have never seen cold before.

Aaron, and what kind of palms they are? And I'm wondering what particularly agaves and yuccas grow there?

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Fri Nov 26, 2010 8:34 am

igor.glukhovtsev wrote:Aaron, and what kind of palms they are? And I'm wondering what particularly agaves and yuccas grow there?

The palms are filiferas, but they grow just about any yucca and agave you can think of. Of cource that -8F was a very rare thing but....

Here is a pic of the palms there. "85 years old"

And a big agave, lots and lots of agave there

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Mon Nov 29, 2010 11:39 am

Well... we broke another record. Old record 3F/-16.1C had -2F/-19.4C here. I can already see heavy burn on all of my yuccas. Normaly I don't see burn untill late winter early spring. We will see what makes it to spring, if anything lives that long.

Between work and weather I could not cover all that I wanted to.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Mon Nov 29, 2010 2:42 pm

Too bad it hit so darn early, it's not even winter yet

Barb

Paul Ont · Post by **Paul Ont** » Mon Nov 29, 2010 2:44 pm

lucky1 wrote:Too bad it hit so darn early, it's not even winter yet
Barb

Too true. Hope it doesn't get too much worse...

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