Winter Weather

[johnw]

That's a mighty severe drop Bob, I wonder how any plant can survive it.  Yet your Delospermas will be alive come spring and ours will be pile of slop at -12c one day this coming winter. 

johnw

[Hoy]

I think we still win the awful weather award here in Denver. On the 10th of November, it was about +17C, and two days later it was -23C. (It looks even worse in Fahrenheit.)Calgary was warmer. It was warmer everywhere that I looked, except for the South Pole.
Now it's about +15C again.

You can't have looked at the north of Norway. While we in south-west still haven't had any frost they have had bad weather, snowstorms and hard frost up north. Here you see the temps last month!





Here is "my" weather in the same period for a comparison:

 


Although it is mild most plants have gone dormant (not much light these days) and the deciduous trees have shed their foliage.

I am waiting for the first snowdrops to flower but I could do with some of the early ones mentioned in another thread at the forum. Snowdrops are hard to get here in Norway.

[Yann]

+16°c this morning at 10', incredible

[johnstephen29]

Just been watching the weeks forecast on countryfile on bbc1, having a couple of morning frosts, a few more mild nights then frosty again. Can't complain though it is backend of November afterall.

[Roma]

Sunny here all day.  Can't remember the last day we had a whole day of sunshine even though the daylight hours are rather short.

[johnstephen29]

When does it start to get dark up the Roma?

[David Nicholson]

First frost of the winter this morning but going from the roofs as I type

[Chris Johnson]

When does it start to get dark up the Roma?

Hi John

South Uist is on the same latitude as Aberdeen and it starts top get dark at 16:00, depending on cloud cover, of course.

Chris

[johnstephen29]

Hi Chris not much different from here then, starts getting dark here about 4.30

[Maggi Young]

Today's times of dawn and dusk , from http://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/uk/aberdeen

Current Time: Nov 24, 2014 at 1:37:41 PM

Sunrise Today: 8:09 AM↑ 129° Southeast
Sunset Today: 3:41 PM↑ 231° Southwest

Moonrise Today: 9:46 AM↑ 126° Southeast
Moonset Today: 5:51 PM↑ 234° Southwest

Daylight Hours: 7 hours, 31 minutes (-3m 25s)


This website http://www.ukweathercams.co.uk/sunrise_sunset_times_by_month.php?city=56&ts=1416836236   gives these figures for today :
Dawn: 07:24
Sunrise: 08:10
Sunset: 15:40
Dusk: 16:26

and these, for example from July 24th  : 
Dawn: 03:57
Sunrise: 04:51
Sunset: 21:37
Dusk: 22:32

We can have wonderful long days of light in Summer,  with it being possible to be outside in light good enough to take photos and enjoy the garden - or the beautiful hills, after 11pm.  That's  more than 17 hours of daylight. 

[angie]

Well roll on Summer then Maggi 

David first here as well but was gone by the time I got out of my bed 

Angie 

[johnw]

And here at latitude 44 where I find it terribly dark & dismal:

Halifax time = GMT -4 hrs.

[Chris Johnson]

Today's times of dawn and dusk , from http://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/uk/aberdeen

Current Time: Nov 24, 2014 at 1:37:41 PM

Sunrise Today: 8:09 AM↑ 129° Southeast
Sunset Today: 3:41 PM↑ 231° Southwest

Moonrise Today: 9:46 AM↑ 126° Southeast
Moonset Today: 5:51 PM↑ 234° Southwest

Daylight Hours: 7 hours, 31 minutes (-3m 25s)

We should have anticipated a precise answer from Maggi 

On a good day we see the sun disappear below the horizon (Atlantic) from the lounge window. Today is NOT a good day.

Chris

[johnralphcarpenter]

Last night saw off the dahlias; cut them all back to the ground today.

[johnstephen29]

Yes we should have chris, all the info is good to know though. Just think of this angie, it's the 24/11 today, less the a month before the shortest day 21/12, then the days start getting longer, but maybe colder or maybe not if last winter is to be repeated.