Winter Weather

[Chris Johnson]

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.

I don't ever want a repeat of last winter, it was so depressing.

Chris

[johnstephen29]

Could you call last winter a atuall winter? I don't know what it was like where you are chris, but here we had no snow at all & hardly any frost. Even this winter we have just had are first frost last nigh and one again tonight, then getting mild. It's not that long ago when at this time of year there was snow on the ground.

[brianw]

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

As an "inlander" I find something inspiring about looking out over open seas. Having been lucky enough to see the South Atlantic from E and W coasts, but not the N Atlantic or the Pacific from both sides. Chris will know that in Halifax on the other side they are sharing the same sun (on a good day) over their alpines. Inland I can watch a glorious sunset today but the Red Kites had gone to roost and were not calling on their usual tree across the road in a neighbour's garden.

[penstemon]

You can't have looked at the north of Norway.
 

It was too cold to look at Norway ..... -32C in Casper, Wyoming, that day. I keep trying to get someone to build a mountain range about as high as the Tien Shan on the Colorado-Wyoming border, but no one seems interested.
The snowdrop, Galanthus elwesii etc. etc. is still blooming, despite the short spell of icy weather.

[Chris Johnson]

Could you call last winter a atuall winter? I don't know what it was like where you are chris, but here we had no snow at all & hardly any frost. Even this winter we have just had are first frost last nigh and one again tonight, then getting mild. It's not that long ago when at this time of year there was snow on the ground.

Winter to me is a season and not a 'state of weather', John. Except in unusually cold winters when the mainland is covered in snow, we get a share of sub-zero temperatures but little snow. Most winters are relatively mild influenced by the Gulf Stream. Last winter was vivid in producing 4 months of relentless rain. This is when I hibernate with my microscopes and look at fungi, emerging periodically to do some cooking and baking - food warms the body and appeases the mind.

Chris

[johnstephen29]

Wish I could hibernate or move to Spain for the winter

[Maggi Young]

. I keep trying to get someone to build a mountain range about as high as the Tien Shan on the Colorado-Wyoming border, but no one seems interested.

You should apply to our local council,Bob, assuring  them that no-one wants the damn thing built - it'll be there before you can blink.

[David Nicholson]

....................I keep trying to get someone to build a mountain range about as high as the Tien Shan on the Colorado-Wyoming border, but no one seems interested..............................

Bob I could recommend the so called European Union which excels in making mountains out of molehills 

[David Nicholson]

Snap (sort of) Maggi

[Hoy]

It was too cold to look at Norway ..... -32C in Casper, Wyoming, that day. I keep trying to get someone to build a mountain range about as high as the Tien Shan on the Colorado-Wyoming border, but no one seems interested.
The snowdrop, Galanthus elwesii etc. etc. is still blooming, despite the short spell of icy weather.

I have a better idea. Can't you just turn your country 90^o then you'll have the wall you are looking for - and free access to the Pacific rain!

[David Nicholson]

 

[penstemon]

Mountain range or no mountain range, I think I win the Wide Temperature Fluctuation Award for the year. So far. (The prize is a large assortment of dionysias delivered to my door, true?)
On the 7th of November, it was about +17C. Then on the 14th, we had a slight dip to -24C. Tomorrow it's predicted to be +23C.

[Maggi Young]

Can't think where you got that Dionysia prize idea from, Bob - I believe the current reward is a bag of dog treats, as favoured by best-loved  Collie dogs........

[penstemon]

It sounded like a good idea to me. (Dionysias are impossible to get here and someone told me that they would love my back yard.....)
You know, there are some plants that do not like -23C as the first cold weather of the season. This really isn't something I wanted to learn.

[Tim Ingram]

Is that weather completely freakish for Denver even? What effect will it have at the Botanic Garden too - somewhere I've wanted to visit for ages, because for some reason I want to grow the same sort of plants in our much more equable climate.