Winter Weather

[Chris Johnson]

Frustrating, John. It's blowing another gale off the Atlantic with the occasional blizzard.

Chris

[Maggi Young]

Susan Band has had another 15cms of snow  in Perthshire  - she's clearing it off her poly-tunnels as we speak....

[Hoy]

Nice spring weather yesterday but I woke up to 5cm of hail this morning. Fortunately it all melted during the day but possibly more the coming night.

[johnstephen29]

Yes it is chris, it's been like this for a few days now. I'm itching to get started on the seed sowing and its high time I had my dahlia's potted up to get them growing.

[johnw]

The de-glaciation of Nova Scotia has begun though it will be some time before the coldframes are in sight.

[GordonT]

Had to dig down through 1.2 meters of snow to get into the greenhouse. Sadly we learned a friend lost two poly tunnels at his nursery due to excessive snow load.

[johnw]

Gordon  - A couple of weeks ago I heard at least 20 nurseries in Nova Scotia alone have lost greenhouses. Avon Valley Greenhouses near Windsor, once said to be the largest glass operation on the continent, lost 4.5 acres of greenhouses in the initial snow-rain-ice event.  Much machinery in there was lost as well.  The next week doesn't look terribly mild either.  The tomato greenhouse in Middleton was going though an 18 wheeler load of woodchips per day during the cold and snow stretch.

I suspect the situation is far worse in Massachuesetts.

For those in the UK unfamiliar with a North American 18 wheelers, it tends to be a tad larger than yours and can have an additional box attached making for an intimidating sight when on the wrong side of the road.  A pic of one in its usual highway pose.

[Hoy]

Didn't know the 18-wheelers rested on their sides. Is it to stretch their wheels after a long and tiresome day?

Here at the coast we have had a few days with snow this winter (but more than we need of rain!),  inland it is different and the rain has come as snow. A friend of mine has almost 3m of snow cover at his cabin not far from here; much more than normal.

[Matt T]

Two consecutive days with a more contrasting forecast you could not find. Looking forward to gardening on Friday! 

[fermi de Sousa]

Finally some decent rain this winter! We got nearly an inch over the weekend but Melbourne got drowned!
http://www.theguardian.com/weather/2015/jul/13/snow-and-wild-weather-to-sweep-eastern-australia-as-cold-snap-continues?CMP=ema_632
cheers
fermi

[Anthony Darby]

We've had three nights of heavy frost. This air circulation system shows the temperatures in the loft and living space at 7.30 yesterday morning.

[johnw]

I'd be more concerned by that house temperature Anthony.  We set our thermostat at 16.5c in Jan & Feb of 2014 and gave up in March, just couldn't take the cold.

johnw

[Hoy]

16.5C? That was a bit too cool to my liking But 26C was a bit too warm also!

Anthony, what is heavy frost in your part of the world?

[johnw]

18-19c seems just right.

john

28c here today and too hot for me, down to 21.7c at 21:35.

[Anthony Darby]

What heating we have is turned off at night. No central heating here in Auckland. The HRV is just for circulating air. Many people have "heat pumps", but we just have one portable gas heater (plugged into the mains) in the lounge, set to 21ºC (that bit controlled by the electricity supply) when we are in there and an oil filled electric radiator on wheels in the dining/kitchen area.

Anthony, what is heavy frost in your part of the world?

 Probably -2ºC. Enough to damage the leaves on the frangipani, but not enough to affect the pelargoniums or alyssum bedding plants.