Weather February 2010

[maggiepie]

From what I can gather, it is a rhododendron nursery. 

[Lars S]

Here in mid Sweden quite a few roofs of sport centres, shopping malls, and of course green houses, have collapsed due to the big amounts of snow thatīs been falling lately. No casualties fortunately. But it isnīt over yet. This really is some winter.

My little green house is still standing though  .

[Maggi Young]

We came home from our lovely day out to Dunblane to the news of the frighteneing mudslides and chaos caused in Madeira.... anyone heard from Michael, though John doesn't think his area is one affected....?

[Ragged Robin]

The mudslides must be absolutely terrifying coming dow the mountain at such a speed.  With more rain expected it seems it is not over yet and I do hope Michael is not in the area affected.

[Sinchets]

We were out all day yesterday in the southeast of Bulgaria. The weather was sunny, warm and windy with some sunshine. We returned at 9pm to a temperature of 15C in the garden, and only tiredness stopped us wandering around with torches. Today is 5C and raining. 

[cohan]

We were out all day yesterday in the southeast of Bulgaria. The weather was sunny, warm and windy with some sunshine. We returned at 9pm to a temperature of 15C in the garden, and only tiredness stopped us wandering around with torches. Today is 5C and raining. 

rain in spring is good
today blazing sun (brighter with all that white out there!) and +4, tomorrow possible flurries and -4

[Sinchets]

Too right it's good, Cohan. Two new pots of Crocus seeds had germinated this morning- they were frozen solid not long ago! The range of +4 to -4 means you are slowly getting there, eh!

[mark smyth]

Madeira looks terrifying

[Maggi Young]

Madeira looks terrifying

Doesn't it just!  Saw some even nastier footage on tonight's news...... and they say around 40 dead! Ghastly  thing to happen.

[cohan]

Too right it's good, Cohan. Two new pots of Crocus seeds had germinated this morning- they were frozen solid not long ago! The range of +4 to -4 means you are slowly getting there, eh!

of course +4 to -4 is daytime...lol and -30 in march is certainly not unheard of even if not average...
yes, slowly getting there--days are much longer already--but nothing will be growing outside for the better part of a couple months yet!
trees are changing colours--willows are at their brightest oranges and reds of the year (stems that is) and spruce are going from nearly black to a brighter green! saw a first few (wild) pussy willows, while snow around the willows is still knee deep...

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Good thing the Forum is offering you some colour during your anual Ice age Cohan !!

[Stephenb]

Still in the deep freeze here and day time temperatures have still only crept above zero on two days since mid-December. Awoke today to the coldest morning of the winter so far with -23C and it was windy as well, an effective temperature of -40C...

The biggest problem for me is the lack of snow, only a few cms which means that the frost will have gone very deep this year and it is likely frozen everywhere down to bedrock - I don't have more than 50cm soil anywhere in the garden apart from around the cellar walls of the house.  My hardy bamboos don't look at all happy, even Sasa kurilensis.... 

I'm fearing mass mortality. On the positive side, I'll have plenty of space for new things for the first time in a few years....

[cohan]

Still in the deep freeze here and day time temperatures have still only crept above zero on two days since mid-December. Awoke today to the coldest morning of the winter so far with -23C and it was windy as well, an effective temperature of -40C...

The biggest problem for me is the lack of snow, only a few cms which means that the frost will have gone very deep this year and it is likely frozen everywhere down to bedrock - I don't have more than 50cm soil anywhere in the garden apart from around the cellar walls of the house.  My hardy bamboos don't look at all happy, even Sasa kurilensis.... 

I'm fearing mass mortality. On the positive side, I'll have plenty of space for new things for the first time in a few years....

that's a tough winter indeed--quite a bit colder than typical for you? we haven't even had -20 in a while, and we could easily have had -40 this month; we are still having regular lows around -17/18, though some days milder, and daytimes above 0 most of this week...

[Stephenb]

Yes, the coldest winter for at least 31 years. The contrast with just two winters ago is enormous. In that winter we didn't have any frost in the ground until the first week in February... -23C again this morning, but the forecast is for 10 degrees warmer for the rest of the week, but no end in sight for this very special North Atlantic blocking situation, the long-term forecast being for at least another 3 weeks (the mild Atlantic air normally brought to us by low pressure systems "blocked" by this very stable high pressure). On the positive side, if this continues to summer we'll be having a heat wave...

[Stephenb]

...and it's official, we survived the coldest night here for 50-years last night with a minimum temperature of -24.3C...