Weather winter 2011-12

[David Nicholson]

No snow here. Last few days it rarely got above 3C during the day but 9C today.

[Maggi Young]

Must be 8 or 9 degrees here today. Lovely sunny  day really. Got down to minus 7 or so last night but although ground is still frozen the frost was gone early.

[Ulla Hansson]

Here it is winter and quite cold. We have some snow, luckily, it protects a lot. The last few nights have been colder than 20 degrees below zero. Today it is snowing slightly and only -10 degrees.  I am are worried about, my plants who are on the way from Japan.

[Jean-Patrick AGIER]

Hello,
Here in France we have a severe cold spell. Quite unusual with strong northen winds on some days. And temperatures are not to go ( a ittle ) up till the end of next week. It happened so quickly..In LYON we've drowned into the cold within a few days ( t° at night - 4°C, - 8°C, and -12°C since yesterday and for the week to come . -4°C to - 8°C during the day ). And it's probably worse in some places...
Protections have been added around my favourite ones ( hoping to maintain a minimum 0°C) but some plants are probably dead in my containers ( osteospermum, Narcissus with frozen flower heads, hybrid alstroemerias,  ipheion?? ) which haven't been protected.
February is really a "polar" month...
JP

[mark smyth]

David it's good to read there is no snow in Devon just now. I go on Wednesday so I suppose there is still time for it to fall

[Maggi Young]

Hearing of snow falls up to five metres in Europe.... it makes me feel guilty to complain of our weather. 

[David Nicholson]

David it's good to read there is no snow in Devon just now. I go on Wednesday so I suppose there is still time for it to fall

None forecast.

Thursday sunny High 3 Low -1
Friday part cloud High 3 Low -2
Saturday sunny High 2 Low -2
Sunday part cloud High 4 Low 1

Of course it could be anything but and North Devon could be something else!

[Rob Potterton]

Must be really bad on the Wednesday that you travel though Mark, as David has not given us the forecast for that day.  

[ArnoldT]

Watching some of the EPL in England  and Serie A in Italy it looks like a deep freeze.

[Casalima]

The temperature here went down to -3.5 ºC a couple of nights ago, thought there wasn't that much visible frost because it has been so dry, but now the clouds are back, it drizzled yesterday and the minimum temperature last night was 10 ºC!!

[Hoy]

Got 25cm snow in the weekend, now it is 15cm wet slush The temperature went above 0C today and it started raining. Seems to be above zero the rest of the week too - even at night.
The warmest place in Norway today had +6C and the coldest had -42C. Some difference!

[krisderaeymaeker]

It seems that we have to scope with minus 12 degrees this night again ...
The Acantholimons have the benefit from the snow ... 

[Tim Ingram]

Plenty of snow in Kent, though not so cold. Really brings some beauty to the garden though!

[Pauli]

Hello,

the last week the temperatures did not rise above -7C, with night lows of around -14C. Everything is solid frozen and even the Danube starts to freeze. No snow blanket until today.
Because of strong winds there is not much to enjoy outside.
This night ca 5cm of snow and -10C, so chaos on the streets, because salt does not work at these temperatures.
And that all after a very mild December and January, with Crocuses, Snowdrops, Colchicum hungaricum and Cyclamen coum already flowering.
Will see how the plants cope with that winter.....

[krisderaeymaeker]

And that all after a very mild December and January, with Crocuses, Snowdrops, Colchicum hungaricum and Cyclamen coum already flowering.
Will see how the plants cope with that winter.....

Aprox the same situation here Herbert .
Some of the buds are getting brown here  
I already see this happen with some Colchicums .....e.g. Colchicum luteum 'Vahsh' , luteum x kesselringii . Cyclamen coum no problem at all , they could cope with such situations ...
I have some doubts about some of the Narcissus too ...