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Lesley Cox

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Re: Spring weather 2012
« Reply #165 on: May 13, 2012, 11:37:54 PM »
Quote from: Anthony Darby on May 13, 2012, 09:25:38 AM
I'm happy that my weather forecast is more complicated than it used to be, which was: if you can see the hills it's going to rain; if you can't see the hills it's already raining.

That's the Invercargill forecast. "If you can see Stewart Island....."
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Re: Spring weather 2012
« Reply #166 on: May 14, 2012, 12:06:16 AM »
Health people are now saying we cover up from the sun too much and are lacking Vitamin D ::)
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Re: Spring weather 2012
« Reply #167 on: May 14, 2012, 02:41:47 AM »
Sounds like many of you've had up and down weather like us- though ours has really been nothing much outside our normal variations- March was warmer than April, and April was wetter than usual.. May has had snow, rain, and days over 20C-- yesterday morning was -5C, today probably 25C and sunny, and thurs/fri are forecast for 7/8 and rain.. tomorrow we head into the mountains for the day, should be warm at moderate elevations, not sure how high we will go!
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Re: Spring weather 2012
« Reply #168 on: May 14, 2012, 05:48:51 AM »
My goodness. Some fluctuations there! :o
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Re: Spring weather 2012
« Reply #169 on: May 14, 2012, 07:11:29 AM »
Fluctuations indeed! Foothills weather, even though the actual foothills are about an hours drive..lol
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Re: Spring weather 2012
« Reply #170 on: May 14, 2012, 09:14:31 PM »
I seem to remember the weather forecasts: "rain in the west" and suddenly Dunblane is in the west; "rain in the east" and now Dunblane is in the east! ::)
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Re: Spring weather 2012
« Reply #171 on: May 14, 2012, 09:24:22 PM »
It was very windy here last night.  I have a few broken stems on my meconopsis and look at my poor double Trillium grandiflorum :'(  It badly needs repotting or planting out.  I think now is the time to be splitting it?  I must check up in Ian's Bulblog.
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Re: Spring weather 2012
« Reply #172 on: May 14, 2012, 09:45:05 PM »
Quote from: Roma on May 14, 2012, 09:24:22 PM
It was very windy here last night.  I have a few broken stems on my meconopsis and look at my poor double Trillium grandiflorum :'(  It badly needs repotting or planting out.  I think now is the time to be splitting it?  I must check up in Ian's Bulblog.

Could have been here! Lot of plants damaged by two storms (gale force) in three days. Farther north they even had hurricane. Lot of snow in the mountains, railway closed, cars blown off the road.

April and May (so far) colder than March!
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Re: Spring weather 2012
« Reply #173 on: May 15, 2012, 02:37:23 AM »
Anthony- sounds like a lot of rain one way or another!

Trond and Roma- hope the winds pass without too much damage! Cars don't blow off the road here! Down south where there are fewer/no trees to slow the wind is different....
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Re: Spring weather 2012
« Reply #174 on: May 22, 2012, 08:43:50 PM »
25C  ;D  but maybe not the right day to assemble the plunge bed and fill it!  38C inside there. 
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Re: Spring weather 2012
« Reply #175 on: May 22, 2012, 09:46:34 PM »
Today was the warmer days for two years, 26oC!! Now it is 10.45PM local time and it is still 18oC  ;)
It is almost too hot . . . . .
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Re: Spring weather 2012
« Reply #176 on: May 22, 2012, 11:30:36 PM »
It's been brilliant here also. Yesterday at 8.30am it was already 22C by 6pm it had fallen to 17C. This evening at 8pm it was 19C.
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Re: Spring weather 2012
« Reply #177 on: May 23, 2012, 11:35:04 PM »
Quote from: Hoy on May 22, 2012, 09:46:34 PM
Today was the warmer days for two years, 26oC!! Now it is 10.45PM local time and it is still 18oC  ;)
It is almost too hot . . . . .

Enjoy, its just nice to have some warmth at long last.
I was out watering all the shrubs that I had to relocate, it was so lovely out there. The owl was keeping me company and the deer were barking, it was so nice I didn't want to come in. Hope this nice weather last for a while.

Angie  :)
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Re: Spring weather 2012
« Reply #178 on: May 24, 2012, 07:55:50 PM »
Having been away for most of the past week I put shade paint on my greenhouse today. This normally means it'll rain solidly for the whole of the next thirty days ::)
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Re: Spring weather 2012
« Reply #179 on: May 24, 2012, 10:50:38 PM »
David how could you, mind you we still need the rain here.
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