more snow and a big drop in temps tom.
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Thereās always somewhere colder than where a person is, except maybe Antarctica anyway
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Interesting, I wonder if Smittyās has a high chill hour requirement?
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My wife is headed back to your beautiful free state in a few days for another week.
Weāve got January booked down there for next year as well 
In a few years it may be January through March.
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Been an unusual early spring, Iād not make any definite conclusion based on one season.
I did observe about 3 other cultivars also buds barely enlarged.
15 days ago spring about 25 days ahead. Under 15 days āaheadā of expectations after 3 chilly spells in March.
(Things almost came to a standstillā¦19 degreesāll do that.)
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That cold is brutal for this time of year. Looking around N America i would say that area of Grand Forks was probably the coldest spot this morning (even far N Canada was warmer). Guess the positive is there is no cold air mass to tap into. This canāt go on much longer. The days are getting very longāwildcard is more snow but even that should give up soon.
Should see maybe our first 60F Friday and Sunday should also be around that mark.
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Long range forecast has us getting 3-7" Friday/Friday night and 8-9" next week Tuesday/Wednesday. I sure hope theyāre wrong.
I was just out pruning a couple trees. When I started the snow was hard enough to keep me on top without snowshoes. By the time I was done I was breaking through up to my inseam about every third step. Iāve got a 34" inseamā¦ This snow is going nowhere anytime soon.
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Actually, no, most everything met itās chill hours by end of December here. Past 2 years also before January. Probably itās just a late bloomer?
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It isnāt a late bloomer here, but here to there is apples to oranges
It blooms mid May here most years, as do the majority of my apples/crabs. Bloom times may be considerably more ācondensedā here than there, I donāt know.
This year it may be early June the way this winter is going.
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Iām guessing our last freeze might be this weekend, a little early all things considered. Iām hoping to shuffle the figs out next week. I just got two more euro plums and some gooseberries in from ToA Iām going to plant shortly; they arrived at green tip. It dried up just enough and will rain tonight - if I donāt do it now, the ongoing thaw and rain will make it too sloppy.
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Sweet. Love to have you. Gimme a holler if you like and weāll do lunch or something. Iām a transplant. Be it 33 years ago. Florida is a wonderful place to stay. January is usually really niceā¦
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I had a sister who lived in Green Bay for a few years and moved back to Omaha and she said winters are so much better in Nebraska. Omaha today is calling for 71F.
18F here. Back to 50F and maybe 60F tomorrow but man the winds are going to pick upā¦calling for 30 to 40mph gusts pretty much Fri-Sun.
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We had a front move through like freight train this morning at 4amā¦woke me up out of a sound sleep. It was followed by a snow squall line that left about an inch. Cold as all get out todayā¦the 10 day indicates that this might be the last of the arctic type cold.
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When I lived north of Madison, I thought Green Bay was cold. Green Bayās temps are much more mild than here. They do tend to get a bit more snow than we do, but it will also melt from time to time. Iāve yet to see any āJanuary thawsā here.
71 in Omaha sounds very, very nice. It was -3 this morning. Big snow coming tomorrow/tomorrow night and more next week.
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60 to -5
76 to 19
66 to 31
been some yo-yo conditions in less than 24 to 48 hours here this past quarter of the yearā¦so itās not the year to use to plot bloom times I donāt think. Blooms came on earlier in 2021ā¦but there also no apple crop in 2021 hereā¦got frozen. Still, this is about the fourth earliest spring here in the over half century Iāve observed things in this part of the country.
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Had a low yesterday of 29F with frost. Moved lots of potted plants inside the garage and covered my kiwi vines again (up to 8 inches of growth already) and turned on the heat which kept them at a balmy 41F. Left the tarp up one more night just in case, but it was only 33F this morning without frost. Forecast is for 35F next Saturday night, but very windy, so we may be in the clear for now. Next week looks like a wet mild trend setting in, so hoping this will be the last of our freezes.
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snow squalls and 30mph gusts caused white outs and lots of accidents from ice patches/ low visibility windchill was -13.
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another 1-3in. tom. night. lots of wind this week coming and mixed precip. basically a mess and makes it impossible to get anything done in the yard. guess ill go tie some streamers for spring fishing.
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