bluebird skies right now w/ a 10mph breeze.
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May is probably my favorite month (not every May is this nice).
I got a couple of strawberries that are pink. A few more days and they should be ready. I had a bucket of water in the yard a few days ago and there was a fishing spider sitting on the surfaceâlike a mini tarantula. I forgot how big those things get.
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RAIN
NO END IN SIGHT IN THE 10 Day
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What did it get down to there yesterday morning?
30 yesterday and 31 this morning. only a branch of my potted basil got froze. another 30 tonight then weâre in the clear it seems.
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Very nice! Thatâs always a huge relief to the psyche. Weâve been clear now the last couple days. I think weâre going to get very hot this coming week since the jet streams decided to push heat up our way. Wouldnât mind some rain before that happens, but weâre only northern Upper Peninsula dry, which isnât dry by the rest of the Midwestâs standards. Theyâre still standing puddles of water out in the woods from the melt. Should be good for pollination though. 70âs and 80âs but dry and not very humid. Itâll help keep the fire blight at bay. Persimmons and pawpaws are just starting to push their buds. Pretty much everything but the Kentucky coffee trees and jujubes are showing active signs of waking up. My two medlar trees died to the snow-line this year. Too bad, they were about 7 ft tall and had just started fruiting. I donât know if they just couldnât take the week of negatives down to -22 we had, or if they were caught unawares by the cold in October. I cut them down to the quick so they could spring back; at least theyâre well established. Most of the zone pushing things such as persimmons and dawn redwood had some tip dip back, but theyâll be fine. I did lose my giant sequoia tree over the winter, but thatâs no surprise. It had been in steady but slow decline for 2 years.
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persimmons and paw paws are still dormant but everything else is growing well. pears , apples, and serviceberry will all bloom soon together this year which is weird. apricots, currants, and honeyberries are all bloomed and covered with bumbles today. again my autumn olives were killed to the snow line. until 2 springs ago they were 10ft trees. now they just keep dying to the snow line despite the winters barely getting to -20f. nurseries say they are z3 hardy. i say bull. they cant even handle z4b. its too bad as i really like the fruit. my goumi isnt hardy either but its hardier than the a.o despite it being rated z5 hardy.
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I would of never guessed that about A.O.. Thatâs wild. I have never had any winter die-back on goumis. I am currently trying to root a couple senjed varieties, but maybe itâs an exercise in futility based on your winter experience. Itâs always so hard to know because there are so few of us trying this weird stuff in our cold zones, and because nurseries have a vested interest in peddling false positives.
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93F today!
Rain !
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This thread is always a reminder to be thankful for our weather in the west. Crazy that you guys are still getting frosts.
Looks like classic late spring weather for the next couple weeks. Mid 60s to low 80s, maybe some showers but Iâm not getting my hopes up. Tomatoes and figs are growing really well now. And my plums set a good crop for the first time this year, pretty excited about that.
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Back into the mid 60s and sun after over an inch of rain. Next couple of days will be near 80°.
Seems hot for France.
We had 90F here this afternoon. Dewpoint wasnât that high and there was a nice breeze. Could use rain.
low 60âs with a nice light soaking rain. sierra pear was 1st to bloom over serviceberry, apples, plums and s. cherries. weird.
forecast is 70s/80s days, 50s nights, rain maybe tomorrow and Friday. if it rains at all Iâll be really happy we need it and Iâm tired of watering so early
Sounds nice. I assume we get some more days in the 60Fs before summer locks in. This heat will get old quick. Things are turning crusty around here.
90F again and today is more humid. July weather in May. Cold front tonite should âcoolâ us back to 80F and 50Fs at night which will be nice.
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low 60âs and 1 upper 50âs the rest of the week with showers every day. my pears, serviceberry, black ice plum and cj cherry are all popping today. that rain is making this move along quickly. my different colored lilac traded to me from someone on here will bloom for the 1st time. he didnt specify what different color its supposed to be so it will be a suprise.
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Day 6 of doom and gloom weather. We are all feeling it. The forecasts have been all over the place by the hour and entirely wrong. Anyone else noticing weather forecasting this year has been an abomination?
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They forecast 88 for yest, we got 79. Canât trust this.
yes since the weather service and people studying weather patterns and climate change and a lot of the scientists were laid off itâs gotten bad. thereâs a trickle down effect to the local weather forecast as they rely on all that data to do their own local work too.
plus in general the weather will get more unpredictable now every year, we should be hiring more people to do that science really, to keep up
we had a good soaking rain yesterday and a bit more later this week but Iâm not sure which day itâll happen. i doubt the cool nights, none have been as predicted for months now
if it says one number for the night temp i can usually add 5F and itâs closer to correct. rain gets forecasted and we usually get nothing. was nice to see a high % on it yesterday and i could feel it in my bones coming on.
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