The thread has drifted but this i think is the most important part.
The energy to flower is in the buds and they are swelling in dc/md and nj. There have been ornamental cherrys in bloom since before Thanksgiving and i am finding even more waking up friday when the high in nj hit 60f. Saturday wi nds hit and temps are droping to the 20’s. These sort of swings dont just kill buda but cause trunks to split and trees to die
It will dip down to -10F tonight. The true cold weather will come later this week. Looks like for now we are not dipping down to -20F or -30F like it sometimes does here. @tonyOmahaz5 i know it is a cold night tonight there. Stay warm my friend!
We are single digits but hopefully no double digit negatives on the horizon. It has been fairly mild up until now here, but I don’t think the swing to single digits was anywhere near as bad as last year.
Oops, maybe I was wrong. I just compared the dip last year to this year. It is more similar than I thought. While it is a little better this year, it’s not by much. This year it took two days and got down to 3 degrees, last year it was 1 day and got down to -4. Last year the whole dip happened in a few hours if I remember correctly and that’s what made it so crazy. Hopefully the small differences between the two events are enough to keep everything going well. It happened a little deeper into winter this year. Also, last year it warmed up right after the December dip into the 60’s and stayed fairly warm all of Jan, then dipped back down to zero at the beginning of Feb. Still have a few crazy months to go this winter.
Last night was so cold that we didn’t even have frost, lol.
Seems the cold air hasn’t reached us yet though. When it does, my zone 8a (average low of 10 F for the zone) will have the following intense cold:
Sarcasm aside, I’m very happy to have dodged the bullet with this one, sorry for you folks caught up in it, cold is never fun.
Both the short term and long term forecasters thing we are fools along with the media that reports on them.
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It looks like it has been colder coming in to this years cold snap. Also, the slope is not as steep. Looks like it took 2 days to drop vs. lasts years over night.
Not sure if that makes much of a difference. @Olpea might know.
Before there were computers, if you give me the location of H and L and gradients of pressure…I could do a pretty good forecast.
If any city has a ‘record cold’ reported this week…just go “Google” that city and their all-time record low…and you’ll find out they can sure spin the data!
I much prefer a cold snap in mid Jan than early Feb. I suspect here trees are more locked into dormancy now than then.
Agreed, the only loss I had in my orchards last year (far NE Texas) from single digit lows for a few days was losing my two pomegranates and I replaced with cold tolerant varieties that should be fine down to 0 in dormancy.
My worst hits this year was a late freeze when sap was rising - I will take a jan / feb freeze anytime over april.
Six inches of snow, current temp 12F, forecast tomorrow night 0F. I might have accidentally triggered a space/time warp and now southern Tennessee is situated closer to Canada. More seriously, we had similar temps December 20th to 22nd a year ago. Hopefully won’t lose all my Ponca blackberries this time.
If you pile leaves as high as you can up at their base or even use fencing to hold the leaves up higher it should protect the canes.
I noticed on radar from Huntsville to Cleveland TN the fluffy stuff really came hard.
At least 4+ inches here. But 15 or 20 miles north, only 3.
I think ‘subdood’ mentioned just over an inch along I-64 in north eastern portion of KY.
Around 5 inches here.
Six inches here in southern TN. Chickens and turkeys are not too sure what to do. Fifty miles south had solid ice about 3/4 inch thick.
Got maybe 2in tops, supposed to get another 3in Thu night/Fri morn. It’s 12 now and clear, no wind, so it’ll get close to zero tonight. Roads were mostly dry on the way home, but getting up our snow-packed hilly driveway was a bit dicey. We’re on another two hour delay at the university tomorrow. Hoping we’ll get a day off Friday if the forecast is accurate.
Had 4" by 3 pm Monday…Got another last night. But, it’s fine and compacting (shrinking).
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Our Pol. Incorrect private conversation ended on the 2nd Coming!
6” here to cover up the mud. nice to finally have enough for a ski through the woods. Looks like down to mid single digits by friday. Guess I should finally get the figs covered!
Weather patterns have shifted in the last several years. My dad in AL is now colder than me in VA. Either way it’s still freezing here. Sure could use some of that climate change they keep talking about.
From Davos to the weather channel…I’m surprised all the hot air has let it get this cold!
Minus 4 at the airport in Laurel Co this morning at 7 a.m. That’s about 25 degrees shy of a record here.
