Figured I'd make a 2023 topic.
Weather have been 40F and above mostly, even during the nights.
Missed the seed starting times for peppers. Couldn't find my tags either.
May or may not do peppers. Think I'm about a week past the last day I should've planted any peppers.
I guess I would have more room for other stuff.
Pretty wet / cold here in January. February, it should be a bit different.
Tomatoes can go outside in March here.
The cold / rainy stuff, mixed with high humidity. Interesting state.
Canna lily has been putting out a shoot for the past week or two. I think a Musella or Musa basjoo is coming back too. Red hot pokers are coming back too.
Quite different from PA. We don't really get much of any "hard frosts" where I'm living at.
Some potato species may work well as perennials here, if they don't get large tubers.
I think the green cold hardy tree tomato can maybe survive here. Kangaroo apples, I'd say will probably survive here too.
Interesting to note the difference in climates, weather - etc.
I don't think that its a good sign for the apricot tree this year.Its to early.
(https://www.les-tomos.fr/download/file.php?id=45881) it can frost up to may month for us.
I hope that february will be not too sweet or that the spring will be early.
We've had a couple of severely cold days and nights in the last week, the low yesterday was -16C with windchill -28C at its worst, so I was really grateful for the bit of snow cover. It is not much because the winter has been very mild and even the few snows were beaten down by rain afterwards.
I moved most of the big tubs of soil into one area around the rosemary plant and various winter greens I've been growing under lights and then moving out to the greenhouse since January. I used a drop sheet to make a 'tent' around them hoping to keep them from freezing, and they look okay. Air temperature was at 30F when I checked this morning outside the tent, but water bottles are not frozen. Some plants out there look cold stressed but not frost damaged, as they revived after I watered and the sun came out.
Quote from: Steph S on 2023-02-05, 11:36:56 AMAir temperature was at 30C when I checked this morning outside the tent, but water bottles are not frozen. Some plants out there look cold stressed but not frost damaged, as they revived after I watered and the sun came out.
I take it you mean 30F, or is that -30C.
Peak summer here with around the 18-20C overnight for the last week, late 20's the high, I love these sort of temps, low humidity making it very comfortable, garden is loving it after the big storm of a week ago.
Good catch Richard, I fixed it, it was 30F of course. ;D
t° between 0°C 32°F and 15°C 59°F this week.Some days are cloudy and foggy et others are very sunny.
February is not very rainy.
Scientists are woried for this summer if march has also rains under the season normals.
https://actualite.lachainemeteo.com/actualite-meteo/2023-02-17/secheresse-pourquoi-les-prochaines-pluies-ne-seront-pas-suffisantes-66026
-80% of deficiency of rain in february in mean at france compared at the normal of the season.The rains are in mm.
(https://static1.mclcm.net/iod/images/v2/69/photo/394518/658x370_100_300_000000x30x0.jpg?ts=20230221160115)
https://actualite.lachainemeteo.com/actualite-meteo/2023-02-21/secheresse-un-mois-de-fevrier-historiquement-sec-des-previsions-alarmistes-66057
We really made up for the lack of snow in a hurry. By Feb 15 we had already 89 cm of snow, compared to the average of 74 cm. Snow every few days since then. I am totally fed up with shoveling. But it's good to get some snow, after all we had much less than normal from november through january.
Ohio used to have winter. Snow and freezing. Now we have more European winter. Overall warm and wet. Little snowfall, mostly rainfall. Just in February we've had 25°F days and 75°F days. Three days after the 75 day it was trying to snow.
75 again today. We're supposed to plummet to around freezing. The big winter storm hit Michigan, about 5.5 hours drive north of me, Detroit Michigan area, I have family pretty much snowed in and tons of power outage issues. And I was out working on things in my t-shirt and skirt sweating.
We just had another 16" of snow here on top of what we had already. I'm hoping it doesn't flood whenever spring gets here. It's supposed to warm up into the 30's this week.
We're now stuck in Arctic air for what looks like a 5 day stretch - have not seen such a long stretch at these lows, according to the weatherman, since 1975. I had to do some shoveling and clear the car, and it was pretty bad even at less than 15 minutes painfully cold. Snow that has been through freezing rain and temperatures of -10C or below seems to get very hard and melts more slowly than a soft one, so I think we're in for a white march. Rabbit tracks showing a really active large group this year, hungry for the shrubs and deciduous trees any kind. A lot of the hazel catkins are gone. I haven't seen a lot of rinding of the bark yet, but March will be bad if the hard snow lingers as I expect.
The flowers of our apricot tree are open but we wait frost up to -3°C 26,6°F the next week with t° between 5°C 41°F and 9°C 48,2°F the day.
A lot of lakes are a very low level at the end of the winter.
Some departement are still in warn drought since the last summer.
February here was the coldest month on record since february 1997. The last week of arctic air was especially brutal. It has finally broken, and after a low of -8C tonight it looks like days and nights will be within a few degrees of freezing. I spent the day in the greenhouse, which got up to 55F even though it is still partly capped by snow and ice. I'm so relieved that my big rosemary plant survived air temperatures down to 27F and daytime highs only freezing. Brassicas and Sherwood lettuce also survived quite well. Soon I can move everything out there (except peppers) and get ready to start tomatoes under the lights.
The summer just gone was yet again cooler than summers of 20+ years ago, the last 10 years its been getting cooler, but warmer winters. Where I am in eastern South Island normally looks as dry as central Spain in summer, the last two summers have been wet and green, I miss the old days of hot dry summers.
February was a historicaly dry month at france.Up to 31 days without rains at the mosts dry placements.
March will be rainy but probably not sufficient.
2 mm in february at Paris for example for a normal of 42mm.
Firsts signs of heatwave
https://www.futura-sciences.com/planete/breves/rechauffement-climatique-asie-etouffe-temperatures-precedent-depassent-45-c-plusieurs-pays-7979/
Heatwave at spain
https://www.tameteo.com/actualites/previsions/vague-de-chaleur-precoce-en-espagne-la-france-egalement-concernee-canicule-temperatures.html
(https://services.meteored.com/img/article/vague-de-chaleur-precoce-en-espagne-la-france-egalement-concernee-1682066269664_768.jpg)
I don't know at whatt will lokk rhis summer at france but the firsts signs looks bads.
Exact opposite here. We are in a long spell of rain, with at least 30% of rain predicted every day, and it rained all day yesterday without a break.
Which is actually normal April weather in New England, quite a change from the days of 80F degree (27 C) weather a week or so ago, which was very unseasonable.
Similar here to Cathy. We had 80 and 85°F. I got pink, almost sunburn. Then highs of 60° if the clouds cleared. 49° today's high. Keep getting off and on rain and freezing rain.
No chance of it drying out. Rain forecast all week.
I finally managed to plant most of the remaining pea seed today. It was dry in early spring, but we're about to get a real mud season.
Gardeners have a love/hate relationship with rain!
(Laugh!) So true! Like with so many other things, moderation and small quantities spaced evenly over long periods of time is ideal.
We are completely sodden here, with massive snowbanks slowly dribbling away under flurries, drizzle, fog and rain that just ain't stoppin. Could really use some 'normal' temperatures instead of the stuck trend well below.
Had our first autumn frost (-1.6degC)cold enough to finish the potatoes which still had some flowers, had a good number of berries from them this growing season so thinking I might do a TPS sowing late winter
1°C 33,8°F at some placements at france this morning.
The spain heatwave continue to advanced toward the south west of the france with placements at 30°C 86°F.
3 years that the departement Pyrénées orientales in the south of the france toward perpignan is in warn more and more worried drought with a new record of t° the christmas day of 21°C 69,8°F.
246mm of rain since the 1st january 2023 for a normal toward 575mm.
https://actu.fr/occitanie/perpignan_66136/meteo-secheresse-pourquoi-il-ne-pleut-quasiment-plus-a-perpignan-depuis-trois-ans_60309557.html
https://www.francetvinfo.fr/meteo/secheresse/secheresse-une-annee-de-souffrance-dans-les-pyrenees-orientales_6274410.html