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Dalmatiansoap
10-19-2009, 10:21 AM
This should be nice to know in this winter months:
Intermeteo.com - Weather forecasts worldwide (http://www.intermeteo.com/)
Here U can find TWO WEEKS weather forecast for Your country/region/town.
Looks like a very usefull tool ;)
:woohoonaner:
I read an article a while back about medium term forecasts and I think it said that if there's a forecast that it will rain in five days, that will only be true 40% of the time which means that 4+ day forecasts are more often wrong that right so maybe you should read those reverse instead to be correct more often. :D
EDIT: Here's another article about the topic
How Valid Are T.V. Weather Forecasts? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com (http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/21/how-valid-are-tv-weather-forecasts/)
YAKUZA
10-19-2009, 01:23 PM
Hi my dear frends. long time no c.
im verry bussy with my new hobby en frend the Hungarian Vizsla .
Im making some time now for my garden.
Winter is comming soon end mutch 2 do.
Today i placed a heater in my greenhouse end placed a heatstring around my basjoo.
we had 3 nights of frost -1. -2 but this week its gettin warm hehe .15 degrees.
Is it time 2 insullate the basjoo in garden?.
i have seen a video on yourtube.
somebody has expierience withe this method?
YouTube - Fall Hardy Bananas (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKJlbM77wXE)
nice to be back.
Dalmatiansoap
12-07-2009, 04:31 PM
:coldbanana:
I was watching some forecasts for next week and brrrr... looks its heading this way!
ATTENTION, FROST ON SIGHT on Sunday!!
:nanadrink:
:woohoonaner:
Feel bad for you Ante but........ it was 60F(15.5C )here 3 days ago ...now we have snow cover and it's cold enough to freeze the icicles off an eskimo(25F/3.8C)!......feels cold when you're not used to it.
Jack Daw
12-07-2009, 05:37 PM
Even here we are slightly above 0C. :D Well, cold, rainy, foggy, humid and unpleasant anyway. :ha:
Good luck with that frost Ante! lol
Seweryn
12-10-2009, 08:14 AM
The winter is coming...:coldbanana:
The weather forecast said that it is going to get colder and colder.
today's temperatures (Central Europe)
http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/4931/twh000000u2009121006006.png (http://img37.imageshack.us/i/twh000000u2009121006006.png/)
and for tomorrow and Satuday's night
http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/5197/twh000000u2009121006033.png (http://img37.imageshack.us/i/twh000000u2009121006033.png/)http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/4930/twh000000u2009121006048.png (http://img15.imageshack.us/i/twh000000u2009121006048.png/)
bikoro child
12-10-2009, 09:02 AM
I think I have to trimm and protect next week cause col temp are expected here too...
Dalmatiansoap
12-10-2009, 11:19 AM
Wierd if nothing else ;)
Last night and till noon today we had strong winds (100-120km/h), even slight rain last night and this aftrernoon BANG, 17C! Calm & beautifull like in full spring :).
Isnt all ideal, I have broken Glaucum :(!
Again :ha::ha::ha:!
:woohoonaner:
Patty in Wisc
12-10-2009, 02:59 PM
Ante, what is "Glaucum"?
The wind chill here is -20 f...temp is 6 f :(
bikoro child
12-10-2009, 03:24 PM
Ensete glaucum i believe
Dalmatiansoap
12-10-2009, 04:11 PM
True, its E. Glaucum. It grows on bad, windy position and I didnt want to digg it out to make hardynes test. This is third time that it lost all leaves :(. Only good thing is that it is dormant now.
WOW, Patty, 6 F???
:woohoonaner:
Jack Daw
12-11-2009, 06:18 AM
The winter is coming...:coldbanana:
The weather forecast said that it is going to get colder and colder.
today's temperatures (Central Europe)
http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/4931/twh000000u2009121006006.png (http://img37.imageshack.us/i/twh000000u2009121006006.png/)
and for tomorrow and Satuday's night
http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/5197/twh000000u2009121006033.png (http://img37.imageshack.us/i/twh000000u2009121006033.png/)http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/4930/twh000000u2009121006048.png (http://img15.imageshack.us/i/twh000000u2009121006048.png/)
Yep, it should cool down a little bit, standing at the Christmas Markets will get slightly more difficult. :ha:
But on the other hand, MY little piece of Slovakia in the south is still warmer than anything else around. LOL.
Ante, broken again? You're the man! ;)
Btw. do you see where the front has come from? That's the reason why nobody's ever conquered Russia. :D :D :D
bikoro child
12-11-2009, 06:29 AM
Pay attention E Glaucum is not very hardy I lost mine last year with a -5C ...
Seweryn
12-11-2009, 08:26 AM
Are you trading at the Christmas Market? It means you are Santa’s little helper? heheheh I’m just kidding. :bananananer: So put some photos here, I thought we can make a new topic about some events, customs, interesting places etc. while we have a winter here and bananas and other plants do not grow too much.
Ps Jack my grandmother used to said “Eastern wind never brings anything good” :D
Jack Daw
12-11-2009, 09:28 AM
Are you trading at the Christmas Market? It means you are Santa’s little helper? heheheh I’m just kidding. :bananananer: So put some photos here, I thought we can make a new topic about some events, customs, interesting places etc. while we have a winter here and bananas and other plants do not grow too much.
Ps Jack my grandmother used to said “Eastern wind never brings anything good” :D
Nope, Sew, but it's quite a festivity here, you know, meeting people, hanging out with your friends, having something delicious, (non)alcoholic, wine... Lots of these days you just go there to see some girls, everyone's mood is excellent, very happy and usually delightfully tipsy... ;)
I would take the camera there, but I'm quite worried that someone would very quickly make it change the owner. I will do try though. :D It might also look weird (carrying a camera around) - like Japanese tourists (there is a Japanese embassy nearby).
Also, the tradition of "Santa Claus" (aka "The damn old fat man created by Coca-Cola as a commercial") is mostly marketing. There's are lots of people (majority I believe), who dispise that character and it's not uncommon to see some youngsters beat up someone dressed as Santa. It's the way it goes around here. Don't tell me it's different in Poland. ;)
See what people from Czech republic do...
http://i36.tinypic.com/73gpj4.jpg
Seweryn
12-11-2009, 02:10 PM
I thought you selling at the christmas market like this (in Wrocław)
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/482/12037306.jpg (http://img138.imageshack.us/i/12037306.jpg/)
Well I don't know the "santas" are oppressed here, not many people walking on the streets in this king of apparel :ha: (maybe in supermarkets). Here Santa Claus = St. Nicolaus usually wears mitre and crosier (and gives presents at 6th of December - I think the same like in Slovakia nad many other countries)
Luckyly for fake santas Infant Jesus doesn't give a presents here so they don't have to afraid of being beheaded, hanged or defenestrated:ha::ha::ha:
Jack Daw
12-11-2009, 03:42 PM
I thought you selling at the christmas market like this (in Wrocław)
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/482/12037306.jpg (http://img138.imageshack.us/i/12037306.jpg/)
Well I don't know the "santas" are oppressed here, not many people walking on the streets in this king of apparel :ha: (maybe in supermarkets). Here Santa Claus = St. Nicolaus usually wears mitre and crosier (and gives presents at 6th of December - I think the same like in Slovakia nad many other countries)
Luckyly for fake santas Infant Jesus doesn't give a presents here so they don't have to afraid of being beheaded, hanged or defenestrated:ha::ha::ha:
:ha: Very funny. :ha: Yep, 6th December, Mikul. Every child's favorite day. Lots of sweets, candies,...
Our Christmas Markets look very similar, with one difference, there's so many (really, way too many) people that you can hardly move in the crowd... and also a stage at the end of the square. Occasionally there are some real bands playing theme songs, Christmas carrols etc., but competitions and give aways are not so rare either.
Will take my camera or cell phone, when I head that direction next time.
Ante, what about you? Any such markets? It would be way much easier in your mild Mediterranean climate.
Oh, yeah, and I forgot about the random kissing contest. When the great bell rings, a man is supposed to kiss any women standing close to him (preferrably one he doesn't know and is beautiful!!!!). Interesting. Yet very pleasureful. At least for me. But no girl has objected to me kissing her at all. Some boyfriends have though. :ha:
Dalmatiansoap
12-11-2009, 04:11 PM
No Jack. Nothing so light and shine here. There is more decorations in this two pictures than in half of my region:ha::ha::ha:
After all, you are the one with "white Christmas"
:woohoonaner:
Jack Daw
12-11-2009, 04:15 PM
No Jack. Nothing so light and shine here. There is more decorations in this two pictures than in half of my region:ha::ha::ha:
After all, you are the one with "white Christmas"
:woohoonaner:
Oh snap, maybe an inspiration for future? It's the sole purpose I like this holiday, everyone's relaxed and cheerful, people wanna meet almost everyday, not a single time I am there I happen to be alone and I always meet there someone unexpected. :)
palmpje
12-12-2009, 04:38 PM
They are talking about a drop till the freezing point and below ( 0 / -2 degrees) for sunday night. It seems winter is kicking really in now.
I will rush into my garden tomorrow to make the final protections on my only basjoo i left outside. Also getting out some flower-bulbs that are not frost-hardy. I think I will leave the Canna bulbs in the ground.
Dalmatiansoap
12-13-2009, 02:34 AM
5C! Coldest morning so fare. But its calm and I belive that sun will get thrue clouds. But if it goes lower I ll get in troubless for house heating. My air cond. doesnt provide enough heat whan temp. drops below 4-5C :(.
:woohoonaner:
Jack Daw
12-13-2009, 05:08 AM
5C! Coldest morning so fare. But its calm and I belive that sun will get thrue clouds. But if it goes lower I ll get in troubless for house heating. My air cond. doesnt provide enough heat whan temp. drops below 4-5C :(.
:woohoonaner:
Supposedly 1C, light snowing (first in the season, yupiiii), beautiful snowflecks... ;)
Impossible to take pictures though. I should think about moving my palms inside. :ha:
palmpje
12-13-2009, 06:53 AM
Right now 1 C !
Ante: You are using your airco to warm up the house? how does that work? And this is the only heat source you have?
Here we have a central heating system with gas, and a gas heater. Gas is the cheapest way of heating here.
Jack Daw: Snow is not so bad, it works a bit like an insulator. not? or are your palms very small?
Dalmatiansoap
12-13-2009, 07:29 AM
Ante: You are using your airco to warm up the house? how does that work? And this is the only heat source you have?
Yeap. Maybe isnt the best way but it is enough. Our systems have heat/cool options and are good till 4-5C temp.
In my region (whole southern(costal) part of Croatia)we dont have gas intalations and we use mostly electricty as heat source. Sea acumulates large amounths of energy and it doesnt allow us to freez ;)
:woohoonaner:
Seweryn
12-13-2009, 08:30 AM
there was -8C last night and -4 C during the day. actually there were first freezy days this winter.
We have gas instaltion but we usually don't use it. The gas is the most expensive medium for heating the house here, especially if your house is old and isnt energy-saving.
palmpje
12-13-2009, 02:33 PM
Seweryn : What is then the alternative if you live in an old house? also electricity ? Electricity is expensive here. Thats why much people are choosing now for solar panels.
Ante: Do I understand it right that there you have energy generated by the sea? if yes, that sounds very "high-tech" and "green" technology!
Houses are well insulated in Belgium, even older houses ( from 1950 - 60).
Heating with electricity is actually forbidden for new houses. Because of the energy - unfriendly nature. Here electricity is mainly produced by nuclear energy installations. However they are building more and more wind turbines ( like in holland). But only wind energy could never cover our hunger for electricity in the households. We are even buying energy from our neighbour France.
Dalmatiansoap
12-13-2009, 02:42 PM
Haha, nothing like that. I was reffering that sea acumulate sun heat in the day time and keep air temp. much higher than inlands. Only 10km air distance inland from me they have much lower temperatures than we have here.
:woohoonaner:
Jack Daw
12-13-2009, 03:39 PM
Wow, -0C. Is that even possible? :D
there was -8C last night and -4 C during the day. actually there were first freezy days this winter.
We have gas instaltion but we usually don't use it. The gas is the most expensive medium for heating the house here, especially if your house is old and isnt energy-saving.
You know Sew, better be prepared for Putin's next gas stop. :D 2 tons of wood should do it til the spring. We can't rely on modern technology and electricity much these days... ;)
Ante: Do I understand it right that there you have energy generated by the sea? if yes, that sounds very "high-tech" and "green" technology!
LOOOOOOOLZ Palmpje. Really good joke... :ha:
It sound more probable than Croatian submarines though. ;)
Houses are well insulated in Belgium, even older houses ( from 1950 - 60).
Heating with electricity is actually forbidden for new houses. Because of the energy - unfriendly nature. Here electricity is mainly produced by nuclear energy installations. However they are building more and more wind turbines ( like in holland). But only wind energy could never cover our hunger for electricity in the households. We are even buying energy from our neighbour France.
I think you still have good infrastructure. Well, we have 2 nuclear plants that make more energy than we can ever spend, so it could be free. "Luckily" for us, those motherfu***rs in our parliament were corrupt enough to sell them to ENEL. Now we import energy and our nuclear plants are running at 4%... But every Slovak is happy to pay to Italians for energy from powerplants that were built here using free labor (before 1989). Should I also mention, that they bought them for, now read well, 1/100 of its real price. And we pay much more, than most of the people in Western EU.
One of these days... I wish I were living in Sochi or Makarska. :ha:
Seweryn
12-13-2009, 06:04 PM
palmpje
No I don't tell about elecricity, I think about wood and carbon, I know it is not ecological but now the cheapest way to heat your house. The solar palens are popular and many people install it but it has sense if your house is good insolated. If you live in old hose buid partially with stone (1930) with old windows, old roof and uninsulated walls it doesnt. And I have heard it can be rather supporting sourcen not only method of heating. So first I have to invest in big renovation.
Ante I also thought you told about some generating station using some sea tides etc. :ha:
Jack, Please don't provoke me I am very susceptible to political/historical discussion :ha: If I start I can't stop :2709:
palmpje
12-14-2009, 02:57 PM
@Jack Daw: I love those real storys about East-european politics, I tought that there was a lot of corrupcy in Northwest Europe, but it seems i'm still naive! Isn't there a movement of young politics that are trying to fight this? However I know that almost nothing can beat this "energy-machine". We import Gas from Russia, for very high prices and nobody ask questions.
Croatian submarines ... now I can't get the picture out of my head of Ante in some old russian type submarine running on some home brewn olive oil ....
@ all : here we are now :
jack daw : - 3 C
seweryn : -3 C
myself : - 2 C
while ante : 10 C ! ( possibly relaxing in the garden with a hawai shirt! :02:)
Just joking, no offense Ante. ( edit: just very jealous we all are )
Seweryn
12-14-2009, 03:46 PM
Weather forecast for Wednesday (night)- I wish there isn't whole Europe map at this weather service I took it from.
http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/5448/twh000000u2009121412042.png (http://img412.imageshack.us/i/twh000000u2009121412042.png/)
Dalmatiansoap
12-14-2009, 04:05 PM
Croatian submarines ... now I can't get the picture out of my head of Ante in some old russian type submarine running on some home brewn olive oil ....
:ha::ha::ha::ha::ha:
:woohoonaner:
Jack Daw
12-14-2009, 04:59 PM
@Jack Daw: I love those real storys about East-european politics, I tought that there was a lot of corrupcy in Northwest Europe, but it seems i'm still naive! Isn't there a movement of young politics that are trying to fight this? However I know that almost nothing can beat this "energy-machine". We import Gas from Russia, for very high prices and nobody ask questions.
Croatian submarines ... now I can't get the picture out of my head of Ante in some old russian type submarine running on some home brewn olive oil ....
@ all : here we are now :
jack daw : - 3 C
seweryn : -3 C
myself : - 2 C
while ante : 10 C ! ( possibly relaxing in the garden with a hawai shirt! :02:)
Just joking, no offense Ante. ( edit: just very jealous we all are )
Temps here are much better than those in my sticker ( :( ). Sticker temps are measured in mountainious northern Bratislava, yet my temps on plainy southern Bratislava are slightly milder. Usually +3C compared to those in sticker.
But that depends.
Night temps might go down to -4 this night. We'll see.
You were not far from the truth btw. Russian diesel submarines could be run by pretty much anything that explodes. Special diesel was also used in cold arctic and antarctic waters, when alcohol and oils (natural - olive, sunflower...) were mixed with diesel to lower its freezing temperature. The same techniques are also used by many European Oil Stations to make the diesel more durable in cold.
Seweryn
12-14-2009, 06:56 PM
Ante I am very interested how cold usually is a place you live or just in Croatia - I mean in the winter. I have 3 Punica granatum , pittosporum tobira, Arbutus undeo and Quercus ilex and Quercus coccifera in my garden, i am curious what frost they can stand? One Q. ilex survived -19 C last winter under small foil tent. My pomeranates I have from the seeds so maybe some wild growing shrubs are more frost tollerant ???
Jack Daw
12-15-2009, 04:15 AM
Ante, 4C in Split, how about at your place?
Good heavens, Jack what are you talking about !
Regarding what part. Edited.
Dalmatiansoap
12-15-2009, 11:07 AM
Ante I am very interested how cold usually is a place you live or just in Croatia - I mean in the winter. I have 3 Punica granatum , pittosporum tobira, Arbutus undeo and Quercus ilex and Quercus coccifera in my garden, i am curious what frost they can stand? One Q. ilex survived -19 C last winter under small foil tent. My pomeranates I have from the seeds so maybe some wild growing shrubs are more frost tollerant ???
In costal Dalmatia where I live minimums are rare below 0C. We had few extremes last winter with -3C for two days. But only few kilometers inland temperatures may go till -10C. Continental parts are like in all continental Europe. I know that some Punica grantum cultivars can go to -7C without any protection. Dont know for your other plants ;)
Ante, 4C in Split, how about at your place?
Makarska was 11C at 14.00, now is 10C in my balcony. We have a kind of climatic border between Makarska and Split and many times there are totaly different weather conditiones in only 15 km area
:woohoonaner:
Seweryn
12-15-2009, 01:19 PM
thax
We also usually don't have less then -3C ......in May:ha::ha::ha:
I have seen a big pomegranate shrubs in Budapest so i think they can stand more than -7, we will see , as I wrote my Q. ilex (Hrast crnika) :D survived -19 C
Dalmatiansoap
12-15-2009, 01:23 PM
Wow Seweryn
Im glad that your Hrast:bananas_b can beat such hard freeze but Im pretty sure that we have many stones that can do that too:ha::ha::ha:, but I dont know about plants:ha:
:woohoonaner:
palmpje
12-15-2009, 01:39 PM
Jack Daw: I like to read about stories like that. Old mechanical technology, cold russian winters, smelly diesel tanks, and a bunch of greasy guys without personal hygine...all pumped together in a small fishthank, deep under the water. Must be a hell of a ride.
Is that a sort of a microclimat in Bratislava? We also have a difference between north and south of Belgium.
While now for example they forecast -5 in the north, it could get too -11 in the south.
That is a big difference for such a small country.
We live closer to the shore of the northsea ( closer to the north). Maybe this is the reason.
We already hit -5 here last night. Very cold if you are not used to this anymore!
Jack Daw
12-15-2009, 03:28 PM
Jack Daw: I like to read about stories like that. Old mechanical technology, cold russian winters, smelly diesel tanks, and a bunch of greasy guys without personal hygine...all pumped together in a small fishthank, deep under the water. Must be a hell of a ride.
Is that a sort of a microclimat in Bratislava? We also have a difference between north and south of Belgium.
While now for example they forecast -5 in the north, it could get too -11 in the south.
That is a big difference for such a small country.
We live closer to the shore of the northsea ( closer to the north). Maybe this is the reason.
We already hit -5 here last night. Very cold if you are not used to this anymore!
Well, it's not a special distinctive microclimate, but there are lots of lakes, underground drinking water reservoirs and rivers, so it has to be a hell of a winter to reach here badly. Typical lows here are zone 8, sometimes it drops to zone 7.
For instance 2 winters ago we were zone 8b, before that zone 8a, whereas other parts of Central Europe are a little bit colder (zones 6 and 7).
Plus the large city heat index is helping us a lot.
Your temperature difference is, as I believe, also thanks to the warm Gulf Stream... It brings balanced temperatures year round...
Submarines and spaceships are my favorite topics... There's no time in this world that I wouldn't like to talk/listen about these wonderful machines.
Just to see how they operate, I would like to embark on a journey in a submarine once... :D Or better spaceship!
palmpje
12-16-2009, 02:57 PM
Quote Jack: """Submarines and spaceships are my favorite topics... There's no time in this world that I wouldn't like to talk/listen about these wonderful machines.
Just to see how they operate, I would like to embark on a journey in a submarine once... Or better spaceship!"""
Now I have the image in my head of Jack walking on the moon, not with a flag of the united states, but with a Musa. Trying to be the first banana cultivator on the moon :goteam:.
Actually I understand the interest in spaceships and submarines. Both are wonderfull mechanical machines that have the ability to transport us to magical unknown worlds. As a little boy I closely payed attention when Jaques Cousteau went down with one of those little submarines. ( actually it looks like a little yellow shark from out of space with windows ).
http://www.baeggle.com/france/monaco08.jpg
The fair compactness of the machine would make you love to possess one.
For the guys that want to complain about the fact that this is not on topic....
Take a look at the submarine again. ... right .... it looks like a banana too.
Seweryn
12-18-2009, 01:55 PM
Here we have -14C (daytime) and during couple days can be even - 18C.
I don't even want to think about my plants in the garden.
Airpotrs and railways stations are paralysed and there are big traffic jams in the cities. :coldbanana:
I thought I could freeze today - hopefully I have some home made Porterwka (Porter Vodka) to warm up :ha::ha::ha:
Dalmatiansoap
12-18-2009, 02:28 PM
Im almost at ZERO!!!
It is the coldest night so fare:coldbanana:
Jack Daw
12-18-2009, 03:15 PM
Im almost at ZERO!!!
It is the coldest night so fare:coldbanana:
LOLZ Ante, only -3C here at the moment. Absolut low this December was 2 days ago. cirka -6C at my place. Well, it's getting cold. I also went to Christmas markets with my cellphone, took some pics, but then I found a group of singing people there (cirka 15 with an accordion)... and I bought some wine, sung a little bit and made som pics again...
And when I came home I found out they were all blury. I will maybe post them soon, but right now I'm gonna have some warm tea!
saltydad
12-18-2009, 05:28 PM
Well, for the benefit of those on the far side of the pond, the U. S. nation's capital is expecting a foot of snow tonight/tomorrow. Haven't got my palms or basjoos mulched yet. Temps have been in the low 20's F at night, and palms still look OK! Basjoo is fried. Time to kick back and watch lots of movies on my new 50" Panasonic plasma! Doctor won't let me shovel snow due to heart condition. (Ha, it finally came in handy!!)
Dalmatiansoap
12-19-2009, 02:07 AM
Wow 50"! Thats something. I still didnt get used to watch my 32":ha::ha:.
But for 50" man has to have soccer field size living room ;).
Early this morning south wind started again and gets me plesant 6C for now.
:woohoonaner:
island cassie
12-19-2009, 02:26 AM
I won't tell you what the temperature is here!! Make you cry!!
Jack Daw
12-19-2009, 05:40 AM
I won't tell you what the temperature is here!! Make you cry!!
I just took a peek at the map yesterday. It said air temp 33C and water temp 29C for Cuba. So I guess that pretty similar? :D
Dalmatiansoap
12-19-2009, 06:02 AM
Haha Jack, even here are water (sea) temperatures in range 12-16C and the bigger part of coast is still freezing. There is 20 cm of snow in northen Adriatic.
:woohoonaner:
palmpje
12-19-2009, 06:51 AM
Right now it's -4, and in the night it was -10
Canna's are frozen in the garden. Yucca's and Palms haves leafs very darkgreen from freezing.
Jack Daw
12-19-2009, 07:42 AM
Haha Jack, even here are water (sea) temperatures in range 12-16C and the bigger part of coast is still freezing. There is 20 cm of snow in northen Adriatic.
:woohoonaner:
Here only 3cm of snow, but it started snowing really badly a few moments ago. 1cm/5minutes. BUt I guess it will faster meltdown than stay.
Right now it's -4, and in the night it was -10
Canna's are frozen in the garden. Yucca's and Palms haves leafs very darkgreen from freezing.
Good luck with those palms. Yuccas are good, but palms are much more endangered by these temps. Radical warming expected before 24th in here! Wow. It might be non-white Christmas after all. Well... Ante, going skiing this year? (yeah, I know, lols, sounds pretty badly - subtropical Ante skiing), if so, than let me know. Alps and Carpathian mountains have had lots of snow storms lately and the skiing season began on 4th December...
Dalmatiansoap
12-19-2009, 12:02 PM
Sea side up North from me:
http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/2580/galebovi.jpg (http://img63.imageshack.us/i/galebovi.jpg/)http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/galebovi.jpg/1/w399.png (http://g.imageshack.us/img63/galebovi.jpg/1/)
Picture is taken this afternoon.
Looking wierd:ha:
:woohoonaner:
Seweryn
12-19-2009, 12:23 PM
For me it looks very natural, like Baltic Sea:ha::ha::ha:
palmpje
12-19-2009, 01:01 PM
Ante,
that picture is really beautiful ! it's almost a postcard! What region is that exactly?
Jack,
I'm not so afraid for my trachycarpus palms that I have in the garden. However I'm very worried about my Washingtonia Robusta. However it haves protection ( a sort of tent ) to reduce humidity from the roots. It's already a medium big tree (1.5 m trunk), that is no almost 10 months in full ground. Chamaerops are dark green from frost, just like trachys. Yuccas are dark green and looking odd.
Next week giving higher temperatures. We will see.
I will make a picture of the garden soon.
Dalmatiansoap
12-19-2009, 02:44 PM
Ante,
that picture is really beautiful ! it's almost a postcard! What region is that exactly?
Thats somewhere in Istria. They had 20cm of snow. The biggest snowfall in last 50 years ;)
:woohoonaner:
saltydad
12-19-2009, 02:49 PM
That really is a gorgeous picture, Ante. Here's my backyard in the middle of the snowstorm now.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=27858&size=1
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=27857&size=1
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=27859&size=1
We have over 13" so far, maybe up to a foot more before ending late tonight.
Dalmatiansoap
12-19-2009, 02:56 PM
Is that normal for your region?
Funny things are happening here, acording tonight weather forecast (its 9pm here now) temperatures will raise for 15-20C from Monday to Tuesday?
We will have warm Christmas again:ha:
:woohoonaner:
saltydad
12-19-2009, 03:07 PM
It used to be normal when I was growing up here, but hasn't been this early or heavy since the 60's. I had lived in NY for 40 years and got used to winters like this, but down here in Maryland it's been mild comparably. Back then we were zone 6, now we're 7a.
edit- they are now saying we also will get a Christmas snowfall. Ante, how's the housing situation near you? LOL
Scuba_Dave
12-19-2009, 04:10 PM
Used to live over in Pasadena in '76-78
When the bay froze over, we skated out on the inlets
They had wood cutting chainsaws cutting the ice around piers
We wer using the blocks to slide across the ice
Dalmatiansoap
12-20-2009, 12:47 PM
Well, I have to give up now, cannot fight it any more.
WE HAVE ZERO C
:coldbanana:
Patty in Wisc
12-20-2009, 01:00 PM
:woohoonaner::woohoonaner:
:goteam::goteam:
Jack Daw
12-20-2009, 01:11 PM
Well, I have to give up now, cannot fight it any more.
WE HAVE ZERO C
:coldbanana:
ONLY???
Do you want some cold fresh northern air? :woohoonaner::woohoonaner:
-10C here right now. :D Or maybe worse, I can't force myself to look. ;)
Dalmatiansoap
12-20-2009, 01:18 PM
Jack it is freaky cold for us. 90% of our cars doesnt even have winter tyres.
:woohoonaner:
Jack Daw
12-20-2009, 01:24 PM
Jack it is freaky cold for us. 90% of our cars doesnt even have winter tyres.
:woohoonaner:
Some of our cars neither. ;)
Freaky cold. :D Yeah... Joke of the day.
Don't worry, this is the last cold day, from now on a hot and wet front will move to Europe from South. Finally. But there won't be any snow on Christmas.
Btw. I just imagined a comic situation in my head. All the Croatian families in the south at the sea are barricated in their houses, parents hug their children in a very protective manner, some children are crying, chains are giving off that annoying and creepy sound, when suddenly darkness covers the sun...
Like a trailer for a movie.
And then the catch phrase comes:
Dark hour in Croatia. It's here... THE FROST..... Will anyone survive. :ha: :ha: :ha:
Dalmatiansoap
12-20-2009, 01:51 PM
100% corect Jack:ha::ha::ha:
:woohoonaner:
Seweryn
12-20-2009, 02:22 PM
We have -18C and forecast fot tonight is -20 C (-4F):eek: Regards from the North!
Jack Daw
12-20-2009, 03:22 PM
We have -18C and forecast fot tonight is -20 C (-4F):eek: Regards from the North!
Still only -10C here (thermometer on the northern wall of our house), so I don't think that the house would heat it up by more than 7C. Damn sticker.
IT IS NOT -16C HERE!!!!! DAMN YOU YOU DAMN STICKER!!!
100% corect Jack:ha::ha::ha:
:woohoonaner:
Thought so. :D How about your heating? Have you found another way to compensate for air conditioner not working below 5C?
Dalmatiansoap
12-20-2009, 03:45 PM
Thought so. :D How about your heating? Have you found another way to compensate for air conditioner not working below 5C?
Im fighting with one extra heater and one spot light for keeping air cond warm:ha:
So fare so good
:woohoonaner:
Jack Daw
12-20-2009, 04:30 PM
Im fighting with one extra heater and one spot light for keeping air cond warm:ha:
So fare so good
:woohoonaner:
Well, it might be the last cold night, so hold on! You might even have warm, almost summer like Christmas. Woohoo! I meant...
:woohoonaner:
Dalmatiansoap
12-21-2009, 06:05 AM
We have -18C and forecast fot tonight is -20 C (-4F):eek: Regards from the North!
Hey Seweryn how did this end?
palmpje
12-21-2009, 07:14 AM
Some of our cars neither. ;)
Freaky cold. :D Yeah... Joke of the day.
Dark hour in Croatia. It's here... THE FROST..... Will anyone survive. :ha: :ha: :ha:
Jack Daw : I have an extra idea for that trailer.
A little girl dropped her ice cream outside and the next morning the ice cream is still intact ! oh the horror , ' woman screaming" eeeeaaaah.
btw
I can't remember when we had so much snow the last time ! 10 cm of snow is very rare here.
Well, 99 % of our cars don't have winter tyres.
Yesterday I was blessed to crash my car !! grrr I still can drive but I have some damage. I had to break for a woman with a child, then I lost control, because of the snow, and i ended up crashing a house. Effectively making an other front door. Oh god. Luckely nobody was harmed neither killed.
Jack Daw
12-21-2009, 08:04 AM
Jack Daw : I have an extra idea for that trailer.
A little girl dropped her ice cream outside and the next morning the ice cream is still intact ! oh the horror , ' woman screaming" eeeeaaaah.
btw
I can't remember when we had so much snow the last time ! 10 cm of snow is very rare here.
Well, 99 % of our cars don't have winter tyres.
Yesterday I was blessed to crash my car !! grrr I still can drive but I have some damage. I had to break for a woman with a child, then I lost control, because of the snow, and i ended up crashing a house. Effectively making an other front door. Oh god. Luckely nobody was harmed neither killed.
That's why we here usually buy the 4x4 cars. There's almost zero chance of getting into slide. ;)
Limousines and smaller cars are a bad choice in winter, since they are pulled only by the first or last 2 wheels, whereas the other 2 are susceptible to over/under rotating the differential. :)
Snow here is quite common, but again this year, it came suddenly and surprised the road maintenance. They had been preparing for almost a year and slept through the worst winter storm of this year. Well, nothing's perfect. At least children ran out of the houses to play in snow and build snowmen.
AND the Christmas markets look much better when they are covered in snow. ;)
Btw. Ante, when I went to sleep the other day, it was -11C on the thermometer and -16C on the sticker. So I guess I still am an 8a borderzone. Yuppi. I just hope that the sticker was realy wrong and the thermometer was right. Now the stickie says -6 and it's -4.5C.
How many people are on emergency rations down in southern Croatia? You know, because of the frost and stuff. Is there any way I can make another part of the Croatian romantic thriller: The FROST? :D
Dalmatiansoap
12-21-2009, 12:48 PM
How many people are on emergency rations down in southern Croatia? You know, because of the frost and stuff. Is there any way I can make another part of the Croatian romantic thriller: The FROST? :D
There was an actual number written in snow and ice in front emergency room but guess what, it was all melted till 8.00 clocks:ha::ha::ha:
Looks to me that this frosty problems are allready "the Last year story" for me ;)
:woohoonaner:
Jack Daw
12-21-2009, 01:14 PM
There was an actual number written in snow and ice in front emergency room but guess what, it was all melted till 8.00 clocks:ha::ha::ha:
Looks to me that this frosty problems are allready "the Last year story" for me ;)
:woohoonaner:
Hm... So no hypothermia? That's good. But bad for movie industry. :ha:
Say, Ante, how do you feel about the prospect of 20C you will be having on Christmas Day? Just like in Betlehem 2010 years ago... :ha: I would take a picture of snow for you, but fortunatelly we will be over the 0C during the nights as well, so no snow here either.
:bananas_b to that and :nanadrink: for warmer tomorrows.
Dalmatiansoap
12-21-2009, 01:33 PM
Hm... So no hypothermia? That's good. But bad for movie industry. :ha:
:ha::ha::ha::ha:
:nanadrink:
:woohoonaner:
Dalmatiansoap
12-22-2009, 01:17 PM
Dont get it any more?!
It was 10C till noon today and now temperature is rising as night comes!
13C at this moment! Dont even need to mention that its almost 15C jump in 1.5 days???
Am I looking wierd?:ha::ha::ha::ha::ha:
:woohoonaner:
Seweryn
12-22-2009, 02:35 PM
Even I had today O C, tomorrow will be +3 and in St. Stephen's Day even 9C:woohoonaner:
Jack Daw
12-22-2009, 03:44 PM
Dont get it any more?!
It was 10C till noon today and now temperature is rising as night comes!
13C at this moment! Dont even need to mention that its almost 15C jump in 1.5 days???
Am I looking wierd?:ha::ha::ha::ha::ha:
:woohoonaner:
Yep, warming up here too, we had 6C at my place today, 6cm of snow melted down within hours.
I see that you've been a busy dad, Ante, so many cakes... :ha: Looking veeeeery good!
Dalmatiansoap
12-23-2009, 08:43 AM
Just to save this:
We are at almost 20Cnow!!!
White Christmas??? What is that?
:woohoonaner:
Jack Daw
12-23-2009, 09:27 AM
Just to save this:
We are at almost 20Cnow!!!
White Christmas??? What is that?
:woohoonaner:
:ha: I bet you would like to know that, wouldn't you...
Slightly above 10C here too.
palmpje
12-23-2009, 01:23 PM
It's getting better but still freezing ! still lots of snow that is not melting
see pictures !
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=28048&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=28048&ppuser=5591)
Palms struggling to survive,
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=28049&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=28049&ppuser=5591)
My wife struggling to not fall
Dalmatiansoap
12-23-2009, 01:28 PM
Looks to me that she is more struggling with the snow:ha::ha::ha:
Take care of her!
Seweryn
12-24-2009, 08:53 AM
:ha: Palmpje,You should to equip yourself with snow shovel - it might be useful this winter :ha:
Here the last remains of snow are melting down. Unfortunately all my gold fish in the garden pond died...:(
palmpje
12-24-2009, 11:43 AM
Seweryn; Sorry for the fishes. It seems we will all have some losses with the strong winter we have again!
Snow shovel could be interesting: The thing is that people are here not prepared for snowfall like that. Because we had maybe 10 years a row where it hardly snowed ( max 1 day and very little). People here don't have snow shovels, and no winter tyres. We already had lots of deadly accidents now. We have a service that distributes salt but they were suprised of the weather, and to late with applying it.
We got finally 2 degrees today ! snow is melting
At all I wish a very happy Christmas evening with the family and friends !
Enjoy the evening.
Dalmatiansoap
12-25-2009, 10:38 AM
To record this:
the warmest Christmas in continetal Croatia ever with max. of 22C.
Mine highest today was 19 C!
:woohoonaner:
lorax
12-25-2009, 10:58 AM
Hottest Christmas ever in Ecuador, as well. Max of 48 C on the coast, and about 39 C is my highest.
Sing it with me Ante: "I'm dreaming of a green Christmas!"
Dalmatiansoap
12-25-2009, 11:35 AM
Sing it with me Ante: "I'm dreaming of a green Christmas!"
:ha::ha::ha::ha::ha:
:woohoonaner:
Aunty rulez!
island cassie
12-25-2009, 07:55 PM
Green here too - because we had 13.3 inches of rain in 4 days including 9.3 inches in the first day!! But it stopped raining just in time for a warm and sunny Christmas - Merry Christmas everyone!
palmpje
12-26-2009, 06:03 AM
Snow is gone ! :lurk:
But meteo is telling us that it will get colder again next week. :gif_esqui
Hottest Christmas ever in Ecuador, as well. Max of 48 C on the coast, and about 39 C is my highest.
Sing it with me Ante: "I'm dreaming of a green Christmas!"
118 F! I did not know it got that hot anywhere except deserts! Everything must be brown there!
lorax
12-26-2009, 11:14 AM
Surprisingly green. We don't get precipitation, but the area spends a reasonable amount of time inside of clouds - remember that I live around 11,000 feet of altitude. We get our moisture from mist!
mckoinld
12-27-2009, 10:32 AM
Wow Beth when you get high you really get high!
lorax
12-27-2009, 10:40 AM
It's not the highest I've been, Lonie! Ambato is fairly up there, but when I want to relax, I go to the hot springs. This involves a road journey that peaks out at about 15,000 feet and I end up in the springs at Papallacta, which are at about 12,000.
And if I really want to get high, I'll climb Chimborazo. If I summit it, that's 20,700 feet give or take a few. I'm quite blessed, actually - there are only a few countries in the world where I could do this (most of them in Asia), and only the one where I can go to the country's tropical beach after climbing a glacier.
mckoinld
12-28-2009, 12:02 AM
That is amazing. I get alt. sickness just thinking about going that high. I am truly a flat lander. I like living in the nice warm (most of the time ) gulf coast flat lands.
Surprisingly green. We don't get precipitation, but the area spends a reasonable amount of time inside of clouds - remember that I live around 11,000 feet of altitude. We get our moisture from mist!
It is amazing that it gets that hot there at that altitude. The mountains east of the Mississippi River here are only a little over 6000 ft, yet it is significantly cooler than the flat lands. We get a lot of moisture from dew in the summer, humidity is rarely below 60%.
lorax
12-28-2009, 09:27 AM
Lonie - I get revese altitude sickness when I go to the beach - there's too much oxygen there! On the other hand, living at this rarified height has given me an exceptionally high red blood cell count, which helps me on extended jungle treks - it effectively triples my stamina.
SBL - We are significantly cooler than our flat lands - the Amazon Basin and the Coastal Basin regularly record temps in the mid to high 50's centigrade, exacerbated by high humidity. However, the uniqueness of the fact that the Ecuadorean Andes are situated just about on the equator makes our sunlight much stronger and ensures that we have high temps here as well. The difference for we serranos (highlanders), which robs us of the humidity at high altitudes, is the wind. It literally never stops blowing here in Ambato, and it takes the ambient moisture with it. Above about 11,500 feet, it does suddenly get quite a bit chillier - that's the nominal treeline and there's normally absolutely nothing to interfere with the wind past it. (The exceptions are in the Kiss the Sky pass on the toes of Volcan Antisana - this is a high-altitude forest, and it's cold and moist, and the Llanganates National Park, which is a bamboo forest that is considered such a dangerous place to go for its weather (it is almost permanently clouded and snows without warning) and terrain (quicksand bogs) that nobody really goes there.)
I'm sure this whole area was very different waaaaaay back when it was a Polylepis forest, but it hasn't been that way for thousands of years.
palmpje
12-29-2009, 05:32 AM
and the Llanganates National Park, which is a bamboo forest that is considered such a dangerous place to go for its weather (it is almost permanently clouded and snows without warning) and terrain (quicksand bogs) that nobody really goes there.)
I'm sure this whole area was very different waaaaaay back when it was a Polylepis forest, but it hasn't been that way for thousands of years.
This really intriges me. I dream about places where nobody have ever been, where insects and plants live that maybe nobody knows. I don't think there are many places like that left on earth. Humans drift to expand always bring the need to change the landscape, except for these unique places.
So, Lorax, really nobody dears to visit that place? are there people that went and never came back?
Do you know what type of bamboo thrives there?
Greetings.
lorax
12-29-2009, 09:35 AM
Palmpje, the Llanganates claims about a dozen adventurers, both Ecuadoreans and tourists, every year. They go in, often looking for the fabled Inca treasure that is said to be in there somewhere, and they never come out again, and although rescue teams are mounted, bodies are never found. Others are able to visit the park and survive, normally those who hire very experienced guides and are very selective about the time of year they attempt their visit. Those who have come back, and the rare few who have managed to cross the park, say that it is heartbreakingly beautiful, and that they will never return. I have made short excursions into the cloud-forest portions of the Llanganates, and it is by far one of my favourite places in the country. If you'd like to locate it on a map, it's the cordillera to the east, between the city of Ambato and the cities of Puyo and Tena. The remote interior of the park is one of Ecuador's last remaining untouched Vicua habitats, as well as one of the only remaining wild Alpaca habitats in the world.
However, there are quite a few other untouched places in this country, that fit your descriptions, and that are relatively less dangerous to visit and explore. (Ecuador's lower Amazon is one such area - lots of it has never been seen by human eyes, or seen only by the tribes that live there.)
The bamboo in the Llanganates is a mixture of Neurolepis species, predominantly N. nana (Flechettes, which have fairly wicked spikes); Chusquea species - C. aperta, an endangered species, is common on the lower slopes; and Guadua species, primarily G. aculeata although on the lower slopes G. angustifolia, our native timber bamboo, starts to take over. Neurolepis and Chusquea, which are cascading runners, are extremely hardy paramo bamboos; Guadua, a clumping bamboo, is more tender and generally found in the cloud forest stages of the park.
This is Neurolepis nana, which I photographed on a trip to the paramo at Guarumal, near Quito.
http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh196/HabloPorArboles/AndeanBamboo2.jpg
Dalmatiansoap
12-31-2009, 06:32 AM
Want to keep this recorded here:
It is noon 31.12.2009. and it is more than 17 C on a partly sunny day!
:woohoonaner:
lorax
12-31-2009, 09:12 AM
9 am here and I've got clear skies and 28 C. Too bad I'm in the wrong hemisphere to see the eclipse later today.
Dalmatiansoap
12-31-2009, 10:09 AM
Too bad I'm in the wrong hemisphere...
:ha::ha::ha:
:woohoonaner:
sunfish
01-01-2010, 11:35 PM
5-Day Forecast for ZIP Code 92101
Saturday
Clear
70 F | 52 F
Sunday
Clear
72 F | 52 F
Monday
Partly Cloudy
70 F | 52 F
Tuesday
Clear
67 F | 50 F
Wednesday
Partly Cloudy
65 F | 50 F
We will have freezing temps the next 4 nights--lowest will be Tuesday at 27F.
palmpje
01-02-2010, 05:09 AM
@ SBL: It actually freezes in Florida ? I didn't expect that.
@ SBL: It actually freezes in Florida ? I didn't expect that.
Florida is a very big state and we are in the NW corner. I had once heard that we are closer to Canada (here in NW FL) than we are to the southern tip of FL. Based on my check using mapquest, that is not exactly true, but the difference is less than 50 miles.
We have had record lows of 5 degrees F (-15C) right here in Pensacola since I have lived here.
jeffreyp
01-02-2010, 10:43 AM
brrrr....looks like a couple nights into the 20's for you guys..
10 Day Weather Forecast for Pensacola, FL - weather.com (http://www.weather.com/weather/tenday/USFL0399?from=search_10day)
Yeah, I am wrapping citrus, bananas and avocados now! This is the first real cold we have had--I still have unprotected peppers that are still producing and banana leaves are still green. This El Nino winter was expected to be wetter and colder than normal--it has certainly been wetter--I think we finished 2009 at somewhere over 86 inches.
Edit: I just checked the link you sent--they have raised our predictions since this morning--lowest is now 28 tomorrow night--I can handle that!
Dalmatiansoap
01-04-2010, 05:02 AM
We were down to 2C this morning. Its better allready now.
Unfortunally, looks that its going to rain again tonight.
:woohoonaner:
I can't believe they couldn't have gotten closer to tonight's prediction yesterday (26F)--now they are predicting 20 F--2 days ago it was not even in the 20s. I will need to seriously increase my protection now.
palmpje
01-04-2010, 03:05 PM
Good luck SBL with the weather. I hope it will not be that harsh.
We have cold weather again, till next week it will freeze both night and day. We had -11 Celcius past night in Antwerp. Here only -4 / - 5
Thank God i don't live around Antwerp.
Seweryn
01-05-2010, 05:47 AM
we have lots of snow here, actually there wasn't snow only for 3 days - during Christmas) My banana is sleepig under thick cover and waiting for spring. I hope it isn't roting.
Tempertature here is about -6C (day) and -10C (night)
http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/1431/img3209q.jpg (http://img340.imageshack.us/i/img3209q.jpg/)
http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/9174/img3218.jpg (http://img441.imageshack.us/i/img3218.jpg/)
palmpje
01-05-2010, 02:05 PM
@ Seweryn: Images are very beautiful with the snow covered road and trees !
This morning it was minus 5 and around 0 - -1 daytemperatures. It will be like this for at last a week !
Let's hope our protected garden bananas indeed are not rotting.
@ Ante : you are very lucky with your microclimat ! You don't have to worry very much about rot. Why you don't have any big bananas in the garden like basjoo?
Seweryn
01-05-2010, 03:28 PM
Thanx, I'v made these photos through the glass druing driving so they are a little blurred.
About the climate I really deplore that my isn't a litle bit warmer. If I lived in Mediterranean zone or even in Ypres my garden would be full of exotic plants form all over the wourd. :ha:
Palmpje have you seen this (This garden is in Belgium)
wygrts's photos and albums on webshots (http://community.webshots.com/user/wygrts)
palmpje
01-06-2010, 02:33 PM
Thanx, I'v made these photos through the glass druing driving so they are a little blurred.
About the climate I really deplore that my isn't a litle bit warmer. If I lived in Mediterranean zone or even in Ypres my garden would be full of exotic plants form all over the wourd. :ha:
Palmpje have you seen this (This garden is in Belgium)
wygrts's photos and albums on webshots (http://community.webshots.com/user/wygrts)
@Seweryn,
If this is a drive by photo, then you have a great eye to make beautiful photos. The pictures I made are never so beautiful.
About the climat: I'm glad it's warmer then your climat, but I'm still pissed off that I don't live in a microclimat like Dalmatiansoap.
I guess there is nothing to grow tropical plants like the climat of South Florida for example. My wife cames from the Dominican republic. But when you go over there in august, it is really too hot. And I think many plants we grow here, would end there totally shriveled up.
Basicly except of palms, there isn't any Musa till today (protected) that I could succesfully overwinter without killing the pstem to the ground. I will keep trying tough with good old Musa basjoo. The climat is very humid here. So it isn't all about temperature.
Beautiful Belgian garden in the link that you send ! But this garden will need a lot of protection in the winter !! And some plants need to be moved inside.
It's almost impossible to overwinter Phoenix canariensis here for example without serious protection and heating cable, and i see that he haves one in the garden.
Palms that you can grow here are Trachycarpus, Butia capitata, ...
----
about the weather: they are giving snow here for saterday !!! and i heared that in the UK the traffic is blocked because of a serious snowfall !
Patty in Wisc
01-07-2010, 06:38 PM
I just finished shoveling -5-6 inches. Waiting for the winds to pick up...s'posed to get to 35-40 mph & then the temps will drop. brrrrr
ewitte
01-08-2010, 06:19 AM
Yeah, I am wrapping citrus
My two citrus are a goner. They were already near death. Maybe will order something better for the one that was in ground. Been concentrating on the bananas. Happy for the blueberries, apples and peach that need chill hours. Very doubtful anything will happen to the corms but still stubbornly trying to preserve pstem height for next year.
Dalmatiansoap
01-08-2010, 06:26 AM
14C at the moment, heavy rain and strong South wind.
Causing lot of headaches arround :(.
:woohoonaner:
palmpje
01-08-2010, 11:59 AM
Talking about serious snow tomorrow and this morning I went to work, it was -7 ! They are talking about a Cold spell, at last one week more we can expect this kind of cold weather.
Even took my basjoos and sikkimensis :2741: in the home now
Seweryn
01-08-2010, 06:53 PM
14C at the moment, heavy rain and strong South wind.
Causing lot of headaches arround :(.
:woohoonaner:
Ante, maybe you have "halny", heheh I'm just jocking.
Halny (pl. hala - mountain meadow) it is a wind which generally blowing only in Poland, it's very strong and also causes headache, depression or even increases number of suicides.
The stronges "halny" blew in May of 1968 - more than 300km/h
For interested:03:
Halny - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halny)
lorax
01-08-2010, 09:15 PM
It rained! All I had to do was go to Quito for the day, and when I got back tonight my garden was soaked. Thank goodness!
Jack Daw
01-09-2010, 07:32 AM
Ante, maybe you have "halny", heheh I'm just jocking.
Halny (pl. hala - mountain meadow) it is a wind which generally blowing only in Poland, it's very strong and also causes headache, depression or even increases number of suicides.
The stronges "halny" blew in May of 1968 - more than 300km/h
For interested:03:
Halny - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halny)
Wow. Wouldn't wanna such a strong and bad wind. The fastest wind here was strong too, but only about 210km/hod.
It rained! All I had to do was go to Quito for the day, and when I got back tonight my garden was soaked. Thank goodness!
Heh, Beth, you know the phrase: "When hell freezes over."? It has a new dimension in Ecuador: "When it rains in hell." ;) Sorry, those temps you have are even higher than the record ones here...
justjoan
01-09-2010, 08:49 AM
Here at work again today, my weather sticker says it all! The weather folks say we could be 35 and that's above zero by Thursday! :woohoonaner:
Dalmatiansoap
01-09-2010, 09:52 AM
Woohoo Joan
I cant even imagine temp. like that. -22C WOW.
Jack and Sewerin, here are cuple of mine:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bora_(wind)
Sirocco - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugo)
:woohoonaner:
lorax
01-09-2010, 10:40 AM
You want a giggle, Ante? It's cold here today, only 10 C. The rain just keeps 'a comin'. I'm not sure what is more unsettling, though - the fact that it's raining, or the fact that what I'm listening to right now are the sounds of internal fluid movement in the volcano.
Dalmatiansoap
01-09-2010, 10:46 AM
WOW!
Thats a music I wouldnt be happy to hear. Is that close to U?
lorax
01-09-2010, 10:50 AM
It's about 25 km away. However, Ambato is situated such that if Tungurahua goes active again, we get a neat light and sound show, light ash rains, and not much else. I'm more concerned for my friends in the town of Baos, which is right on the North Flank and has a history of being partially obliterated by lahars (pyroclastic mudslides).
It was cloudy last night, which is unfortunate or I'd have pictures of lava fountains to share with you. I'm tenacious, though - it will be clear one of these nights. The bramido (rumbling) was loud enough to rattle my windows last night.
Jack Daw
01-09-2010, 06:04 PM
You want a giggle, Ante? It's cold here today, only 10 C. The rain just keeps 'a comin'. I'm not sure what is more unsettling, though - the fact that it's raining, or the fact that what I'm listening to right now are the sounds of internal fluid movement in the volcano.
It's about 25 km away. However, Ambato is situated such that if Tungurahua goes active again, we get a neat light and sound show, light ash rains, and not much else. I'm more concerned for my friends in the town of Baos, which is right on the North Flank and has a history of being partially obliterated by lahars (pyroclastic mudslides).
It was cloudy last night, which is unfortunate or I'd have pictures of lava fountains to share with you. I'm tenacious, though - it will be clear one of these nights. The bramido (rumbling) was loud enough to rattle my windows last night.
Oh, Elizabeth, it is only know that I fully appreciate the color of your language. And how rich it is. Really, a delight, I can't find proper words to describe the feeling I have while reading your posts. Reminds me of British English. ;)
Still, I wouldn't wanna be able to feel the magma below the soil I'm standing on.
Cheers and may it warm up for you tomorrow.
palmpje
01-10-2010, 07:43 AM
Welcome back Jack, who took care of your plants during your absence?
Jack Daw
01-10-2010, 08:24 AM
Welcome back Jack, who took care of your plants during your absence?
I'm afraid that nobody. ;) They know how to take care of themselves, at least those that are not dormant. |There's an easy trick that will last more than a month if you know what to do. Will post pics of this techniques later. It's just a matter of phantasy. ;)
lorax
01-10-2010, 09:32 AM
Jack, it's Canadian English, influenced by the fact that both of my schoolteacher grandmothers were Scottish, and that I have a taste for classical literature and putting on accents.
The volcano has, thankfully, stopped rumbling (at least last night) and it's cleared off, so hi-ho-slivers away to 38 C today!
palmpje
01-10-2010, 10:33 AM
I'm afraid that nobody. ;) They know how to take care of themselves, at least those that are not dormant. |There's an easy trick that will last more than a month if you know what to do. Will post pics of this techniques later. It's just a matter of phantasy. ;)
Please do communicate these interesting techniques when you have the time. It would certainly be an added value!:drum:
Jack Daw
01-10-2010, 12:07 PM
Please do communicate these interesting techniques when you have the time. It would certainly be an added value!:drum:
You will be surprised how primitive this "technique" is. But it works. :D Better than people, who would forget to water the plants.
bikoro child
01-11-2010, 05:19 AM
Hi you all and happy new year to the whole community...As you know a great part of France is under the snow and it came suddenly a few days ago,as the temperature were rather high(bananas began to recome)
here i had 20cm of white covering all the plants ...Temperature in night are about -5C and 1 or 2C during the day...Here are some pics ...As you can see some bananas are under protection
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=28803&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=28803&ppuser=1162)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=28804&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=28804&ppuser=1162)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=28802&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=28802&ppuser=1162)
Chamadorea radicalis on the right,trachycarpus fortunei on the left
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=28801&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=28801&ppuser=1162)
Butia capitata on the left and protected phoenix canariensis on the right
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=28800&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=28800&ppuser=1162)
What will survive?Spring will tell us...
Dalmatiansoap
01-11-2010, 05:30 AM
Hey Ivan,
that doesnt look good :(.
What do they say, how long it would last?
:woohoonaner:
lorax
01-11-2010, 06:39 AM
OOh, yuck. Souhait que vos paumes survivent.
ewitte
01-11-2010, 09:32 AM
Finallay out of the freezing. The average low for the last 7-8 days was less than 25F. In a couple of days back in the 60's.
bikoro child
01-11-2010, 10:27 AM
Thanks Elisabeth ,but i do'nt worry about the palms snow can protect from the cold...It seemed you used a google translation so the right one is:je souhaite que vos palmiers survivent ( i think that we all have the same difficulties for translating)
Ante ,rain is announced for tomorrow and the warming for all parts of France is announced for the end of the week
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=28812&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=28812&ppuser=1162)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=28814&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=28814&ppuser=1162)
the vulture are flying above the house searching for a hypothetical food
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=28813&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=28813&ppuser=1162)
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=28811&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=28811&ppuser=1162)
An the donkey in th snow was given some hay
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=28815&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=28815&ppuser=1162)
Jack Daw
01-11-2010, 11:53 AM
Some bad weather you've been having. We have the same temperatures at the moment, but there's certain lack of snow in my region. ;)
Lucky me. It's cool and I went outside in just a T-shirt. It started being chilly only after being 45 minutes among my Ensenia foetida. Literally. ;)
Beware, when the snow melts down and the water is absorbed by the soil and frosts come again, palms might come through a shock and that could be the last hit for them.
What were the min. temps at your place in last... say 2 months? How did Jubaeas take it? I guess no protection was used on those high specimens, right?
Seweryn
01-13-2010, 11:13 AM
I prefer snow than frost and the forecast isn't optimistic...
http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/3728/twh000000u2010011306006.th.png (http://img412.imageshack.us/i/twh000000u2010011306006.png/) http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/9073/twh000000u2010011306048.th.png (http://img412.imageshack.us/i/twh000000u2010011306048.png/)
Central Europe temperatures today and forecast for Friday:(
It is good to be preserve by mountain ranges , isn't it Jack?
Jack Daw
01-13-2010, 12:50 PM
Why do I get so many adverts on this page about Croatia and Zagreb? I don't get it. :D Ante, you hacker.
I prefer snow than frost and the forecast isn't optimistic...
http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/3728/twh000000u2010011306006.th.png (http://img412.imageshack.us/i/twh000000u2010011306006.png/) http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/9073/twh000000u2010011306048.th.png (http://img412.imageshack.us/i/twh000000u2010011306048.png/)
Central Europe temperatures today and forecast for Friday:(
It is good to be preserve by mountain ranges , isn't it Jack?
Hehe, sure it is better than in open plain. You see that small part of Slovaki that is green? That's where I live. :D
Now what about the poor Norway?
23 years ago, precisely on this date the worst winter in the history hit Slovakia and all of Europe. It was -24C in the southern Central Europe. Fortunatelly, it got warmer after I was born.
palmpje
01-13-2010, 01:55 PM
Luckely we are heading now to better temperatures. It seems we will soon leave the day and night continous frost behind us. Unbelievable how quickly you adapt to low temperatures. -1 feels a hole lot better then -7 !
Seweryn
01-13-2010, 03:23 PM
Yes I know where Pozsony:p is. I have been there couple times.:nanadrink:
I remembered very nice Paulowania tomentosa in the city center.
I think all countries in the carpathian basin has very good microclimate.
We had very hard winter in 2006 - there was -27 C in my region.
Jack Daw
01-13-2010, 04:07 PM
Yes I know where Pozsony:p is. I have been there couple times.:nanadrink:
I remembered very nice Paulowania tomentosa in the city center.
I think all countries in the carpathian basin has very good microclimate.
We had very hard winter in 2006 - there was -27 C in my region.
One very old exemplar of Paulownia tomentosa is also in our Botanical Garden, it's been growing there for more than 2 centuries, an old and interesting tree. The sheet says that it originates in East Asia, so I'm surprised that 200 years ago someone brought from there a seed. :)
It's Pressburg now, Sew. ;)
Seweryn
01-13-2010, 04:41 PM
Still freezing in Poland, (I have -12C now)....
But it doesn't care the parrots which apper in Szprotawa (west Poland)
http://img686.imageshack.us/img686/2300/bildei.jpg (http://img686.imageshack.us/i/bildei.jpg/)
Jack you know I like provocative jocks (haven't any bad intentions:2725:)
Dalmatiansoap
01-22-2010, 07:08 AM
We are going down with temp. for next few days:
http://www.accuweather.com/world-forecast.asp?partner=accuweather&traveler=0&locCode=EUR|HR|HR000|MAKARSKA&metric=1
Jack Daw
01-22-2010, 07:31 AM
We are going down with temp. for next few days:
http://www.accuweather.com/world-forecast.asp?partner=accuweather&traveler=0&locCode=EUR|HR|HR000|MAKARSKA&metric=1
Going for -1C today, hm, Soapy, I'm looking forward to seeing another catastrophic movie from Makarska about deadly ice and his best friend snow. :)
IOh how I envy you, unless you have 4x4 car here, you can't even drive. There's solid 5cm ice layer everywhere with another 10cm of snow on it. Just a few more days and Russian express will move away...
Btw.: It's perfect, typical January weather here. I also like that the sun came out in full power and you know what sun and white color everywhere will do... Headache, incredible light intensity for this time of year. :lurk:
Seweryn
01-22-2010, 10:59 AM
We have terrible frosts here, now is -16C and ant night can be less than -20C. About 40 000 houses in south regions of the country is shut off electricity.
Yesterday "Witnesses of Jehova" visited me and worned me against the end of the world... I start to believe them :ha:
Jack Daw
01-22-2010, 11:01 AM
We have terrible frosts here, now is -16C and ant night can be less than -20C. About 40 000 houses in south regions of the country is shut off electricity.
Yesterday "Witnesses of Jehova" visited me and worned me against the end of the world... I start to believe them :ha:
:D :ha:
Dalmatiansoap
01-28-2010, 07:19 AM
Looks like we have new monsun season:ha:
Raining AGAIN
:woohoonaner:
Seweryn
01-28-2010, 07:32 AM
After -27C I had, -10 C now seems to be warm.:exercisenaner:
Jack Daw
01-28-2010, 08:10 AM
After -27C I had, -10 C now seems to be warm.:exercisenaner:
-10C is the January low here this year. Around 0C at the moment.
Seweryn
01-28-2010, 10:51 AM
This is very warm in compare to polish conditions Jack, so you can try with many exotic plants that we cant grow here. Some people here ( exotic zealots) buid big and complicated constructions, heating systems etc to protect their plants agains the frost, sometims it's going to be close to absurd.:ha:
Jack Daw
01-28-2010, 12:30 PM
This is very warm in compare to polish conditions Jack, so you can try with many exotic plants that we cant grow here. Some people here ( exotic zealots) buid big and complicated constructions, heating systems etc to protect their plants agains the frost, sometims it's going to be close to absurd.:ha:
You bet I will test as mamy exotic plants as I can. ;)
CookieCows
01-28-2010, 12:42 PM
Getting ready for a snow storm. I need hubby to put some hay around the little bamboo clump. It's been bundled up and so far the outside leaves are brown but all is still green on the inside.
Abnshrek
01-28-2010, 01:16 PM
Looks like we have new monsoon season:ha:
Raining AGAIN
:woohoonaner:
Yeah that's on our horizon.. then it's going to turn into sleet, and maybe snow tommorow.... Here come the 20's again.. WTH.. lol
Jack Daw
01-28-2010, 02:11 PM
Yeah that's on our horizon.. then it's going to turn into sleet, and maybe snow tommorow.... Here come the 20's again.. WTH.. lol
Welcome to the winter as the rest of the world knows it these days. ;)
lorax
01-28-2010, 06:14 PM
Could be worse. It's snowing ash here.
Dalmatiansoap
01-29-2010, 02:37 PM
Could be worse. It's snowing ash here.
Rumbling again Aunty or?
:woohoonaner:
lorax
01-29-2010, 04:36 PM
It never stopped rumbling. The wind's shifted, though, which means that every morning I wake up to more ash on the plants. :eek:
Jack Daw
01-29-2010, 05:57 PM
It never stopped rumbling. The wind's shifted, though, which means that every morning I wake up to more ash on the plants. :eek:
Hehe, could be worse, could be pouring lava. ;)
lorax
01-29-2010, 06:33 PM
Not on me, it couldn't. I'm too high up.
Abnshrek
01-29-2010, 10:18 PM
It never stopped rumbling. The wind's shifted, though, which means that every morning I wake up to more ash on the plants. :eek:
Is that good fertilizer? or plant dependant..
Jack Daw
01-30-2010, 08:22 AM
Is that good fertilizer? or plant dependant..
Hehe, no, it's not, but Beth doesn't have to put her make-up on each morning, all that she has to do is to go out before the sun comes out. ;) :ha:
lorax
01-30-2010, 10:11 AM
@ Jack
http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/wp-content/google-fish-slaps-trulia.gif
@ Miguel
It's excellent fertilizer, but in much smaller amounts than the mountian sees fit to give us, and turned into the soil rather than sitting on the plants. I'm bagging most of it for later, but what's stuck to the leaves I have to rinse off every morning, or it impedes photosynthesis. And if you're imagining this as sort of fluffy gray stuff, let me disabuse you of the notion. It's more like fine black glass powder.
Dalmatiansoap
01-30-2010, 11:10 AM
@ Jack
http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/wp-content/google-fish-slaps-trulia.gif
:woohoonaner:
:ha::ha::ha::ha::ha:
Jack Daw
01-30-2010, 01:50 PM
@ Jack
http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/wp-content/google-fish-slaps-trulia.gif
@ Miguel
It's excellent fertilizer, but in much smaller amounts than the mountian sees fit to give us, and turned into the soil rather than sitting on the plants. I'm bagging most of it for later, but what's stuck to the leaves I have to rinse off every morning, or it impedes photosynthesis. And if you're imagining this as sort of fluffy gray stuff, let me disabuse you of the notion. It's more like fine black glass powder.
Sorry Beth, it just came to my mind. :ha: Fish-slap. Nice, where did you find that pic? I'm in recession, sort of (you know, wtih all that GDP and taxes stuff), not that I wouldn't like the way you look, it's just been too long since I've done anything else besides studying and it sorta goes on my brains. :) Smilies indicate that it's just fun, no need to consider that post to be more than just a bad joke. ;)
lorax
01-30-2010, 02:19 PM
I know it's a joke, Jack. Which is why I publicly slapped you with a fish, instead of sending you an angry PM. Ask Bob - I've fish-slapped him a number of times.
Incidentally, that's the first photo that comes up for me in a google search for 'fish slap'
Dalmatiansoap
01-30-2010, 02:22 PM
Hey Aunty dont be rude!
I want that slapp too
:woohoonaner:
Jack Daw
01-30-2010, 02:22 PM
I know it's a joke, Jack. Which is why I publicly slapped you with a fish, instead of sending you an angry PM. Ask Bob - I've fish-slapped him a number of times.
Incidentally, that's the first photo that comes up for me in a google search for 'fish slap'
Just making sure that slap was purely platonic. :)
This comes out for me:
http://www.freewebs.com/neuroticacomics/fish%20slap.jpg
lorax
01-30-2010, 03:12 PM
OK, this one's for Ante
http://blog.sellsiusrealestate.com/wp-content/google-fish-slaps-trulia.gif
Abnshrek
01-30-2010, 04:43 PM
Just making sure that slap was purely platonic. :)
This comes out for me:
http://www.freewebs.com/neuroticacomics/fish%20slap.jpg
A JACKass fish slap that's too funny Jack...
palmpje
01-31-2010, 02:27 PM
We still have nights of frost, but overday it can reach 1 - 4 degrees C. I can't wait till the weather gets better!!
Dear Jack, could you please share us the ancient secret of your water management system? I'm dying to get to know something about that. Also, the other forum members would not be mad I think if you would be so kind to share it with them. :goteam:
Jack Daw
01-31-2010, 03:31 PM
We still have nights of frost, but overday it can reach 1 - 4 degrees C. I can't wait till the weather gets better!!
Dear Jack, could you please share us the ancient secret of your water management system? I'm dying to get to know something about that. Also, the other forum members would not be mad I think if you would be so kind to share it with them. :goteam:
I don't have the apparatus here right now. Technically, it's just a big bottle (2L) filled with water. Instead of closing the bottle you just put there some cloth (varying cloth characteristics will affect the length of water diffusion into the soil). Put the cloth inside bottle's neck and make sure it is tightly attached to the bottle, we don't want the water to leak.
Once this is accomplished, you need at least 15cm of cloth hanging out of the bottle (for your imagination, say Coca Cola bottle 2l with a cloth in such a manner that it looks like Molotov's Coctail below. :) :ha:)http://mauryk2.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/molotov.jpg
2 variants:
A) turn the bottle upside down and put it close to the pstem, making sure that the cloth is spread near the base of the pstem. Use something to make sure the the bottle will remain in vertical position, such as binding it to the pstem. Then cover the cloth around the base of the pstem with some soil (if you didn't do it, it would vaporize into the air rather than go to the roots). Bottle neck should be touching the soil, it mustn't hang in the air.
B) don't turn the bottle upside down and let it stand as it was supposed to stand, but take the cloth and put it to the base of the pstem in similar manner as described above. Make sure you use as much of the cloth as possible. If you leave a longer line of cloth on the air (not covered by soil), water will not make its way to the roots and vaporize somewhere inbetween.
This principle was adpoted from the physics of oil candles:
http://www.lampoil.sk/data/gallery/photo126.jpg
One way or another, each positioning (I use the first) will cause the water to be transported to the roots during a significantly longer period, than you would expect. A 2l bottle can last up to 14 days, leaving the plants hydrated enough to survive. So if you don't have anyone who would be able or willing to water your plants when you go on a holiday or a vacation, this is the way to go.
Also, consider the size. Potted or not, 2m tall plant will need much bigger bottle than 2l (I use 4l). It's never failed me. I strongly advice to try this out when you can observe what's going on.
Some mistakes I noticed:
- the warmer the place, the worse, water vaporzies before it can be absorbed by the plant's roots
- thin cloths or soft materials will just make water leak very fast, you need strong and "drinking" material, such as cotton, because it not only allows slow leaking, but also almost 100% water distribution, meaning that the flow is constant thrughout the days, not pulse regime like with other materials.
When I have more free time and some working camera, I'll post the pics. ;)
Abnshrek
01-31-2010, 04:28 PM
Jack thats pretty nifty :^)
So people in warm areas need a 5 gallon water jug :^)
Jack Daw
01-31-2010, 07:20 PM
Jack thats pretty nifty :^)
So people in warm areas need a 5 gallon water jug :^)
People in warm areas can grow those plants outside and have them watered by the rain. ;)
lorax
01-31-2010, 11:35 PM
Not necessarily. May I present my monthly average temp: 35 C and my monthly average rainfall: 2mm. I have to water.
Abnshrek
02-01-2010, 12:27 AM
People in warm areas can grow those plants outside and have them watered by the rain. ;)
I can't say that for last year, since the gulf stream was all messed up. I guess that's why didn't have much a hurricane do much other than on the east coast. It was dry till mid august then then bottom fell out.. in sept. :^)
Jack Daw
02-01-2010, 06:16 AM
Not necessarily. May I present my monthly average temp: 35 C and my monthly average rainfall: 2mm. I have to water.
I meant like normal tropical climate (Koppen's A class). LOLz people, metpahorically. :)
Seweryn
02-03-2010, 07:09 PM
Couple current photos and it's snowing right now so maybe tomorrow I will not be able to open the door :waving:
http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/4680/img3293a.jpg (http://img99.imageshack.us/i/img3293a.jpg/)
http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/182/img3245p.jpg (http://img194.imageshack.us/i/img3245p.jpg/)
Dalmatiansoap
02-05-2010, 04:55 PM
Strong wind from South is turning my balcony upside/down at the moment.
Did I forget to say its raining too:ha::ha::ha:
AGAIN
:woohoonaner:
Jack Daw
02-05-2010, 05:49 PM
Strong wind from South is turning my balcony upside/down at the moment.
Did I forget to say its raining too:ha::ha::ha:
AGAIN
:woohoonaner:
Clear skies and the snow is melting down. And so will it befor the next few days. Bad frosts are over (let's hope I won't jinx it) and warmer days are slowly coming here! Soon the time to warm the soil up will come. :)
palmpje
02-07-2010, 09:03 AM
Jack, I want to thank you for the explanation of your technique. It's very effective, and it can be build by anyone that is able to try some things out, and with simple materials. I will try to build my own version, and I will let you know how it goes.
It would actually be interesting to have a bottle that you can open at the bottom so you can refill it easily.
14 days sustainability is however quiet impressing !
Seweryn
02-11-2010, 10:14 AM
We finnally have a little bit warmth - I mean +2C. Its guite windy and wet snow is falling.
sunfish
02-12-2010, 08:56 AM
Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday
Clear
61 F | 50 F
Clear
67 F | 52 F
Clear
72 F | 54 F
Clear
72 F | 54 F
Clear
68 F | 54 F
Abnshrek
02-12-2010, 01:51 PM
Yeah the sun is out & the snow is melting right quick I might ad :^)
So Sunny with a real chance of melting snowmen :^)
Dalmatiansoap
02-12-2010, 01:54 PM
According to some we are going to have some North winds tomorrow.
That means NO MORE RAIN:ha:
Till Thuesday :(
:ha::ha::ha:
http://www.accuweather.com/world-forecast-15day.asp?partner=accuweather&traveler=0&locCode=EUR|HR|HR000|MAKARSKA&metric=1
:woohoonaner:
Jack Daw
02-12-2010, 03:31 PM
...we are going to have some North winds tomorrow.
That means NO MORE RAIN:ha:
...
We too, but it means snowing and snowing and melting and melting! ;)
Dalmatiansoap
02-12-2010, 03:36 PM
We too, but it means snowing and snowing and melting and melting! ;)
So You are the one that make all this water lately?:ha::ha::ha:
:woohoonaner:
Jack Daw
02-12-2010, 05:11 PM
So You are the one that make all this water lately?:ha::ha::ha:
:woohoonaner:
Not yet (it's still only snow now ;) ), but Romania can expect floods in the spring and summer, when all the snow in western Europe and Slovakia melts down. It will be a disastrous year for many Balkan countries all the way down to Bulgary. I suspect that it will even flood many parts of Italy and probably Spain this year. Besides, Ante, have you heard the news? Any bigger river (Volga, Danube...) will bring fear, suffering and damage in the 2010 spring season. But at least there won't be many mosquitos the coming year. ;) At least not here, we are a transit country for them, but rivers will take them to the Black Sea. :P
IT SNOWED IN ROME TODAY. :ha::ha::ha::ha:
Proof:
http://i.pravda.sk/10/022/skcl/P23311a3c_rimV.jpg
Seweryn
02-12-2010, 06:10 PM
We have extreme snow falls this year too. Even in west regions which ususlly don't have too much snow. Every day it's heard from TV about threat of flood.
Jack do you think it has any influence on moskitos??? Moskitos live rather in ponds not rivers. By the way there is nothing in that world i hate more than moskitos, every summer i experience kind of trauma becouse of that insects.:ha:
Jack Daw
02-12-2010, 06:49 PM
Jack do you think it has any influence on moskitos???
It surely has, or at least in my region it has. Most of the ponds and lakes here, including those in Wheat Island are actually dead veins of Danube. When the Danube's water rises to certain level, they will likely connect into one massive river taking all mosquito eggs with the current straight to Hungary and Romania ( :ha: ). Than, as the water falls down, lakes will be formed again and little or no mosquito eggs will remain here after that massacer.
Hopefully.
Abnshrek
02-12-2010, 09:53 PM
Tomorrow there's a great chance of it raining doubloons, beads, frisbees, footballs, and other mardi gras articles after 4:30PM CST :^) & I thought the snow was bad enough.. lol
Dalmatiansoap
02-13-2010, 01:53 AM
IT SNOWED IN ROME TODAY. :ha::ha::ha::ha:
Proof:
http://i.pravda.sk/10/022/skcl/P23311a3c_rimV.jpg
Nothing strange Jack, specially in areas arround Arenas. That is common nowdays:ha::ha::ha:
Here is ours in Pula
http://i730.photobucket.com/albums/ww305/dalmatiansoap/p21v.jpg
:woohoonaner:
Plenty of snow here too, the yucca rostrata's comfortable though.. The only thing in my winter lanscape reminding me of warmer weather...
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=29689&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=29689&ppuser=4095)
The dogs like it too.... There's a musa basjoo from Pete inside the cold frame which was also filled with mulch and shredded leaves.
Really wonder how its doing?.....
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=29690&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=29690&ppuser=4095)
Not as good as one of Mitchels action shots but not bad for a point and shoot:ha:
Jack Daw
02-13-2010, 12:21 PM
Bob, your puppies seem to like the snow. :ha:
Dalmatiansoap
02-14-2010, 02:37 AM
http://www.accuweather.com/world-forecast.asp?partner=accuweather&traveler=0&locCode=EUR|HR|HR000|MAKARSKA&metric=1
We are going to 17C from Wednesday!
FINALY ;)
:woohoonaner:
Jack Daw
02-14-2010, 11:50 AM
http://www.accuweather.com/world-forecast.asp?partner=accuweather&traveler=0&locCode=EUR|HR|HR000|MAKARSKA&metric=1
We are going to 17C from Wednesday!
FINALY ;)
:woohoonaner:
Congrats Ante, I hope it goes to high 20s very soon for you. I will follow in a month or so, hopefully, this could as well be one of those very long, very snowy winters we tend to have once or twice a decade. Damn.
Well, cheers to your spring with this fine beverage, Non-alcoholic Plum beer!
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=29718&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=29718&ppuser=4568)
Abnshrek
02-14-2010, 09:10 PM
I can't believe it frosties heads fell off due to the melting and we have 60% chance of a 1/2" of snow tonight.. WTH... Oh well its going to get warm soon.. :^)
Jack Daw
02-15-2010, 01:55 AM
Great news Ante, it should get warmer here too, several independent weather forecasts say, that it should get warmer and stop freezing (even during nights) here. Woohoo. Lots of rain though. ;)
Add 1 or 2C to these temps to get mine. :ha:
[: meteo.sk : počasie :] ~ Predpoveď ~ Európa ~ Slovensko ~ Bratislava (http://meteo.azet.sk/predpovede/europa/slovenska_republika/bratislava)
Seweryn
02-15-2010, 06:47 AM
I dont want to disappoint you Jack, but my forecast isn't so optimistic.
I wouldn't expect permament warming. It is too much cold around.
this is map for Wednesday morning
http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/127/twh000000u2010021506048.png (http://img99.imageshack.us/i/twh000000u2010021506048.png/)
So I hope your forecast comes true.
Small update;
You were right.
It is going to be warmer.
http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/5425/twh000000u2010021612048.png (http://img17.imageshack.us/i/twh000000u2010021612048.png/)
Seweryn
02-17-2010, 09:02 AM
About 3 weeks ago a dog was hijacked by ice flot and finally was found out on the see, 30 km from coast. At the beginning the sailors who rescued the dog, thougt it is a seal.
YouTube - Pies Baltic (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU0K4upXNb0&feature=related)
(comment in Polish)
Yesterday some fisherman was also hijacked by ice flota on San River.
:ha: creazy weather.
Dalmatiansoap
02-17-2010, 09:07 AM
I hope its going to warm up up there pretty soon
:woohoonaner:
Jack Daw
02-17-2010, 10:00 AM
It's +6C here at the moment and weather forecast says that it won't freeze in the long turn. So it's all melting down pretty fast. Sun is shining, even several birds returned from Africa, so it might as well get warm real soon. Birds never lie. ;) :D
Btw. that trapped dog must have been very important news. I saw it on our TV and read about it also on BBC News Site. :ha:
Jack Daw
02-17-2010, 04:23 PM
Oh, it's here. Temps could rise up to 10C in the following days and additional rain + melting snow will cause the Danube's water level to rise by several centimeters. It's starting! Earlier than anyone would expect. :0519:
Dalmatiansoap
02-17-2010, 04:25 PM
It was about a time Jack!
:woohoonaner:
Jack Daw
02-17-2010, 06:07 PM
It was about a time Jack!
:woohoonaner:
:goteam: Hehe, let's hope that the spring will be as pleasant and as early as it was the last year! I've just had enough of this cold weather!
Scuba_Dave
02-18-2010, 10:43 AM
FINALLY!!
Supposed to be close to 40 or above for the next 10 days
Still dipping to below freeezing at night
Dalmatiansoap
02-18-2010, 12:30 PM
This was one of the first Spring afternoons here. Calm and sunny with 17C!
I had relaxed afternoon prepating one new raised bed.
:woohoonaner:
Abnshrek
02-18-2010, 12:53 PM
This was one of the first Spring afternoons here. Calm and sunny with 17C!
I had relaxed afternoon prepating one new raised bed.
:woohoonaner:
Yeah I hear that.. I have 3 more days like today.. w/ a chance of rain on the 3rd. :^)
sunfish
02-19-2010, 11:09 AM
Friday Saturday Monday Tuesday Wednesday
Mostly Cloudy
58 F | 54 F
Saturday
Chance of Rain
59 F | 52 F
Sunday
Mostly Cloudy
61 F | 52 F
Monday
Chance of Rain
61 F | 54 F
Tuesday
Chance of Rain
61 F | 54 F
Wednesday
Partly Cloudy
63 F | 52 F
It was nice while it lasted.
Dalmatiansoap
02-19-2010, 12:04 PM
Currently at 5:52PM
Rain, Temp: 14 C
Friday Night, Feb 19
Very windy this evening; mild with rain. Winds from the SSE at 32 km/h. Low: 14 C
Saturday, Feb 20
Rain. Winds from the ENE at 8 km/h.High: 15 C
Saturday Night, Feb 20
Rain and drizzle in the evening; otherwise, considerable cloudiness. Winds from the NNW at 22 km/h.Low: 6 C
Sunday, Feb 21
Sunshine and patchy clouds. Winds from the ENE at 12 km/h.High: 11 C
Sunday Night, Feb 21
Considerable clouds with a shower in spots late. Winds from the SE at 16 km/h.Low: 6 C
Monday, Feb 22
Breezy with rain. Winds from the SSE at 28 km/h.High: 13 C
Monday Night, Feb 22
Rain and drizzle. Winds from the SSE at 20 km/h.Low: 12 C
Tuesday, Feb 23
Rain. Winds from the SE at 12 km/h.High: 15 C
Tuesday Night, Feb 23
A couple of showers in the evening; otherwise, overcast. Winds from the SSW at 4 km/h.Low: 13 C
Look at all that rain :(
Jack Daw
02-19-2010, 12:38 PM
Hehe, soapy, posted a new thread for you. Hope you'll enjoy it and should you have the time, we could start talking Slavianski. ;) At least we would get some practice. :02::bananas_b:nanadrink:
Seweryn
02-24-2010, 03:32 PM
I still have about 40 cm of snow. But I hope by next weekend all that snow will have been molten.
Jack Daw
02-24-2010, 05:15 PM
I still have about 40 cm of snow. But I hope by next weekend all that snow will have been molten.
You know, Sew, 12C today and yesterday, I went to the school just in my short sleeve T-shirts. :D
It's gonna cool down very soon though, but then again, rise up to spring temps. It's inevitebly here!
Dalmatiansoap
02-25-2010, 07:16 AM
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=29884&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=29884&ppuser=4565)
Calm, sunny and 16C for today. I hope rains are over for now :)
:nanadrink:
:woohoonaner:
Sunny, a few clouds, 18 C and soft humid breeze! That's what my nanners like!
My Ice Cream already shows some growth since a few days. All bananas, except for the Ae Ae, were outside this winter and were only covered during the coldest nights and days. I assume spring's arrived. Temps should rise a little over the following days...:goteam:
cherokee_greg
02-25-2010, 01:01 PM
Here is what were having in Fresno,CA
Today: Sun and clouds mixed. High 63F. Winds light and variable.
Tonight: Mostly cloudy skies. Low 49F. Winds light and variable.
Tomorrow: Considerable cloudiness. Occasional rain showers in the afternoon. High 62F. Winds SE at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 60%.
Tomorrow night: Rain. Low around 50F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 90%.
Saturday: Rain. Highs in the mid 50s and lows in the low 40s.
Sunday: Times of sun and clouds. Highs in the low 60s and lows in the mid 40s.
Monday: Mostly Cloudy. Highs in the upper 60s and lows in the low 50s.
Im ready for spring
Abnshrek
02-25-2010, 09:08 PM
How about no more freezing till christmas :^) Warm during the day and cool in the evenings but not below 40... after the next week.. :^) It's real Sun acclamation time :^)
Jack Daw
02-26-2010, 04:18 AM
How about no more freezing till christmas :^) Warm during the day and cool in the evenings but not below 40... after the next week.. :^) It's real Sun acclamation time :^)
It seems like it will be like that here too, let's hope I just haven't jinxed it. :bananas_b
Lots of snow and high winds here! I have to go out the sliding back door just to get outside to the front!
Dalmatiansoap
02-26-2010, 08:50 AM
Our news did mention new snow storms in NE US. That looks pretty bad to me.
:woohoonaner:
Here's me this morning at work. The snow was higher than the large snowblower I cut the pathway in with.
http://i570.photobucket.com/albums/ss149/bob_075/th_bobsnow.jpg (http://s570.photobucket.com/albums/ss149/bob_075/?action=view¤t=bobsnow.jpg)
Jack Daw
02-26-2010, 03:18 PM
Lots of snow and high winds here! I have to go out the sliding back door just to get outside to the front!
;) :P :ha:
Dalmatiansoap
02-26-2010, 04:25 PM
Here's me this morning at work. The snow was higher than the large snowblower I cut the pathway in with.
http://i570.photobucket.com/albums/ss149/bob_075/th_bobsnow.jpg (http://s570.photobucket.com/albums/ss149/bob_075/?action=view¤t=bobsnow.jpg)
Hey Bob, that looks like a WRONG place to be :ha:
:woohoonaner:
Yeah there's better places alright!:ha:............:bed:
Jack Daw
02-26-2010, 10:03 PM
Yeah there's better places alright!:ha:............:bed:
Cheer up Bobby, it's only a month to go. ;)
Seweryn
02-27-2010, 06:50 PM
Lots of snow Bob! We had similar situation about 3 weeks ago :nanadrink:
Today I took off a cover from my banana in the garden.
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=29926&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=29926&ppuser=4139)
It had proper protection but it didn't help.
Jack Daw
03-02-2010, 01:04 PM
DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN, DAMN!!!!!
After almost 2 weeks of beautiful weather, no frost, no cold (60s every day, 40s every night) really bad news arrived today.
A MASSIVE cold front is moving over the Europe from Russia. It will bring more cold, rain/snow and temps will fall to 30s. Damn this work. Nature was just waking up, grass was growing, even some berries started putting out leaves. WTF???
None of the plants will survive what's coming to us. Ante, this wave is so strong that yeven you should feel it in Southern Croatia. Balkan will possibly get even colder than Carpathian mountain range very soon.
How come it has to be happening? Everything looked like spring was coming. Even the birds came home to celebreate the beautiful weather and coming new season!!!
:( :( :( :( :( :( :(
Dalmatiansoap
03-02-2010, 01:16 PM
I know about thats comming. Acording news here we are not going to get frosts here but in inland Dalmatia they might. Thes why I didnt plant anyting yet and Im waiting till 10.3. for some better forecasts ;). We have traditionaly strong North (Bura) winds in March, on 7., 17. and 27. but this first one can get us even some snow sometimes.
Jack Daw
03-02-2010, 03:36 PM
I know about thats comming. Acording news here we are not going to get frosts here but in inland Dalmatia they might. Thes why I didnt plant anyting yet and Im waiting till 10.3. for some better forecasts ;). We have traditionaly strong North (Bura) winds in March, on 7., 17. and 27. but this first one can get us even some snow sometimes.
I know a word describing this kind of situation Ante. It starts with F... :ha:
Seweryn
03-02-2010, 04:14 PM
The cold front coms from the North Sea and Scandinavia I hope we will not have soon same temperatures like our oversea neighbours.
Fortunately ,excepting some bulb plants and helleborus in my garden nothing has started vegetation yet.
Jack your description of Spring sounds almost like poem :ha:
by the way I still remember smell of spring from Nitra.
Dalmatiansoap
03-02-2010, 04:20 PM
It starts with F... :ha:
Hmm.., wondering, what that might be?...
:nanadrink:
Hmm.., wondering, what that might be?...
:nanadrink:
somehow you managed to have children!:ha:
Dalmatiansoap
03-02-2010, 05:13 PM
somehow you managed to have children!:ha:
:ha::ha::ha:
I almost p*ssed myself
:nanadrink:
:woohoonaner:
Jack Daw
03-02-2010, 05:46 PM
:ha::ha::ha:
I almost p*ssed myself
:nanadrink:
:woohoonaner:
I hope not while trying to have those children. :ha:
The cold front coms from the North Sea and Scandinavia I hope we will not have soon same temperatures like our oversea neighbours.
Fortunately ,excepting some bulb plants and helleborus in my garden nothing has started vegetation yet.
Jack your description of Spring sounds almost like poem :ha:
by the way I still remember smell of spring from Nitra.
This year? Have you been/are you going to Agrokomplex in Nitra?
Seweryn
03-03-2010, 06:58 AM
I hope not while trying to have those children. :ha:
This year? Have you been/are you going to Agrokomplex in Nitra?
Nooo:( I have remebered it since 2008 :rolleyes:, I dont know maybe some properties of that soil in Nitra make this smell so extraordinary.
About his word which starts with F.. I have funny memories from Slovakia...
You know how is "look for" in Polish, don't you?:ha:
Jack Daw
03-03-2010, 09:23 AM
Nooo:( I have remebered it since 2008 :rolleyes:, I dont know maybe some properties of that soil in Nitra make this smell so extraordinary.
About his word which starts with F.. I have funny memories from Slovakia...
You know how is "look for" in Polish, don't you?:ha:
Yeah, a common joke here. When Polaks come to Slovakia, they always want to f*** something. :) And it always makes me laught. It's like Ante's langauge... Don't even try to guess what "kokot" means here. :ha:
Seweryn
03-03-2010, 10:39 AM
Do you think, I'v lived for 6 months in Slovakia na don't know what does it mean:ha:. J know all nasty words.:ha::ha::ha:
By the way in archaic polish it means chicken.:ha:
Dalmatiansoap
03-03-2010, 10:48 AM
Rooster in some areas of North Croatia:ha:
:woohoonaner:
Seweryn
03-03-2010, 11:09 AM
yeah, rooster is better word, but as I said it is archaic word and now nobady use it
Jack Daw
03-03-2010, 12:12 PM
Rooster in some areas of North Croatia:ha:
:woohoonaner:
And the list can go on and on. :)
How have you celebrated The Little One's birthday? 4 candles already? Or more?
Dalmatiansoap
03-03-2010, 04:09 PM
How have you celebrated The Little One's birthday? 4 candles already? Or more?
Four candles, yeap! Time to wash the dishes:ha::ha::ha: And time for the serious diet, again:ha::ha::ha:
:woohoonaner:
Jack Daw
03-03-2010, 04:32 PM
Four candles, yeap! Time to wash the dishes:ha::ha::ha: And time for the serious diet, again:ha::ha::ha:
:woohoonaner:
Diet? Why? Is it necessary? We live only once... walk it off. Spring's there so long walks shouldn't be a problem. ;)
Seweryn
03-05-2010, 12:21 PM
Why is so cold?! I am fed up with snow, freeze and ice I demand Spring return!:ha:
Ps, Jack do you sing nathional anthem?:ha:
Dalmatiansoap
03-05-2010, 12:31 PM
O yes, this it TOTALY wrong!!! And its going to be even colder tomorrow??
Jack Daw
03-05-2010, 04:45 PM
Ps, Jack do you sing nathional anthem?:ha:
Fuc*** comunists, God take them all to hell and may the rot and boil there!!! OPur anthem will soon become the most hated song of all times here. And this damn law was created by a man that doesn't even have children and has never raised anyone... F***, f*** damn f***. A******, stupid mother*******. To hell with these corrupt bastards!!!
Btw: they can't force this to academic field such as University (YeaH!!!!)
O yes, this it TOTALY wrong!!! And its going to be even colder tomorrow??
No it's not. :P
Dalmatiansoap
03-07-2010, 05:04 AM
Hahaha, belive it or not but we have a SNOW WARNING for Wednesday???
WTF:ha::ha::ha:
:woohoonaner:
Jack Daw
03-07-2010, 05:08 AM
Hahaha, belive it or not but we have a SNOW WARNING for Wednesday???
WTF:ha::ha::ha:
:woohoonaner:
Ow, this is going to be awesome!!! No snow warning here. LOL>. Just cold and let's hope there won't be any snow and it will rocket back to those pleasant temps again. Btw. it will be warming up since Tuesday. ;)
Dalmatiansoap
03-09-2010, 12:40 PM
Btw. it will be warming up since Tuesday. ;)
Any news on this one?
:woohoonaner:
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