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Global warming or not, I'd rather have a frost right now compared to what's headed my way....
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Good luck you guys.
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Personally, I'd rather grow nanners without acid rain. Levi's right about the incredible seasons in Canada But he's right about the Tropics, too! With all the early cold stuff, I'd Luv to pack up my nanners & leave on the first boat out ! Btw, Good Luck with your citrus stuff, Sbl. Hope ya dont get hit too hard. Last edited by Eric : 11-08-2009 at 11:10 PM. |
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Take care all you guys likely to be in Ida's path - lol! usually it's us!
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Holy Bleep !! Thanx Cassie, wasn't even thinkin about Hurricanes (no frost)!
Just checked with the Weather Channel. As of 7:11 am ET, Ida has weakened to an 80 mph hurricane & is approching the mid gulf. It's supposed to make landfall, tonight, and Hurricane warnings are out for an area from Pascagoula Mississippi to Indian Pass, Florida. They think it might weaken to a tropical storm but that's bad enough! Good Luck, you guys, in the path of the storm. Might wanna do some things to protect those nanners! |
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It was warm yesterday and on Sunday. On Sunday it went up to 68F! Finally! I got to wear a t-shirt!
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The weather says this Friday we might have rain mixed with SNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dang, that's not suppose to come until mid December!!!!!! Hope that doesn't happen!
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Rain & snow!? Ouch! We'll be in the 70's for a little longer But, come Sunday, 50's with lows around 40, Brrrr! Think I'll hibernate in my electric blanket till spring!
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You might try Freezepruf next fall www.luquidfence.org . I live in St Louis MO and used it on my bananas ans they still look great on 11/12 (almost a month after our first frost). I understand it adds at least 5 degrees of cold tolerance so that would mean it could get down to 27 and most cold hardy bananas will be unharmed by freezing tempetures. Another tip is to plant you bananas up against the south or east side of you house, it will stay a couple degrees warmer within 5 feet of you house even without freezepruf. Good Luck
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It's been pretty warm this week. Finally the weathers been getting back on schedule! Whew!
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Ugh. Currently 19F here and massive amounts of snow and ice everywhere on earth. Hard to drive, hard to breathe, dry as all hell, and all together a huge pain in the arse. Oh well, at least it's 76 inside and nice and humid ^_^
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Removed an abbreviation, here, cause I dont know what it means. Snow? Is that that white stuff I saw coming out of the sky 2 winters ago? Jeeps! Stay home & Stay Warm . Last edited by Eric : 11-17-2009 at 04:31 PM. Reason: Used an abbreviation, dont know what it means. |
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There was one here back in the 70's--1977 I think. About 1 in 5 people here wrecked their car! There was another snow in the early 90s that stuck to some tree limbs--enough to make a snow ball or 2.
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That is weird. We had ours in 1976 and yours in 77. Considering the Sun is in a cycle every 11 years, that's 3 complete cycles... which is scary for this year/next. (due to inactivity)
We had a snow of 4 inches in 1888. Which is another number divisible of 11 and puts it in the same position of its cycle as 76/77. Am I on to something here? I'm not a scientist, but just observing facts http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...nspot-bfly.gif If you notice 1888 and 1976/7 are times of inactivity of sunspots. And with that comes cooler temps on Earth.
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I'll admit it, I want more CO2 to warm things up so I've got my smudge pot burning tonight to help protect my bunch hanging on my mystery banana plant (aka busy bee banana in 2008 photos). We had frost this morning and I sprayed everything down at 6:30am with water but it was already down to 41F by 9:30pm tonight so I moved stuff around outside for a bit.
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