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04-15-2008, 07:08 AM | #41 (permalink) |
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i understand about the crying jellyfish sky. richard im sorry to hear about your sprouts being "toast". and tea is good....my fav is earl grey tea. i love it. hopefully the iris' i covered will be ok. ee's, crotons, crab apple tree, sago, should be ok. 2 weeks to go before true spring is here. but the dogwoods are in full bloom.
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04-15-2008, 08:04 AM | #42 (permalink) |
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Yeah, well the Southern climate here is seriously screwed up, according to the locals. My landlady is in her 80's and she tells me that it has NEVER been this cold in April in her lifetime, nor has it rained this much. Ecuador is getting what has been called the wettest and coldest year on record; even the active volcanoes are getting SNOWED ON, and the south of Quito got a hailstorm that dumped 6 inches on the ground and closed the highways.
The dry season should have been underway weeks ago, but still it rains, and still it floods, and we've lost a number of people to it, not to mention the lowland crops of rice, soy, and oats; the pineapple crop is threatened, and the watermelons failed at the beginning of the rains. Flooding wiped out the shrimp crop as well. All this extra moisture means that the commercial banana growers are facing increased incidence of Sikatoga and oher fungal blights, so we might lose the Cavendishes. That would just about kill Ecuador; it's our primary export. Luckily, some of the big plantations have been starting to permaculture and produce coffee and papayas as well; this seems to up the fungal resistance of the nanners. This morning I'm looking out over a city that's buried in clouds, and it's about 5 C, which is colder than Quito is ever supposed to get. I suppose that later when I can see the top of the volcano, it will have snow. I'm worried about my hibiscus plants and my big barrel-stemmed Plantain, since it goes all droopy and has dropped leaves when it gets like this. |
04-19-2008, 11:09 PM | #43 (permalink) |
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Hard to ask for a better Spring/April. Mostly 60s and 70s for the past two weeks with sun just about everyday. Today's high was 87 degrees! Very dry here though. There are even reports of brush fires in the more rural parts of my area.
The forecast for all of next week has temperatures in the 70s. Most days are sunny too. Seriously, I'd like to see this April repeated every year! Just add a couple more rainy days so I don't have worry about watering the plants. Overall, I'd say this has been a super spring!
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04-19-2008, 11:20 PM | #44 (permalink) |
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Glady send you a few of our rainy days this year, it hasn't been dry since snow melted!
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04-20-2008, 08:23 AM | #45 (permalink) |
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we had rain lastnight, it is suppossed to be between 78-81* today. can anybody say woosa?. its like 52* right at this moment. but i dont care...school is almost over, i have nanas to plant, plam to plant, and plants to set out. and 2 monster nanas to place in my yard. i dont care about draging out the water hose. im happy to do it. (well the water hose has been run across the yard for a few days now.) im just glad to see that is gonna be hot! like my nana trees i dont like the cold.
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04-20-2008, 10:25 AM | #46 (permalink) |
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great spring day here! the whole day sun and 65 F / 18 C.
the next week the temperaturs willl stay between the 60 and 70 F / 15-20 C
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Winter is back.
It was -12*C/10*F last night with a 20 mph wind. It has been snowing all day and is forecast to dump about 2 1/2 feet on us by next Saturday before the temps finally get back to freezing. We came close to setting record low yesterday and are forecast to set a record low on Friday. I guess that we had summer already and are getting winter again. Allen
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Jeez, I saw that on Environment Canada, and I wasn't quite sure I believed it.... Yuck.
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Oh my.... Snow! We are with you Allen! I really hope you will get your last frost soon! Here in MTL it is quite warm ( around 20C), and the temperature at night dips at around 10C, which is very nice. Did you have a lot of things already out in your garden? I just started mine... because I was worried I would start it too early.
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Most people around here do not put plants in the ground until the last week of May. I was going to put my Glads and Cannas in the ground until I saw the extended forecast. I did take down my unheated palm shelter and took the lid off of my heated palm shelter. The lid is back on and so is the heat. My experiments in the unheated shelter appeared to be all dead as the temperatures reached -40* last winter.
I am pretty sure that I won't lose most of the 1400 tulips that my wife and I put in last fall. They had broken through the surface. The ground temperature and the snow cover seems to have kept them pretty close to freezing. The good news is that we will get about a foot of snow in total. It is supposed to clear off tonight. That will mean day time temperatures close to freezing and night time temps in the range of -15 to -18*C/0 to 5*F. We have been setting all time records most days for cold temperatures. My Living Room gets more cluttered every day as my bananas keep growing. I should be able to start putting them out days in the first week of May. The only thing that really pisses me off is the wind. I shoveled 10" - 18" snow drifts yesterday and this morning the sidewalks have drifted back in and I can't even see where I shoveled. I am going to let the snow in the driveway melt. Thank goodness for 4 wheel drive. Allen
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allen, im so sorry to hear about all the snow and the freezing temps you all are enduring. your tulips should be ok. we have had them in 2ft. of snow in michigan, and they did bloom. if you have daffidoils they will be fine too. i understand the "living room getting cluttered". i had all of my nanas and other plants in my den. we had to turn side ways to walk into the room, to get to the computer. hopefully you will have better weather very soon.
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Yuckers, Alan. You've just described why I moved away from Edmonton to be in the tropics.
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i might have to come down there and build me a tiki hut! lol! 2 seasons...hot then rainy. i could deal with that. lol
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Allen - hats off to you for growing nanas under such adverse conditions. But wait til your tulips some out!!!! Tulip envy here!
Here on the north coast the weather is perfect, but they had a tornado go through the centre of the island down the Cibao valley on Sunday that killed 1, injured about 19 and caused huge losses to the banana, plantain and rice crops - just when they were recovering from hurricanes Noel and Olga. We heard thunder with a clear sky, and later saw black, black clouds but didn't realise what was happening. Oh well - tings happen in de islands! And only one month until the start of the hurricane season on June 1!!!! If anyone is interested - these are the 2 best links for our weather although they don't become active until June 1, but I am a hurricane correspondent for the Dominican Republic on stormcarib. Hurricane and Storm Tracking Tropical Weather Information Cassie |
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We got our sentence commuted. The really cold temperatures are about 200 miles south east of here. No more snow. It is supposed to get above freezing on Friday and start raining. That should help get rid of the snow fast.
Right now I would really like to be in the islands or the North Coast of South America, even if Hurricane season is on the way. Growing bananas and palms is my way of coping with the local weather. Celine, I'm glad that your snow is gone. It appears that this weather system is going to move well North of you and will only give you a little rain. Allen
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Really, Alan? You'd prefer Colombia or Venezuela to Ecuador? Have you ever visited our beaches?
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Howdy ya'll from Texas. WOOHOO! We're back to 80 deg after a week of 70 deg, rain and hail. That was a bummer because my Nanner is fruiting!
I feel for all of you in the chilly regions. I just got a photo of the snow in Oregon, I lived there for 14 yrs in the cold and gray. We've been here 50 miles N of Houston for 6 yrs and I just love it. Tropical living, wearing shorts and capris are about it. And tending my nanners, we had no frost this winter so my nanners are very happy. Wishing you warm breezes................
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hey jewel im 350-400 miles away from houston....deeeeep south texas ever heard of mcallen,mission,brownsville.....well weather here is HOT!!!!!! no freezes, shorts yearround come over here and get a tan sometime :P
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That's great Allen! I really hope the weather gets better on your side of the country Even though I love south-like climates, I would miss the crazy winter storms of Canada XD The cross-country skiing, snowshoe-ing in the forest, sledding in the street, the silence of a field of snow..... Now I'm missing winter! Lol :P
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