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Hi there.... I'm back on PC after melting from yesterday's glacial era here in Rome.... we reached zero ° as minimum and 5 ° as maximum and it's really an uncommon event for this place, especially on seaside....
Luckly today we got back to 15° in the night ....

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WoW Rick! What happend there? Any damadge on plants?

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Oh, I think you do, I think you do. :08:



Can't be. My Sicilian naner survived less with almost no damage. But I hope Rick's saw the weather forecast, before these sudden temps hit the town.

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Are U saying U still have plants outside on that temp.?

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Hi there. No damage on 'nanas here..... but the only nanas I've left outside unprotected ares a Basjoo and the Comune di Sicilia who survived without problems... all the others are sheltered by plastic layers like a small personal greenhouse...
And the strange thing is that even if the greenhouse are home made the nanas seems to apreciate it very much.... Thousand fingers, D.C., S.D.C. , Gran Nain and Musella Lasiocarpa are still actively growing even if the sprout a new leaf every 20 days more or less....
I know that the worst has yet to come in term of cold but for the moment can't complain....
My Thousand finger has grown so big inside the greenhouse that the leaves are becoming twisted because the push against greenhouse perimeter and every new cigar leaf almost pierce the roof layer.... LOL

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I dont have any greenhouse for bigger plants now. I did improvise a kind of half-shalter for few plants and all potted ones are under the deck so they cant get frost. 75% of them is allready dormant. No damadge yet but the lowest temp. so fare was 6.4C and thats unusually high considering the date.
Its going to be wet but plesant week now (about 15C) and than the big cooldown for weekend with frost possibiles and temps arround 0.

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So Ante if you don't have a green house you must take all your plants home :ha::ha: (like me)
My the biggest basjoo is about 3 m tall with the leaves and almost touch the ceiling.

Jack,
Don't be so decadent ;P (I have +2C )

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Lots of them. For example 40 Croatian Trachys from Makarska are still outside and only 5 of them planted in the ground. But they are protected by 30cm of snow, don't worry. :ha:



Poor you, Rick. :ha:
I don't know how you can bare that cold, pal. :08:



Let's not measure our ding dongs on this Sew, my climate's better in every aspect. :ha::ha::ha:

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Wow. That's roughly 1/3 of what we got in one day. And still, nothing was cancelled. :ha:
And you call yourselves Canadians. :08:

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Romans cancel everthing at the first flake of snow falling from the sky.....:08:

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We have something like that to:ha:
If snow gets you on island Hvar Hvar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia by any chance, you get free acomodation in next Summer season in one of hotels
:nanadrink:

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Rick, Ante, yup, but snow in your region is what? Like a once in a decade show? :08:


Yes, I know, when it's too cold, when it's too hot, when it's too strange, when it's almost lunch time... :D

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Could be worse. You could be in Russia. :ha:
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Forecast say that we ll have big cooldown tomorow night with strong winds!
Temp. might drop to 0C??? Thats allmost 19C drop in 24hrs.
I added some extra mulch on the soil but Im affraid most of leaf tissue will be gone :(

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Don't worry, be happy. Christmas is coming to the town. :08:

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Yes Jack, but Im not used to "White Christmas":ha:
:nanadrink:

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But your plants grow in the inner patio, am I right? So they are protected quite good against wind.
Short temperature drops should not be destructive too.
You can always make a big bonfire to heat them.

Christmas without snow is like night sky without stars!!!

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Smaller part is unprotected in the garden. They have a sort of wind shield.

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J just imagined that Big CocoCola's lorries drive in Makarska (you know that ad)

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Yeah, it's an unexpected, yet appreciated present. :ha:

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We don't have much snow here...it's just too darn cold to snow! We are having night time lows of 5 -12* F. S'posed to have a storm move in on Sat w/ high winds.... YUK. Can't go anywhere w/out my long undies on.

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Could you be so kind to hold that blizzard at your latitude please ?


I'm not ready for such a fast cooldown here.... yesterday I was surfing in the sea in front of my home ,that's still quite warm to be in December, and I forgot where I stored my snowboard... :08:

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Yeah... the sea was probably warmer than the air. Mediterranean is very warm compared to many seas at that latitude. :08:

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The sea should be still around 17° C, that's what I found out for Napoli, Italy (sorry no data for Rome) and for the sea here in Thessaloniki.

But we also expect a cooldown beginning at the weekend. Night temps are forecasted to drop below 0° C and only single digits during the day.

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:coldbanana::coldbanana::coldbanana::coldbanana::coldbanana:

What about your V.C. ???

It seems like Italy won the shipping contest against Greece.....

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I can't blieve to such s....t !

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Holly, that's terrible. When are you moving to California? :ha:

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Christmas without snow is wonderful!!! :jalapenonaner:

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Agree!!!
:nanadrink:
Even if all yesterdays winds are included!
Im in total mess today:ha:
:woohoonaner:

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Christmas without snow calls Easter!!!:ha::ha::ha:

We have similar amount of snow but it is usually in January.
Photo from 2008.


and from the last year

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OK, now it is getting serious. We are getting the lowest temp. so fare and Im affraid we might hit ZERO by morning :(.
Now, U can laugh:ha:

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Same here, strong winds and f...ing cold. Already 2 ° C /36 F now (9:50 p.m.) and we also might get frost tonight. The same applies for the next days - even down to - 3° C/26 F is forecasted. At least the wind shall become calm by tomorrow night. The highest gust was 55 km/h / 34 mph, that's 7 Beaufort!

We'll see how my Rajapuri will look like tomorrow. It's unprotected. The leaves are already shredded, so they "just" can get injured by the cold...

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I have other problems at the moment, lol. Its below 5C and my only heat source is AC:ha:
Time for group hug!
:nanadrink:

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:ha: :ha: :ha: :ha: :ha: :ha: :ha: :ha: :ha:

Why don`t you visit Germany...for a little warming-up. :ha:

Sorry, but that was......ahhhhhh.....:04::0490::banana_ba;)

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If things dont get better soon I ll start to pack Linda:ha:
We had minimum of 2C and thankfully is was bone dry cold so it is good after all. Tomorrow will be a bit warmer but than again Mon/Thu we ll have cooldown :(

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I can see the southern Croatian families packed in the kitchen, hugging and trying to get some warmth. :)
Ice, Part II. Coming soon!

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We have typical December temperature -3 C during day :)


:ha::ha::ha::ha::ha:

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the cold front hit hard the italian peninsula.... luckily Rome was sheltered a bit by Appennines mountains but we get near zero ° none the less.
My 'nanas outside bore the blunt fairly well except for the Thousand fingers who got the leaves a little toasted by the chill even if it was under its personal greenhouse... the leaves turned partially or totally brownish... not dry for for the moment but they didn't like the weather at all.
The SDC and DC seemed to stand better than T.F. thaat cold wave with no visual signal of damage....for the moment..
I looked at the weather forecast a few minutes ago and I got shivers down my spine... Tuesday will bring siberian frost and minimum should reache -2° that it's a rare event here in Rome in December.

Come on Ante I begged you to keep that cold in your zone... please Jack do your part too... I really can't stand a -2° temp... it's a genetic matter...

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Do I have to add a part of National population politics:ha:?
Whats your lowest so fare Rick?

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0° so far...........

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- 0.9 ° C so far here. The strong wind has stopped suddenly about an hour ago and now the temperature is going down rapidly. We expect - 3 ° tonight. Last night was - 0.3 °C
I added a heating cable with a temperature switch to my greenhouse. The temperature stays at around 10 ° C in there. Today it reached 25 ° C in full sunlight without the heating cable, which turns off at 12 ° C and with strong wind!
My Rajapuri and my California Gold outside in the ground still look green, but with shredded leaves from the wind. We'll see how they look tomorrow morning. They're still unprotected except for the mulch.

Wed/Thur there shall be snow and much lower temperatures...

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