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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.

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:ha::ha::ha:
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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

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We will have freezing temps the next 4 nights--lowest will be Tuesday at 27F.

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@ SBL: It actually freezes in Florida ? I didn't expect that.

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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.

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brrrr....looks like a couple nights into the 20's for you guys..

10 Day Weather Forecast for Pensacola, FL - weather.com

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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!

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We were down to 2C this morning. Its better allready now.
Unfortunally, looks that its going to rain again tonight.
:woohoonaner:

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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.

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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.

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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)

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@ 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?

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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

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@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, ...

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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 !

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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

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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.

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14C at the moment, heavy rain and strong South wind.
Causing lot of headaches arround :(.
:woohoonaner:

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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

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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

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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!

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Wow. Wouldn't wanna such a strong and bad wind. The fastest wind here was strong too, but only about 210km/hod.

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...

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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:

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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
:woohoonaner:

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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.

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WOW!
Thats a music I wouldnt be happy to hear. Is that close to U?

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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 Baños, 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.

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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.

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Welcome back Jack, who took care of your plants during your absence?

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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. ;)

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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!

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Please do communicate these interesting techniques when you have the time. It would certainly be an added value!:drum:

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You will be surprised how primitive this "technique" is. But it works. :D Better than people, who would forget to water the plants.

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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 -5°C and 1 or 2°C during the day...Here are some pics ...As you can see some bananas are under protection







Chamadorea radicalis on the right,trachycarpus fortunei on the left



Butia capitata on the left and protected phoenix canariensis on the right



What will survive?Spring will tell us...

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Hey Ivan,
that doesnt look good :(.
What do they say, how long it would last?
:woohoonaner:

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OOh, yuck. Souhait que vos paumes survivent.

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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.

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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





the vulture are flying above the house searching for a hypothetical food





An the donkey in th snow was given some hay

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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?

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I prefer snow than frost and the forecast isn't optimistic...

Central Europe temperatures today and forecast for Friday:(
It is good to be preserve by mountain ranges , isn't it Jack?

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Why do I get so many adverts on this page about Croatia and Zagreb? I don't get it. :D Ante, you hacker.

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 -24°C in the southern Central Europe. Fortunatelly, it got warmer after I was born.

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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 !

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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.

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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. ;)

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Still freezing in Poland, (I have -12C now)....
But it doesn't care the parrots which apper in Szprotawa (west Poland)





Jack you know I like provocative jocks (haven't any bad intentions:2725:)

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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

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Going for -1°C 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:

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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:

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:D :ha:

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Looks like we have new monsun season:ha:
Raining AGAIN
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