My winter is mild and is only 3 months. I am happy about that due to I am not the best at waiting long periods of time, lol. We get a nice snow fall to ride four wheelers and snowmobiles and we build snow men and make snow angels. After a long day in the snow we go in and sit by the fire and drink home made hot cocoa. So what is yours like???
It's icky. :P Fall is really short here. Our frost starts in October and goes to mid April, we’re heading out of it, I hope, shouldn't see temps below 20 again this winter. It gets cold for about a month (December/January), -20F ish to 0F ish, and we ALWAYS have wind. And then it will be like it is now, 30F ish to 40F ish, (which is really nice you only have to ware one set of clothes) :D then slowly warm up again. There is more physical labor to be done in the winter then in the summer, which I like, especially because the ground is too icky to ride on. Our big snow this year was 14 inches, not too bad, it's pretty much gone though, and we're getting a fresh light dusting now. And of course, the bugs move in. :shock: I don't know why they just won't die. :roll:
We don't have much of a winter sometimes cold a little sometimes rain
kirk-o
It varies a lot from year to year.
This year was very mild a couple of weeks of cold weather, otherwise in the 40s to 50s. Last winter was cold so was the winter before that.
same for us rog, it varies but this winter it is mild. My dad says it used to snow by feet, now those times are gone and we get inches. The most snow we had this year in one setting was prob. 8 inches.
This year is pretty mild here to. We had a couple of snow days, and one really bad freezing rain storm. One day it got to 1.6 F. I think spring is starting. :lol:
funny buzz :lol:
Our growing season is actually shorter than Nebraska's. We get frost up until around Memorial Day, so I start most of my plants indoors. All the tomatoes get started inside and live on artificial light until Mid-May when I start hardening them off to get planted by Memorial Day.
Winter is cold here. Usually in the mid-30's but always in January we get 1-2 weeks of 0 to -5 with wind chills of -40 or so. There is always at least one huge snow storm, last one for us was 33 inches. We get "ocean effect" snow, similar to lake effect snow in Michigan. Basically the snow hits the ocean, then stalls and takes moisture and comes back on us from the coast for several hours. Today is warm, I could go out without a hat and gloves for more than 5 minutes :?
lol, guess what, it is snowing here again, adding to are 5 inches, dont know how much we are gonna get this time but I hope it isnt much, bye
overall our winter this year has been fairly mild here in northern Minnesota. Late December/January tend to be worst. We've had maybe 15 days of -10 or more(lowest was -44), but thats not to bad as long as it only lasts a week or so. Us norweigns, sit home and eat lefse and lutafisk when it gets to cold(we call it 1 tee shirt weather here) Steve
Today we have the snow. Coming down pretty good too.
it is suppose to get warm here for the next few days but then get back to the freezing weather it is right now, bye
We've also had a very mild winter. I like it that way. I haven't kept track of the temps, but it's hardly felt like winter at all.
Beth
Tonight was as cold as a well diggers @$$ in alaska. My face burnt so bad when comming in after feeding. I cant wait for this warm spell we are suppose to get, bye
It is too cold and too snowy. This year it is tooooooooo long.
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I know you dont want to here this but that looks so funny, sorry, bye :)
people can walk on water, and yes, there is a such thing as minus 0 degrees, but we do live in regular houses, not in igloos here in MN. It is not true that I will ever "get used to it". One year we had a garden covered with clear ice suddenly...while it made some very cool pictures, very few of the plants survived.
Sometime it's best to just stay inside...
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It's amazing how long this topic has been around - I see people posted here that have been AWOL for a long time, I hope they are all well.
New Jersey is intersting, we sometimes catch the Gulf Stream and others it is forced away by Canadian Clippers and hi/low fronts. We start colder days in Mid October and it comes on pretty quick, within 30 days it is fairly Winterlike many years but often we are fine into mid-November.
It tends to be overcast and in the low low teens (f) much of the Winter with a few cold spells keeping us at zero for a week or two at a time. Spring in always a coin toss, you never know if you'll see it starting up in March or May - it makes you wonder where April went sometimes.
We also are near sea-level (at least where I am) and we have heavy Fall and Spring fog issues that can come every evening and stay until nearly 10am before breaking. Last year I truly believe that my hives were lost due to the combination of heavy fog and humidity and huge temperature swings into late Spring.
My hives were still holding a good 30+ pounds of honey each and on good days flying in great number - then BAM they all seemed to kick the bucket within a few short days of each other. All looked good with the bee bodies, no visible infestation on them, in the comb or hive bodies. It just seems they couldn't shake the chill of the 100% humidity of fog, heavy winds and varying temperatures.
Lastly, Summers generally run in the high 80s-mid 90s with spells of 100+ lasting a week or two at a time. Honestly, I think most of this reflects a huge part of the country along the mid-coastal states. But it always makes for interesting beekeeping BECAUSE when the weather works out, you can really have bumper harvest of nectar and pollen flows.
Winter 96 till I find some of my other pictures. Sometimes winters are pretty dry in central PA
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RAIN!!!! i zeroed out my rain meter 4 days ago. it shows 3 inches today. it is warm. 50 degrees this am. that's unusual. for the rest of the winter, i'll be in rain gear...except when it freezes. when that happens, i'll spend my days breaking ice off the water troughs and trying not to fall on my face ;). then the east wind will blow and dry things. as a new storm comes in from the west, it will hit the very cold east wind and we'll have an ice storm. trees will come down and so will power lines......then the rain comes back. we get some snow, but not a lot. because we live at the edge of the Columbia River gorge, it's either rain or ice most of the time.
i'll look for some ice storm pictures.
there is a lot more work to do in the winter, but i wouldn't go back to city life for anything.
Winter in Spain is similar to California, but we have not to Schwarzenegger. :'(
He was here making the film Conan the Barbarian.
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about an inch of ice on everything. this was '98. we get one about every 3 to 4 years that shuts down everything. that's not snow. it's all ice.
Last year was up and down in this part of Arkansas with only a couple weeks of truly cold weather. Otherwise we normally get at least one ice storm a year as severe as kathyps' pictures.
David
:)I'll take snow before ice any day. Ice can be so destructive!Today we are going to see the 60's
A trip about a year ago to the Poconos I saw an entire mountain side of trees collapsed like dominos from ice. I had never seen such a massive destruction from nature - I can only aquaint it to the damage a volcano can do - I wish I had photos, it was a sight to see. I still wonder how drainage from heavy rains must flood down the mountain side compared to the days when tens of thousands of trees lined the massive hillside to absorb the water.
it's less about run off and more about ground saturation. it rains and rains, then we get ice and usually wind. over everything goes. in fact, the bigger and older the trees, the more weight and more breakage. natures way of renewal?
Pecan trees are especially brittle. Pines can be pretty resilient, I've seen them bent all the way down and by the end of spring are pretty much straight again.
David
usually it gets preaty cold hear but some years its all right.