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[digitS']

You will have more time to practice that "spring dance," Cane'. Take a look at the new 8 to 14 day map from NOAA's Climate Prediction Center:

http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/814day/index.php

I was just coming to the forum to show you that NOAA has changed its map with a scale at the bottom . "Normal" is in the center of the scale. You have to have some idea of what your "normal" is for the end of March/first of April.

Your spring dance may have helped things out here but the weather service says you will have to do a little more for there.

Normal, of course, is different from place to place. An example of normal might be seen on MontyJ's picture above. Altho', I know, he is saying the temperatures are too low for normal! (Where is that info I've got on Barrow, Alaska ?!)

What I want to point out is that the temperature swing averages about 12 to 13 for MontyJ. Just looking at the same information for my part of the world for the next few days shows daily temperature swings from about 21 to 23. Those differences between daily highs and lows can be hammered down into a "daily average temperature" which doesn't quite tell the whole story but . . . that's life (& gardening) in a semi-arid part of the world :/. Rebbetzin in Tucson could show us even more extreme differences between an afternoon high and the low at sunrise the next day .

Steve

 

[digitS']

Wow! Another tornado down in SW Washington State, Bobm??

That happens about every 10 years, I'd guess.

I90 was closed for awhile yesterday because of snow. It snowed off and on, off and on all day yesterday. Just after I turned on the greenhouse furnace - I walked back to the house thru the falling snow. I guess I should say "blowing" snow .

Steve

 

[vfem]

I woke up to frost this morning, low of 20 over night. Forgot to cover some things. Totally bummed!

There was frost on my windshield and there were beautiful spiderwebbing lines sprawling across in a million directions. When my daughter told me how pretty it was, I told her the frost fairies were ice skating on my glass to cover everything as quick as they could. She was in AWE!

She got out of the car at the drop off line at school and told the first teacher she saw that skating ice fairies frosted her mommy's car's window... but that was ok, because it wasn't safe to skate on the pond since it hadn't frozen.

 

[897tgigvib]

Ooooph, tornado! At least everybody is alright, and I sure hope all the cattle will be found in good health.

 

[so lucky]

Just thinking out loud here......This year's weather seems so extreme; but I remember last spring was so warm so fast, people were putting tomato plants out along with the cabbage and peas this early. I kept thinking "You're gonna be sorry!" but it never did get very cold again. So for me, the cold spring is even more disheartening after last spring. I have a few plants under lights in my basement, but not nearly as many as I had last year, and certainly not nearly as many as a lot of you have--Steve--to worry about. But still...

Nobody said Global Warming was going to be a picnic.:/

 

[897tgigvib]

Global warming might turn things in Greenland into a picnic though. I'm actually thinking, even I might be able to afford an acre there.

 

[bobm]

So, what is this big deal on global warming... hasn't it been going on since the last ICE AGE and when the Neanderthals were abundant in Europe ?

 

[canesisters]

 

[MontyJ]

That's me on the left cane. We are running 20 below normal yesterday and today and expected to stay at least 10 - 15 below normal for the foreseeable future.

 

[curly_kate]

50 degrees tomorrow, snow on Sun, Mon, then in the 30s all next week. I guess I have a lot to cram in tomorrow!