Gardening with Rabbits
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Cold and cloudy right now, 44 with a low of 33 for tonight.
I felt our spring was gone, and the summer is taking control in no time. The second heat wave is arriving, and the temperature might reach 30°C/86°F for a few days.I was reading this morning the reports from the US phenology network about Spring normals and for 2022.
They have reported on temperatures and plants (leafing out/blooming) for decades. This Spring was described as "patchy," again and again. Apparently, there is a great deal of regional differences - as we can see here on TEG .
We have had some Spring-like weather very recently. A little breezy but the temperature has been warmer. It was 46°f (8°C) yesterday morning. There was only one other morning this year as warm as that and it was in the middle of a couple of days of rain. Three weeks ago, that would be an expected afternoon high.
Where's the inconsistency in that? Well, we can look at the West. BIG area - almost 2,000,000 square miles (more than 4 times larger than Germany, where I can see some similarities between @Phaedra Geiermann 's Spring weather and ours ). Temperatures - Patchy. The common weather in the West is DRY. I'm running the sprinklers in the yard this morning. Oh, we've had rain. I was kinda humored by the WS service reporting a trace of rain just about every hour the other day - trace, trace, trace. The 24 hour total - "a Trace."
Supposed to be a little cooler today but sunny; maybe we will have less wind . Then, we will be back to "less than a tenth of an inch of rain" for tomorrow with morning temperatures back to near-freezing for a couple of days. With the consistency of our Spring, maybe we have had our last frost .
Steve