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Sat Apr 17, 2021 4:43 pm

Knock out roses here do look especially nice this spring.
Zone 9b, located in the Columbia bottomlands, annual rainfall 46”

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Tue Apr 20, 2021 1:03 pm

Suffice it to say that this April is the coldest since 1941. And the whole next week will not be better. :(
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Tue Apr 20, 2021 2:51 pm

As of today we are just 40 mm short of the record rain for April which was set in 1951, with ten days to go. Weather today? Overcast with a few showers... again.
I think the lack of sunshine is even more notable than the amount of rain. Tomato plants which in normal weather reach for the window and have to be rotated, are turning in toward the fluorescent light instead. :lol: I haven't moved em for weeks. :shock:
AgCan Zone 5a/USDA zone 4
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yearly precip 61 inches/1550 mm

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Tue Apr 20, 2021 3:15 pm

70 and sunshine yesterday, 28 and snow tonight. This is the new normal for my spring weather. I am glad to not have a greenhouse and high tunnel full of plants.

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Tue Apr 20, 2021 4:52 pm

This morning, around 9 AM
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This afternoon, around 2:
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:D

Tonight, down to around 28
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Tue Apr 20, 2021 5:15 pm

ness wrote: Tue Apr 20, 2021 4:52 pm This morning, around 9 AM

This afternoon, around 2:

:D

Tonight, down to around 28
This seems brutal. And I thought Ohio is bad.

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Tue Apr 20, 2021 7:11 pm

Wow! Looks like months apart.
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Tue Apr 20, 2021 8:43 pm

sunday, it was sunny, and 50.
monday it was blustery, and we got about 3 inches or so of snow.
today was better, sunny, but cold. weather is supposed to get
better the rest of the week.


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Wed Apr 21, 2021 1:53 am

I covered everything, but my blueberry plant because I thought it’s unnecessary, but I’m reading the flowers could be damaged at this temperature especially during the later stages. So went out at 2am to carry it inside.
Didn’t want to take chances when store bought blueberries are so expensive.
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Thu Apr 22, 2021 9:39 am

Got down below 32 last night and it's supposed to hit 33 again tonight. I brought everything in pots into the garage, but I had to cover my beds. Unfortunately it was also very windy and part of my cover blew off. :(

I think I only lost a few plants and I still have some extra seedlings kicking around, so hopefully I can replace anything that needs it once all is said and done. I'm hopeful that I can get my covers down more securely for tonight...

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Thu Apr 22, 2021 2:48 pm

Gosh, I saw an article in my news feed yesterday, about the concerns about the winter wheat crop in Kansas and elsewhere affected by this awful cold blast. There was a second article there about how that brutal freeze in Texas affected wheat there already this year.
You all have my sympathies. Late frosts are pretty routine here, so I know what that is like. :(
[mention]SweetClover[/mention] hope your covers stay down.
Wind last week managed to blow off the chicken wire and half the leaf mulch on one of my garlic beds.
I have some wheat planted out there under row cover which luckily has stayed in place held down by stray bits of board along the sides. Checked today and they have just sprouted, so I'll leave it on a little longer to keep the animals from eating it. Hope it is not at a vulnerable stage when our last frosts blow through. (never tried this before, so I may just find out why we don't grow wheat here).
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Thu Apr 22, 2021 3:52 pm

20C, 68 F here at 15:45. Big ENE wind blowing off the northern GOM keeping the temperatures tame. Slight Chance of rough weather tomorrow, tied up all my tomatoes to, fingers crossed, weather any major blow. No major heat or big deluges in the 10 day forecast, all systems go for continuing good tomato weather.
Zone 9b, located in the Columbia bottomlands, annual rainfall 46”

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Thu Apr 22, 2021 5:30 pm

It only got to 48° out back today, and tonight there is another freeze warning for much of the area, and a frost warning for the rest, due to the wind having died off some. Nothing I have out that will be bothered by the frost except my kaffir lime and bay laurel, which I'll move to the back porch. A week from today, the high is forecast to be 85°!! Talk about crazy weather.
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Fri Apr 23, 2021 5:37 pm

The other day, I just finished planting 100 gladioli, and 5 minutes later came the wind, rain, thunder, lightning, and hail. No need to water them in. ;)

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Fri Apr 23, 2021 5:42 pm

Severe weather. Tornado Watch.

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Fri Apr 23, 2021 6:05 pm

Raining cats and dogs.
Forest floor yard covered in water.
Worth
25 miles southeast of Waterloo Texas.

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Sat Apr 24, 2021 9:20 am

Storms rolled through here between 11pm and midnight. Lit up the sky, blew a bit, and dumped just shy of an inch of rain. Perfect, garden needed it. Sun out today, low wind and heading for 87 degrees, a significant upward revision from previous forecasts. Cooler tomorrow.
Zone 9b, located in the Columbia bottomlands, annual rainfall 46”

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Sat Apr 24, 2021 1:08 pm

Replanted all of my tomatoes following the hard freeze we had. Luckily, I only had 18 plants and I grew more than I needed. I always do, but this time it paid off for me.
The best things in life---are not things.

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Tue Apr 27, 2021 12:57 pm

Rain, rain and more rain. Today we surpassed the April record set in 1951. Still raining with rain forecast every day to the end of the month. Looks like it will pan out about triple the normal precipitation for the month.
I'm not looking at the forecast for May... I expect sunshine, lots of it!
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Tue Apr 27, 2021 1:52 pm

I'm with you [mention]Bower[/mention] for the sunshine in may
The behaviour of light means you observe me as i was then, and not as I am now.
I cannot change history, so I do hope i gave you a good impression of myself

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