WEATHER / CLIMATE
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Why I HATE Rain
by Wai`anae Steve- 2 replies
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Why can't it just rain up in the mountains, re-fill the aquifer and let me put water where I want it????? Anyway here are the totals for 2007. It's been drier this year, YEA!!!! Rain at my hale. Here is a link to the results of 10" of rain and no time to maintain it for about a month. Why I HATE rain. If you want to look at the whole Kong Hill story check it out here: Kong's Hill Story
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Royal got nailed last night,what do I do now?
by lpandroc- 8 replies
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Hi all..my 15ft Royal got hit nice last night...all fronds are turning a dark brown with a touch of green here and there...Im sure it will pull thru but what can I do or expect to happen in the days to follow?...Just let it heal itself, water??...cut off the fronds?...Thanks Lance Palm Harbor, FL
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Strong Freeze For North Florida
by tank- 35 replies
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They're calling a low of 21F for Thursday Morning here in Gainesville. Its still a long way off but considering it should get to around 81F today with a low around 60F tonight it appears we are in for a dramatic change. Big bummer.
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November ended warm and December is starting that way. Supposed to see a cooldown tomorrow but nothing too serious. The palms have slowed down now despite at least 2 straight weeks of mid 80's for highs and mid 60's for lows with a fair amount of humidity. This leads me to believe that a lot of palms' push to grow comes from the sun angle and intensity more than the temps this time of year. Everything is still slowly growing though. Rain would be nice. I don't think I had measurable rainfall in November...Hope December brings mild temps with some rain.
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Cold spell coming to socal
by ellidro- 6 replies
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The news and accuweather are calling for cold air to move in at the end of the week. Snow levels will drop to 3500 feet and coastal temps will be near freezing. Accuweather is calling for 34 degrees in Encinitas which would be the same low temp I had last year during the freeze. Good Luck and don't be a fool cover your tool, I mean palm!
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Update on this method of Climatic Observation.My earlier post explains the methodology,which identifies areas and their corresponding heating/cooling requirements.specifically,it identifies hot and cold spots. Texas- Brownsville-Cooling-127 hours;Heating-86 hours Harligen-Cooling-133 hours;Heating-106 hours Florida- Marathon-Cooling-355 hours;Heating-0 hours Miami-Cooling-318 hours;Heating-0 hours Ft.Lauderdale-Cooling-307 hours;Heating-0 hours Naples-Cooling-224 hours;Heating-16 hours West Palm-Cooling-239 hours;Heating-14 hours California- Los Angeles-Cooling-0 hours;Heating-207 hours Palm Springs-Cooling-0 hours;Heating-361 hours Arizona- …
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Queensland weather
by Cycadcenter- 5 replies
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Looks as though the central and southern Queensland coast are in for a bit of a blow in the next few days with a possibility of a cyclone forming of the Mackay area. I saw one prediction that it was shaping up like '74. Just saw thai posted on a weather blog................ All this scepticism about this cyclone remind me of the floods of 1886 .. I remember saying to the wife that the emus were roosting in the old gum tree again which usually meant rain. Well she wouldnt have a barr of it..Luckily we lived on a high ridge and after 40 days of cloudburst rain (the nights were fine though) the entire surrounding area was flooded to the sea to a depth of around 50 …
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Is winter over yet
by NBTX11- 1 reply
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Cheer up the average temperatures start going back up in January. At least here in TX, and in FL, they bottom out around now and start going back in the right direction. CA, probably not yet. In another couple months cold weather will be a distant memory.
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Leilani Estates HI
by jdapalms- 19 replies
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My rain gauge holds 5" and it is overflowing. It's still rainy at this moment and doesn't look like this letting up any time soon. The good news is that this area seems to handle this kind of rain well. This much rain in Southern Calif. would be a national disaster.
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Freezing degree-hours
by mjff- 10 replies
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What do you all think of this? I have started collecting data for my area regarding not only the low temperature, but the amount of sub-freezing temperatures experienced. Obviously, just about any palm could be walked through a deep freeze at -10 and survive with no damage, while I imagine many would be toast if you subjected them to 2 weeks of even mild freezing temperatures continuously. To capture both the severity and length of the freeze I am taking the hourly temperature observations for my area, then starting when temperatures drop below freezing and continuing until they rise above freezing, subtracting the actual temperatue from 32 degrees each hour, and…
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Growth markers for 2008
by PalmGuyWC- 1 reply
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Every year on Jan 1st I mark the palms that I want to check for frond growth for the coming year. I use the plastic ties that have an insert on one end. They are used for tieing up vines, etc. If it's a large palm I use two or three ties to make a ring. I then put it over the newest emerging sphere, usually a few inches long, and then at the end of the year it's easy to count the fronds that have grown into the ring. This way there is no gessing how fast your palm grew in a year. If I want to check how fast the emerging sphere is growing, rather than just put a mark with a waterproof felt tip pin where the sphere is emerging from a sheth, I stick a bamboo stake in the…
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Weather guessers
by galveston1602- 8 replies
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The earlier threads got me wondering if theres some sort of conspiracy amongst weathermen to make global warming in fact be true. so far every "cold" night weve had the weather men have called for 40-42 and every time without fail weve been 3-5 degrees cooler. It meay not be a big deal at 40-37 but 30-27 is a big deal, at least to me. anyway, I know its not my location as for the past few winters its been spot on, never more than a degree or 2 max. Oh well, I guess I just remember reading a few threads earlier this year from FL with similar happenings and thought id vent considering they were predicting 43 last night and i hit 36.9 Maybe I shouldnt pick on the wea…
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Phoenix area freezing again.
by Randy- 2 replies
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OK, It was a hard freeze last night (30°) and we're headed for at least two more back to back - tonight and tomorrow night. I will do whatever is necessary to protect my palms, but we deserve a break this year and a mild winter! Tonight Dec 26 Mostly Clear Low 31° Thu Dec 27 Sunny Low 28° Fri Dec 28 Mostly Sunny Low 33° Sat Dec 29 Partly Cloudy Low 34°
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Another CA freeze/frost possible
by Palmy- 28 replies
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Quoted from NOAA SF Bay area 3:09PM DEC 17 "A COLD FRONT PUSHES ACROSS THURSDAY. EACH MODEL RUN IS WETTER WITH THIS SYSTEM...BUT THE WINDS LOOK TO BE LESS. THIS SYSTEM WILL HAVE MUCH MORE COLD AIR WITH IT...SO HAVE MENTIONED SNOW DOWN TO 2500 FEET. WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED TO SEE A COATING OF SNOW FRIDAY MORNING IN THE HILLS. RIDGING BUILDS OVERHEAD FRIDAY INTO THE WEEKEND. FRIDAY AND SATURDAY MORNING LOOK TO BE QUITE COLD...WITH 20S AND 30S POSSIBLY WIDESPREAD ACROSS THE DISTRICT. THERE ARE TIMING ISSUES BUT IT LOOKS LIKE ANOTHER ROUND OF RAIN AND WIND IS POSSIBLE AROUND CHRISTMAS EVE" Perhaps a white christmas in the hills? Looks like its go…
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out of town last night-was it very cold???
by Patrick- 5 replies
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Hey guys, I went up to visit my dad in reno for christmas and when I came home tonight I was horrified when I checked the low temp. on my digital thermometer- 20.4 degrees F!!!! OUCH! Nothing was protected so I'm worrying (sort of) and asking you guys if you can confirm this?? I took a quick look tonight when I got home and nothing looked immediately horrible- but I know things might show up later.. So, I'm asking you guys in the east bay and beyond what your lows were last night so I can know whether or not to get a new thermometer and throw this old broken one (hopefully) out, or start mixing up the Daconil! Thanks. Pat
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Christmas Day weather 2007
by Walter John- 33 replies
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Prediction for Brisbane: A shower or two Min 19 (66 f) Max 27 (81 f) This is bound to change as we are still over 5 days out till santa.
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White world!
by Exotic Life- 26 replies
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Hi, We have got winter weather since last weekend... every night we got frost in the whole country... on the place where i live between the -2 to -4C = 28,4 to 24,8F but in the east the have got tempeture's to -8C/17.6F... I have got also 1 day that the tempeture don't got above freezing level! But the last 2 night's in some parts of the country the have got freezing fog. That give some white landscápe's... SOme picture of that can be seeing here... SInce last night also i have got freezing fog! I will place some picture's soon. Robbin
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Ocean in Hawaii
by bubba- 6 replies
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Hawaii is a big place with numerous islands and climates. I can not seem to find information on your surf temp.'s.Wave information is no problem. Can anyone chime in on your Ocean temperatures in respective locations?
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CA freeze or is it just me?
by Palmy- 13 replies
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Last night I got down to 27.6F. Hard freeze. Much of the ground was frozen till noon in the shade. Warmed up quickly when the sun came up. Scared me. Good thing all my cold tender palms were inside the greenhouse. Temp right now is 34F. Falling fast.
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NorCal wind
by mppalms- 17 replies
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I'm up on a northeast-facing hill in Menlo Park and am only glad that I'm not facing northwest. We're getting our first serious cold winds of the season. Apparently, a hibiscus standard wasn't rooted terribly well as it now indicates the wind direction quite clearly. So far, palms and really tall trees are happy; just twig damage and lots of leaves everywhere. Power is still on. Everyone else o.k.? I think the ground isn't saturated enough for there to be wind-related problems (yet). Jason
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Well, the storm came & the storm left [a few hours of rain & wind. Not exactly the rainfall amounts previously predicted but any moisture is most welcome Interesting segment of NWS-San Diego 12-07-2007 1645h POSIBLE FUNNEL CLOUDS AND WATERSPOUTS OVER THE OCEAN AND OVER LAND WEST OF THE MTNS TOMORROW. . . . There's an open door right up to Canada with weak impulses of COLD . . . COLD NORTHERLY FLOW WILL CONTINUE AS A DRY TROUGH COMES DOWN OUT OF CANADA MON AND TUE. SUN NIGHT AND MON NIGHT WILL BE COLD AND FROST WILL OCCUR IN THE COLDER VALLEYS...BUT IT APPEARS NO WIDESPREAD HARD FREEZE. What were rain totals? [looks like under an inch statewide…
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Heating and Cooling degrees are a good measure of climate.To calculate,you take your locations High and Low and divide.This number constitutes your average temperature for the day.To compute Cooling/Heating degrees, you take your locations average and add or subtract from 65F.Accordingly,if your average temperature was 70F.the Cooling degrees would be 5 for that particular day.Correspondingly, if the average temperature of a given day is 60F.,the Heating days would be 5. For the first 10 days of December, the numbers are as follows: Texas-Brownsville;C-72,H-11;Harligen;C-89,H-14;McAllen;C-102,H-16;Laredo;C-85;H-8 Florida-Key West-C-121,H-0;Miami-C-115,H-0;Ft.Laud.-C-…
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It was an active Atlantic hurricane season but the worst was confined to Mexico. Generally minor tropical storms across the Gulf as well. Aside from Brownsville, Texas was wet but nothing approaching hurricane force. This is very good news for palm aficionados' across Florida
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South Kona torrential rains!
by Al in Kona- 6 replies
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Last Wednesday afternoon many areas of south Kona (on the leeward side of the Big Island) experienced an intense electrical storm with very heavy rain at times resulting in raging waters rushing down-slope flooding and damaging some residences, moving cars and closing the main highway in several places. Gulches became raging rivers and waterfalls and in a period of less than four hours over 6 inches (152.4 mm) of rain had fallen in some places (slightly less in others), however, nearly all areas of 'mauka' Kona were touched by the storm. The storm was the result of an upper-atmosphere disturbance that collided with Kona's normal afternoon convective activity. The next d…
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Rain in SoCal
by steve 9atx- 27 replies
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I'm surprised my the lack of chatter re: the rain I see on radar in SoCal. Maybe everyone's outside with their heads back and their tongues in the air! Steve
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