WEATHER / CLIMATE
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Latest forecasts - some Aussie FMs
by Walter John- 27 replies
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To highlight how varied the weather here can be, here's a listing of weather forecasts for many of the forum members from Australia. Col of Kiama, NSW, Friday Fine, sunny Min 10°C Max 17°C Saturday Fine and mostly sunny Min 9°C Max 18°C Sunday Fine Min 10°C Max 19°C Monday Fine Min 10°C Max 20°C Daryl and Mike of Gold Coast, QLD. Friday Fine Min 8°C Max 22°C Saturday Fine Min 8°C Max 22°C Sunday Fine Min 12°C Max 23°C Monday Mostly fine Min 12°C Max 24°C Wal and Brod of Brisbane, QLD. Friday Fine Min 7°C Max 22°C Saturday Fine Min 9°C Max 22°C Sunday Fine Min 10°C Max 23°C Monday Fine Min 1…
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Freeze protection foam
by iwan- 27 replies
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On the local news this morning they were highlighting vendors at the Tulare AG Expo, the world's largest farm services expo. They were featuring a frost/freeze protection foam touting 10-20F protection. Here is the link. http://www.kenncomfg.com/fm0100.htm Some of the pictures look similar to http://www.jackfrostfoam.com/latest.htm I suspect it is way out of the price point that home gardeners could afford, but imagine the possibilites of a consumer product. BTW, this company is in the backyard of one of our members down in FL.
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HOPEFULLY...........
by floridasun- 27 replies
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I realy hope people dont start planting ugly frost tolerant "things". i mean not that there ugly but theres just too much of them already i wanna see some more coconuts and royals...... not indian hawthorne . just cause things might not look that great now, but were probably not gonna have a winter like this again in forever, so im not gonna give up planting things that do great here like PALMS, i mean we have 80s usualy in winter so why shouldnt we have coconut palms
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Water shortage in FL
by junglegalfla- 1 follower
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I read this article and found it pretty sickening. They are about to impose stricter watering restricitions here in St. Pete. I may have to find another hobby http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists...ory/936589.html
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What is the highest temp at which frost can form?
by Cocoa Beach Jason- 1 follower
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I am about to set an alarm on my weather station to alert me when the temp reaches a certain low. My goal is to be ready to cover palms when the theeat of frost is real. I know frost often forms above 32. What is the highest temperature at which you have seen frost form? Thank you in advance for your input.
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How Well Do The Appalachian Mountains Block Cold Air?
by PalmTreeDude- 27 replies
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How well do the Appalachian mountains block cold air? Are they simply not tall enough to block as much cold air as the Rockies on the West Coast (areas that share the same latitude as me on the West Coast and that are as far from the ocean as me are zone 9a/9b for the most part)? From this tempature map (I am currently just Southwest of Richmond) it seems like they do a good job. Although this is never something I really paid attention too (much).
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Santa Ana
by MattyB- 27 replies
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Well, it's bloody dry here the last two days. Luckily we haven't had the high winds along with it. Here's some local relative humidities for our area yesterday. The temp number represents how much warmer it was yesterday vs. tuesday. 14% Carlsbad +13F degrees 19% Downtown SD +12F 17% Imperial Beach +11F 10% Oceanside +15F 14% Otay Mesa +15F 12% Miramar +14F 12% Clairemont +20F 09% Ramona +18F 07% Alpine +18F 18% El Cajon +17F 16% Escondido +15F 13% Fallbrook +15F 18% Julian +10F 12% Campo +11F 11% Laguna +6F With RH's between 10% & 20% how's your palms look? I'm watering every morning. The more I pay attention to the weather, the more I apprec…
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I found a new USDA hardiness map for Florida
by Jimbean- 1 follower
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I always enjoy looking at these
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Frost
by PalmTreeDude- 27 replies
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I thought I'd start a thread about frost after seeing very thick frost this morning. How often does your climate get frost (if it even does)? Where are you located? Are you in a cold/warm microclimate or have any? Here in Virginia, near Chester, we get frost commonly during the Winter and late Fall. Tree canopy (I use Leyland Cypress for this, it works well) and close proximity to water can protect places here from a lot of the first frosts. Here was the frost this morning, the first picture is from my front yard (exposed to the West) and the second picture is from a lot with Leyland Cypress in it. Notice how the closer you get to the Leyland Cypress the less frost there …
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Palms etc. on my route to work
by PalmatierMeg- 27 replies
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Hello fellow palm lovers, I work on Little Pine Island, a Florida wildlife preserve my company is restoring to its native state. After 11 years of driving, I'd stopped thinking about my drive, which is not ordinary commute. On my way, I pass through the village of Matlacha (MAT-la-shay), population ~750 out of season. Matlacha is located mostly on its own island, connected to the mainland by a drawbridge across Matlacha Pass. It is a quirky, funky fishing village trying to remake itself as the art mecca of SW FL (what palm lover wouldn't covet a coconut postcard?). It is also loaded with palms and has more Jamaican tall coconuts in one place than I've seen (maybe LY do…
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Foreword Performing a quick search on this site will yield a significant amount of threads, recommendations, and opinions on the various brands of weather stations in regard to their accuracy and feature sets. A quick list includes: https://www.palmtalk.org/forum/topic/76321-my-new-weather-station https://www.palmtalk.org/forum/index.php?/topic/66495-best-home-weather-station/ https://www.palmtalk.org/forum/index.php?/topic/66232-outdoor-thermometer-recommendations/ https://www.palmtalk.org/forum/index.php?/topic/59865-weather-stations/ https://www.palmtalk.org/forum/index.php?/topic/55505-do-you-have-a-weather-station/ https://…
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Nasty Santa Ana - SoCal
by MattyB- 1 follower
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It's nasty out there right now. In Alpine at 2:45pm it's 93F with only 6% RH! I've never seen it at 6%, that's ridiculous. There are several large fires burning throughout the state and hundreds of small local canyon flare ups. Tomorrow is supposed to be hotter and drier.
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Details of the Texas Climate
by Jimbean- 27 replies
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For those of you in Texas, what tropical native plants grow where and how far north, and to what size?
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Strange summer in SW FL
by PalmatierMeg- 27 replies
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Here in the Cape Coral/Fort Myers area we are having the most bizarre rainy season weather I've seen in my 16+ years residence. It's becoming the rainy season that wasn't. It is July 17 and we've had rain on 2 days: July 2 - 8 inches and July 11 - 0.8 inches. Other than that - nada. Normally we get almost daily thunderstorms that form inland and travel west toward the Gulf. But for weeks we've had on-shore winds in which clouds form over the Gulf in early morning, then travel over us to rain inland. Or storms form just north and cross the state but never come further south. It's like we have a dome over us that deflects all rain elsewhere. Our skies stay blue and almost c…
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Lemon Grove is called " "the Best Climate on Earth" Vista is called "a Climatic Wonderland" both are about 8 miles inland both are famous for their perfect weather both are in the primo Sunset zone 23 WHICH TOWN HAS THE BEST PALM WEATHER IN THE WEST ????
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Blizzard coming
by Ed in Houston- 27 replies
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Get ready for the blizzard if you are in it's path. The weather is generally poor in the SE US into Thursday night. By Friday night, the blizzard will start to take hold starting in eastern Tennessee even down into Mississippi. After that a swath of the blizzard will pound the Mid-Atlantic including D.C. with up to two feet of snow and strong winds. Ed in Houston
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Hurricane Helene
by metalfan- 1 follower
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Darn it here we go again. The storm that promises to become Hurricane Helene has me in its potential path. We just sent Debbie away...I guess I will be moving plants, patio furniture and whatever else today
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The Eyjafjallajökull Effect
by happ- 1 follower
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Probably more a nuisance to air travel but the volcanic eruption of sulphur dioxide is considered a relatively minor event compared to past volcanic activity. Must be some beautiful sunrise\ sunsets in Europe! http://www.abc.net.au/environment/articles/2010/04/16/2874939.htm
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28F last night in Tallahassee & Crestveiw,FL
by Eric in Orlando- 26 replies
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Wow it was 28F last night in Tallahassee & Crestveiw,FL and is supposed to be in the low 30s tonight. We only were down to 54F last night. Why so cold in NW Florida?
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What has been the warmest temp this Spring?
by Palm crazy- 26 replies
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So far this spring it looks like most of the country is seeing some nice hot summer weather. So what has been the warmest temp for you this Spring? Here in Olympia, WA 91F/32.8C, Eastern WA 105F/40.5C. Not a recorder breaking by no means but still some HOT temps,… seems early this year!
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frost warning 11-12 Jan ......
by trioderob- 1 follower
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I am calling a frost warning for this fri/sat may get very cold for 2 nights in southern cal
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Low Temp/ Dew Point
by Scott- 26 replies
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Hi While checking local forecasts, I noticed the dew point is much lower than the forecasted low temp. I guess I don't understand. if the forecast low is 54 / 35, do I need to worry about possible frost? Thanks, Scott
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hard freeze warning......
by trioderob- 1 follower
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the arctic weather event for the central US has become worse than anticipated today. many areas will see weather events which would be considered severe even if they occurred in mid January. many areas in Texas and surrounding states will experience hard freezes over night that could kill unprotected palms. take precautions now to protect any sensitive plants (one complex factor for Texas will be cloud cover tonight.- in the event of a clear skys there will be a very damaging deep freeze)
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Tropical Cyclone 'Debbie'
by Tropicgardener- 26 replies
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It has been a quiet Cyclone season this year that was until Tropical Cyclone 'Debbie' decided to make her presence known....... Expected to make landfall as a severe Cat 4 Cyclone very close to here....... Not looking forward to the damage and trying to prepare the best I can for her onslaught either Monday or Tuesday.
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Interesting Soil Temp Map
by epicure3- 1 follower
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I don't remember seeing the Southeast so cold this time of year. Come to think of it, I have never Florida temps this low.
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