WEATHER / CLIMATE
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Farewell to the Solar Winter....
by sipalms- 1 reply
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Today marks the end of the Solar Winter for the Southern Hemisphere. (I.e. the 3 months making up the 6 weeks either side of the shortest day...) Farewell. I noticed this at Hagley Park last week. Looks like spring has already sprung. (mind the repost).
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Snow in Los Angeles
by JasonD- 1 reply
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It hasn't snowed in downtown Los Angeles since 1962, but it used to do so every decade or so: Here's an article from KCET TV with lots of cool pictures.
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Previous discussions on the matter can be found here: https://www.palmtalk.org/forum/index.php?/topic/65273-the-italian-south-is-a-subtropical-paradise/ https://www.palmtalk.org/forum/index.php?/topic/65544-the-italian-south-is-a-subtropical-paradise-part-2 I will reiterate my case that the Italian South is a subtropical paradise, as @UK_Palms has been proven to be obnoxious troll with his rant. Even with the recent cold outbreaks that have happened this season thus far, many areas of the Italian South still have yet to go below 50F, especially in areas of Sicily, Apulia, and Calabria. That means that all the mentioned areas in winter will (and are) going t…
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It's all in the microclimate!
by Mauna Kea Cloudforest- 1 follower
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This Morning there is a light offshore breeze under a pretty strong inversion layer, the strongest I've seen this year. With crystal clear skies, even though it was in the mid 70's yesterday, this Morning, low lying locations in the Santa Cruz Coastal Mountains are as low as 24F at 300 feet to 55F at 1,000 feet. That's a massive difference in temperature!
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whati is the thursday freeze prognosis for North FL
by edbrown_III- 1 reply
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what is a good site to get freeze forecast for Jacksonville and other cities in North Florida. Still have many plants to hustle in the big gree house ---- salute
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What the.....Barry?
by cfkingfish- 1 reply
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I have a small sale today at the nursery and theres a tropical storm NW of me. I never got the memo!
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Here We Go Again
by sur4z- 1 reply
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I hope not! The 2010 freeze killed my favorite palm...P. pacifica with 10 ft of wood. Winter isn’t over yet; March chill in Florida forecast
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Hurricane Kathleen CALIFORNIA 1976
by DoomsDave- 1 reply
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I thought we didn't get 'canes here in Cali. Turns out I was wrong. There was a hurricane, Kathleen that reached the California and Arizona deserts in 1976. Didn't make the news that I can recall. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Kathleen_(1976) Anyone have memories? "Hurricane Kathleen was a tropical cyclone that caused destructive impacts in California. On September 7, 1976, a tropical depression formed; two days later it accelerated north towards the Baja California Peninsula. Kathleen brushed the Pacific coast of the peninsula as a hurricane on September 9 and made landfall as a fast-moving tropical storm the next day. With its cir…
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Heating cables
by MKIVRYAN- 1 reply
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Just wondering if anybody has any links to decently priced heating cables just in case the winter gets bad. TIA
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How cold did it get? January 2019 low temps for some cities
by Sabal_Louisiana- 1 reply
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For many of these locations, readings may be the lowest temperatures of the winter. Displayed in degrees Fahrenheit US.pdf GLOBAL.pdf
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Fires then floods in Oz
by sandgroper- 1 reply
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A picture says a thousand words they reckon, these pics were taken in the same place 4 weeks apart.
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La Nina Autumn 2020
by Tracy- 1 reply
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La Nina patterns or cooler equatorial sea surface temps from the Central Pacific through to the Easter Tropical Pacific are occurring right now. These patterns often lead to dry and clear Autumn and Winter weather patterns here in Southern California where I live. The west coast just experienced a typical La Nina weather pattern last weekend with an inside slider storm coming down the coast with strong winds and leaving us now with cool dry nights and no marine layer. I hope that this isn't a sign of what is to come as we get deeper into Autumn and enter Winter. With clear skies, I bottomed out at 39 degrees last night, and even the weather station at Moonlight Beach …
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Filifera Eclipse photos!
by SailorBold- 1 reply
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Was lucky to see the "Ring of Fire" eclipse on Saturday morning.. It made beautiful and striking shadows that shimmered.. here are some pictures I took of the shadows.. coming off my Washingtonia Filiferas and Eucalyptus.. It was really fascinating..the weather was perfect for it..not a cloud in the sky. Im also attaching some of my weather station data which recorded a temperature drop! I figured Id share because from what I understand it won't happen here for another 300 years!
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looks like the Blokes down under are now stating the the first sign of EL NINO have begun http://www.theage.com.au/environment/weather/el-nino-to-bring-a-hot-dry-summer-20141118-11p4a2.html
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Cali warmup
by enigma99- 1 reply
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Here comes the warmth starting this weekend. Palms should be happy.. As I said, Jan 14th is a magic date for us in NorCal and it's right on target for this year.
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Off Season California Rain?
by Jubaea- 1 reply
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In June we picked up over 3/4" of rain, which is really unusual for Santa Barbara for the normally dry month of June. This was a 1 day rain event that lasted most of the day. Now they are predicting tropical moisture and a cold front to pass by here this weekend/early next week and . I'm wondering what we may get here with this other unusual situation. I hope this materializes and that it is the precursor for the rainy season.
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Weathermen do have a sense of humor
by galveston1602- 1 reply
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While reading through the local discussion I came across this and thought it was worth posting.... needles to say it was a long discussion and pay attention to the last sentence Problem 3: one of the very few times I hope a forecast busts...but it appears southeast Texas could see some significant ice problems early in the week as colder air filters in and overrunning moisture and disturbances prolong the precipitation into midweek. Threat appears to begin late Monday afternoon across northern portions of the County Warning Area as temperatures fall below freezing. Then as the remainder of the area falls below freezing Monday nt...threat expands to almost …
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August thread
by Exotic Life- 1 reply
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Hi, Here the new month thread. July was bad with cool tempeture's and a lot of rain. August startst a lot better, we egt tempetures now that we don't have see only one time before in July. Today i have got almost 24C/75.2F and only sun! Summer Normal average Day: 22C/71.6F Night: 13C/55.4F Thursday 02-09 Day: 23C/73.4F Night: 12C/53.6F Sunny and dry. Friday 03-09 Day: 25C/77F Night: 12C/53.6F Sunny and dry. Saturday 04-09 Day: 27C/80.6F Night: 13C/55.4F Sunny and dry. Sunday 05-09 Day: 29C/84.2F Night: 15C/59F Sunny and dry. Monday 06-09 Day: 24C/75.2F Night: 16C/60.8F Sunny and dry. So good weather to start august!
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Seattle sees Rare White Christmas Dec 2017
by Matthew92- 1 reply
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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/12/25/seattle-sees-first-white-christmas-in-nearly-decade.html Palm crazy, you got snow on the ground?
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A San Francisco ..."Monsoon.."
by Silas_Sancona- 1 reply
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As suggested over in the "Current Temperatures" Thread yesterday, a surge of moisture ( 2nd across CA. yesterday ) had been forecast to makes it's way from down by Santa Barbara and make a rare visit to a region of CA. which rarely gets to enjoy summer thunderstorm activity. Around/ after 2AM, compact but vigorous storms came ashore around Monterey/Santa Cruz and continue marching north/northeast across the Bay Area towards/ over Sacramento and the northern half of CA. While not completely unheard of, Thunderstorm activity across this area of the state is normally brief, weak and something that happens only once or twice every few years. Bigger storm events are ev…
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Location Location Location
by JakeK- 1 reply
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Everybody in California & Florida know about how slight changes in elevation & location can mean life or death especially after this winter, but the same applies for us out in the arctic. Check out the temperature spread in Cincinnati right now at 11:15pm CVG: 9*F (official) Luken Airport: 13*F Lebanon: 2*F Hamilton: -2*F Downtown: 17*F Mt. Adams: 17.7*F (my apartment)
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Earthquake australia
by Palmpirates- 1 reply
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They said we had an earth quake today in canberra ,act major damage 3.6 mag they think a couple lawn chairs fell over
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While perusing a few threads referencing the 1835 freeze, 1894-1895 freeze and the 1899 freeze, there were a few mentions of this book. There are used copies available on Amazon for less than $20 so I decided to order it. After reading it, I’d certainly recommend it. While the content is presented primarily from the point of view of someone interested in commercial citrus growing, the information about each of the events is certainly relevant to palm horticulture. The book was a welcome relief from staring at a screen all day after working a job that typically centers around doing the same. There are a lot of references and to the small cities throughout the stat…
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Premlimnary 7.4 mag. Oaxaca Earthquake
by Silas_Sancona- 1 reply
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Just saw this posted to Twitter.. Potential Tsunami threat for the west coast of Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras ( within 1000km of the quake's epicenter ) issued as well.. Hope our neighbors in that region of the world are safe..
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Another cold winter for Holland
by Texeltropics- 1 reply
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Its cold in Holland again. In parts of Holland there is more than 10 cm of Snow. The Island in the north where i live there is no snow yet and not such low temperatures only -4,9 celsius at 9.00 am