March signals the start of gardening in Minnesota.
Seeding of annuals & tomatoes in the warm areas of the house or greenhouse.
Soon the snow & ice will disappear.
Gardens will come alive towards the end of the month.
March definitely ends winter!
Windy and hot. They are calling for 83F today and tomorrow. This is unnecessary, IMO.
Van Nuys, California (Airport)
Updated: 7:51 AM PST on March 01, 2013
64 °F
Clear
Humidity: 17%
Dew Point: 18 °F
Wind: 16 mph from the North
Pressure: 30.27 in (Rising)
Visibility: 10.0 miles
UV: 1 out of 16
Pollen: 9.60 out of 12
Thanks for the new thread.
45º and sunny.
Today:
Mar 1
54°F for a high
36°F tonight
Partly Cloudy
WIND:
NW at 10 mph
Sat
Mar 2
55°
34° tonight
NW at 15 mph
Sun
Mar 3
55°
37°
So much for all the hoopla of living in Florida!!! LOL
Low 30s and flurries all day. Good thing is they didn't accumulate any!! Roads have finally been widened so cars can get thru side by side.
Love the birds, Pepper
They're calling for 85F today. I'd be glad to give 20 to 30 degrees of that with anyone. I want a winter with some rain and days in the 50s before we head into summer.
Fuchsia-flowering gooseberry
I hate to post photos of so much snow after all those colorful photos up there, (like pepper's Black-Capped Chickadees and Cardinals and the fuchsia gooseberry).
Now this is some beautiful weather right here! - Actually, that was a few days ago but the snow is still here, 95% of it anyway! The last photo is after I shoveled some and shook the snow off of everything! -
This weather is kinda tolerable though compared to what upper Midwest like Minnesota and what Bernie probably deals with. Ours was just so scenic because it was just freezing or a little above and the wet snow stuck to EVERYTHING! Pepper has probably had twice as much snow a little further South and East of Kansas City, Mo.
The Rocky Oaks pond is all dried up but the ceanothus are having a good blooming year.
Well, looky there - Shortleaf IS still kicking!!! Great pictures, Will.
Yes, yes I am kicking! Thanks KayJones!
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Low to mid 30s today and sunny. Took advantage of the weather to go sledding in the yard with my nephew. It lasted all day and he plum wore me out. lol. A friend and her daughter joined us this afternoon. We both pushed the kids to get them going but I always fell into the snow so I got pretty wet. At one point I had snow up under my coat and hoodie and had to shake it out. lol. Lots of fun but the kids are gone now so I'm kicking back under a cover. Wet jeans and thermals don't feel good when they get cold!! lol
Pepper, I remember sledding with my Grandsons - I froze, but they were sweating! LOL
If I had put my bibs on I would have been sweating but as it was I was comforable. I was up and down the hill sledding at times myself and then falling all the time too. Plus walking in 2 feet of snow up and down the hill is a good workout too!! LOL
20% chance of rain today, which is about the same as 0%, though it is cloudy.
Van Nuys, California (Airport)
Updated: 7:51 AM PST on March 03, 2013
57 °F
Overcast
Humidity: 55%
Dew Point: 41 °F
Wind: Calm
Pressure: 30.06 in (Rising)
Visibility: 10.0 miles
UV: 0 out of 16
Pollen: 8.90 out of 12
California peony
29 º Sunshine.
Snow starting at 5 PM. Should last till Tuesday.
Whatever happened to Dyson dark?
An Alberta Clipper loaded up by a Pineapple Express is currently moving over my location (hello Bernie ;o).
More snow on top of the slushy wet too much snow we already have.
He spends his time here;
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1296629/
Was sunny then clouds moved in ahead of tomorrow's rain or snow. Highs in the low 40s. Roads melting finally but it will take some more time before yard melts!!
Wonderful Hawaii weather has returned. Ground is drying up, can finally get some gardening done
Light tradewind breezes, blue sky, light fluffy white clouds and temps mid 70's. Its been a wet cool winter and the plants are reacting like its spring.
Hey Kelli, that Fuchsia Flowering Gooseberry is neat. We had gooseberries back in England and I grow fuchsias here in Hawaii but combining the two, wow. We are zone 10-11 here on the Big Island so should grow here. Where can I get one. Next stop ebay.
I suppose you could get fuchsia-flowering gooseberry from a place dealing in California native plants. Offhand I don't know of a place that does mail order but then I've never looked, either.
Here's a place that lists them:
http://www.laspilitas.com/nature-of-california/plants/ribes-speciosum's
Temperature 27 Currently a winter weather advisory is in effect rain and sleet with flurries
Humidity 73%
Wind NE 3
Pressure 30.06
Dew point 20
Visibility 10
From now through Wednesday 1-10 inches of snow , About 5 inches? here , Winters staying a day or two longer this year!!! 57 by Sunday can you dig that? I can , and sure will if it gets there!!!! ^_^
This message was edited Mar 4, 2013 6:24 AM
a mean and ugly storm is leaving this province.....
Thanks Bernie.....glad to see Dyson is still around.
This message was edited Mar 4, 2013 4:50 PM
There is a small chance it could rain later this week.
Highs in mid 40s and mostly sunny all day. Rain/snow mix on it's way here.
4" snow last night. Now it is snowing again. About 1" since dark.
26º
Saskatchewan's -20C cold (though moderated) will soon be saying "Hello" to Texas.
That would be -4 F in American terms. ;)
Currently 32 degrees and snow , temperature falling now 34 all day with snow, wet heavy rainy snow!!,,lol
Snow totals are expected to be about 7 inches where I am.
I am sure looking forward to the upper 50's and such this weekend..!!! my oh my ,,(sigh)
Bitterly cold outside thanks to the wind coming out of the north today. Temps were in the mid 30s which would have been decent on a nonwindy day but windchills were in the teens. Snow is slowly melting too!! Should be mostly gone by weekend.
Beautiful morning. 15º & sun shining off all the new snow.
This morning we were colder than **** and now another Clipper is on its way.
edited to say the windchill was -38 Fahrenheit this am.
I am never going to see green grass or plants again.
This message was edited Mar 6, 2013 4:24 PM
we have never had snow this high in our yard in all the years we've lived here.
Time to go looking for ark plans.
(praying for a slooooooooooooooooooooooow snow melt).
This message was edited Mar 6, 2013 4:26 PM
50% chance of rain today. It's kind of dark out but not dark enough to rain.
Van Nuys, California (Airport)
Updated: 1:51 PM PST on March 06, 2013
58 °F
Overcast
Humidity: 56%
Dew Point: 42 °F
Wind: 5 mph Variable
Pressure: 30.05 in (Falling)
Visibility: 10.0 miles
UV: 2 out of 16
Pollen: 8.20 out of 12
Cloudy this morning then it cleared off this afternoon. Not too bad with temps in the high 30s today. Going to be in the 50s and 60s for the next several days.
Oh yes, lots of melting going on around here soon! It will be nice to be able to park my car on the street again, where lately big piles of snow are put by snowplows!
So is melting, melting, melting here. That rain over the last 3 days has helped a lot.
44º and mostly cloudy.
Got a micro trace of rain this morning
Nice and warm today with temps in the high 40s and sunshine!! Lots of melting going on now. By the time the weekend is over with most of the snow should be gone I think.
