bower wrote: ↑Tue Jan 21, 2025 2:11 pm I hope all you southerners enjoy the magic of snow cover, and every plant still green and recovering upon the melt, as if it was just a cool drink!

No joy here, record snowfall is nice for about 10 minutes. We'll probably have many dead fruit trees from this front. It should be interesting when the roads start freezing in the next few days. Most bridges are already closed with some curfews in effect.

31° and cloudy now so the snow on the ground is still there. Supposed to get to 36° today, but we are running out of daylight. 51° tomorrow, bring it on. Mucho tired already with not even a week of winter. No mas.

@Rajun Gardener I hope you're wrong about the fruit trees. I hope the ground stayed warm enough under the snow, and short enough not to be fatal. You might lose fruit or even some limbs, but hopefully not your trees.
Stay hardy my friend.

Zero joy here, below zero joy!

https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.p ... 2499999997

Anything citrus, figs, loquat or pomegranate will be dead with those temperatures.

Accuweather has Lafayette currently at 15° going to 9°, obliterating their all time low temperature record set in 1935 of 18°. Lafayette is in zone 9a. 9° is zone 7 type of cold. Crazy cold for south Louisiana.

-10*F for Wednesday morning here in Ohio.

karstopography wrote: ↑Tue Jan 21, 2025 9:48 pm Anything citrus, figs, loquat or pomegranate will be dead with those temperatures.

Accuweather has Lafayette currently at 15° going to 9°, obliterating their all time low temperature record set in 1935 of 18°. Lafayette is in zone 9a. 9° is zone 7 type of cold. Crazy cold for south Louisiana.

I have them all except pomegranate. I think the persimmon tree will make it but I'm guessing. I have a new grapefruit tree wrapped but I still think these prolonged temps will damage it.

I saw a low of 5 this morning, the sun is coming out now but we won't get above freezing till 3-4 today.

Figs grew in Massachusetts and 6° is Massachusetts type of cold. But, they tip over and bury the fig trees there for the winter, these are more like little bushes really and not the big trees we have down here.

Record low for the day on Tuesday at the airport of -19˚F, then it warmed up to 47˚ after 5pm, courtesy of another weather system. 68 degree difference in one day...trees and other sensitive vegetation are going to have a hard time this year.

We ended up with 1.25" of snow, enough to make things pretty, close schools and freeze onto the roads.

Tomorrow morning the low will be 14F, what the weatherman is calling "pipe buster cold". Then it gradually starts warming up and next Tuesday we'll be back to a high of about 60.

I'm sick of the cold.

Yesterday morning it got down to 10°, and 11° today, so still no single digits here, though it has been very windy with it. Got to 20° yesterday, and that is also the the forecast high for today, before it slowly starts rising, taking until Saturday to get back to around average of 41°. Nothing in the extended forecast above average.

https://www.accuweather.com/en/winter-w ... st/1736705

Florida breaks all time snow record. Laps the old record. First time blizzard conditions hit gulf coast.

We bottomed out at 18° this morning. 50° or so for high today. Sloppy with the snow and ice melting.

The garden looks pretty good all things considered.

About time we had decent cold weather.

Texas cracks me up though, how many times over the years have read on here and tville, Texans saying how it gets almost as cold there as up here. So this year it finally get a little cold, like it is for the half a typical winter here, and yall are ready for it to thaw.

JRinPA wrote: ↑Wed Jan 22, 2025 6:21 pm About time we had decent cold weather.

Texas cracks me up though, how many times over the years have read on here and tville, Texans saying how it gets almost as cold there as up here. So this year it finally get a little cold, like it is for the half a typical winter here, and yall are ready for it to thaw.

I hate cold weather!

We're down to -12C/10F here today - not as cold as Lafayette!! Plenty cold enough for me, I didn't bother to shovel the 4-5 cm of snow. Granted the windchill is -6F/ -21C. It's the coldest we've been, and the maybe two inches snow is as much cover as we've had so far. Well below average snow.
Our average winter temperatures are not this low. we maybe get a week, or two weeks of days this cold in a winter. I'm not a fan either, and I sure wouldn't want to face it without central heating.

@bower I wish my area had below average snow...we are double our normal monthly total for January, with more on the way this weekend. Temperatures still below freezing for highs but it may get to 41˚F(5˚C) tomorrow. There have been numerous complaints about freezing pipes, especially trailers and modular homes. And yes, I am a bit tired of the cold...

@pondgardener we're not the only ones North who had scanty snow so far. Saw this in Alaska.
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/weather ... is-winter/
We're just at the tips of that polar air on either side of the continent, where the jet stream plunges down, leaving us a little better off than average... for now.

https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/data/ice/spa ... ompare.png
Lake Erie, the most shallow of the great lakes, is mostly frozen over. Overall, ice coverage for all the Great Lakes combined is about average to date.

@bower I just received an email that a book linked below was available at our local library. I wonder if the January chapter only mentions making snowmen and snow angels? It looks like it is available on archive.org as well...
https://www.amazon.com/Rocky-Mountain-M ... 1591864348