January Spring…
Mid-January around Nashville is rarely harsh. The past few years we have had only quick-and-done samplings of that white stuff — what do they call it? — oh, yeah, snow. And the daytime temperatures have traditionally been in the 30s and 40s. Thus far, 2007 is a horse of a different color, size, and shape. 60s and 70s during the days, lots of sunshine, even though today is overcast and dreary with some scattered rain showers. But it is rain, not the s word…
This eager little daffodil in our backyard yesterday, January 14
, 2007, about mid-day, had one bloom bursting out and several more holding back, waiting to see what happened to their trail-blazing buddy. The flowering trees are all budding out, the irises and tulips have poked their heads up, looked around, and decided the calendar is wrong. Too bad, because we are sure to have a hard freeze sometime before Spring actually arrives. Then all the early budders and bloomers will disappear, most not likely to resume their rote seasonal march until next year.
We really need a good hard freeze, one that lasts a couple or three weeks, just to stunt the population of bugs and weeds next summer. Oh, well, everything has its price. TANSTAAFL…
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Daffodils, eh?
As I look out the window, I see the snow and sleet that fell yesterday and froze, overnight, into a substance that has the crunchy consistency of styrofoam. It’s worse to the east of here, but I assure you we’d rename them doofus-dils if one were to try to bud out for the foreseeable future around here.
The temperature actually crawled up to 52 here today, but I stepped outside to see what Boss was up to and quickly retreated.
I’m still a Southerner at heart, anything below 60 is COLD!
It’s raining here but it’s also freezing. Not a good combo. Kind of like daffodils and January.
Oh man…just not normal for daffodils to bud in January! We actually have our first winter weather advisory for tonight..a slight chance of being cold enough for our rain to turn to sleet.
We’ve had a lot of flowers and trees blooming because of the unseasonablly warm weather here in Boston. I think spring is going to be very odd if these things do not somehow re-bloom.
Last week, it was somewhere around 68 degrees. Now it is 20. We never know what the weather will be.
Christmas Day was around 70, but got really cold that night.
They’ve been talking about snow all weekend, and it made all of us Chicago Bear fans a little nervous that something might mess with the BIG game today. But, no such storm appeared. Other than waking up to 30 degrees and a very light icy glaze on everything this morning, we haven’t seen anything yet.
wow, amazing on the weather differences. A good freeze is needed every year here too– keeping down bugs, good for some plants. We sure have been getting ours this year.
No snow in NYC, either. Sigh. But Winston, I recall as a kid that Nashville got some pretty good snowfalls every year. Many’s the time we’d work our way up from Chattanooga to family in Nashville and Henrietta to find lots of snow. Don’t tell me N-town doesn’t get snow anymore!
Sorry, MaryB, but we have not seen more than a dusting in several years now. I guess these things run in cycles, so it will probably be back. This year I have yet to see a flake. Well, I take that back, there was this strange dude over at Barnes & Noble last week…
We certainly are going through a freeze here right now. I would love a little sprinkling of snow. It has been a number of years since that has happened.
No winter here yet in Germany. Rain not snow and +4C
Yesterday was dry, clear skies, +6C in our valley(700 ft) and even +2C up in the hills (2500 ft). I went motorcycling. Great
Roll on summer.
The weather today in SE England is dreary, rainy, not very cold and generally depressing. We’ve had a couple of nights recently which have been sharp and sparkly, with all of the stars in full view, and you think you’re going to wake up to a good frosty morning but it just doesn’t happen.
There have been warnings of ’severe’ weather for tomorrow or the next day but this means more rain and gale force winds (which seem to be increasingly common this year) over much of the country, I think.
Oh for the good old days when we had proper weather.
I think everyone should move to the “sun belt.” That way, we can leave the world which freezes up in the winter to nature, and great things would happen.
On the other hand, it might get a little crowded down “south of somewhere” (a phrase I use and like).
I think mankind should pay attention to global warming and stop screwing up.
I think climate change is a normal part of the world’s processes, and we’d better remember that, also, while we work on stopping screwing up.