Spring has been slow to arrive. My daffodils still aren’t in flower. But weather has been gorgeous this week and I’m taking advantage of it. And it’s now time to bet on April’s UAH temperature anomaly! And talk about whatever you like in comments.
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Bets close April 22.
Hopefully by now you have garlics growing. I have hundreds growing. I am late starting my garden. Came down with one of those antibiotic resistant strains; took two doses of steroids and 3 different anti-biotics to work.
Spring is here in Tohoku. Today I switched the memsahib’s car over to summer tyres. I’ll leave mine until later this week as I have to make a return trip across the mountains, and even this late, we can get snow.
This winter matches last winter, with 16 metres plus of snow. The numbers aren’t in yet, but it’s going to be either first or second in the snowfall record (since 1959).
First of the spring jobs is to replace the guttering damaged by ice. I hate that, hanging off the roof of a 3 story building, but needs must. I’m going to install heat rope to try to prevent future ice damage. Re-guttering, wiring and installing will be a serious challenge, I’m getting old and heights aren’t what they used to be.
The dreary rain and mud season has found the Great Lakes region. The harbingers of spring: crocuses and daffodils can be purchased in the grocery store, yet, for the native soil types, the long frozen earth has just begun to thaw.
As hibernation was not an option, the extended cold, ice & snow winter has worked themselves into my bones. I’m beginning to recognize this “feeling in my bones.” My fly-away to enchanted hot and dry lands was brief. I need to consider longer stays.
In the mean time I’m off to the grocery store for another potting of hothouse daffodils which will get planted when digging depth allows.
I phone my dear father today to wish him well on his little vacation with his eldest son.
However, as he lives in England I asked about the weather. Rain, rain and more rain.
78F and sunny today in SoCal with mild breezes out of the west. Just thought I’d give you some hope 🙂
We spent the last 1/2 of March in Ireland and I now clearly understand the origins of Irish coffee. It was foookin’ freezin’ with 5′ of snowfall overnight in Belfast… Sheesh!
20 inches of climate change fell over the weekend. I fired up the global-warming-blower on Sunday and took care of the first 12″, but another 8″ fell on Monday. The neighbor with a global-warming-plow was nice enough to clear much of what fell on Monday. SWMBO took care of the rest, bless her awesome heart.
I’m starting to feel like Pippin.
http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3tgnf7/
Here in SE England we’ve had a couple of frost-free mornings for the first time in ages. Buds appeared on trees and bushes in late Feb then for 6 weeks no progress on anything with temps rarely more than a couple of degrees above freezing. Now just cool and damp and grey – back to normal UK weather.
Correlation between secular global mean surface temperature and sun spot
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut4gl/mean:732/to:1965/normalise/compress:12/plot/sidc-ssn/mean:1044/normalise/compress:12
Yo Lucia, when’s the arctic minimum bet?
I have just done a test, and a zero prediction is invalid, as per my suggestion last month.
“Processing Entry
You forgot to enter a prediction.
I’m sorry mct, you made a mistake filling out the form. If you are human, please try again.”
mct hmm… Yes. That was probably to prevent bots who tend to enter nothing. I wrote the script before Roy rebaselined. At that time, 0 was usually a ridiculous guess also.