Has anybody here
Seen the fuzzy-wuzzy loving cup explosion? I think we missed it.
Along with spring, naturally. This Global Climate change thing is just sucking buttermilk.
It would be nice if we had three days of this, at the end of which I could till and put in some maters and peppers, but I don’t see that going on soon. Pissheads.
The entire month of May appears to have skipped town and we went straight to June.
In the PacNorWest, we got to April, decided we needed more Winter, went back to March, just now getting early April temps in mid-May. Had our last frost just last week, and last FREEZE just two weeks ago.
Snow kept piling up in the mountains until last week, now it’s melting, but half the snowpack up there should be down the rivers by now, and it isn’t. That means if we get some temps in the 80’s, or a warm rain, all that snow will come down the rivers at once…
I just pulled the winter covers off the hose bibs and opened the winter valves on them.
Supposedly, the La Nina is Neutral now, but we’re in the cold side of the North Pacific Oscillation, a REAL climate changer. The NPO lasts 30 years or so and then reverses. It’s about on time, the coldest and snowiest winter they ever had out here was 1950, two oscillations ago. We’ve just had a cold and VERY snowy (in the mountains) winter, very rainy down here at sea level. Set rain records in March and April, and May has been fairly wet also. We’ve got algae growing on moss, all carried around by the slug-army. I haven’t planted anything yet, but maybe next couple of weeks for the fastest tomatoes I can find. You need 90-120 days of good sunny weather for beefsteak ‘maters, and we’d be pushing that if I can’t get them going in another 2 weeks.
Fall is right around the corner…
It’s getting colder because it’s getting warmer. Get with the program. ;^)
It’s been a mostly cold,dry spring in the Colorado front range. It actually rained a bit this morning, felt like it could turn to snow.
In Texas, we have two seasons. “Summer and February”.
What passes for “Spring” here is pronounced correctly as “Thunderstorms”.
And Texas was warm, before “warming” was cool.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Jim’s in Texas’ better climate zone. Up in North Central Texas we have four seasons. They are December, January, February, and Hell. The only thing that separated North Texas from the Arctic’s frigid blast is a barbed wire fence. After February the earth’s rotation around Sol brings the state to perigee of the coronal mass ejections, so all we have to do is raise marshmallows and weenies on sticks a couple of feet overhead and have S’mores and hot dogs without needing to be anywhere near a grass fire, grill pit or reflective building in downtown Dallas, which converts their sidewalks to convection ovens for lovely exotic baked goods for commuters every spring and summer.