Re: Rainfall Map

Nope.  How often doesn't indicate month or season or WHEN.  Still thinking.
Kitty

From: "james singer" <jsinger@igc.org>
> How about "oftenness"?
>
> On Saturday, December 6, 2003, at 09:07 AM, Kitty wrote:
>
> > OK.  There should be a better term.  Frequency is a number of times,
> > doesn't
> > sound like it has to do with 'when' it occurs.  Both frequency and
> > time of
> > occurrence would be as important as how much.  Just ask any flood
> > victim.
> > Kitty
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "james singer" <jsinger@igc.org>
> > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2003 6:19 AM
> > Subject: Re: [CHAT] Rainfall Map
> >
> >
> >> I mean when [as in month] it rains. We get nearly all of ours during
> >> the "growing" season; California gets nearly all of its during the
> >> "dormant" season. Other places, such as Maryland, get it more evenly
> >> distributed during the year.
> >>
> >> On Friday, December 5, 2003, at 09:22 PM, Kitty wrote:
> >>
> >>>> If you take the volume of precip out of the equation, and leave only
> >>>> the frequency and the temps,
> >>>
> >>> Did you mean the frequency of the precipitation?
> >>>
> >>> Jim, I don't doubt that there is much more involved in growing plants
> >>> than
> >>> just cold & heat hardiness and precipitation.  Still, I think the map
> >>> is a
> >>> helpful tool.  To see a copy of the map and a brief summarization of
> >>> HCGs
> >>> explanation go to:
> >>> http://snurl.com/3agg
> >>>
> >>> Kitty
> >>>
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: "james singer" <jsinger@igc.org>
> >>> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> >>> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 5:50 PM
> >>> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Rainfall Map
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Rain map is an interesting idea. Do they really mean "rainfall [what
> >>>> is
> >>>> sleet, my sweet?]" or do they mean precipitation? I'm sure the
> >>>> amount
> >>>> of precipitation an area receives is an important factor in plant
> >>>> adaptability and/or hardiness. But I'm not sure what I know when I
> >>>> know
> >>>> it. Kitty's home away from home, Barrow, Alaska, probably gets as
> >>>> much
> >>>> precip as I get--I just get 90 percent of mine when the temps are in
> >>>> the 80s, below the high point on the heat zone and above the average
> >>>> [maybe, actually, median] point on USDA.
> >>>>
> >>>> If you take the volume of precip out of the equation, and leave only
> >>>> the frequency and the temps, Theresa's environment would be nearly
> >>>> the
> >>>> opposite of mine. Yet we have more growing experiences in common
> >>>> than
> >>>> I
> >>>> have with most of you and, perhaps, than she has with many of you.
> >>>>
> >>>> What makes the Sunset zones so accurate for the three Pacific coast
> >>>> states, Kitty, is that they are not based on gross data collected
> >>>> from
> >>>> weather stations [as are all the other "zone maps" I know of], but
> >>>> on
> >>>> Sunset Magazine's plea in the 1920s to its readers to keep track of
> >>>> their own weather and gardening experiences and share that data with
> >>>> the magazine.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Friday, December 5, 2003, at 10:25 AM, kmrsy@comcast.net wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> We've discussed USDA hardiness zones and AHS heat zones. And then
> >>>>> there's the sunset system etc. We've talked about southeast heat is
> >>>>> not
> >>>>> the same as southwest heat, especially the humidity.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I just received the new High Country Gardens catalogue. On pg 37
> >>>>> they
> >>>>> have a rainfall map. Perhaps you've seen one elsewhere, but I
> >>>>> haven't
> >>>>> and I find it very interesting. They show 6 zones in which the
> >>>>> rainfall
> >>>>> differs by 10 inch increments. In addition, they code all their
> >>>>> plants
> >>>>> to indicate somewhat, how much rainfall they can handle. This is
> >>>>> why
> >>>>> I
> >>>>> don't do well with Penstemons and Salvias. I'm in the 30-40 inches
> >>>>> per
> >>>>> year zone. Marge and Gene are in the 40-50 inches rainfall zone.
> >>>>> Texas
> >>>>> and OK span 3 zones from west to east. Jim is, of course, in the
> >>>>> 50-60+
> >>>>> zone.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I'm sure it is there, but I wasn't able to locate this map on the
> >>>>> HCG
> >>>>> website. But you should watch for it when your catalogue comes.
> >>>>> This
> >>>>> is
> >>>>> valuable information for any part of the country.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Kitty
> >>>>>
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> >>>> Island Jim
> >>>> Southwest Florida
> >>>> Zone 10
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