Re: Forecast was right
gardenchat@hort.net
  • Subject: Re: Forecast was right
  • From: P* E* <g*@gmail.com>
  • Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:20:52 -0600
You're right Bonnie.  We have two or three years of drought before we get a
prolonged deluge.  Wonder what a "normal" year is like?  Hard to remember
the last time we had one.

On 1/22/10, BONNIE_HOLMES <bonnie_holmes@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Agree. For example, the last eight years we have had drought, especially
> severe 2006, 2007, 2008. This year we were over the norm for wet. Our
> climate has historically been high in rainfall. It takes a lot of years
> to establish climate.
>
>
> ETN Zone 7
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cyndi D Civ USAF AFMC 95 CS/SCOSI Johnson" <
> cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil>
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 5:40:17 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: RE: [CHAT] Forecast was right
>
> Weather is not climate...
>
> Cyndi
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
> Behalf Of andreah
> Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 2:20 PM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: RE: [CHAT] Forecast was right
>
> I concur. Global warming my a**.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
> Behalf
> Of aplfgcnys@aol.com
> Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 3:53 PM
> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Forecast was right
>
> Ouch! Hope you can get that back in shape before the weather
> getss good enough to garden.
> We had a week of extremely cold weather, but very little snow-
> not more than three inches. Now it's been back up into the 40s
> for a couple of days - and very gloomy and overcast. I can stand
> the cold weather better than the gloom - I find weather like this
> most depressing. Rain is predicted for this weekend. My son
> tell me it's not global warming - it's global weirding.
> Auralie
>
> In a message dated 1/22/2010 3:46:22 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> redfour@omni-tech.net writes:
>
> We get it here a few times in early winter, and then again in the early
> spring. This past bunch of storms presented us with 3 episodes of "ice
> fog", almost 30 inches of snow, and a couple of nasty ice storms.
> Global warming my a--. Did, however manage to slip and fall down my
> concrete front porch steps (5 of them) and suceeded in screwing up my
> back and tearing the rotor cuff in my left shoulder. Great winter so
> far, huh???
>
> Donna wrote:
> > This is the first year I heard news folks using the word, ice fog.
> Basically
> > it is an intense fog with limited to no visibility. But it sticks-
> forms
> ice-
> > on everything. It is terrible to drive in, but looks very pretty on
> the
> trees
> > (if you are close enough to see them in the fog) and when the fog
> first
> starts
> > to lift. Every branch/twig has a very thin ice coating.. of course,
> the
> roads
> > and every structure has it on there too...
> >
> > But it is weird to explain. It doesn't rain or like everything was
> wet
> and
> > ice formed.... the fog basically froze to cause the ice.
> >
> > I am sure it is common somewhere... but not here before this year.
> >
> > Donna
> >
> >
> > --- On Thu, 1/21/10, andreah <andreah@hargray.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Date: Thursday, January 21, 2010, 6:36 PM
> >
> >
> > What in the world is ice fog????
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
> Behalf
> > Of Donna
> > Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 1:17 PM
> > To: gardenchat@hort.net
> > Subject: RE: [CHAT] Forecast was right
> >
> > Stay Dry and safe..... looks terrible out there by the news reports.
> >
> > Here, we are having ice storms. Had one last night and another
> expected
> > today, then snow later in the weekend. sigh.
> >
> > Last week we had ice fog. Something new around here, guess it is due
> to
> the
> > global warming or something....
>
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX
zone 8A

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