Weather in the UT
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- Subject: Weather in the UT
- From: "* a* C* W* <c*@digitalpla.net>
- Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 09:15:55 -0700 (MST)
Graham Spencer writes:
>
> It seems from this list that most northern hemisphere listers are either
extra
> cold or extra wet - not good for irises - well TBs anyway. Maybe we
should ALL
> be growing siberians!
Many area are reporting higher than normal precipitation this winter, in
some cases dramatically so, but I am not aware, off hand, of any that are
experiencing unusual cold. We have had reports of record, or near record,
high temperatures (or at least, lack of cold) from Sweden, Britain, New
York, and the Southeast, among other areas. Even the ice storms that have
had such a devastating effect on eastern Canada and the northeastern states
were the result of milder than normal temperatures.
Here in Utah, we have had slightly below normal precipitation (much unlike
the last major El Nino event in the early '80's), but definitely higher
temperatures (8 degrees F above average January so far; yesterday it was
51F (10C) here and 56F (13C) in Salt Lake City - 20F above normal - and it
will be about the same today. With these higher temperatures much of our
precipitation has been falling as rain rather than snow. Thus, we currently
have near ideal conditions for the proliferation of Botrytis, our worst
iris problem, that usually don't occur until March. As we still have some
snow cover, too, it is impossible to tell what is actually going on at
rhizome level.
Jeff Walters in northern Utah (USDA Zone 4, Sunset Zone 2)
cwalters@digitalpla.net
