Re: TB: Bloom
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- Subject: Re: TB: Bloom
- From: J* M* <m*@bcgrizzly.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 02:25:02 -0600 (MDT)
At 09:12 PM 5/19/97 -0600, Jeff Walters wrote:
>Hi Everyone!
>
>The first TB of the year bloomed here today - the old, sunfast, bright
>yellow FOXFIRE (E. Fox, 53).
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Our first TB bloomed today also. It is 'Autumn Tryst' - always early but
usually not the first. If it follows it's habit it will repeat in late
Sept. Things are really out of sequence. Still a few MDB's to go, one third
of the SDB's haven't started. A few IB's were preceeded by a half-dozen
MTB's and no BB's yet. Perhaps a quarter of the AB's are in bloom.
More abnormalities are showing this year - One had 5 falls and 2 standards.
Heights seem rather erratic also. I presume this is in part at least due to
the long cool spring. Last week we finally got into the mid to high
eighties but it has cooled off again.
We are fortunate in avoiding frost damage though. The last frost we had was
Apr 12 at -1.5C. Nothing below -5C since Mar 15. Not bad but we just
haven't had the heat we should have had by now.
If you notice a inconsistency in the temperature scales you are right. I am
a volunteer weather recorder for Environment Canada and all records are
kept in the Celsius scale. It is a good scale for science and it makes
sense in the winter to have the freezing point of water at zero but I can't
feel warm at 35 or 40 degrees. So when we change to daylight saving time,
for my own use I convert to the Fahrenheit scale. At 95F I will feel warm.
At 35C I wonder when summer will arrive. Someday I think I will recalibrate
my thermometrs with zero as the freezing point and normal body temperature
at 100. When I do, I shall call it the Human scale. Another adventure in
pseudo-science!
John Montgomery
monashee@bcgrizzly.com
Vernon BC Zone 5
