The Last day of Winter?

[joebanks]

I've seen snow in the past 24 hours, just some stuff blowing through the air. But "they" are promising that it's over. I was checking back to old entries and we got our killing frost on November 9th; there is a light frost on the cars now, though it's 36 degrees. The old normal average date range for a heavy frost is October 15 through May 15; though i can't remember one as early as October in years. So if everything was as it once was, we could get cold weather for another month but, of the spotty kind. Unless we get a year without a summer: http://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/1816-year-without-a-summer/

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[rafqa]

Wow, I was expecting a volcano or something, and it seemed like it was just a horrible bizarre year of freezing temperatures; but then I read to the bitter end and there it was, a volcano. And they're always in Indonesia too.

Year without a spring?

I'm afraid things are progressing rather normally around here. Several years ago, we had a summer where it barely got out of the nineties-- I could do with another one of those.

I have a tomato plant that lived through the winter. I've already gotten 17 cherry tomatoes off of it.

[joebanks]

Yes, it was a volcano in the end. Still no telling where climate change could lead us.
Part of the problem is that closer to the lake it stays colder longer, it's like a giant freezer pack. I was a few miles south today and it was in the 60's, closer to home, the lake breeze takes over and it's in the 50's. Sometimes it's even more extreme with 20-25 degree differences in just a few miles. Maybe you will get a cooler summer?

That's amazing about the tomato plant, still eating mushy store bought stuff here. I managed to keep a parsley plant alive in our enclose porch, through the winter.

[rafqa]

In Willa Cather's Shadows On The Rock, the Recollet fathers grow lettuces indoors during the Quebec winter, behind walls stuffed with four feet of ash. I don't know if they came out white, though!

We have those micro-climates here too, all that water.

[usedtobeljsahlah]

Saying Hi! Been cold here too - we had a tease of a few days of warmer weather and zoom - back to freezing nights. 71 tomorrow, so they say. Happy Spring.