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We may be going for the warmest March ever! Almost constant 60s/70s for highs for next week and a half when the normals are low 40s/mid 20s for highs/lows. We will end up being fully leafed out by April 1st if this continues - 30 days early! And of course, a picture.



Saturday

Clear. High of 60F. Winds from the West at 10-25 mph with gusts to 35 mph.

Saturday Night

Clear in the evening, then partly cloudy. Low of 39F. Winds from the WSW at 10-20 mph.

Sunday

Partly cloudy in the morning, then mostly cloudy with a chance of rain. High of 63F. Winds from the SSW at 5-10 mph. Chance of rain 30%.

Sunday Night

Overcast with rain, then a chance of rain after midnight. Low of 43F. Winds from the SSE at 5-15 mph. Chance of rain 40% with rainfall amounts near 0.6 in. possible.

Monday

Overcast with a chance of rain in the morning, then partly cloudy with a chance of rain. High of 60F. Winds from the SW at 10-15 mph. Chance of rain 50%.

Monday Night

Overcast. Low of 45F. Winds from the WNW at 5-10 mph shifting to the SSW after midnight.

Tuesday

Overcast in the morning, then clear. High of 67F. Winds from the ESE at 5-10 mph.

Tuesday Night

Clear with a chance of a thunderstorm. Fog overnight. Low of 47F. Winds from the SE at 5-10 mph. Chance of rain 20%.

Wednesday

Clear with a chance of a thunderstorm. High of 73F. Winds from the SSE at 10-15 mph. Chance of rain 40%.

Wednesday Night

Partly cloudy with a chance of rain. Low of 49F. Winds less than 5 mph. Chance of rain 20%.

Thursday

Partly cloudy. High of 64F. Winds from the ENE at 5-10 mph.

Thursday Night

Partly cloudy. Low of 41F. Winds from the ESE at 5-10 mph.

Friday

Partly cloudy. High of 66F. Winds from the SE at 5-15 mph.

Friday Night

Clear. Low of 46F. Winds from the SE at 10-15 mph.

Saturday

Partly cloudy. High of 72F. Winds from the SSE at 10-15 mph.

Saturday Night

Partly cloudy with a chance of a thunderstorm. Low of 52F. Winds from the South at 10-20 mph. Chance of rain 20%.

Sunday

Mostly cloudy with a chance of a thunderstorm. High of 70F. Winds from the South at 10-15 mph. Chance of rain 40%.

Sunday Night

Mostly cloudy with a chance of a thunderstorm. Low of 55F. Winds from the South at 10-15 mph. Chance of rain 40%.

Monday

Partly cloudy with a chance of rain. High of 70F. Winds from the South at 15-20 mph. Chance of rain 30%.

Monday Night

Clear. Low of 55F. Winds from the South at 10-15 mph.

Wonderful news Tim.

You're gonna have to carve a new front door in your house soon.

Barb

Such a beautiful plant!

Great looking, compact Trachy........nice form. I took my Y. rostrata protection off the other day.

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Yucca with a top hat...looks great.

wxman, that original T. fortunei always looks great!

You all motivated me to take the wraps off of mine as well. Survived it's first winter just fine it appears.

At 66F, it's high time to let it free.
It's good to go!

Barb

Awesome job Wxman! I also uncovered my trachies this past week and they look as good as the day they were covered late last fall. We are facing a similar 15-day forecast here (60s and 70s as far as the eye can see). I think our climates are very similar.

What a luxury winter we had this year! I can only think of a handful of days that my trachys really needed to be protected. Probably could have survived this winter without being covered at all... Record warm winter, least snowfall that I can ever remember in a winter. There was never a time when there was more than an inch on the ground at my house the whole winter. 95% of the winter period there was technically zero snow. Just a handful of 1-2" snowfalls all winter. Dipped slightly below zero only twice at my house according to my tracking.

Meanwhile my unprotected yuccas have been actively growing for weeks now. Not a sign of cold damage whatsoever. The grass is even starting to green up in spots! I'll start a thread with some spring pictures of my in-ground stuff soon, along with some pics of the palms I have at our newly acquired Florida Z10b place.

What a winter,first one I could find( looking through 42 years) here where the temps never went below 0.

2F at my house and 0 officially at the airport.


Only 2 or 3 days below 20F in the Cactus enclosure, 14F once before they were covered and 12F after uncovered.

Isn't this just awesome Jim?!? Also funny how it is always colder at the airport.... (always that way here too). Officially (at the airport) this winter goes down as the 4th warmest of all time. I can remember a few nice ones in the early 1990s, but I don't think a can recall anything that beats this past winter. Some golf courses were open in February, I've seen motorcycles on the road every month including Dec, Jan, Feb. The only major snowstorm all season missed us here just south of the Twin Cities. We got a couple inches of rain and about an inch of snow at the end of it, the one that came through about 2 weeks ago. The snow was gone within a day or two. Meanwhile 30 miles north of here they got 10 inches out of it.

The storms missed us all season, and the real cold never came. Some lakes never completely froze over. There's many pissed off ice fishermen and snowmobilers in these parts! Up at the cabin (165 miles north of here) we had next to no snow too. I got the snowmobiles out on the trails only ONCE all season and that was just last weekend. Now the snow up there is about gone now too... Check out this site for our snow cover history this past winter: http://climate.umn.edu/doc/snowmap.htm We are in east-northeast Dakota county, while looking at one of the maps, look at the bottom right (southeast) of the state and count up from the south 5 counties while following the border with Wisconsin (east side). We are the 5th one up.

Yea,amazing!

We are getting rain now,looks like maybe an inch!

What a way to start off a week of mid 70s and possible 80F weather!

I am in the southeast part of my state too,second county up,third west of the river.

Hey guys, just uncovered my Windmill palms today, 2-3 weeks before the average. Normal temp. at this time here in Mirabel, Canada is +1c in the day and -9c in the night. But for the next 2 weeks, the forecast is +10 to +15c and almost no frost for the night, thx global warming...so i had no damage at all on the Trachy's. The lowest temp. was -23c this winter and with my protection, it went down to -6c so far inside the cage. Here's some video in youtube, but sorry is in french. But you can see the result. These videos was taken today.
http://youtu.be/Qf0LQIlyl0I
http://youtu.be/51sO5oxbQkI

Should be fine as long as the mild weather continues......nice looking trachy!