First snow in your area

After reading these posts, sounds like Stephen at 58 degrees Latitude has the "warmest" weather, with a Christmas Cactus still blooming outside. Go figure! 😀

I bet Stephen has never heard of "thunder-snow" 😆 😆
And Wes at 49 Latitude still has flowers in bloom!

Bill, palm books recommend leaving older fronds on way past being yellow, even til they're brown. Dying palm fronds apparently continue to return nutrients into the plant.

Since you fertilize generously in the summer, your palms aren't going to be nutrient deficient.
But I'd wait til spring to cut fronds. And for palms the size of yours, tying them must be a two-person job.

Terdalfarm, looking forward to your pics.

...14-day f'cast updated. Temps moderating after this week. Stay warm til then everybody.

http://www.theweathernetwork.com/fourteenday/cabc0312

Barb

Believe it or not I've seen thundersnow once, in 1995/1996 - it's the most amazing thing and I'd love to see it again, unfortunately I havent seen another one for 13 years and unlikely to see one in my lifetime.. bad hey?

Believe it or not I've seen thundersnow once, in 1995/1996 - it's the most amazing thing and I'd love to see it again, unfortunately I havent seen another one for 13 years and unlikely to see one in my lifetime.. bad hey?

Come to Toronto, we usually have a few 'snow-thunder' events a winter. I'd never seen/heard of it until I moved here, but since then I've experienced it every winter... It just seems wrong!

Thunder snow is pretty cool, we get it fairly often too.

Bill

Barb, we still have geraniums and roses bloooming here too.
High made it to +10C but our low did get to -.2C with a light frost.
Barrie what is your lowest low so far this fall?
Mine is -1.7C

Very comparable Wes. I can't say for exact ceratin but -2°C is very likley the case on Dec 3 (am). No frost since.
All forecasts are calling for colder temps which vary for lows of -5°C to -7°C on the worst occasions.
EC is saying (at this point) possible wet snow showers by the time the weather shifts more towards normal.

Cheers, Barrie.

I woke up this morning to around 10 cm of snow! 👿 but they are saying thursday is supposed to be 10 degrees and rainy, so hopefully that will wash it away! 😆

Today is the first day snowing. There was plus 27C on Monday... The Roses are still blooming...

Oh no!
I hope Europe doesn't have the same winter as last year...too much snow and far too cold!

Keep your palm(s) warm, Igor.

Actually Kazakhstan is a very Asian country! 7 hours flying westward to the Netherland (Atlantic region, ) 6 hours to the Pacific region (Seuol, Korea) and 7 hours to Bangkok... We are quite distant either form the oceans or the civilisation.

My apologies Igor...
Was thinking of the south of former USSR...didn't realize how far east that was!

Barb

I'm not ready for winter!! I want summer to end in December! No snow here.......and hopefully not for another month!

There was snow here about an hour out of town 2 days ago. There was repots of snow in southern ontario as well as northern ontario and the eastern townships of quebec.

As for my city, no snow at all yet. The last 5 years weve barley had any, or it doesnt fall till after january. Last year we had 60cm, out of our regulat 150-300cm.

This post is from last December,except for where Igor posted.

Is this an early snow for you guys Igor?

I would say it's average date of the first snow. Last year it's happened two weeks earlier. Frost free season is about 185 days in Almaty.

We just missed our first snow last night. It snowed ~100km north of the city in Barrie last night. We did, however, have our first frost! There was a nice coating on the windshields as I was running to work this am!