impact of wrong weather conditions (1 Viewer)

erik

cheesehead

• Feb 5, 2004

• #1

The warm weather of the last days in europe causes many troubles, at least here in the netherlands. Hedgehocs have come out of their hidingplaces and toads have started to cross the roads again, with no volunteers available to help them. Butterflies are flying yet, mosquitos are (i dread that the most...) and they expect much trouble with returning birds, since there are a lot of insects getting active now and when the birds return there will be far less.
Will this be an annual thing that will rise till an everlasting summer?

 

Michael Frankis

conehead

• Feb 5, 2004

• #2

Hi Erik,

Yes it does cause problems - I remember reading last year that the early warm spring in southern England resulted in a very bad breeding season for tits, because the caterpillars hatched too early, and were gone by the time the tits were nesting

Michael

 

scampo

Steve Campsall

• Feb 6, 2004

• #3

I'm surprised really - warm winters are hardly a new thing. I can remember sitting out on Christmas Day in the early seventies.

 

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erik

cheesehead

• Feb 6, 2004

• #4

When i got home this morning i saw all diff kinds of spring flowers yet. They are way too early!

 

Gerry Hooper

Certified User

• Feb 6, 2004

• #5

The Black Headed Gulls were catching flies out of the air yesterday.
Blackbirds and sparrows are collecting nesting material already.
It's so warm here now and we've only had a couple of frosts since October!!
We'll probably have a frost in a month or so 'n that 'll kill off most of the new leaves.

 

scampo

Steve Campsall

• Feb 6, 2004

• #6

erik said:

When i got home this morning i saw all diff kinds of spring flowers yet. They are way too early!

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I think maybe that your memory is being affected by media hype, Erik! Since a youngster I can remember such comments appearing annually.

 

Adey Baker

Member

• Feb 6, 2004

• #7

And what's the betting that the weather-forecasters will be predicting 'unseasonal' snow comes April!

 

scampo

Steve Campsall

• Feb 6, 2004

• #8

Adey Baker said:

And what's the betting that the weather-forecasters will be predicting 'unseasonal' snow comes April!

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They might even predict unseasonal showers followed by on-time May flowers. Anything is possible. What really annoys me about the weather folks is their inability to remember anything and apologise for their amazing hype and errors.

 

scampo

Steve Campsall

• Feb 6, 2004

• #9

Gerry Hooper said:

The Black Headed Gulls were catching flies out of the air yesterday.
Blackbirds and sparrows are collecting nesting material already.
It's so warm here now and we've only had a couple of frosts since October!!
We'll probably have a frost in a month or so 'n that 'll kill off most of the new leaves.

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But you've always been known as the English Riviera!

(-:

 

Michael Frankis

conehead

• Feb 6, 2004

• #10

Adey Baker said:

And what's the betting that the weather-forecasters will be predicting 'unseasonal' snow comes April!

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Nothing unseasonal about snow in April - far more likely then than in December!

Newcastle once (1975) had 1½cm of snow lying on 2nd June, and nearby Consett (Co. Durham) had 15cm of it the same day.

Michael

 

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Denis J

Well-known member

• Feb 6, 2004

• #11

Michael Frankis said:

Nothing unseasonal about snow in April - far more likely then than in December!

Newcastle once (1975) had 1½cm of snow lying on 2nd June, and nearby Consett (Co. Durham) had 15cm of it the same day.

Michael

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A couple of years after that 77 or 78 I got caught in a blizzard on the North york moors in the last week of may no fun at all on a motor bike!

 

Adey Baker

Member

• Feb 6, 2004

• #12

If I had to choose just one month of the year to put money on for snow falling, locally, then I'd go for April every time!

I remember that cold spell in early June, 1975, Michael! All the young leaves on my local Ash trees were completely blackened by a really hard (for the time of year) frost.

And the gardeners were complaining of the damage done to their runner beans. I've never forgotten that, and I usually start mine off in pots in the greenhouse and plant them out well into June (there was a frost on the 7th of June a couple of years ago that did a lot of damage to runner beans all over the allotment site - except for mine which were still inside!)