El NINO

Rena · January 5, 2007

My Mom who lives in Tampa says that there is an article in the paper today on how we are going to continue to have a warm Winter/Spring?
Any thoughts?

travis · January 5, 2007

Newspaper article >> http://www.usatoday.com/weather/clim...ediction_x.htm

PV

Edited to reduce screen spread caused by large font in link.

travis · January 5, 2007

Sorry, double post.

May as well use this space for a comment.

As discussed earlier at T'ville, there already has been some adjustments made to the hardiness growing zones to account for an estimated 10*F increase in average winter temps.

The zone for my home moved from 6a to 6b. Parts of Western Kentucky just across the Ohio River from us moved from 6a to 7a, and a finger of 7a is shown running up our western county line and through the county to our west along the Wabash River some miles north of our county's northernmost line extended west.

All of this area I'm talkin' about used to be in Zone 6a on the USDA's maps.

PV

dcarch · January 5, 2007

Didn't they also predicted many many huricanes for 2006?

dcarch

Rena · January 5, 2007

I am sorry I did not pay ANY attention to that thread lol.

travis · January 5, 2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by dcarch

Didn't they also predicted many many huricanes for 2006?

dcarch

Yes they did, D, but if you read the article, you will find an explanation
of how El Niño has the effect of reducing Atlantic hurricane intensity.

PV

Edit: "El Niño also can do some good. It tends to take
the punch out of the Atlantic hurricane season by
generating crosswinds that can rip the storms apart —
good news for Florida's orange growers, for example."

Rena · January 5, 2007

El Nino=Early tomatoes

dcarch · January 5, 2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by IMISSCOLO

El Nino=Early tomatoes

El Nino=Early tomatoes=Even earlier blights

dcarch

landarc · January 5, 2007

Man, isn't somebody little Mister Sunshine today.

feldon30 · January 5, 2007

So maybe I'll watch the weather reports carefully and consider Feb 21st for a planting out!

travis · January 5, 2007

Here's a link to the changes from 1990 - 2006:

http://arborday.org/media/map_change.cfm

Yo, Feldon ... looks like you might be in Zone 9 now.

PV

feldon30 · January 5, 2007

I think I've gone from 9a to 9b.

giardiniere · January 5, 2007

I can't say that I mind the warmer winters that we have been having, and I can tolerate heat, better than extreme cold....... but please oh please, don't let kudzu make it's way this far north. :wink:

travis · January 5, 2007

Dave,

A few years ago, the SWCD told us we had the farthest north population of kudzu in Indiana here in Vanderburgh County, Indiana. We have three separate established infestations, the northernmost plot about 3 miles north of the Ohio River.

Then last summer, I went up to a seminar in Bloomington and saw a huge infestation in Shoals, Indiana about 60 miles north of here in latitude (and a little east).

Doncha wish someone would GM tomatoes with kudzu

PV

landarc · January 5, 2007

oh great Papa, now Monsanto will have a new project. Doesn't Yellow Pear have some kudzu in it already?

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Rena Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Warm Springs, GA Posts: 1,421	El NINO My Mom who lives in Tampa says that there is an article in the paper today on how we are going to continue to have a warm Winter/Spring? Any thoughts?

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landarc Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Left Coasty Posts: 964	Man, isn't somebody little Mister Sunshine today. __________________ Lets see...$10 for Worth and $5 for Fusion, man. Tomatoes are expensive! Bob

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travis Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Evansville, IN Posts: 2,984	Newspaper article >> http://www.usatoday.com/weather/clim...ediction_x.htm PV Edited to reduce screen spread caused by large font in link.

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giardiniere Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Zone 6, Southeast Kansas Posts: 364	I can't say that I mind the warmer winters that we have been having, and I can tolerate heat, better than extreme cold....... but please oh please, don't let kudzu make it's way this far north. :wink: __________________ Dave