On 8/5/12 3:00 PM, Higgs Boson wrote:
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Wondering if anybody else is experiencing unusual weather.

Here, in So.Calif coastal, where I have observed the weather cycle for
[censored] years], everything used to be steady -- totally
predictable.

But this year, I fear that global warming is finally hitting home.
The Spring was so cool that my summer crops may not even be ready by
the time I go abroad (end Oct). May and June are *supposed* to be
cool and overcast -- the well-known "May grey/June gloom". Didn't
totally materialize. Now we are in August, and still having the
familiar "night and morning low clouds" -- words I've heard the radio
folks say since forever.

Mind you, personally I am delighted to have a pleasant summer; it's
just that crops are a little confused.

We usually get about 2 weeks hot & HUMID (I HATE) in August or
September. Be interesting to see if it
materializes this year.

Anyway, to summarize, I would be interested in others' reports of
weather anomalies.

HB


Some 30 miles from you, we had almost average winter chill (hours below
45F) between the start of November and the end of March. However,
almost 25% of the chill hours were in the last two weeks of March, after
my roses and peach tree were already blooming and thus too late to
benefit more deciduous woody plants.

Normally 70% or more of the rain we get falls between the start of
December and the end of February. This past rainy season saw only 18%
of the total fall in those three months. We have received 8.9 inches
since the start of October against an average of 13.1 inches.

June temperatures here this year, however, were within normal ranges.
Over the past seven years, the average minimum for June was 57F; and the
average maximum was 84F. This year, the average June minimum was 55F
and the average maximum was 84F.

See my Climate page per my signature below.

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David E. Ross
Climate: California Mediterranean, see
http://www.rossde.com/garden/climate.html
Gardening diary at http://www.rossde.com/garden/diary