On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 09:35:31 +0000, Sacha wrote:

No snow here this morning but bright sunshine and a very cold wind. My
son sent me a photo of the lane close to his house in Grouville. It's
full of snow and the hedges are invisible. I haven't seen snow like that
in Jersey since the early 70s, when he was a toddler! Naturally,
concerns are for the Jersey Royals which will be held back big time by
this, if they don't rot off in the snow melt. This is a bad start to
the year for growers.

Still pounding down snow here, and swirling in the gusts, at 17cm and
counting. All weighing on top of that thick ice layer on branches and
twigs.

Meteo France has just gone to a "red alert" for the Manche and Calvados,
where it is apparently much worse than here in the Orne. That'll include
Jersey too, I'm sorry to say. Large swaths of power out, roads closed,
trains stopped, etc.

A bad start of the year indeed, the ground is already very soggy...



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Gardening in Lower Normandy