Online Preview of Revised Plant Hardiness Zone Map

Newly accessible at the American Horticultural Society¹s web site is
an Adobe(R) Acrobat(R) PDF file showing a draft version of the latest
revision of the U.S.D.A. Plant Hardiness Zone Map
(http://www.ahs.org/pdfs/USDA_Map_3.03.pdf; 5.56 megabytes). Is there
much difference between this new map and the last (1990) version? Yes!
The boundaries of many of the Zones have moved considerably toward the
north, so that many gardeners will find themselves in different (warmer)
Zones than before. The revised map, based on data collected between 1986
and 2002, is graphic testimony to the pobability [sic] of global
warming!
Reproducible images of the final version of the revised map will be
available eventually at http://www.usda.ars.gov. A database giving the
Zones for all Zip Codes should be accessible on the AHS web site next
month.
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Newly accessible at the American Horticultural Society¹s web site is
an Adobe(R) Acrobat(R) PDF file showing a draft version of the latest
revision of the U.S.D.A. Plant Hardiness Zone Map
(http://www.ahs.org/pdfs/USDA_Map_3.03.pdf; 5.56 megabytes). Is there
much difference between this new map and the last (1990) version? Yes!
The boundaries of many of the Zones have moved considerably toward the
north, so that many gardeners will find themselves in different (warmer)
Zones than before. The revised map, based on data collected between 1986
and 2002, is graphic testimony to the pobability [sic] of global
warming!

Gotta love that global warming, eh?

I have to wonder just how correct these adjustments really are -- especially
after this last winter we suffered through. We're still Zone 6 up here, but
not far from Zone 7. With microclimes I can grow Zone 7 plants though --
and with all them trees in me back yard, I gots lots of microclimes. Grin

James

Bob Batson expounded:

Online Preview of Revised Plant Hardiness Zone Map

Damn....I got "Not Found The requested URL /pdfs/USDA_Map_3.03.pdf;
was not found on this server."

--
Ann, Gardening in zone 6a
Just south of Boston, MA
********************************

I got it. It's an Adobe file and has some obvious revisions to the
zones.



susan

Ann wrote:

Bob Batson expounded:

Online Preview of Revised Plant Hardiness Zone Map

Damn....I got "Not Found The requested URL /pdfs/USDA_Map_3.03.pdf;
was not found on this server."

--
Ann, Gardening in zone 6a
Just south of Boston, MA
********************************

I was able to get it, too. But it's a REALLY big file (well, 5.5 MB or so).
I'm on broadband, but it would take quite awhile on dial up. There may be
some hang problems if you are on dialup -- or even some Explorer setup
issues.

It is, however, one of the best online Hardiness zone maps I have seen --
you can really zoom in. Worth the wait if you can access it.

-- Lisa
-- pelirojaroja
"dangerous redhead"
"Susan K. Wehe" wrote in message
...
I got it. It's an Adobe file and has some obvious revisions to the
zones.



susan

Ann wrote:

Bob Batson expounded:

Online Preview of Revised Plant Hardiness Zone Map

Damn....I got "Not Found The requested URL /pdfs/USDA_Map_3.03.pdf;
was not found on this server."

--
Ann, Gardening in zone 6a
Just south of Boston, MA
********************************

"pelirojaroja" expounded:

I was able to get it, too. But it's a REALLY big file (well, 5.5 MB or so).
I'm on broadband, but it would take quite awhile on dial up. There may be
some hang problems if you are on dialup -- or even some Explorer setup
issues.

Well, I can't get to either one of the links posted, and I've got a
cable modem from Comcast, formerly AT&T. Still, both show as file not
found. I wonder what's wrong.

--
Ann, Gardening in zone 6a
Just south of Boston, MA
********************************

Maybe, Ann
Wrote in

"pelirojaroja" expounded:

I was able to get it, too. But it's a REALLY big file (well, 5.5 MB or so).
I'm on broadband, but it would take quite awhile on dial up. There may be
some hang problems if you are on dialup -- or even some Explorer setup
issues.

Well, I can't get to either one of the links posted, and I've got a
cable modem from Comcast, formerly AT&T. Still, both show as file not
found. I wonder what's wrong.

Hi Ann,

Try the following link:

http://www.ahs.org/pdfs/USDA_Map_3.03.pdf

The original link had an extra ";" on the end, Ooops ;-)

--
Leon Fisk
Grand Rapids MI | Zone 5b
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Leon Fisk expounded:


Hi Ann,

Try the following link:

http://www.ahs.org/pdfs/USDA_Map_3.03.pdf

The original link had an extra ";" on the end, Ooops ;-)

Thank you! It worked. Interesting, it says I'm in 7..... it was far
too cold here in January for me to even consider being in 7!!! The
winters here are so variable, last year we had no snow and fairly mild
temps, a couple years ago I thought I'd moved to Seattle, but that was
after the snowiest winter ever the year before. This particular part
of the country is hard to pin, I think.

--
Ann, Gardening in zone 6a
Just south of Boston, MA
********************************

Hi Ann,
Our summer and fall were so wet last year that I heard meteorologists
on TV asking when exactly were they transferred to Seattle? Our water
table is so far up that we're still only having to water the new and
potted plants.



susan

Ann wrote:

Leon Fisk expounded:


Hi Ann,

Try the following link:

http://www.ahs.org/pdfs/USDA_Map_3.03.pdf

The original link had an extra ";" on the end, Ooops ;-)

Thank you! It worked. Interesting, it says I'm in 7..... it was far
too cold here in January for me to even consider being in 7!!! The
winters here are so variable, last year we had no snow and fairly mild
temps, a couple years ago I thought I'd moved to Seattle, but that was
after the snowiest winter ever the year before. This particular part
of the country is hard to pin, I think.

--
Ann, Gardening in zone 6a
Just south of Boston, MA
********************************

Maybe, Ann
Wrote in
Thank you! It worked. Interesting, it says I'm in 7..... it was far
too cold here in January for me to even consider being in 7!!! The
winters here are so variable, last year we had no snow and fairly mild
temps, a couple years ago I thought I'd moved to Seattle, but that was
after the snowiest winter ever the year before. This particular part
of the country is hard to pin, I think.

Nah, you will just have to wait until next year. Mother
Nature hasn't had time to look this over herself yet. Next
year after some serious study, she will obviously conjure up
the proper winter weather to go along with these new
Hardiness Zones ;-)
--
Leon Fisk
Grand Rapids MI | Zone 5b
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Ann wrote:

Leon Fisk expounded:


Hi Ann,

Try the following link:

http://www.ahs.org/pdfs/USDA_Map_3.03.pdf

The original link had an extra ";" on the end, Ooops ;-)

Thank you! It worked. Interesting, it says I'm in 7..... it was far
too cold here in January for me to even consider being in 7!!! The
winters here are so variable, last year we had no snow and fairly mild
temps, a couple years ago I thought I'd moved to Seattle, but that was
after the snowiest winter ever the year before. This particular part
of the country is hard to pin, I think.

I agree! I think we have to take those charts with a grain of
salt. I was seeing temps of -15 here many days this winter.
Obviously, I need to get things that can withstand such temps--and
I like to allow room for even further weather vagaries.

--
Jean B., 12 miles west of Boston, Massachusetts, USA

"Susan K. Wehe" expounded:

Our summer and fall were so wet last year that I heard meteorologists
on TV asking when exactly were they transferred to Seattle? Our water
table is so far up that we're still only having to water the new and
potted plants.

And yet this past winter we saw sustained temperatures down at zero or
below for a week at a time, and the 'warm-up' rarely went over
20....and there were many nights where we were at -10 or -12. Zone 5b
was more like it in January! My new second home is in 5a, kinda pine
barreny, it's gonna be fun gardening on 2.5 acres instead of .6!
Someday, when we move up there.

--
Ann, Gardening in zone 6a
Just south of Boston, MA
********************************

I was just able to download it. According to the new draft, the western half of
Onondaga County is now in Zone 6. I am awaiting the final word.
Iris,
Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40
"If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming
train."
Robert Lowell (1917-1977)