I'm seeing buds on the forsythia and the lilac. Isn't February 6 awfully early for that, way the heck up here in Maine? Of course, you know the tune I've got going through my head:
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Here in California, February IS spring
The almond trees are already blooming, and all the other fruit trees have buds. The downside of all this is we have no winter to kill the weeds for a few months- in fact winter brings oodles of my personal nemesis, oxalis pes-caprae, and one hardly knows when to prune the roses, as they don't actually go "dormant". I am, however, not complaining, because, as one friend says, I am a "weather weenie."
Conformists die, but heretics live on forever.
Elbert Hubbard
My sense of the seasons is all messed up now
Then again, up in Maine February has a real habit of fooling us into thinking things are better than they are -- and then in March, there's a blizzard or two or a cold snap. It's the classic Yankee Way of Thinking: "We'll pay for this...."
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Local NYC meteorologist on TV showed how the jet streams
are really out of whack, but also showed the jet stream from a view of the North Pole -- with this huge dip downward over Europe and western Asia. Snow has fallen on the beach palm trees in Algeria (iirc the Northern Africa he showed). Pretty impressive.
He said this is so unusual (as in 8" of snow in Rome) that he is unable to use history to predict what's going to happen, but it is possible there will be real winter coming to a northern latitude near us, and especially northern US in Feb, and possibly late real winter into March and April.
Or...time will tell.
Have you seen the new maps
plant hardiness via the usda:
http://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/PHZMW...
and from blue marble, more interesting because it shows changes from the past years' maps:
http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2012/...
I haven't checked whether my crocuses are sprouting yet (I saw somewhere else that someone in NYC had crocuses sprouting). I planted a bunch of daffodil and tulip bulbs late in the fall, and I fear they will all sprout only to be killed by a late cold or snow.
In past years the AGW deniers would be out this time of year w/their piles of snow asking where's that global warming? Where are they this year?