Hoarding is exactly what the government is doing right now by filling the SPR, and frankly it's the best thing that could happen. It drives prices up. High prices encourage demand destruction. They also finance new well development. The hoarded oil gives us a buffer to fall back on once shortages become more prevalent. High prices are what we need in order to adapt to what's coming, and the sooner they happen, the better.
Joined: Jun 30, 2005 Posts: 570 Location: northern California
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 11:28 am Post subject: Re: Spring Weather 2008
Frost? 13 here this am & partly cloudy. At least another month before planting... _________________ "Not how is the idea expressed...is the question, but how far it has obtained form and expression in the life of the artist"
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Joined: Dec 27, 2004 Posts: 11394 Location: Village of Idiots
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 11:28 am Post subject: Re: Spring Weather 2008
I have to replant a lot of things because I got overeager and set my tomatoes and peppers outside far too soon. Now they are feeble and stunted. Oh well. Maybe I'll cheat and buy some plants at the garden center. I have my "survival" tomatoes in the garden and they're doing fine (Texas Wild variety). _________________ "...powerdown so soft and fluffy you'll think you're living in a pillow..." - jboogy
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 8:54 pm Post subject: Re: Spring Weather 2008
Alberta weather has been decidedly cooler than average, as was predicted in the Farmer's Almanac. We had a few inches of snow two weeks ago, followed by a brief, record-breaking 24 degrees Celsius last weekend, and now snow is predicted for this weekend. Typically, the long weekend in May (around the 20th) is when we get seeds and starter plants into the ground; some people are a little more adventurous and get them in a bit earlier.
Joined: Dec 27, 2004 Posts: 11394 Location: Village of Idiots
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 6:07 pm Post subject: Re: Spring Weather 2008
We had a nice thunderstorm last night with 1/2 inch of badly needed rain. _________________ "...powerdown so soft and fluffy you'll think you're living in a pillow..." - jboogy
Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 9:22 am Post subject: Re: Spring Weather 2008
Just woke up to snow here in Eugene, Oregon.
It's April 19th......right?
Looks like a rain/snow forecast for the next 2 days.
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Joined: Apr 12, 2007 Posts: 1018 Location: Central NC
Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 11:10 am Post subject: Re: Spring Weather 2008
Earlier in the week the forecast was showers and t-storms throughout today and tonight, seemed like a sure thing. Now it is a 40% chance of t-storms tonight into tomorrow morning. The radar shows most of it shifting northward like it did all last year. Last year a forecast of 40% chance of t-storms inevitably resulted in no rain at all. It happened so many times it was a joke.
Currently it is hot and partly to mostly sunny today with a good breeze which really speeds up the evaporation of soil moisture.
Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 10:56 pm Post subject: Re: Spring Weather 2008
Just an update. It's April 19th, and indeed we got a few inches of snow today. Our high was -9 Celsius, with a windchill of about -20. Apparently, by next weekend our highs are supposed to be somewhere in the area of 4 or 5 Celsius, still about 10 degrees lower than average, even for Alberta.
I think our planting season is going to be late this year. It will be too cold for seeds to germinate by mid-May, which is when we usually plant. Last year, it was cool and wet in May, I waited until June to plant, July was scorching hot and wet and the garden grew like there was no tomorrow, which there wasn't, because August was cold and the growing season came to a standstill. Crazy weather! I wouldn't even want to guess what will happen this year.
Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 11:42 pm Post subject: Re: Spring Weather 2008
WildRose wrote:
Just an update. It's April 19th, and indeed we got a few inches of snow today. Our high was -9 Celsius, with a windchill of about -20. Apparently, by next weekend our highs are supposed to be somewhere in the area of 4 or 5 Celsius, still about 10 degrees lower than average, even for Alberta.
I think our planting season is going to be late this year. It will be too cold for seeds to germinate by mid-May, which is when we usually plant. Last year, it was cool and wet in May, I waited until June to plant, July was scorching hot and wet and the garden grew like there was no tomorrow, which there wasn't, because August was cold and the growing season came to a standstill. Crazy weather! I wouldn't even want to guess what will happen this year.
We got snow in Southern B.C. yesterday and today. About an inch and a half. It's all melted and we had no freezing, so I'm hoping that my garden will survive. Crazy crazy weather. But you know, I've learned to love any and all precipitation we get after yearly summer droughts, that concluded a couple of years ago.
Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 12:25 am Post subject: Re: Spring Weather 2008
threadbear wrote:
We got snow in Southern B.C. yesterday and today. About an inch and a half. It's all melted and we had no freezing, so I'm hoping that my garden will survive. Crazy crazy weather. But you know, I've learned to love any and all precipitation we get after yearly summer droughts, that concluded a couple of years ago.
Yeah, I heard about BC's unusual weather recently. I have an aunt a few miles outside of the Mission area; she just hates the roads when they get icy.
Dry weather is bad. A few years ago, we had a terribly dry spring in northern Alberta. Not only was the forest fire situation awful, but here in the city the schoolyards caught fire whenever someone dropped a cigarette butt.
Many years ago, we had a big dump of snow on the May long weekend, the day after I planted all my bedding plants. Most of them survived; I hope your garden is fine, too!
Joined: Apr 28, 2005 Posts: 3278 Location: West shore Lake Eire, MI, USA
Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 3:36 pm Post subject: Re: Spring Weather 2008
WildRose wrote:
April 20th - SNOW - Stop, please, stop! It looks like Christmas here, and we're wearing our winter coats and boots again.
Meanwhile here on the Lake Eire coast we have hit 70+ with sunshine four of the last seven days and were in the mid sixties the other three. We flipped straight from winter to summer, we had snow two weeks ago fer crying out loud! _________________ Oxygen: - An intensely habit-forming accumulative toxic substance. As little
as one breath is known to produce a life-long addiction to the gas, which addiction invariably ends in death.--Isaac Asimov
Joined: Sep 14, 2004 Posts: 5817 Location: Rural Virginia
Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 3:54 pm Post subject: Re: Spring Weather 2008
WildRose wrote:
April 20th - SNOW - Stop, please, stop! It looks like Christmas here, and we're wearing our winter coats and boots again.
Here we have RAIN -- Don't stop, please!
The atmosphere is really unstable, with occasional thunder. Periodic heavy downpours. It WANTS to rain.
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---Abused, abandoned hunting dog
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---Me and my brother
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Oh well. Maybe I'll cheat and buy some plants at the garden center. I have my "survival" tomatoes in the garden and they're doing fine (Texas Wild variety).
