How has your winter been?

[miker]

This is my first winter "up north" and I am really enjoying the consistent chill and a bit of snow, but each month of fall and winter so far has been above average and though this area isn't exactly Buffalo, NY, there has still been a lack of snow conpared to a typical SE PA winter.

My trees have done well and I have neither had to worry about any damage due to prolonged temperatures below 10-15F(lowest of the winter here 8F one morning) or maintaining dormancy during highs 55-70F here and there like many areas in the inland south experience with regularity, especially during mild winters. We did have a 62F day last week but other than that highs during the mild periods are 45-54F and lows are 32-42F, not quite enough to cause early growth, especially in January.

How has your winter been compared to a typical one? How are your trees faring in their winter storage? Any issues?

 

[Solange]

maybe it will swing yet, but this PA winter is abnormally warm. Jan. temps are usually consistently in the teens to twenties here in northcentral but it's been about what you described so far.

 

[sorce]

Our winters have been so odd lately, I could've checked every box with honesty!

We had lighting and thunder last week.
That was diff.

My Snowlien lasted as long as the giant snow mounds in the parking lots, but finally melted away.

I've watered twice, and one tree a third time.

Everything I want to live seems OK!

Sorce

 

[Starfox]

Definitely been colder than average here and longer lasting too. Started off in Autumn and has been colder and wetter than normal.
No doubt it is positively mild compared to most but to see snow on the mountains behind us was pretty rare.
Also I have man-flu now just to help make winter more miserable.

 

[Anthony]

We dropped to 64 deg.F [ night ] , now that was chilly. Unusual rain so quite a few nights at 70 deg.F
Dried up again and back to 68 deg.F.

Repotting, now onto J.B.pines and have found that they grow vigorously in very shallow [ less than 2" deep ]
earthenware clay pots. So we are repotting into shallow, but wider pots.
Soil is still just 5 mm silica based builder's gravel and compost.

Good Day
Anthony

 

[petegreg]

Still frozen. Colder, but not than average. Last few winters were warmer and wet. However some lowest records have been re-written in places.

 

[just.wing.it]

Pretty much normal over here, maybe leaning towards the warm side.
But like @sorce, our winters here are always weird.
Lots of randomly warm days followed by bitter cold and strong wind.

 

[JudyB]

Very much warmer than normal. We set two record warm days in December and this is the warmest January with no measurable snowfall. I have a Chinese Quince that is swelling green buds (it's always the first thing, and I don't worry about that one) and also a crabapple is starting to show green tips on the buds! Hope that one slows down. It finally cooled off here, we are back in the 20's and 30's now with some snow coming soon. Hope that's the end of the heat wave till spring!

 

[Dav4]

Waaaayyyyyy too warm with brief but sometimes extreme periods of cold which is playing havoc with my trees...I may have to start re-potting almost 4 weeks early early this year.

 

[petegreg]

It looks when you guys have a cold winter we from the Eastern hemisphere have a warm one and vice versa.

 

[GrimLore]

It has been milder here but not enough to cause any early budding so far. I don't think we have had more then two inches of snow this Winter and it is oddly ok to me to see green grass most everywhere.
Winds have been a pain here and not normal at all in this area. Not enough to be damaging but enough to make watering a chore.

Grimmy

 

[jriddell88]

We've had our cold days , but then again I can't complain. I was on the lake Jan 21st....67 degrees F

 

[Dav4]

Lunker!!

 

[aml1014]

Other then a few random cold snaps were we dipped into the low teens and 30s for the highs, it has been a mild winter. We have been hovering around freezing at night and mid 50s during the day. The ground generally freezes slightly at night but by mid day it is totally thawed out. I may do some winter collecting this season.

Aaron

 

[Nybonsai12]

It's been warm, we have had a handful of days in the teens, but some days in the upper 50's. I've been shuffling a lot having to move trees into the garage to stay cool and out of the sun at times.

 

[quietobserver]

We had lighting and thunder last week.

Sorce

You sure that wasn't the gang bangers? I have read some nasty stories about the windy city recently.

 

[jquast]

Wet and colder than in past years. We usually get a week of upper 60's in Jan but not this year, low 50's and grey out here in sunny CA.

 

[RKatzin]

A rather nastier than normal winter for this neck of the woods. Starting with a typhoon powered storm that lasted two weeks in October. It started snowing just before Thanksgiving and I been up to my ass in it since. Haven't seen any of my trees, can't even get up to where they are, about 1.3 mi. and a thousand feet higher, buried deep under snow. We've taken refuge in a neighbor's cabin for the winter, down at the 3000ft level and we couldn't get out of our driveway for almost three weeks. I'm busy keeping the fire going and glad my trees are all tucked in till spring.

 

[Dav4]

A rather nastier than normal winter for this neck of the woods. Starting with a typhoon powered storm that lasted two weeks in October. It started snowing just before Thanksgiving and I been up to my ass in it since. Haven't seen any of my trees, can't even get up to where they are, about 1.3 mi. and a thousand feet higher, buried deep under snow. We've taken refuge in a neighbor's cabin for the winter, down at the 3000ft level and we couldn't get out of our driveway for almost three weeks. I'm busy keeping the fire going and glad my trees are all tucked in till spring.

Ummmm...yikes!! That reminds me of the Donner Party story...hopefully you haven't resorted to eating the dog yet.

 

[Carol 83]

Strange winter. Random ice storm one week, thunderstorm the next. Saturday was 70 degrees, yesterday we had snow flurries.