It can snow on top of hills here in any month of the year. The Cairngorms aren't the skiing centre of the UK for nothing. Altitude is a major factor in calculating snowfall. I don't think anyone can generalise about it. I know how it goes in this area, because I've always lived here, or nearby, and I know there's a definite change - in all the weather. Not sure your definition of a Leap year is right @Simone_in_Wiltshire. It's when the year [including the century] is divisible by four, so it couldn't be every five years
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Ah - you're right @BenCotto - as you so often are I'd forgotten about that. I think I was being a little unkind to @Simone_in_Wiltshire. I assume the Leap year reference was just to show an example of a pattern, as with her views about the varying weather events.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
re: I think it is interesting to keep weather observations but I am convinced some of your assertions would not stand up to analysis.
I’m sure that further years will come up with different results.
I’m not doing this stuff to get right but to find out. All my life, I have asked everything into question that I was told. Looking into backgrounds and analysing is part of coming forward in life. If we just takes things as they are, there is no need to live.
All I wanted to know is if you have similar records from your area. I’m glad if the one or other starts doing the same and enjoys analysing it.
Yes. The mid point for the cherry tree to come into blossom is about April 4th so in 2016 it was +16 days from then.
I had a friend at secondary school whose birthday was February 29th. We often used to say how well he was doing considering he was really only 3 years old.
No,no. It’s just the month. April, March, April and so on.
The only exception was 2020, but this was a weird year. The cherry flowers were far too early (should have been April), the gladioli flowered in November/December (should have been August), the Polar vortex broke mid December, and we got frost in Spring 2021, which ended here in Wiltshire on the 27 May 2021.
My gladioli flowered on time this year (beginning to mid of August) and since they need 7 months to appear again, let’s see what comes next year, but theoretically the cherry flowers should be in April and Spring should start at the end of April.
I often take pictures from my garden and looking backwards is important for me as I’m a beginner. I didn’t noticed that the gladioli were not in flowers in August 2020 until my niece in Berlin wrote to me that her gladioli strangely flowered in November. That made me suspicious.
I mentioned that here before, I’m looking for signs where nature tells me what comes next.
My observations are only related to the road where I live. I expect that other regions have different weather and their plants react differently to their weather.
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Altitude is a major factor in calculating snowfall. I don't think anyone can generalise about it. I know how it goes in this area, because I've always lived here, or nearby, and I know there's a definite change - in all the weather.
Not sure your definition of a Leap year is right @Simone_in_Wiltshire. It's when the year [including the century] is divisible by four, so it couldn't be every five years
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I ♥ my garden.
I'd forgotten about that.
I think I was being a little unkind to @Simone_in_Wiltshire. I assume the Leap year reference was just to show an example of a pattern, as with her views about the varying weather events.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I ♥ my garden.
re: I think it is interesting to keep weather observations but I am convinced some of your assertions would not stand up to analysis.
I’m sure that further years will come up with different results.
I ♥ my garden.
+16, -15, +23, -13, -26, -3, -7,
Simone, what is the next number in the series? For the life of me I cannot see a pattern there.
Do you mean the time when the cherry tree flowers?
I ♥ my garden.
I had a friend at secondary school whose birthday was February 29th. We often used to say how well he was doing considering he was really only 3 years old.
I ♥ my garden.