Forgot to say, my small waterbutt is wobbling around like a Weeble at the moment due to water expansion. I hope it snaps back into shape afterwards. We're used to cold up here but this seems worse than usual somehow. I've lost a few hardy plants that always spend the winter in the greenhouse.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I thought that was an 'everything is better in America' type brag but nope, world record holder for windspeed from 1934 to 1996. 231mph. Only beaten by a tropical cyclone. Hurricane wind speeds for 110 days per year on average. Temperatures down to -46C
Not my intention at all! Oh boy, I do not want to be one of those stereotypical Americans...
I've been fascinated by that mountain since I was a kid, and someday I hope to get up to the observatory and see it for myself. I love looking at the webcams. I checked out the ones on the mountain Fairygirl mentioned yesterday - it's so beautiful!
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Metacomet soil with hints of Woodbridge and Pillsbury
Some of our mountains were rather invisible yesterday @CrankyYankee! You can view the cameras in some locations. I use this one a lot - Ben More in Crianlarich, which is half an hour's drive from the foot of Loch Lomond https://www.benmorewebcam.co.uk/ It's not showing today's view yet. Might be knackered - that happens a lot! We haven't really had any snow, apart from ten days ago and it all turned to ice which is drag. It's just been heavy frosts for over a week. Yesterday's snow was really from the other side of the central belt, and north from there. We were tucked in a little bit here - just on the edge of the amber warning. It rained/sleeted instead so we have more severe ice.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Down here in tropical Gloucestershire the car windows aren't covered in frost for the first time since Sunday. I might go out and do a bit of sunbathing!
Any herbaceous plants that have survived the heatwaves & droughts and then this unprecedented early deep freeze will have truly earned their place in the garden. I fear there will be some gaps come spring though.
Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
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The greenhouse. Not much to see.
The foxtail lilies. Hardly to spot.
That's all the sunshine I get during a winter in the afternoon for half an hour or so.
I ♥ my garden.
It's not showing today's view yet. Might be knackered - that happens a lot!
We haven't really had any snow, apart from ten days ago and it all turned to ice which is drag. It's just been heavy frosts for over a week. Yesterday's snow was really from the other side of the central belt, and north from there. We were tucked in a little bit here - just on the edge of the amber warning. It rained/sleeted instead so we have more severe ice.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful