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Mother Nature Confused in Houston

Posted by tanyag Houston (My Page) on
Fri, Apr 6, 07 at 10:05

It's 55 degrees in Houston (26 miles from the coast where I live). Tonights low is in the forties and Saturday night's low is 35 degrees! What gives?!? I am not used to late fronts like this. A late front to me is early March. Most of my herbs are pretty hardy, except for basil. I was going to move my now-in-fruit Mexican lime, my tomatoes, bell peppers, and jalepenos right up next to the house. All are in containers and my patio has a corner between two walls of the house that is protected from wind and such. Will this be enough or do I need to bring everything inside? Incidentally, the next night is supposed to be back into the fifties. I also have a summer squash in a container too big to move. Can I make some sort of make shift cloche and cover it? I think there is too much soil for it to even get that cold.


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RE: Mother Nature Confused in Houston

I called up weather.com and it shows a low of 42 on Saturday night. Where did you get your information?


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RE: Mother Nature Confused in Houston

Weatherbug and channels 2,11, and 13. The news usually reports from Bush Airport. Weatherbug does it by address. I have put in mine and my parent's before and it will change the forcast. My weatherbug forcast for the station two and half miles from me says 37. I am hoping not, but I have to prepare for the worst. Even 42 is not the greatest for tomatoes and bell peppers. I thought they didn't like it below 55. Am I wrong?


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RE: Mother Nature Confused in Houston

Try this link. It also has sources using personal weather stations data. I can track all sort of things like when a landfalling hurricane is making its coastal move to land. It has kept me from evacuating several times. But then I do have a non traveled escape route that will put me 70 miles inland in a hour. Our last freeze I watched the freezing line approach and set the automatic sprinklers to cycle every 2 min for 4 hours. It saved all of my plants that I had put in the ground and saved me from dragging in another 200+ plants for the last freeze of the year. This global warmng has shifted weather patterns a bunch. We used to not have garden hoses. Now automatic irrigation is required. We are a semi-arid coastal desert. We do get rain but it comes in 6-12 inches at a time and then it is dry for a month or two.

Here is a link that might be useful: good source of weather info


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RE: Mother Nature Confused in Houston

Thanks jeep461 for the information on weather underground I didn't know about it. It looks like there will be plenty of cloud cover so maybe no frost. Thanks again


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It is real nasty outside. 43 degrees misting and a north wind around 20 mph and gusting. I could hear my plants crying for help. My brugs just started blooming. Wind chill of 37 degrees. Wow just checked Texas conditions. Pity thy fellow gardener a little north. They all might freeze. I really hope this is not an indication of more future weather conditions. This has been a freak year for conditions.

Here is a link that might be useful: Texas conditions


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RE: Mother Nature Confused in Houston

We got down to 42 on the island with a wind chill of 31. The brugs came through with blooms intact but almost every leaf fell off!! Today almost 80 but windy as all get out.
Scarborough Faire-outside of Dallas, had snow for their opening weekend.
Tally HO!


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RE: Mother Nature Confused in Houston

And now, again, we are supposed to be 45 again tonight. Ugh!


 
 

 

 


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