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It is likely elderberry. They are also starting to show green shoots now here. I love elderberry lemonade!!! (soak the flowers in water for a night and then use this water to make lemonade)
QuoteEric Fisher (@ericfisher) 2/28/20, 5:27 PMOne more day to go in the climatological season. Looks like a lot of the country had a Top 10 warmest winter on record. Just about all of the Lower 48 was at or warmer than average https://twitter.com/ericfisher/status/1233519178784673793Temperature Rank, and Anomaly, maps below.QuoteEric Fisher (@ericfisher) 2/28/20, 5:31 PMGlobal view. Warm as the Lower 48 was, it was even more unusual/record setting across Europe and Asia. Meanwhile Alaska stayed in the freezer and stands out as the cold spot. Global map below.
Eric Fisher (@ericfisher) 2/28/20, 5:27 PMOne more day to go in the climatological season. Looks like a lot of the country had a Top 10 warmest winter on record. Just about all of the Lower 48 was at or warmer than average
Eric Fisher (@ericfisher) 2/28/20, 5:31 PMGlobal view. Warm as the Lower 48 was, it was even more unusual/record setting across Europe and Asia. Meanwhile Alaska stayed in the freezer and stands out as the cold spot.
"The 2019 vintage will go down in history in Germany as the first year in which the ice harvest has failed nationwide," says Ernst Büscher from the German Wine Institute (DWI) in Bodenheim near Mainz.
Over the last two decades, summer across most of Australia has been on average one month longer than half a century ago, while winter has contracted by an average three weeks. Over the past five years, the analysis showed, Australian summers were on average 50% longer than they were in the mid-twentieth century based on temperature readings. “Our findings are not a projection of what we may see in the future,” said Richie Merzian, climate and energy program director at the Australia Institute. “It’s happening right now.” ...
The Arctic Oscillation has been especially strong.In Dozens of Cities East of the Mississippi, Winter Never Really HappenedSomething called the Arctic Oscillation helped keep the polar vortex at bay. And then there’s climate change.https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04032020/winter-southeast-united-states-polar-vortex-warming
Woensdrecht heeft in de nacht van maandag op dinsdag een zeer opmerkelijk record op zijn naam gezet. Voor het eerst in ruim een jaar tijd werd in Nederland een temperatuur van -6,1 graden gemeten. Zo koud is het de hele afgelopen winter niet geweest, meldt Weerplaza dinsdag.De laatste keer dat het zo koud was in Nederland was tijdens de vorige winter: toen werden zelfs temperaturen van -13,3 graden bereikt.Kouder dan -5,4 graden werd het afgelopen winter echter niet. Die temperatuur werd op 21 januari in Maastricht gemeten.
In plaats van zomers weer krijgt Nederland vanaf zondag te maken met de eerste lange te koude periode sinds november. Een vlok natte sneeuw is ook niet uitgesloten.Zondag komt er veel koude lucht naar ons land. Ligt het kwik zaterdag overdag nog rond een graad of 12, op zondag komt de temperatuur overdag niet hoger dan 8 graden.In combinatie met een stevige noordenwind levert dat een gevoelstemperatuur van tegen het vriespunt op, meldt Weerplaza.
Ducks and people in Utrecht NL
It's been a cold (by night) start to April in central Europe. New monthly records in Czech republic and Hungary.
Quote from: Niall Dollard on April 03, 2020, 03:24:51 PMIt's been a cold (by night) start to April in central Europe. New monthly records in Czech republic and Hungary. I can confirm the latter. Very very cold nights, minus 5 to 10 at some places, most apricots and peaches froze, no fruit this year. Even some cherry and plum trees were damaged which is highly unusual. Apricots suffer losses from cold breakouts every 2 -3 years, and sometimes peaches as well, but this year was really brutal...this seems to be our new trend in the past few years: a warmish winter and then a late cold spell in Feb/March, early April. And due to the warmer winter, plants start come back to life earlier only to be killed by these freezes.
In De Bilt is de relatieve luchtvochtigheid zaterdagmiddag gedaald naar slechts 13 procent. Zo laag was volgens Weerplaza de relatieve luchtvochtigheid in april ergens in Nederland nog niet eerder sinds het begin van de metingen in 1901.Het oude record van 15 procent, gemeten op 24 april 1984 in het Gelderse Deelen, is daarmee gebroken.De combinatie van aanhoudende droogte, extreem veel zonneschijn en hoge temperaturen heeft ervoor gezorgd dat de relatieve luchtvochtigheid zo ver kon dalen.
QuoteIn De Bilt is de relatieve luchtvochtigheid zaterdagmiddag gedaald naar slechts 13 procent. Zo laag was volgens Weerplaza de relatieve luchtvochtigheid in april ergens in Nederland nog niet eerder sinds het begin van de metingen in 1901.Het oude record van 15 procent, gemeten op 24 april 1984 in het Gelderse Deelen, is daarmee gebroken.De combinatie van aanhoudende droogte, extreem veel zonneschijn en hoge temperaturen heeft ervoor gezorgd dat de relatieve luchtvochtigheid zo ver kon dalen.We have a new record.Relative humidity in De Bildt (central meteorological station) was only 13%.Old record was 15% from 1984, data goes back to 1901.Causes: strong sun, very dry soil top layer (low precipitation since march 12th, 0 in Vlissingen). The winds are coming from the continent with very dry air.https://www.nu.nl/binnenland/6044266/droogste-lucht-ooit-gemeten-op-aprildag-in-nederland.html
Is there any detailed explanation for the warm weather in the Netherlands and Belgium? I can't find anything that explains the origin of these warm temperatures, even though they seem quite a bit too early to me.
