Weather in general

[Brown Thumb]

Rain rain go away I got some planting to finish
My plants are gonna drown if this crap keeps up
I have 100 more to get in to get my lunitic Badge

 

[johnlee1933]

Here's a link to footage of damage to CT shade fields in Windsor Locks CT yesterday.

http://www.wfsb.com/video?clipId=9047428&autostart=true

John

 

[workhorse_01]

Me2

Rain rain go away I got some planting to finish
My plants are gonna drown if this crap keeps up
I have 100 more to get in to get my lunitic Badge

 

[Boboro]

Just a few clouds here high 80s. Nice! Think Ill go out side and absorb a beer or 12.

 

[DGBAMA]

So I am watching the morning news, weather forecast is for a high of 79 deg with rain all day; immediately they follow the weather with an entire segment on HEATSTROKE warning signs and tell everyone to be careful during their 4th of July activities today. LOL.

 

[chillardbee]

I kept bees since 87' and sideline/commercial since 1990. All through the 90's I got used to the flowering times of the flora from what we make our honey from. But in the 2000's, everthing thing seems to come out later and it seems we've had more rain then I could ever recall.

 

[workhorse_01]

I think it has to do with the earth tilting on it's axis. The poles are moving at a rate of 40 miles a year. The north pole is headed toward the dragons triangle and the south pole is headed toward the Bermuda triangle. I think at one time the triangles were the poles and then the same shift happened in reverse. http://www.ask.com/wiki/Tampa_International_Airport?o=2801&qsrc=999 One morehttp://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/climate-weather/stories/magnetic-north-shifting-by-40-miles-a-year-might-signal-pole-r

I kept bees since 87' and sideline/commercial since 1990. All through the 90's I got used to the flowering times of the flora from what we make our honey from. But in the 2000's, everthing thing seems to come out later and it seems we've had more rain then I could ever recall.

 

[webmost]

So, as long time beekeepers, perhaps you have pondered the question: Why does America have an apparent antipathy to honey bees? The absence of autochthonous honey bees in the new world is as baffling as the disappearance of ancient horses from our plains. And now, they say, bees are disappearing again.

Wuzzup widdat?

 

[workhorse_01]

Bees sting when they're in danger, I think there are problems with GMO seeds and bees, and climate change I think is causing bees to disappear, not that global warming bs. True climate change brought on by global shift. A natural cycle the earth goes through.

 

[webmost]

Bees sting when they're in danger, I think there are problems with GMO seeds and bees, and climate change I think is causing bees to disappear, not that global warming bs. True climate change brought on by global shift. A natural cycle the earth goes through.

What makes you think it's frankenseeds?

What makes you think it's climate change?

An "I think" is incomplete without why.

I ought to look up whether wild horses are similarly diminishing.

 

[workhorse_01]

The bees did just fine with non gmo seeds (before we screwed with them) Bees will move to where the weather best suits them. Weather change, changes grazing lands horses move where the grass grows. Don't they? I'm not correct about everything, probably less than half, but standing back looking at the big picture, things are changing. My Mexican free tail bats and the ones at the university of tenn. stayed home last year. They didn't migrate. There was snow on the ground at U Tenn. and some bats were dead under the box, just like mine here in wayx. There is a reason that migrating animals don't migrate (Mexican free tails don't hibernate they migrate.) so taking global shift (poles moving 40 miles a year), and animals that migrate, not migrating, and hotter temp's year after year in to account. I came up with "I Think". What do you think?

What makes you think it's frankenseeds?

What makes you think it's climate change?

An "I think" is incomplete without why.

I ought to look up whether wild horses are similarly diminishing.

 

[Knucklehead]

I don't know about now, but in the 80's a blight came through and wiped out all twelve of our hives and most of the hives in the area. I think it caught most of the south at the time. Most folks ordered more bees and got going again, but many got out of it. There are alot more diseases and critters that you have to be aware of now that really weren't a problem many years ago.

 

[workhorse_01]

I wonder if they were a problem and we just didn't know? I mean there was AIDS in the 80's we just didn't know about it. The internet sure has opened up the information world.

I don't know about now, but in the 80's a blight came through and wiped out all twelve of our hives and most of the hives in the area. I think it caught most of the south at the time. Most folks ordered more bees and got going again, but many got out of it. There are alot more diseases and critters that you have to be aware of now that really weren't a problem many years ago.

 

[DGBAMA]

Just when things start getting good..........RAIN...........all afternoon, and forecast for the next week, with well below normal temperatures.

 

[skychaser]

Just when things start getting good..........RAIN...........all afternoon, and forecast for the next week, with well below normal temperatures.

Send it up to me. It's 93.4 with 6% humidity right now. Hasn't rained since June 28th and no rain in our forecast any time soon. Probably won't be rain again until September. Last summer we went over 100 days without a drop.

 

[DGBAMA]

Send it up to me. It's 93.4 with 6% humidity right now. Hasn't rained since June 28th and no rain in our forecast any time soon. Probably won't be rain again until September. Last summer we went over 100 days without a drop.

I'd be happy with 10 days at this point.......with......no rain, temp in the 90's, and humidity less than 80%.

 

[Knucklehead]

Just when things start getting good..........RAIN...........all afternoon, and forecast for the next week, with well below normal temperatures.

It missed me somehow. I need just a little bit to wash in the fertilizer I put on the seed grow out seedlings.

 

[DGBAMA]

It missed me somehow. I need just a little bit to wash in the fertilizer I put on the seed grow out seedlings.

maybe it will miss me today.........i will work on another section of siding and maybe get to trim and mound the flowerbed patch, those va golds need some extra stem support.

 

[workhorse_01]

3.5", It didn't miss me. Back to standing water.

 

[Knucklehead]

I've been getting little sprinkle showers all morning. Not enough to wash in the fertilizer, just enough to drive me back to the house before I can get started planting. I did get to replace a couple of dying wrapper varieties the dog stepped on and I harvested and strung about half my Samsun-Maden in the shop. I harvested and strung the Virginia lugs yesterday.