Do you water trees in winter if El Nino warms up your area?
ilovemytrees
8 years ago
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Comments (27)Just looking at the statistics of the issue, if everyone who felt we do play a part in the change were to do what they could, there would be SOME change. Any improvement is worth accomplishing. Plus, the things we could do are more efficient, less wasteful and those can have an immediate, bottom line improvement on the cost of living. Even if nothing can improve the outcome, I like the knowledge that I am not wasting the utilities. I love knowing I am spending about as little as possible for electricity, gas (both natural and fuel) and water as I comfortably can. The upside is it satisfies me. The downside is when you've already tightened your belt concerning their use, mandatory conservation efforts begin hurting much faster than they do for many others. Kim...See MoreHas El Nino turned into El Wimpo?
Comments (18)hoovb! Exactly! Eternal optimist here. I know we are in a drought, and many have it worse than us. We and our neighbors contracted to have our pot hole ridden private road paved, and guess what? It rained, and they couldn't pave. Project got delayed twice because of rain! And of course, rain a week ago and yesterday. But, only enough to turn the dust on the cars into a spotted mess. I worry because our soil is decomposed granite, and it drains so well, it does not stay wet. We are committed to 4" mulch, but we have so many grapevines and fruit trees, it's tough to keep the ground damp. Sigh. I should change my screen name to raindance! We should ALL change it to RainDance1 or 2 or 7001... Everyone in CA should! Suzi...See MoreEl Nino
Comments (1)I have loved every flake of these storms! It is back to school tomorrow for teachers in my district, but not kiddoes. With luck and the wonderful job of snow plowers, they will be back Tuesday....See MoreEl Nino; El Nino Not; El Nino; El Nino Not.....
Comments (10)I think traditionally we begin feeling El Nino's effects after Christmas. That's why they called it El Nino--because it arrives so close to Christmas. It isn't cut and dried though, and I guess it will get here when it gets here, if it does at all. El Nino varies from cycle to cycle. Sometimes we have very strong El Ninos. The last really strong El Nino was when we still lived in Texas. I think it was in 1996 or 1997 and we had flooding rains in mid- to late-spring. One thing I have noticed about El Nino in the last 10-15 years is that it tends to have an opposite effect on us here than what it has on Tim's family in Pennsylvania. So, if El Nino brings them tons of snow there (like it did Friday and yesterday), then we'll be drier than usual here in southern OK. And, if we have massive winter/spring rain, they tend to have less rain than usual there in Pennsylvania. So, based on this past week's storm, maybe El Nino is going to affect them more than it affects us. That's not a very scientific forecast, but it works for us. Our local forecaster told us a couple of months ago that he expected only slightly colder weather in our part of the state (and we have had that in December here, even being colder than Jay's location in Kansas a few times) and probably a bit wetter winter, but not massive amounts of rain because this is only a moderate El Nino. I haven't had to water because we have had an inch or two of rain here in Love County this month. November was warmer and drier than usual for us, but that's a pre-El Nino month anyway. I've linked NOAA data below that shows El Nino's typical impact during the time frame they studied. I noticed for us here in southern OK, a typical El Nino brings us 134% of our usual rainfall for Nov.-Dec. in the years they studied. (We had that in 2009----maybe southern OK got its El Nino weather one year early. LOL) I don't pretend to be a forecaster, but our trees, animals and other plants aren't acting like they're expecting cold weather. We still have trees with leaves and some of those leaves are green but other trees like the post oaks that normally hold their brown leaves throughout the winter here are already bare. I think Mother Nature is mixed up this year. Dawn Here is a link that might be useful:...See Moreilovemytrees
8 years ago
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