With 6-10 inches of snow expected...
Nuts!!! That is sooooooooooo wrong...Grrrrr
Mother nature needs to be de-throned and another one needs to take her place! She's gone to the looney bin...

Susan Louise
from Branford CT/ live in Lincoln NE
Zone 5

Susan--- I will have to agree with you. I looked ahead at long distance forcast and It looks like the the big change here will be monday with highs in the 30s and lows in the 20s and snow showers. I need to pay attention to the news tonight to see what could be in store for us. Thanks for the heads up as last year it seemed whatever you got we got. Hope not.

Steve
Martinsville, In
Heat zone 6
Sunset zone 35

Oh my, that's awful! At this time of year, I'm glad I'm in the Deep South!
Didn't I read that the hummers have reached Indiana? If so, they might want to turn around and go back!

Sherry

March was so spring like here, all month! But it sure went out like a lion! And we're getting more this weekend. I've got so much yard work I want to get done before I can plant anything and I'm wondering if I'll be able to before June!!! This is some wild weather and has been all year!

glo
Zone 5 up on our Mountain in Colorado!

Our spring like weather will be leaving us too. Snow showers predicted for Tuesday and Wednesdayand if it isn't snowing it will be raining and in the low 40's

Penny
Niagara Falls, NY
USDA zone 6a/6b
Heat zone 4
Sunset zone 39

We are so cold today. Yesterday was very windy. next week Mon ans Tue night we are expecting a frost of all things. Its April for crying out loud not the middle of december.

I actually sat out in the sun for a couple of hours on Wednesday. Yesterday it was cold and today is even colder! We are expecting frost next week, too. I want it to stay spring! Last year it seems like we skipped spring altogether and went straight to summer.

Carol R
Tennessee
USDA Hardiness Zone 7
Heat Zone 7

Susan,

First: My sympathies

Second: sorry but better you than me. I think I would lose it if we got a snow storm or if the temps dropped below 40 degrees again.

Being home this spring has made me NEED the sun and warmer weather desperately!! My yard is really getting into great shape, I think this summer will be the best garden ever with all the time I plan to spend caring for it. I am way ahead of schedule with all my outdoor chores. If I could just get as much satisfaction from cleaning the INDOORS! Is there a dust bunny emoticon here? LO

Pam NJ 6B

My area had the coldest March in over 30 years...and we had snow for several hours on the morning of April 1rst. Out night temps. are still dipping into the 30's (F.) about as many nights as not. They're telling us we're about to see a change...about 60 on Sunday! Not that we can count on that lasting, but it'll sure be nice to see! I'll get up early that morning, just to see it come about.

Patrick
USDA Zone 8b
Heat Zone 3
Sunset Zone 5
SeaTac, WA...one cool place

We are supposed to be in the low 30's two nights the first of the week. I hope the weatherman is wrong.

Dianne
Southeast Alabama
Heat Zone 8
Sunset Zone 31

Sherry, I am in the south but they are predicting high around 50 for Monday here and 28 Tuesday morning. I have squash seedlings on the back porch that I will have to put in the garage. I sure hope this is our last freeze and that our little hummers will be ok.

Linda
ne AL
zone 7b

there are three seperate systems impacting most of the continental US. We had rain turning to snow this morning and I heard that Even Atlanta is going to get some frosty temps out of one of these systems. Tues. Wed. and Thurs. look to be our worst days for the coming week but we will see how it plays out as the days progress.

Penny
Niagara Falls, NY
USDA zone 6a/6b
Heat zone 4
Sunset zone 39

I do hope it doesn't get as cold as predicted. Rain is supposed to move back in and then the freeze. We don't need the rain but won't fuss about it.

Dianne
Southeast Alabama
Heat Zone 8
Sunset Zone 31

Penny, that 1 2 3 punch is a pattern that I am growing weary of. I am never going to get my veggies planted! Dianne I really shouldn't complain either, come July and August I will be begging for rain.

Linda
ne AL
zone 7b

Forecasted low 30s here Mon. and 26-31 Tues. I'm about to have a cow because all my plants are leafed out..especially my expensive peonies! (Last year I spent $60. on just one Japanese tree peony and another $80. on bush peonies...arg!)



Maryjane
W Ga
Zone 8a

PS: "Mother nature needs to be de-throned and another one needs to take her place! She's gone to the looney bin..."

Don't blame Mother Nature. It's humans that have fouled up our environment.

Maryjane
W Ga
Zone 8a

I can certainly sympathize with everyone here being impacted by the weather. Like many of you I have a ton of plants that would like to at least go out on the porch if not out in some sunshine. Lets all pray we get past this next system and on to better days ahead.

Penny
Niagara Falls, NY
USDA zone 6a/6b
Heat zone 4
Sunset zone 39

I sure hope the weather people are wrong. They are so frequently wrong about things, don't know how they keep their jobs. But yes, our forecast for michigan is the same, 6-10 inches of snow starting on Monday. Dang, and I just hung my feeders yesterday. Seems this happens every time my plants start leafing out. Oh well, lets just hope for the best. At any rate, snow this late usually doesnt hang around for long.

kathy t.
shebly twp., MI
Zone 5/6

I sure am praying that that it doesn't get as cold as the weather poeple say. I am not shocked at this cold. I have lived here in southeast Alabama all my life and frosts happen in April. I can even remember it being so cold in May herbicides used on the peanut crops would not work. I have also sat in the truck with the heater going to keep warm while my sons played baseball games in May. People say we will have our 'Easter Cold Snap. and I say give me a break we can have frosts in May long after Easter has passed.

Dianne
Southeast Alabama
Heat Zone 8
Sunset Zone 31

Thanks for sharing that Dianne. Me being a transplant...I bought into that "the pecans don't bud out 'til the cold is gone" theory. I walked around my yard today making a list of everything I'll have to cover, and I told DH we WILL run extension cables and hang a light bulb inside the "tent" we're putting over those peonies. I lost all my hybrid coneflowers I bought from HCG last year, and I seriously think it wasn't all the moles fault. I think this cold winter did a number on them.

I find it odd that something as tender looking as coreopsis sails right thru without a scratch, go figure?

We got more rain today, did y'all?

Maryjane
W Ga
Zone 8a

Hello Maryjane,

I planted several hybrid varieties of coneflowers last year and they all made it through here in zone 5...

1-Pink Double Delight, 2-Sundown, 2-Harvest Moon, 2-White Swan, 2-Tiki Torch, 2-Magnus, and 2-Summer Sky...

They all have started to leaf out already. Maybe yours just need a little more time?

Susan Louise
from Branford CT/ live in Lincoln NE
Zone 5

Some not much. There could be bad weather tonight for all of us here in the south. The sun is shinning here right now.

MaryJane as a rule you could go along with 'when the pecan trees bud out' but once in a blue moon those late frosts come. I am believing that it is not going to drop as low as is being said and if it does the low temps will not last long enough to do lots of damage. There is so much tender green.

Dianne
Southeast Alabama
Heat Zone 8
Sunset Zone 31

MaryJane I read somewhere that you can wrap a strand of those tiny Christmas lights around trees or plants when there is going to be a frost and the heat from the lights will protect them. I am sure I read this while checking out how to protect my lemon and satsuma trees. Needless to say that I didn't do it and lost both.

Dianne
Southeast Alabama
Heat Zone 8
Sunset Zone 31

Doesn't she know it's APRIL!?

I'm in MA, not far from the CT border. It's been brisk here, but today was nice. The next few days are going to be a mess, but just rain-wise. Somewhere deep inside I just don't feel confident that winter has had its last run here....

Hope it melts quickly for you!

Terri in MA

I guess NJ got lucky on this one. No frost warnings here. Maybe a flood watch...We had 30moh winds all day yesterday but today was sunny and arm. I have a little sunburn! All week the weather is not supposed to go below 35 and in the 50's most of the week. Rain but no snow. Thank you mother nature. I planted some lettuce and beans today and want to do some more cool weather crops tomorrow.

Keeping the pillowcases handy, frost ain't over for quite awhile here up north.

Pam NJ 6B

MJ
I wish the cold would take out some of my coneflowers. I have to shovel prune them every year to keep them under control. This one is very invasive for me no matter where they are growing. The just keep spreading, reseeding and growing bigger from the initial plant. I haven't lost one yet. If you lost them it must be something other than temps. You mentioned that they came from HCG. I have to wonder if they were not healthy right from the start.

Penny
Niagara Falls, NY
USDA zone 6a/6b
Heat zone 4
Sunset zone 39

They are now forcasting 2-4 inches of snow tonight and it is snowing pretty good right now. We also have a forecast of of 1-3 more inches of the white stuff tomorrow too and it is the real wet stuff.

Penny
Niagara Falls, NY
USDA zone 6a/6b
Heat zone 4
Sunset zone 39

Yikes Penny and all - please hope this will be the last of the snow - and hope that spring really appears. This rainy windy weather here is bad enough but snow, OH NO... don't want that! Hope it disappears for you all quickly. Crazy weather is not unusual for New England but everyone seems to be getting something unwanted this year. It just can't last.

Carol
Milford, CT
Zone 6

Penny,

By the looks of it, that storm will pass through much faster than it did for us...you're very lucky! It will pass through in no time and the sun will melt the snow almost completely in a day or so

Susan Louise
from Branford CT/ live in Lincoln NE
Zone 5

Susan Louise
I can only hope that it does.

I'm in southwestern PA. It started snowing here this afternoon, and temperatures have fallen from over 60 degrees yesterday to about 32, now. It's supposed to drop into the 20's.

Fortunately, no blizzards here, but we might get an inch or two. Looks like winds this week will be very unfavorable for any kind of northward migration into western PA, except for a brief respite on Wednesday. By Thursday, the sun will return and it's supposed to climb back into the 50's, but those winds still won't be blowing from south to north.

When all of this passes, I'm going to finally get those feeders up and start watching for them. Who knows, maybe this will be my year to see an April hummingbird.

My weather has taken the reverse direction...we haven't been able to get above the 40's so far this year. But suddenly yesterday, we popped up into the upper 60's...and today was almost as warm. Tomorrow will be a little cooler, but I think still sunny. Then on Wednesday, we're expecting a cool down along with rain.

I got my face sunburned 2 days in a row...I even have a few freckles showing up. I had to leave the gardening to go to work both afternoons, but I did get some much needed yardwork under way. The perennial salvias seem to have withstood our colder-than-normal winter. My phygelius plants look like they've died back to the ground, but I'll bet they'll regrow from the roots. The Salvia B&B usually are late to emerge, but I think I spotted little shoots beginning to poke thru the soil.

Patrick
USDA Zone 8b
Heat Zone 3
Sunset Zone 5
SeaTac, WA...one cool place

Everything is white here this morning. Looks like just an inch or two but that is more than I wanted.

We got only a dusting in western PA, and mostly just on surfaces off the ground that are colder. I think the ground is just a bit too warm for it to stick much. The light snow continues, with interludes of sun, but not really all that big a deal. No high winds or menacing stuff, just another April cold spell like we get every year.

All the same, I hope this is the last one, and we're in for a slow, steady warmup. I want to put my seedlings outside!

Got just under 4" but almost all gone today. Feeder was up just before but melted off. Nice & sunny for the next couple of days, rain on Friday morning & back in the 50's & sunny for Sat & Sun. Hopefully will get in yard & throw in some peas, radishes, lettuce & a few hardier seeds I didn't get to winter sow (& pick up the hundreds of branches broken off in the big ice storm earlier this winter!!!). Chipper shreader here I come (& IT BETTER START!!)

Joni
Elwood, IL
Zone 5