In 2006, the geniuses at the New York Times announced that global warming had brought endless summer to Long Island, warm winters to Maryland, an increase in hurricanes, and was killing Polar Bears.
With Warmer Weather, Different Decisions to Make – New York Times
Since then, the US has experienced the quietest hurricane period on record, Polar Bear populations are doing just fine, and January temperatures here in Maryland have plummeted at a rate of 42C/century. Temperature is -14C here right now.
In Westchester County 8 had December tomatoes in 2006 as well; roses too. Since the. I’ve had January and February tomatoes; from my freezer, the ones I picked green in October and froze in December after they ripened on my windowsill. I know for sure that my experience this year was shared by the rest of the world and that therefore there has been global cooling.
Darn mobile, that is not “8,” but “I.”
Hardiness Zone 8 doesn’t touch Maryland, so there’s no way a central Maryland garden jumped from 7 to 8.
Wouldn’t it be funny if Anne Raver had her area go down to Zone 6 for a while.
Anne Raver lives in the Baltimore, Maryland Area. If the AMO/NAO flips and the sun continues very quiet she may very well see at least a zone 7 and perhaps a zone 6b (-5 °F to 0 °F.) On February 13th a record of 1 °F was set in 1983. On the 18th, a record of 3 °F was set in 1979. On the 24th a record of 2 °F was set in 1873.
IPCC Scientist Mojib Latif Sees North Atlantic Cooling Over Next Decade…Confirms Oceans Play Crucial Role
AMO (Paul Homewood)
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NAO (Paul Homewood)
https://i0.wp.com/www.nasa.gov/images/content/601013main2_daysst_lines_2-670.jpg
NAO (Bob Tisdale)
https://bobtisdale.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/figure-32.png?w=720
Actually it does in a tiny point on the shore. See the map below. You will have to look real hard at the peninsula below Salisbury.
Ok, replace doesn’t touch with barely touches, but there’s still no way a central Maryland garden jumped from 7 to 8.
It could if it is in a city. Baltimore also looks like it might be zone 8. The colors are darn hard to see.
This map puts Maryland in zone 8 with no areas of zone 7. http://www.plantmaps.com/interactive-maryland-usda-plant-zone-hardiness-map.php
She might have gotten away with zone 8 plants by coddling them too (South facing wall, bubble wrap….)
This entire week is going to be snow, snow, snow, with highs at ZERO degrees F some days!
This is by far now the coldest mid-January to mid-February winter I have ever seen.
USDA plant hardiness zone for Maryland (my county in NC is 7b min of 5 to 10°F)
http://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/PHZMWeb/Images/72DPI/mddc.jpg
The warmest January for Washington, DC was during 1950 when the average temperature was 48.0 F. The second warmest was during 1932 (46.8). There has been no January within 4 degrees of 1950 ever since!
The world doesn’t really NEED Polar Bears anyway, except for rugs and Coke commercials.
Poley bears will survive just fine. We have all those eco-loons we can feed them….
I saw a plant nursery that claimed Cinnamon was in the climate zone for Fargo ND. It turned out that if you moved the plant outdoors during the summer it would not die. I think this may be the way the climate zones have been moving.
Do any plants survive in Fargo ND. or do they all freeze to death over the winter? {:>D