more minutes of sunlight begins

[roscoe]

How I trick myself into thinking positively about winter.

It usually doesnt work though.

[Alan_L]

I think of it as "only 2 more months, then it's March, and that's when some bamboos start to shoot".

[Iowaboo]

I didn't know people in the south experienced winter.

[Markj]

Can't wait, today there's just 7 hours 27 minutes of daylight here

[roscoe]

I didn't know people in the south experienced winter

Relatively speaking, I suppose your right.

How about fall part 2, -the leaves + anxiety.

[Iowaboo]

[Jerry Hamilton]

52 for a low tonight and then 25 for the low Friday. It just don't know what it wants to do here.

[mantis]

Woohoo! Tomorrow daylight will be 1s longer than today!

[Iowaboo]

hmm, time to start working on your tan

[roscoe]

Woohoo! Tomorrow daylight will be 1s longer than today!

At least its 1s in the right direction.

41 at the moment here.

[stevelau1911]

Thats a good way of looking at the start of winter. Since days are getting progressively longer, the chances of having really cold nights should be dropping in a few weeks.

Most nights are in the 20s now.

[Alan_L]

Since days are getting progressively longer, the chances of having really cold nights should be dropping in a few weeks.

That's not how it works around here.

[Iowaboo]

depends what he means by a few weeks.

[stevelau1911]

I meant a turning point in temps at around the 3rd week of January.

I know it's wishful thinking, but at least more minutes of sunshine usually means the more my greenhouse heats up and the less time it has to freeze. It also tends to warm up much easier on sunny days in March as opposed to January.

[foxd]

I've looked at the temperature records from our campus weather station and on average there is a regular pattern of temperature changes. We usually get a sudden drop in temperature about the 15th of January.

As a side note, I have a copy of a government report on what global warming is going to do to various parts of the country. Looks like we will be able to grow the large size Moso and some Bambusa within 40 years.