What is your current yard temperature?

[Foxpalms]

It was warmer than Athens, Barcelona, Perth, Sydney, auckland, Charleston, dallas, Houston and Capetown in London. If only the Jetstream permanently stayed like that all year the weather would be perfect!

[GottmitAlex]

28C 

Oct 29, 2022

1:00pm

 

[Palmensammler]

Today's high was 25°C / 77°F.  We had the hottest Oktober ever here in Southwest Germany.  Wish it would continue like this. 

Eckhard 

[Foxpalms]

15 minutes ago, Palmensammler said:

Today's high was 25°C / 77°F.  We had the hottest Oktober ever here in Southwest Germany.  Wish it would continue like this. 

Eckhard 

I imagine it was clear skies in Germany, if we had clear skies not sun and clouds here it probably would of been the same temperature here. Still got up to 24c in London. What's the overnight low inland in Germany? The low here for tonight is 17c and it's 18c right now.

[UK_Palms]

Maximum of 23.8C / 75F in my garden today. Of course I was out in east London on a palm safari, where it was arguably even warmer. 24-25C / 75-77F in a few spots around 3pm. I screenshotted the Wunderground temps at 1:55pm, about an hour before they actually peaked.

 

I have somehow managed to burn my face as well, despite recently insisting that the sunlight intensity had fallen off a cliff here. I usually burn my face in May when sunlight levels increase, not during the last few days of October. I was out in it for most of the day though.

Also the London Underground was like an oven today. It must have been 32C / 90F down there with stifling hot winds blowing through. I think part of it is down to residual heat build up, especially due to a run of very mild nights. I had sweat pouring off me, even on the train back to Guildford. 

It’s still 17C / 63F here at 10pm! 26C / 80F in my bedroom, so I have the fan running, again! It probably won’t drop below 16C / 61F in London tonight. Bearing in mind official London stations like Kew and St James are in open parks that will be cooler than street level at both day and night.

 

Edited October 29, 2022 by UK_Palms

[Foxpalms]

@UK_Palms it amazes me how places in Australia and New Zealand at sea level can have a UV of 8+ and be below 20c. A UV of 8+ is almost always a 25c+ day here. In central London the air is almost always a very light breeze then stagnant at night, right now it's 18c with 88% humidity but there's no breeze so it feels warm.  I'm sure if the UV was still a 7-9 this week the temperature would be 35c+. Did you find any new palms?

[UK_Palms]

25 minutes ago, Foxpalms said:

@UK_Palms it amazes me how places in Australia and New Zealand at sea level can have a UV of 8+ and be below 20c. A UV of 8+ is almost always a 25c+ day here. In central London the air is almost always a very light breeze then stagnant at night, right now it's 18c with 88% humidity but there's no breeze so it feels warm.  I'm sure if the UV was still a 7-9 this week the temperature would be 35c+. Did you find any new palms?

My trip was a bit of a mixed bag. I went all the way to the Isle of Dogs to see the big 30+ foot Filifera, only to find it cut down and a nasty stump left in its place. Then I arrived in Abbey Wood to find the big Robusta on Bracondale Road cut down too. That's two big Washies cut down in Abbey Wood in past 12 months, if you include another on the main road. Anyway I couldn't believe it. I knocked on a door as well to see a monster backyard Filifera and the guy said he cut it down during the summer because it had grown bigger than the house! My response literally was "you're joking pal!?".

Every other palm I visited after that my anxiety was 10 fold as I approached the spots, fearing they might be cut down too. A massive CIDP in Dagenham has gone as well. Some crappy artificial grass/turf has been put down in its place. Several Yucca Elephantipes ripped out as well, sadly. On the plus side, I don't think it will be long before the London Robusta's start reaching 'skyduster' proportions. This one here has also flowered and the growth rate is ridiculous. A bit over-trimmed though. It had a much bigger crown last year, but much shorter trunk. I'll post a big thread about it all. Lots of washies and CIDP's. 

Edited October 29, 2022 by UK_Palms

[Foxpalms]

@UK_PalmsIt's a shame people cut them down but in the near future seedlings will be popping up everywhere across London. If we can get a few more consistently hot summers and mild winters, I think that will also push the garden centers to import more palms and more variety. That's also when I think councils will start planting Washingtonia around London. They don't need irrigation, they look nice, provide shade and they have a small footprint which is important in the center of a city.  I might of lost count but my washingtonia Robusta is on frond 22 or 23 of the year so they definitely grow fast which is also good. I think in London one could easily go from 3ft to 60ft in 20 years.

Edited October 29, 2022 by Foxpalms

[Silas_Sancona]

Pretty nice final Saturday of the month, 78-82F around the east Valley and Chandler atm ( 4:26PM )

More perfect Autumn weather for the area for the start of the week/ November before...

Watching the Wx Models yesterday and through the day today,  looking like the chances for that wet and chilly mid / late week storm have come to a screeching halt, at least for AZ, and S.Cal..  recent trend w/ the storm has it backing off the idea of digging down across Baja ( which would allow it to tap into / bring more moisture north into the region from Mexico )/ Trough associated w/ it progresses through the west much faster than earlier forecasts ( not allowing the storm itself to sit around long enough to tap into much additional moisture before it moves east )..

Parts of California ( North and northern parts of Central CA. ) may get some rain, parts of Utah / Colorado seeing some snow,  but not looking like the early season " Snow fest " some earlier model runs were suggesting. 

Still a few days out, so the forecast could still change again of course but, for now, looking like a couple days of cool-ish breezy weather, a few light showers / quick snow showers for the highest parts of the state may be all we get. Another storm shortly afterwards may drop more rain over the same areas of CA. but, for now, that storm looks to stay out of AZ, for the most part anyway. Suggested rainfall totals close to.. or just over 1" for the lower Deserts here in earlier forecasts, have trended back to maybe seeing .10" ( which means more like a few sprinkles, lol ).


Suggested, overall cooler than average WX pattern for the west appears likely settle back to dry, warm-ish, and quiet sometime around the middle of next month.. or is what most longer term outlooks are seeing for now.

[Tyrone]

7 hours ago, Foxpalms said:

@UK_Palms it amazes me how places in Australia and New Zealand at sea level can have a UV of 8+ and be below 20c. A UV of 8+ is almost always a 25c+ day here. In central London the air is almost always a very light breeze then stagnant at night, right now it's 18c with 88% humidity but there's no breeze so it feels warm.  I'm sure if the UV was still a 7-9 this week the temperature would be 35c+. Did you find any new palms?

It’s almost 12C here now an a uv index of 9. We’ve had hail and all.

The UV index has nothing to do with temperature. Heat is measured in the infrared spectrum, which is below red visible light. UV is a higher frequency above blue visible light. 

[Foxpalms]

1 hour ago, Tyrone said:

It’s almost 12C here now an a uv index of 9. We’ve had hail and all.

The UV index has nothing to do with temperature. Heat is measured in the infrared spectrum, which is below red visible light. UV is a higher frequency above blue visible light. 

Not necessarily the UV but if the UV is high usually that means the angle of the sun is very steep and sun's rays are more concentrated meaning the day is warmer. And the UV is also strongest around mid day which is when the sun's rays are strongest so if if the UV is a 7+ at least here that usually means it has to be clear skies so the sun is just heating when it's at its strongest. Maybe I should of said if the sun was as strong as it is in New Zealand and Australia that would mean a 25c+ day, here, but that's essentially why I use UV to determine the sun's strength!

Edited October 30, 2022 by Foxpalms

[Foxpalms]

57f/14c in London this morning the high today  should be around 18-19c. Later on today I will hopefully be be taking lots of photos of European coconuts. 😁

[Phil Petersen]

On 10/30/2022 at 6:30 PM, Tyrone said:

It’s almost 12C here now an a uv index of 9. We’ve had hail and all.

The UV index has nothing to do with temperature. Heat is measured in the infrared spectrum, which is below red visible light. UV is a higher frequency above blue visible light. 

 

On 10/30/2022 at 10:53 AM, Foxpalms said:

@UK_Palms it amazes me how places in Australia and New Zealand at sea level can have a UV of 8+ and be below 20c. A UV of 8+ is almost always a 25c+ day here. In central London the air is almost always a very light breeze then stagnant at night, right now it's 18c with 88% humidity but there's no breeze so it feels warm.  I'm sure if the UV was still a 7-9 this week the temperature would be 35c+. 

The perihelion (earths closest distance to the sun) occuring during the southern summer (early jan) is one of the main reasons why the UV index is higher in the southern hemisphere. Probably helps to explain the high rates of skin cancer etc down under.

Edited October 31, 2022 by Phil Petersen
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[bubba]

79F at 6:42 AM

[Foxpalms]

27c with 65% humidity at the airport here are some nice palms as well.

[UK_Palms]

@Foxpalms Where the hell are you lol? I’m guessing Tenerife or somewhere in the Canaries. Looks pretty overcast though. I saw you posted the current temp at like 5am this morning. It was 16C / 61F when I left the house for work and it looks like the temp peaked at 19C / 66F here.

[MrTropical]

The current temperature at my location in the North Carolina mountains is 56F (13C).

Decent rainfall to start off the day, with close to a quarter-inch so far as of this writing.

Expecting a low of 47F (8C) tonight.

10-31-2022

[Foxpalms]

@UK_Palmsyes Tenerife. It was overcast when I took the photo but it quickly cleared up in the south (the desert) as I traveled to Puerto de la Cruz (the tropics) the cloud returned its much more humid here and green. Traveling to here I  have gone past thousands of phoenix and dypsis palms. Lots of royals Bismarckia, Christmas palms, foxtails, spindle palms, king palms, Queen palms. Saw a few coconuts in the south but not as many as here I will take some photos and make a thread. Also on the lookout for lipstick palms. The amount and variety of palms seeds, to collect fresh seeds here even in a small area is great!

Edited October 31, 2022 by Foxpalms

[Foxpalms]

24c/75f with 88% humidity warm and very humid so pretty sticky. Lots of coconuts and a few with fruit on them.

[Foxpalms]

Currently 27c with 74% humidity. Yesterday got up to 30c. Only got a few seeds so far.

Edited November 2, 2022 by Foxpalms

[UK_Palms]

@Foxpalms 😂 do you know what seeds are what exactly? How many of them will actually grow okay in London!? I mean Tenerife is the warmest place in the whole of Europe.

Also send some of that warmth over to the UK. It’s cold and very windy today. Only 14C / 57F here at midday. It’s going to be one of the coldest days in a long time! Brrrrr.

Acorns are sprouting already here though. This doesn’t normally happen until the spring in April/May. It must be the warm October that we had.

 

Edited November 2, 2022 by UK_Palms

[Foxpalms]

@UK_PalmsChambeyronia macrocarpa which is good since it's impossible to find those in the UK for sale. Archontophoenix cunninghamiana, syagrus romanzoffianana, phoenix Sylvesteris, royal palm species seed, different types of dypsis, arenga and other random palms. I will only know what they are once they grow but I can narrow it down to the species I collected since I know what all the palms are I collected seed from. I think the winds in a week won't be coming from the canary Islands but will be brought up from maderia to the UK 

Edited November 2, 2022 by Foxpalms

[Silas_Sancona]

A mild 77F at 1: 06PM as a taste of winter knocks on our doorstep..  By tomorrow, we'll be 15-20F lower with maybe a few sprinkles and a cold breeze around in the morning..  Bigger impact will be a couple cold mornings spent in the low 40s both Friday and Saturday mornings. Areas further away from town, and down toward Tucson could see a few high 30s Thursday or Friday night.




While we won't see much rainfall, areas across the northern and far eastern part of the state should see better rain chances / totals and snow, esp. above 5K Ft.  If moisture hangs around long enough, a slight chance some foothill areas just outside the valley above 4K ft see some wet flakes mix in w/ any rain that occurs up there.

Back to mild days/ seasonally cool mornings over the weekend / next week, for now anyway.  

PNA remains in negative territory for the time being, so the lean toward unsettled weather for the southwest / rest of the west still exists, even if things settle down a bit down here after this storm passes and the index rises closer to 0+/- as suggested by the graph later in the month.




 

[kinzyjr]

Lowest reading in the garden is currently 72F after reaching a high of 90F in the same spot for the day. My area received 2 inches of much needed rain between 7pm and 8pm.

The airport is reading higher than this sensor currently:

 

[Foxpalms]

27c with 77% humidity in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Not as hot as Puerto de la Cruz but still very sticky. Lots of coconuts here too.

[UK_Palms]

A chilly 8C / 46F at 11pm with on and off heavy rain all evening. It has been very cool and wet over the past day or two now. I actually had more rain last night than I had for the entire summer. I have also had more rain in the past 24 hours than I had in April, May, June, July, August & September combined.

I don't know whether that says more about how wet the past 24 hours has been here, or more about how dry the warmer months were. Either way the conditions have definitely flipped here from months of warm and dry weather to a sudden change with wet-cool conditions. It felt like a switch was flipped on 1st November.

Northolt in NW London had 103mm / 4 inches of rain from 9am - 9am and has since had a load more today. Probably 130mm / 5 inches of rainfall over the past 36 hours now in some parts of southeast England. The whole of July in comparison had 0mm / 0.0 inches in places like central London and where I am here. Only 

Edited November 3, 2022 by UK_Palms

[RyManUtah]

50 F (~10c) after drizzling most of the day. Expecting my frost freeze of the season tonight as skies clear - in the 30F / -1c range. 
 

[GottmitAlex]

The weather has veered toward the cool side 

16c @ 5:43PM pst

Nov 3rd

 

[GottmitAlex]

It was as 23c yesterday at this hour. .. gulp. We're not even in winter yet!

😪

[GottmitAlex]

Brood lamps are ready upon hitting 8c!

[JohnAndSancho]

WeatherDoge is the greatest weather app ever. 

[Tyrone]

1 hour ago, JohnAndSancho said:

WeatherDoge is the greatest weather app ever. 

That app makes me laugh my head off. Who would have thought of it. 

[Tyrone]

3 hours ago, GottmitAlex said:

The weather has veered toward the cool side 

16c @ 5:43PM pst

Nov 3rd

 

You're way too soft. What happens when the temp doesn't even reach that in the day?

[Than]

On 11/2/2022 at 12:50 PM, Foxpalms said:

Currently 27c with 74% humidity. Yesterday got up to 30c. Only got a few seeds so far.

Ι could never tell which is which. And I'd def add a couple of those hardy coconuts!

[Xenon]

81F with a 73F dew point and a light sprinkle at sunset. Lowland rainforest for the next few hours, cold front incoming...

 

[GottmitAlex]

20 hours ago, Tyrone said:

You're way too soft. What happens when the temp doesn't even reach that in the day?

No no.

I was worried temps hitting less than 8c the following dawn (today) which were at 12c.

 

[Foxpalms]

26c in southern Tenerife today. The south has been cooler than the north this week and the humidity is much lower. It felt like a dessert only a bit more humid whilst Puerto de la Cruz is very humid and feels more tropical.

[Foxpalms]

27c with 73% humidity clear skies. The UV has been a 7 this week. Some of the higher elevation parts of the island, it was a UV index of 10

[GottmitAlex]

81F/27c

Nov 5th ,2022

12:50pm

[UK_Palms]

Only 6 days into November now and I am already on 5.1 inches of rainfall for the month. Torrential thunderstorms again last night. Over an inch of rain recorded in 10 minutes between 4:55am - 5:05am. Sleeping with the window open due to indoor residual heat and humidity, only to be awoken to the sound of a nuclear bomb going off, which was actually thunder and sheet lightning. The switch has clearly been flipped to wet and stormy here after months of high pressure and calm, dry conditions.

Anyway, it's a mild 13C / 55F here at 11am. Mild is certainly the theme. The cannas are putting out new flower stalks and I am noticing sunflowers sprouting up in places already. The garden is actually waterlogged in places now. The last time that occurred was over a year ago, in perhaps October 2021, following the last major wet spell. Autumn/fall is getting progressively wetter here year on year, especially October and November. Its getting milder too obviously. We do have a drier spell starting mid-week, thankfully.

 

Edited November 6, 2022 by UK_Palms