We seem to be one of the few places that has had almost statistically normal weather this year, it seems (southern California). Hellishly hot weather far to the north of us, flooding in Germany and then in central China (where they got their average annual rainfall in just 24 hours!). And then a plant friend in Brazil posted some photos of snow a couple of days ago, and it occurred to me that I hadn’t seen anything in the news of weather in the Southern Hemisphere, so I went looking and found that they’re getting a lot of unusual winter weather. Apparently Antarctica has been tossing large masses of very cold air at various continents to the north. Southern Brazil got snow recently as did South Africa. New Zealand got some unusually cold air as well. Haven’t heard if Australia has been sent any of these “gifts” from Antarctica yet. I even saw one weather map of both North and South America from a couple of weeks ago that showed the record hot air in the US Pacific Northwest and British Columbia and the snowy cold air mass in southern Brazil on the same day. I hope our plants can adapt. --Lee Poulsen Pasadena, California, USA - USDA Zone 10a Latitude 34°N, Altitude 1150 ft/350 m > On Jul 25, 2021, at 4:29 AM, Garak via pbs <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > > Hi all, > > we all know how bizarrely off the weather is this year - obviously it's not just the people who are confused, as I just found Acis autumnale in full flower. Actually I'm not even sure if it went completely dormant this year, I think I have seen the old leaves present about a month ago... > > -- > Martin (pronoun: he) > ---------------------------------------------- > Southern Germany > Likely zone 7a > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>