I should not have to be covering the bedding plants at night!
That is all.
My sympathies - if it were only in my power, I’d happily send some of our heat your way.
We don’t have air conditioning yet - it’s part of the whole front and back yard landscaping project that is about a month away. We therefore need to sleep with the windows open at night. Our neighbours next door and two houses away have antique air conditioners that generate more noise than cool air, and seem to be on for 50 minutes every hour. Not that the neighbours notice - they’ve got their windows closed!
With the sudden heat in Toronto right now, the grass pollen count shot up from 2 -3 to the high 30s this week. Between no sleep, round two of a cold and this feeling like I’ve been hit with a baseball bat, I would happily ship about 15 degrees celsius out to the prairies.
Is there no way for everywhere in the country to have pleasant weather at the same time? Or, if not pleasant, at least seasonal?
Off to lie down with an ice pack on my sinuses…
Yep, the calendar tells me that it’s May 31. Unfortunately, the weather outside is more like November. I’m getting tired of clouds, rain, and snow (yes, it snowed one night last week); and temps that never get into the double-digits on the Celsius scale.
It’s friggin’ Saskatchewan. The fact it’s been raining rather than snowing for the past week means it’s a good start on spring.
Seasonal here in Ottawa at the moment. (Apart from the fact that we’re under a blanket of smoke.)
Cold and rainy here in the PNW. Tomorrow we’re supposed to receive as much rain as we normally receive for the entire month of June!
Soooo very sick of the rain. I don’t generally like temps much above 75 degrees, but at this point I’d take a little heat.
I fully expect the weather to be disrupted from a “normal” summer due to the Iceland volcanic eruptions. If Katla erupts the rain would be the least of our worries.
I too would happily send heat your way. I am a cool-weather kind of guy. Is there anywhere in the world where it is autumn all year around?
It’s going to get up to 106 this week.
Trade ya?
I just got back from the grocery store. I wore a parka.
We have a new yard that has a new hedge this spring - I normally wouldn’t be putting all those plants in this early, but they have me at a Catch-22 - if I don’t buy the plants now, once they’re gone, they’re gone, and we needed more than 30 of them for the hedge. We spend a cold evening covering the hedge with plastic on Saturday night. They seem to have survived, mostly (the cheap plants don’t look too good, though). I’m counting on cotoneasters to be tough enough to handle this.
I planted a bunch of raspberry sprouts just before the snow, too - they don’t seem to be bothered by it, though. No surprise, really, since raspberries are basically weeds.
I really wish we could even things out - we could all meet somewhere in the middle. I’ll tell you, this was one cranky city on Saturday, with snow on the ground and more coming down. My next plant I put in the ground will be mid-July, I think. 
I’d say it’s a few cranky provinces. What say we invade southern Ontario and force them to trade places with us for a while?
Yay! Road Trip!
You’d be welcome any time in the next couple of weeks - no need to invade.
I wouldn’t advise anyone to be around Toronto during the G20 in late June, however.
We didn’t get snow here in Saskatchewan, but other than that, we probably have it as bad as you Albertans do, so at least be comforted by that. I’m quite jealous of your much nicer winters compared to ours though.
The article doesn’t really say why, though. Given that this is mass media, I’m surprised it doesn’t mention plunging temperatures, mass crop die-off, millions starving, or whatever. What’s your understanding of what you said?
Humans are a tropical species. You aren’t meant to live there (and I am not meant to live in New England either but this is temporary). Your ancestors were the ones that couldn’t keep up when everyone else moved South.
Hey, my ancestors came here ON PURPOSE, I’ll have you know. I’m not sure what point I’m making.
It has rained almost every day in May. My garden plot is a mud hole - I can’t plant anything yet. MAY!!!
Another ridiculous SoCal month.
Highs in the upper 60s and low 70s, with 0.01 inches of rain in the month of May.