Winter

Same thing here. [img]frown.gif" border="0[/img]

quote:Originally posted by Boom Boom:
Wonder what Fenruary will be like?

I don't know, exciting I am sure, as I, for one, like those alive today, have never experienced the birth of a "new" month before. [img]wink.gif" border="0[/img] It'll take some getting used to 13 months after having 12 for so long. [img]biggrin.gif" border="0[/img] Do you think there will some confusion as to the similar spelling to February? [img]wink.gif" border="0[/img]

Not flaming you, just teasing, as I was actually tryinmg to prounce fenruary, it is hard.

But I too am interested in what February will bring. After having 400% more snowfall, last year, than normal, so far this year we are under average, and the rivers and creeks are still open in some places. And if this continues, and if we get no rain in the spring the dead pine forests will burn.

Now it is supposed to get cold which means no snowfall for a week at least.

The winds were so bad last week, that trees, dead ones were being blown over, across roads and hydro lines. We had to actually cut down a big pine, it was almost dead from pine beetles, when there was a lull, before it blew over and took the house out.

Presumably we're safe from the pine beetles here, as our trees are mostly spruce. Is that a safe assumption to make? [img]confused.gif" border="0[/img]

quote:Originally posted by Boom Boom:
Presumably we're safe from the pine beetles here, as our trees are mostly spruce. Is that a safe assumption to make? [img]confused.gif" border="0[/img]

uh no, seeing as how they have proof that the pine beetle is adapting to the different chemicals that spruce trees produce that was a barrier to their attacking them before. Moreover, there is also a spruce beetle that appears to be, like the pine beetle, becoming more prolific because cold temps are not there to kill them off in sufficient numbers.

In the BC thread on pine beetles, evidence was given that if all things stay as warm as they have been because of climate change, the pine forests across Canada will be devastated within 15 years.

Nice shot.

We don't really get wind here but it was -15C this morning nonetheless.