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Now your photos beg a real question for me. Your winter is most definitely colder than here, yet your trees look either the same or ahead of ours. Our Jan, Feb, Mar, and April are far warmer than yours. What gives?
This is why I'm convinced it is the species of trees you have there vs here. If you had our trees there with that climate, no way they would be that green unless you have been way way above average in temperatures. This is just fact.
We cannot compare locations anymore and say because one area is more green than another it is because of climate. Just no way that Kharkiv, Ukraine is anywhere near as warm as here in winter or spring.
I will now take all these photos of very green trees in Spring in Eastern Europe with that in mind. Your trees are just very different and most likely far more cold tolerant than here. The record low in Kharkiv would probably kill many of our trees, which are a mix of northern and southern US native species. We have never gone anywhere near -32F, which is the record low in your location.
Yes, this month is warmer than average (by 3.3C). The warmest, compared to average, day was April 9th, with average 17.4C, which is almost 10 degrees (Celsius) warmer than average (and high then was 25C).
We had a low of 0c this morning which can't be more than 1-2c off the record for the date. At the time the pic was taken it was only around 3c. It would be warmer at 8:30am on a typical January morning!
When the weather is clear, it is colder in the morning.
We had a low of 0c this morning which can't be more than 1-2c off the record for the date. At the time the pic was taken it was only around 3c. It would be warmer at 8:30am on a typical January morning!
Clear skies and freezing mornings look similar to our recent weather.
Maybe a different species? The trees in rural Surrey are definitely looking the same as here, so it could be a frost hollow. They could also be selectively chosen because they looked dead, or if they are ash trees, they might actually be dead. People on other forums have been talking about how dead other parts of the country look, it should be green by now.
St Albans is very close to Rickmansworth, which has some of the coldest nights in southern England.
I will be up north and then in Surrey this weekend, so I'll take a couple of pics.
Lucky you. I was so envious looking at his photos. He goes there all the time as GSK has HQ right outside London I think. My sister would go there also when she worked for them.
He said the area was beautiful. Inside that building there are paintings from the 1600's. The UK is def one of my fav places in Europe. I don't give a hoot about cloudy or cool whatever, it is still one of the most beautiful countrysides I have ever seen when I rode the train in May from London to Manchester.
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