That's a very evocative description pdudgeon
; I can imagine your garden from it. It sounds like you have a mix of the seasons there! Just wondering what is "yellow and red rain"? I'm in the UK, so it may be a term not used here.
Yes Dave, I'll leave the pruning, but don't want this year's growth to start before I get to do it. However the weather is just too cold now, with risk of frosts.
thanks very much for your comment.
the 'yellow and red rain' is what we see on our tv or computer screens from the local weather report.
the weather stations around here use Doplar radar to scan the storms from top to bottom.
They can tell us how strong a storm is, which direction it is going, the cities that it will affect,
and the time that the storm will arrive.
In esence it is an "early warning system", and a very good one at that.
the categories of the Doplar system measure the amount of rain that falls per minute,
and then assign a color value to each measurement.
thus light rain would be seen on the map as a light green in color (dodge the raindrops),
normal rain as medium green (umbrella needed),
harder rain as dark green (hang on tight to the umbrella, need boots and raincoat as well)
yellow pelting rain means "speed up those wipers and slow down to a crawl if driving",
orange or red rain (the sky is falling) as "danger outside-shelter inside".
yellow, orange, and red rain is often accompanied by lightening and thunder,
whereas orange and red rains often include wind squalls, and possible tornadoes.
if there is a black spot on the radar where the pixels of dark green and dark red meet, that is a tornado.
thanks for your question.
