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Originally Posted by Metro-One
As expected, that intense cold snap this January, in combination with occurring suddenly after a sustained mild stretch, and still recovering from the extreme cold snap of December 2021 and the extreme heat dome of June 2021, has been disastrous for wineries and to a lesser extent orchards in the Okanagan.
In areas, grape buds this year may have been 97 to 99% destroyed…
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That January cold snap around Vancouver also really hit a lot of the plants around the downtown peninsula hard.
This is probably the least flowery Jan/Feb that I've seen in a long time.
As usual the daffodils at Sunset Beach were coming out in early January but then I think they got mostly wiped out. They are very sparse this year.
And just about every other kind of bloom or blossom seems to be a fraction of what it had been in past years.
The camellias that I've seen blooming have freezer burns.
Even moderately hardy evergreen trees, bushes and shrubs have been shedding a lot of leaves.
Downtown Vancouver, Jan./Feb. '24, my pics
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