cold weather headed our way

[Jafer2]

well looks like we might be getting the beast from the east this winter to rival 2010 weather oh dear just worried about me bees!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0PadxPI1Ds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hXPmvII1C0

tempted to bring them into my conservatory lol

anyone have any contingency plans??

 

[Plenty of honey]

well looks like we might be getting the beast from the east this winter to rival 2010 weather oh dear just worried about me bees!



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0PadxPI1Ds



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hXPmvII1C0



tempted to bring them into my conservatory lol



anyone have any contingency plans??

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[Jafer2]

lol cracked me up but unfortunately it will end up like that in the shops within 1 day of bad snow means weeks of no delivery.

 

[Finman]

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Our delivery workers are going to strike just before the End of the World. IT is coming.

 

[Plenty of honey]

Punxsutawney Phil Predicts Winter Is Sticking Around https://youtu.be/_8Uhq9afiEA !!

 

[Poly Hive]

All depends on where you live eh?

Not seen a bee out in a month here.

PH

 

[Finman]

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I have had very mild Winter in South Finland. Colonies do well. Lots of food in hives. Perhaps 1/3 consumed. IT is snow Winter still 2 months forward.

IT is now -8C.

IT was forecasted here deadly cold Winter, but at last in 10 days forecast it is nothing like that. Then February is over and sun warms upp days.

 

[Heather]

Mine all piling out yesterday , on crocus, so all hives ready to go. But if this cold weather coming back all will halt again...
One showing sign of nosema as a few wet stains on the front. Rest healthy.

 

[Eyeman]

One showing sign of nosema as a few wet stains on the front. Rest healthy.

?Dysentry

 

[madasafish]

well looks like we might be getting the beast from the east this winter to rival 2010 weather oh dear just worried about me bees!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0PadxPI1Ds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hXPmvII1C0

tempted to bring them into my conservatory lol

anyone have any contingency plans??

Yes, when it reaches -16C like 2010 I shall wear breeks under my kilt

 

[Finman]

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But now forecast says, that it is cooling.

Yesterday forecast was -8C , and now it is - 15C.

-15C is still normal cold in February here.
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I go to put on electric heating in a small hive.
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[Noddy]

I'm an Arctic trained ex Royal Marine, I also spent a year down the Antarctic as part of the Royal Marines detachment on HMS Endurance - cold, what cold? cold is a state of mind.

The bees, on the other hand....

 

[Swarm]

I'm an Arctic trained ex Royal Marine, I also spent a year down the Antarctic as part of the Royal Marines detachment on HMS Endurance - cold, what cold? cold is a state of mind.

The bees, on the other hand....

Took the wrong turn?

 

[Poly Hive]

A state of mind... and very good clothing. Not to mention a very dry cold.

All rather different to the conditions the bees cope with in the UK.

PH

 

[Noddy]

Took the wrong turn?

Nah, many long winters in Northern Norway, then a nice long trip 'down south' interrupted by some scrap dealers and Argentinian Marine squatters.

 

[Plenty of honey]

A state of mind... and very good clothing. Not to mention a very dry cold.

All rather different to the conditions the bees cope with in the UK.

PH

I agree, We've had not day of cold easterlies this year, i dont mind the cold, having to work outside a lot over the winter, i positively adore it. Its so much more pleasant when its cold and dry. Bees will be fine too.
It may even hold over the OSR a little and rebalance things before the bees are up to numbers for foraging. their saying this could last a fair while if it arrives!
Cant be much worse than the last 4 months here, days and days and days of cold grey , dark and dismal, rain or drizzle.
The figures here say we received 40% less sunshine in December, working out in reality to be 9/10ths of sweet FA!!

 

[Eyeman]

i agree, we've had not day of cold easterlies this year, i dont mind the cold, having to work outside a lot over the winter, i positively adore it. Its so much more pleasant when its cold and dry. Bees will be fine too.
It may even hold over the osr a little and rebalance things before the bees are up to numbers for foraging. Their saying this could last a fair while if it arrives!
Cant be much worse than the last 4 months here, days and days and days of cold grey , dark and dismal, rain or drizzle.
The figures here say we received 40% less sunshine in december, working out in reality to be 9/10ths of sweet fa!!

Getting too hot so having to pull my legs back out of the sun
Yet another day of glorious sunshine

 

[Popparand]

I'm an Arctic trained ex Royal Marine, I also spent a year down the Antarctic as part of the Royal Marines detachment on HMS Endurance - cold, what cold? cold is a state of mind.

The bees, on the other hand....

Why do you keep your hives underwater? Am I missing something?

 

[Roola]

The potential incoming cold weather is due to something called Sudden Stratospheric Warming or SSW. This event which took place last weekend can lead to the fragmentation of the polar vortex and in theory push colder air down to lower latitudes than normal.... where the colder air actually ends up though is uncertain. At present the forecasting models are all over the place as the SSW initiates chaos and something called Shannon Entropy.... in short they are struggling to predict how the next 5 days will play out let alone any further. This cold spell is in no way nailed on yet however there is a very strong possibility it will be much colder by next weekend and if the Easterly does materialise it will be tapping in to some very cold air over Scandinavia... when this crosses the comparatively warm North Sea it could well set up some nice convection and streamers... There is also the potential for more organised bands of snow if troughs form in the unstable air mass. I'll be interested to see how the BBC call this in the long range forecast this afternoon, its a bit of a headache i'm sure.

 

[Noddy]

Am I missing something?

Yes

The bees, on the other hand....