It's snowing

[wightbees]

So lovely to see, we don't get it often, just hope the temps drop so the rain laid land freeze and snow lays

 

[Swarm]

Lovely to look at, full stop. No good for anything else.

 

[Bee Bumble]

Only good on Christmas cards.

 

[madasafish]

Happens every year..

It's called winter..

 

[alldigging]

It tried to snow whilst we were putting weed fabric down in the apiary today. It might have succeeded had there not been quite so much rain.

 

[wightbees]

Happens every year..

It's called winter..

Not here it doesn't

 

[Erichalfbee]

So lovely to see, we don't get it often, just hope the temps drop so the rain laid land freeze and snow lays

No snow here....
Bloomin' nuisance for humans and livestock if it does snow!

 

[wightbees]

Disappointed, so far it's not laying

 

[pargyle]

Not here it doesn't

Yes ... settling quite a lot here in the Costa del Fareham and the temperature is dropping so the slush is going to freeze tonight - we are well protected from the South by the IOW and to the North by Portsdown Hill so we really don't get snow very often. There's just what I would describe as a smattering of it here at present and the roads are already chaotic - people are either driving like lunatics for the conditions or so slowly and gingerly that they are even more dangerous.

I'm a Northerner and spent time working in Scotland - they just get on with it North of Watford - down here they have no idea how to handle it.

 

[Portreath_Bees]

Enjoying an almost tropical 6c down here in Cornwall, even less chance of snow down here

 

[wightbees]

I think I'm going to have to head for Wales, they bound to have it up the farm there..

 

[Gilberdyke John]

So lovely to see, we don't get it often, just hope the temps drop so the rain laid land freeze and snow lays

Looks nice for a strictly limited time but when it thaws the fields become a sea of mud slurry and grass loss if grazing allowed to continue. A day of snow results in a week of confinement to stables or hard surface yard for our horses and needing increased hay supplies. If it never snowed again here I wouldn't miss it.

 

[REDWOOD]

A little flurry here, just enough to cover the paintwork on the car. Probably this will be it for 2017


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[user 6228]

Is the time to open the feed holes, take the insulation out, and put the matchsticks in.?

 

[madasafish]

Is the time to open the feed holes, take the insulation out, and put the matchsticks in.?

I've made a bonfire of vanities - and matchsticks.

 

[Goran]

Over here temps got around zero ( a bit warmer) and snowing right now. After weekend break, more to come ( and hopefully to last) during next week. So far such normal winter give us hope we should have decent beekeeping season and decent accumulation of water for the plants..
I think will have to walk again 3km uphill through the snow and the way back.. But I don't mind..

 

[Little John]

I wonder if anyone can remember who it was who first mentioned the putting of matchsticks under Crown Boards to improve ventilation - and why it was actually a very sound idea ... ?
LJ

 

[Bee Bumble]

I wonder if anyone can remember who it was who first mentioned the putting of matchsticks under Crown Boards to improve ventilation

Wedmore?

 

[REDWOOD]

The reason why was probably because years ago they didn't use insulation above the crown board so condensation fell from the roof onto the Bees. Matchsticks were one option but we know now that insulation was better. It looks like we took a step backwards when we ditched the WBC with its quilted cover that bees would cover with propolis if things got a bit cold.





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[Goran]

Over here temps got around zero ( a bit warmer) and snowing right now. After weekend break, more to come ( and hopefully to last) during next week. So far such normal winter give us hope we should have decent beekeeping season and decent accumulation of water for the plants..
I think will have to walk again 3km uphill through the snow and the way back.. But I don't mind..

Within 9 hours it has fallen pretty much. More to come during coming week ( hopefully)..