Weather

[dpearce4]

Does anyone know if this warm weather is going to continue much longer? Im getting concerned about what to do with my hives. Should I put some supers on as last weekend most were getting to heavy to lift and the weather just carried on.

Any suggestions. I have lots of drawn supers I can use.

Also all hives are 14x12 or commercial and very strong.

 

[Jimy Dee]

Not a lot. Winter could be here within a day or two. Not saying I am the authority but that is what I am doing. Nights are getting co!der, days shorter and my bees are flying for less active foraging time every day.

 

[Hivemaker.]

Does anyone know if this warm weather is going to continue much longer?

God will know...Today’s Forecast – “There will be weather everywhere.

But there will always be the weather, everywhere you go, always take the weather with you.

 

[Alabamaeee]

"Whether the weather be fine
Whether the weather be not
Whether the weather be cold
Whether the weather be not
We must weather the weather
Whether we like it or not!"

 

[Erichalfbee]

If you're worried then leave drawn supers underneath the broods. Five of mine are configured that way and I'm probably doing a sixth tomorrow.
There might be a lot of rock hard ivy frames around next year .....or maybe not.

 

[REDWOOD]

The next five days temperature low is 14 and high 19 mostly cloudy and accuweather's forecast the next cold-ish spell will be well into the middle of October so still plenty of time for varroa treatment and feeding if needed. One upside is we will have plenty of frames with stores for next years nucs lol That reminds me I need to make some more nucs

 

[Erichalfbee]

I've no more room in the freezer for store frames and I don't want any more bees!!!!
Let it snow.......................

 

[Hivemaker.]

Let it snow.......................

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[Erichalfbee]

 

[Moggett]

One UK weather forecast site I've seen suggests a colder than average winter according to their modelling ... El Niño etc.

We'll see.......

 

[alldigging]

One UK weather forecast site I've seen suggests a colder than average winter according to their modelling ... El Niño etc.

We'll see.......

The orange berry Pyracantha on the allotment hedge is heavily laden with berries. That's supposed an old wives tale about forecasting a heavy winter when the shrubs have tons of berries.

 

[Erichalfbee]

My pyracantha was laden with so many berries last year you could hardly see any foliage. This year there are six berries on it.

 

[itma]

One UK weather forecast site I've seen suggests a colder than average winter according to their modelling ... El Niño etc.

We'll see.......

Not too bothered about how cold it gets … its the length of "winter" that matters.

If we have hives pretty full of stores already, and a short but cold winter, then we could see some VERY early swarming next March .. if not before!

 

[Moggett]

Not too bothered about how cold it gets … its the length of "winter" that matters.

If we have hives pretty full of stores already, and a short but cold winter, then we could see some VERY early swarming next March .. if not before!

Me neither, apart from access if needed as I don't have a 4WD.

According to 'accu'weather daytime temps in my neck of the woods won't drop below 11C until November.

 

[Hivemaker.]

According to 'accu'weather daytime temps in my neck of the woods won't drop below 11C until November.

And your neck of the woods is where?

 

[Moggett]

And your neck of the woods is where?

Cheshire

 

[itma]

Cheshire

I think the mod was indicating that this info isn't in your 'profile' …

 

[Moggett]

I think the mod was indicating that this info isn't in your 'profile' …

Ah....

..and I was talking approximate daytime highs too.

 

[BeeJayBee]

According to 'accu'weather daytime temps in my neck of the woods won't drop below 11C until November.

Weatheroutlook is hinting it'll stay above freezing right through winter, in the south anyway. I haven't looked at other parts of the country. http://www.theweatheroutlook.com/twoforecasts/daily-ultra-long-range.aspx?region=1

 

[Roola]

It's still far too early to predict what will happen this winter in terms of weather. We are an island and influenced by so many parameters. Likelihood, we'll have some periods of 'warmer' amtlantic driven weather, we'll have some fog from slack easterly flows, we may get a good strong troughing easterly and see some snow but until it's a week away we have no idea, and been then it can change. Winter is a great time to laugh at the Daily Express weather cataclysm stories... Last winter they predicted 100 days of snow on the ground, we saw none in London.


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