Gardening Map Of Warming U.S. Has Plant Zones Moving North

This is old news. In fact, areas nationwide should be about 5 - 10 degrees warmer on average than they are now. Why are they not? Artificial cloud cover reduces solar radiation; being outside all the time I notice things like warming trends lead to 'lingering contrails' which just so happens to induce a cold front. I think upper 50's in January is unseasonably warm, but without this artificial cloud cover temperatures would be spiking into the 70's and is a variable the weather reports do not include and is why they are off on their predictions by 10 degrees.

During the solar flare on tuesday, massive cloud cover was noticed. There was a time this artificial cloud shield was out from the sun and it felt very hot on the skin. The dangers of this are twofold: we are adapting to the changing climate and artificially maintaining the old environment leads to very few people realizing that the climate is dramatically changing.

This is not speculation, this is empirical data. The only speculation is whether it is intentional or not and from the years of watching the skies I believe it is intentional due to the strategic placement of these artificial clouds in relation to the sun and major population areas.

I'm guessing that the blue areas are the areas where growing is still possible. In that case, my home state of Wisconsin is hangin' in there.

The map may be indicating changes for some, but I am still in pretty much the same zone. Frost, ground temps, water and soil nutrients still determine the growing season and productivity. I can do something about the latter two, but short of stretching a plastic canopy over the garden, there is not much I can do about the former two.

Well, it certainly doesn't surprise me. Although I live in a micro-climate (so it's hard to guage how the map applies to me), I am now colder in winter and warmer in summer. More wind, too, probably due to changes in the surrounding climates.

I had the most fantastic peaches after I bought and planted a Red Baron peach tree. It has done extremely well, except we had a late freeze and I lost EVERY BLOOM! I darn near cried!

I am still babying my loquats.

does this mean us midwesterns will get the weeds (grasses) that the south get that grow every where

According to the new map, I went from zone 3a to zone 3b, but, aside from this winter, every year we see temps that are -40 or lower (which should put us in zone 2b to begin with). Last year our coldest day was -46. So far this year the coldest has been -28. Believe me, Im not complaining about a warmer than average winter, or that the map has changed, however I am not going to take the chance of planting too early. Last year we had frost June 3rd and again on Labor Day. All my tender plants go out on June 1st and I cover them if need be, but even covering doesnt help if temps get down below 28. Its always that first frost in the fall that gets me because by then the plants are too big to cover. Now, if Santa would bring me the greenhouse Ive been asking for, I could start planting in April and life would be good! ;)