[Leica] Wednesday Weeds

[imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry)]

Don
I'm surprised to see ice storms hit Austin as it's not that far from the 
Gulf of Mexico. The Gulf influences our weather here at 53 degrees north 
for the better with the effects of the Gulf Stream, and we're 4,000 
miles away, so you'd think that the benefits would be even stronger at 
only 150 miles distance. Here in Ireland, we're much nearer the polar 
region, but see nothing like your impressive photos even though we do 
get cold weather every year with heavyish snow every four years or so.

Writing about it, I've probably broken our lucky weather streak, and 
we'll get one huge snow storm in the coming days. That said all our 
electricity supply cables are buried underground and we tend not to use 
overhead cables much in urban areas, so weather outages are rarer.

Douglas

On 15/02/2023 11:00, Don Dory via LUG wrote:
> Greetings to all.  Some of you may have read that the SE United States had
> a bit of cold weather.  Starting just south of Austin and reaching north
> there accumulated about 12mm of ice on everything.  Typical of Austin they
> had not prioritised limb trimming around power lines or engineering guy
> wires on transmission towers.  As a result there are still ~50,000 jpeople
> served by Austin Energy without power after a week.  I wasn't especially
> affected so went out and documented the sparkly ice.  The first three are a
> Sago Palm that didn't respond too well to the prior cold snap:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Wednesday+Weeds/Sago+frozen+fronds+III.jpg.html
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Wednesday+Weeds/Sago+frozen+fronds.jpg.html
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Wednesday+Weeds/Sago+frozen+fronds+II.jpg.html
>
> The next two are of a Desert Willow that was rather lovely in it's new
> clothing:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Wednesday+Weeds/Desert+Willow+leaves+under+ice.jpg.html
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Wednesday+Weeds/Desert+Willow+leaves+curled+and+iced.jpg.html
>
> The last two are an oak tree:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Wednesday+Weeds/Oak+buds+on+ice.jpg.html
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Wednesday+Weeds/Oak+leaves+under+ice.jpg.html
>
> All the best.
>