with a report like that, where a high of 50's is called 'only in the 50's'
hah maybe ticks and lyme actually THRIVE in the cold hah
maybe it is all the suburbs in the north fragmented across the woods?
lyme hasn't had time to spread across the entire US yet
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From: "Will Fell" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 8:57 AM
To: "ENTSTrees" <[email protected]>
Subject: [ENTS] Re: Weather
Yes it is all relative. It was 70 degrees here New Years eve and fell
like a rock Jan 1. Jan 12nd was the first below freezing morning this
winter and all week we woke up to temps in the 20's and highs only
about 50. This morning is the first day since Jan 1st we haven't
awoken to temps below 32. It was only 35 this morning, but the "warm
spell" won't last as it is to head to the low 20's tonight. Normally
we will get a day or two of cold weather then it will blow out to sea.
The cold has been the lead story in all the papers the past few days
and everyone is fussing about it. I imagine folks in New England would
be running around in shorts in this weather, but it has us in the deep
south shivering.
But I really wonder about the ticks. Here in South GA ticks are not a
problem like up north. You will get an occaisional tick, but not like
some places further north where you can't go in the woods without
spraying down. And we do not have lyme disease dispite having a heavy
deer population. So I really wonder if ticks and Lyme disease are
responsive to cold weather.
WF
On Jan 8, 7:34 am, Beth <[email protected]> wrote:
Ents,
Wednesday night/Thursday day we here in St. Louis got between 3-6
inches of snow. While this is not much the problem was the cold front
that came with it. High temps for yesterday were in the teens and
today and tomorrow the highs are to be in the single temps. Of course
the wind chills have been -10 and below. This is heading towards the
Northeast today. I hope that everyone there dresses warmly and in
layers if they have to get outside.
I hope that this bitter cold (yes I know Lee, this isn't cold for you)
kills off some of the ticks around here. I am tired of pulling them
off of me along with getting Lyme.
Beth
