Today's Report Includes:
- Maps/Highlights: Extra-Early Reports!
- Surprising Reports: Winter Tulips
- Journal Question: Why the Early Tulips?
- Explore! Compare February Tulip Maps
Please report:
1. Tulips PLANTED
2. Tulips EMERGED
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Week's Map >> Data (for classroom mapping) >> |
Handout: Making Sense of Tulip Garden Maps >> |
Watch Spring Unfold: Slideshow (Week-by-week animation) >> |
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Highlights:
We now have 417 gardens planted! And 25 gardens have already emerged! It is only Ground Hog's Day. Is this unusual? Can you find the emerged gardens on the map? (Hint: Look for green triangles.) |
What? Tulips emerging in January? Gardeners comment on unusual events:
- "Students here have planted Journey North tulip gardens since 2004. Every other year, tulips have emerged in March! What's happening?" - Midland, MI 01/01/07
- "This should be a very interesting journey north this year seeing as we are still waiting for winters journey south. Winter honeysuckle is covered with blossoms, this usually happens in March." - Wyckoff, NJ 01/09/07
- "We have had a very unusually warm winter, with temperatures above freezing most days. Our tulips are emerging..." - Kaiserslautern, Germany 01/10/07
Departure from Normal Temp. Dec. 2006
Credit: Climate Prediction Center
- What factors might have caused tulips to emerge earlier than usual?
- What questions or concerns do you have about this?
Use your Journey North Garden Journal to write down your ideas.
- Lesson: Temperature Maps Tell Stories: Normal or Unusual Temperatures? >>
- Lesson (ongoing): Tulips and Temperatures: Is This a Normal Spring? >>
- Reading Booklet: Tulip Bulbs: A Survival Tale >>
- Classroom Spotlight: Visit a Garden Project at Spring Woods Middle School >>
- Questioning: Making Sense of Journey North Maps >>
- Helpful Weather Links: Climate Weather and Seasons >>
- Tulip Garden Journals (click-and-print) >>
The Next Tulip Garden Update Will Be Posted on February 9, 2006.
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