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Yesterday, our dear friend Suzette was complaining about people who say that New Jersey is a Zone 6 climate. She says it's more like Zone 7, similar to the weather found in North Carolina.
Today, Joe at bookofjoe has a post about the northward creep of the hardiness zones from 1990 to 2006, which seems to prove her point. It might be a little hard to see in that picture above, but if you look at a larger version, you can see that much of New Jersey has seen a +1 change of zone.
Eastern Massachusetts has remained a Zone 6 area (the warming effect of the ocean making our climate much milder than the rest of New England), but over the last 16 years the rest of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island have also warmed up to Zone 6, and now even much of New Hampshire and Vermont have warmed up to Zone 5, which is more typical of the Upper Midwest...or what used to be typical 16 years ago, I guess.
I failed to mention that it is the warming ocean influence that makes coastal NJ similar in climate to NC. If what Joe says is true, then the combination of those two things might mean that I'll soon be able to grow Jersey coconuts instead of Jersey tomatoes.
Posted by Suzette [URL] at 07/24/07
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