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The Internet is full of excellent seed starting calendars for different zones and regions, making it easy to know when it’s time to get going. Most of the calendars are based on last frost dates.
A week before the last frost date, begin to “harden off” plants by placing them outdoors for incrementally longer periods each day. When to start planting seeds indoors? Check your frost date
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As an example, Quebec City in Canada is located in zone 4, but can rely on a significant snow cover every year, making it possible to cultivate plants normally rated for zones 5 or 6. But, in Montreal, located to the southwest in zone 5, it is sometimes difficult to cultivate plants adapted to the zone because of the unreliable snow cover.
Illinois averages around 50 days of thunderstorm activity a year which put it somewhat above average for number of thunderstorm days for the United States. Illinois is vulnerable to tornadoes with an average of 54 occurring annually, which puts much of the state at around 9.7 tornadoes per 10,000 square miles (30,000 km 2) annually.
Illinois' ecology is in a land area of 56,400 square miles (146,000 km 2); the state is 385 miles (620 km) long and 218 miles (351 km) wide and is located between latitude: 36.9540° to 42.4951° N, and longitude: 87.3840° to 91.4244° W, [1] with primarily a humid continental climate.
According to National Weather Service climate data, the average last frost date for final frost in Akron is May 10, and the earliest is April 9, according to 1991-2021 data. The Farmer's Almanac ...
It was first published by German-Russian climatologist Wladimir Köppen (1846–1940) in 1884, [3] [4] with several later modifications by Köppen, notably in 1918 and 1936. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Later, German climatologist Rudolf Geiger (1894–1981) introduced some changes to the classification system in 1954 and 1961, which is thus sometimes called ...