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Yay I learned how to move a post (had no idea how to do this before!) They're all bad regardless of the amount and influence extends well beyond money into other areas. Individual dark money rich guys have far more influence than the amount of money you mentioned. Schumer alone has received 7.7 million from AIPAC members. AIPAC has been known to have undue influence on politicians which causes some very stupid and destructive decisions to be made. In addition to direct influence, they have an outsized dark money influence which involves creating superpacs beyond AIPAC. It's too much to get into, but by doing a little detective work, you learn a lot of very alarming things about dark money influence in politics that just should not be allowed to be there that the SCOTUS allowed by the very shortsighted Citizens United decision. It's why all this pac/superpac crap needs to be illegal as well as limiting all donations to one flat sum (no more than 1000). Actually even better to only allow for public donations.

0.10 here in 21057. Was able to get my sons doubleheader in.

Next cool air delivery after tomorrow might be near May 3 rd to May 6 th, somewhat related to the SSWE that took place weeks ago.

it's officially nowhere close to a drought, we're in dry conditions but no drought. A little east of here it's not even that. It's a drought when we see yellow/brown dried up grass (my unofficial definition)

we had a few heavy downpours, what I would expect this time of year.

I think we have too much sand under our soil. I always water every few days. But we've had some hard downpours today, it's what I would expect this time of year. All day rain is extremely rare and might result in flooding so this is better.

Great draft as usual by the Ravens. They know what they are doing.

Dew point dropping quick, down to 39, meanwhile winds gusting to 35 mph.

Crisp, autumn evening out there. Feels like I should be watching hs football. Topped out at 76F, now down to 56F with a DP of 41F.

.95" over this way, 3.27" for the month now.

Definitely localized up there… the area serviced by lifts on the east side gets a lot of snow water equivalent in the winter. Then it preserves it too. It’s a microclimate zone on the higher elevation east side. Avoids the direct sunlight in the afternoon that the west side gets in the spring. The west side of Mansfield is pretty torched to the summit.

Summer style is here

We picked up 1.36 the past 5 days. The Euro says it will be quite dry the next few weeks.

Like you, I'm higher in elevation so wasn't talking specifically of your mountain but around the area, we went down to Rocky Hill and drove home from Hebron.

Still amazes me how much snow you still have there going into May.

I didn't play yet this year, but the physical therapy seems to be working well, and I think I'll be able to golf. Our house in Maine is under construction so not sure how much time I'll have for a while but when I get some free time I'm going to give it a go.

1.25" here

About an inch of rain today on the mountain. Luckily things dried up between 1-4pm for some Saturday afternoon laps. Then proceeded to rain hard from 4:30 onward. Two rounds of 3-5 hour “showers”… but did get to enjoy the break in precip a bit. Closing day tomorrow. Time to shut ‘em down here. Stake down to 65”… similar to the above pictured elevation band.

Thunderstein!!

Interesting, thank you for asking. I mentioned last weekend about Pneumonia. I started treatments for Pneumonia. But I was never definitely diagnosed with Pneumonia. After CAT scans, EKGs, echocardiagram and many rounds of blood work that ruled out a lot of possibilities, they went with Pneumonia and assumed that it hadn't developed enough to present itself at the time. 6 days later and I'm no better than at the beginning of the week. More blood work yesterday led to the thought that it's something else. My medication was switched out today and now the talk is potentially Lyme disease. But again...a full week after going to the ER, still no definitive answer. Really hoping the new medication works. Not sure what my next steps are if I'm not better on Monday. Not knowing exactly what's going on is unsettling.

Hey look at that. It’s obnoxiously windy again.

GFS has these dew points, with a very unstable/uncapped atmosphere near Des Moines. This is Monday afternoon/evening. Strong 850mb-500mb winds, low LCL values favorable for tornadoes. Effectively, a dryline will get up into Iowa in the 00z time frame.

You are a damn treasure Training, don’t ever change! Haha

Following today's heavy thunderstorm:

Probably. I had to melt snow up here.