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Looks like it snowed overnight for 3-4 hours looking back at my cam and maybe 1/2 inch accum here at 1100ft, but temps were 34ish and it was pretty much gone when I woke up. Did a quick drive and any meaningful accumulation started around 1500ft and looked to be 4-6" around 2200-2300ft.

37.6F here. Rain with some occasional pellets mixed in at times. What a spring, what an April, hideous.

For you guys in SE MA I would check out this place. I'm not sure if they sell it in stores, but pretty sure you can buy it direct from them and pick it up in Quincy. $3.50 a bag and pretty similar to what Milorganite is. http://www.baystatefertilizer.com/

I've used it a good amount over the years, good thing is you can apply at any time of year, even mid summer which you wouldn't want to do with synthetic fert. Its a little cost prohibitive for me now with 1.5 acres of grass but if I had a smaller yard I would definitely look at as an option. Has some iron in there too to help with darkening and better grass color.

Only .7" here. Just never got the rates on the northern fringe. Even at 1800ft nearby only had 1". Looks like a little more to the south near Mitch/Woodford.

About 3" of fluff here. Now time for some sun to melt it.

I personally would hold off on the fert if you are overseeding into an established lawn, the fert will jump start the existing grass and thicken it and make it grow more quickly out competing the young grass seedling for sunlight, moisture etc. It will also make you mow more often and greater likelyhood to trample young seedlings. Would wait a couple weeks until the new grass seed emerges and is 1 or 2 inches maybe. Grass seed doesn't need any fert to grow initially, but obviously its helpful once its tillering and getting a larger root system established.

Did a little haircut today of front lawn, not much came off, but wanted to fire up tractor. Timely fall fert app helping with green up. Shady side of lawn still waking up a bit slower.

It can rip here with SE winds and potent LLJ, but today has been calm most of the day, maybe 10-15mph tops since it's more southerly. Maybe that cluster in ENY will bring something.

Wow, that's a sick 4 season pad. Congrats, and to think Bennington was mentioned as an option... Nice choice

Sorry to intrude in your forum, but your right, it is chickweed from the looks of it. I dealt with it alot when I lived in SEPA. You have to use a product with a specific active ingredient to take care of it--triclopyr. Ortho has this product that contains it that I linked below. The general Weed B Gon products that you use for dandelions, etc will not take this out, they may stunt them, but not kill them. Also regarding your granular pre-emegent--- chickweed germinates in late summer/fall and then sits dormant all winter and then explodes in spring--so the pre-emergent wont have any effect on chickweed. It will be good for all the spring germinating weeds though. You would need to do late summer pre-emergent also if you wanted to target chickweed (and other fall germinating weeds). Hope that helps a bit. https://www.homedepot.com/p/Ortho-Weed-B-Gon-16-oz-Chickweed-Clover-Oxalis-Killer-for-Lawns-Concentrate-0396410/203686814

Not bad..

I would triple confirm what Will and PF said. 1500+ is where you need to be in SVT. Whenever I drive from my place to Stratton, snow pack drops somewhat quick from say 1700-1800ft down into Bondville at 1250ft (the town at Stratton's entrance).

Oh yea, even in the little village of Jamaica at 750' the retention is outrageously better than Bennington, Brattleboro or even here in Manchester at similar elevation.

Just going to have to watch it going into summer, especially if its DIT special with HHH throughout. I think you mentioned being on a well, so need to watch running that dry--you most likely will need to water through summer. Fall seeding is definitely a better option if you can wait, but just make sure to not let the seed dry out if your seeding now or in fall--constantly moist.

Good thing to know the right people to ask before putting a down payment on some land in Bennington. You would trying to unload that after 1 winter...lol

What's the elevation of the plot? I think the town center is only like 700-800', but it goes up quickly heading towards Stratton. Retention will be really good there, maybe not MW Maine good, but still impressive given the Latitude and longitude. Its a good spot for any coastal type of storm or any E/SE flow event--which most synoptic events are. You will lose some upslope component as you are starting to get further away from the Spine in Jamaica, again depending on where exactly it is. If your near town center or east of there, snowfall totals would drop off compared the west side heading up in elevation. But if you are looking for 20-30 acres and cutting down your driving distance, than options get limited a bit. It's a good spot, you can cherry pick better ones in SVT if you had no acreage limitations, etc. Jamaica is is really nice spot distance wise from Stratton and Magic..and even Mt Snow to the south.

Yes, for sure. I got a positive result from the Western Blot test for Lyme in mid JAN this year. I was having a lot of physical and nervous system issues arise in mid JAN, enough that I had to take 3 weeks off work. I didn't know what was going on, but it really hit me hard (symptoms vary a lot from person to person too) I honestly didn't think Lyme because it was mid-winter, but my PCP did a battery of blood work including one for Lyme and sent it to UVM. Came back positive--and since it actually showed up on the test(antibodies were still active in my bloodstream) its means it was acute and most likely got bit sometime in late NOV/DEC through early JAN. During that time had almost constant snow cover too, with a few breaks in total cover at times. So, yes- check yourself, kids, pets year round.

34F OVC with snow grains falling--all of VT socked in looking at this VIS sat, maybe we can get some peeks of sun later and warm it up some. 8.2" final. Season at 84", which is probably close to normal give or take a few inches trying to gather historical COOP data taking into account micro climate biases. Man, time goes quick, already been 6 winters here in VT. 6 year average 92"

Been some pretty incredible rates at times with this. Had 2" in 35 minutes from 725-800pm. Intensity slowed now. 7.1"

Yea, agree-nothing pasty about this snow here. Little warmer here at 28F--but pretty dry snow so far. Little over 3" and S+ at times over the past hour or so. Radar looks pretty decent out in ENY for a few more hours of heavier stuff.

One hell of multi lake band...thing is like 500 miles..lol

3.4" final. Just did a core of the 13" snow pack- 3.32" LE. So has some meat to it.

3.4" final here. Then had hours of 33F downpours last night..ughh, which added another. 40" of rain. 13" of cement in the backyard now.