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Welcome to spring - my property looks like mid April I'd say. I'll be mowing for sure on Tuesday.

Well...I do see boats out on the river down here in the dead of winter, but today it seems like everyone is out and about.

That's kind of part of what I was alluding to in my post above - being out today, you sense that collectively people are now in spring mode.

Something about today - I know that I'm behind a lot of you and I know that I've already mowed the grass twice, but today was the first time for me that it clicked. Today just feels different than previous nice days. Spring has officially sprung.

Sunny and 62 here - went for a walk and sweated my arse off.

Going to wish away another winter next year...

Temp is up to 47 here under cloudy skies. 1.19" of rain so far since yesterday morning.

Decent shot at 2" or perhaps more here with what's coming with the 2nd wave tomorrow.

Yep, down to 43 here now.

Temps continue to fall right along with the rain - down to 44 now. (it was 49 at 7am) 1.12" and counting.

THAT is a beautiful picture!

1.05" of rain and 46 degrees.

It literally formed crossing the river and dissipated as soon as it moved SE of me - it was only on 1, perhaps 2 frames and gone. Just happened to hit me square.

This might be "better" than any storm we had last year. We had a very lackluster storm season - we missed a few of the big light shows that hit other areas. Thunder right now is nearly continuous.

Hail and heavy rain in Maytown. Wow!

Heat wasn't THAT far away today - DCA got to 83 and Charlottesville got up to 88!

FWIW, MU believes there will be a storm next week. With zero chance of snow. LOL

Pretty good disco in the MA long ranger about the SER - why will it not go away? Every time it's modeled to do so...it doesn't. If that doesn't get eradicated somehow, it's foolish to think that winters will be improve much at all over this year. Hopefully with the death of Nina there will be a positive response by next winter.

While talking about weather oddities, here are a few more facts thrown out today to illustrate just how bad we sucked at winter this year: Speaking of snow, Millersville has still only received a whopping 0.9 inches of snow since October 1. Thus, it's a virtual "lock" that the record for least-snowy winter season (4.0 inches in 1949-1950) will be obliterated. Should this indeed occur, Millersville will fail to receive at least one, single-storm snowfall of one or more inches for the first time on record (since 1926). By April 1, no measurable snow will have occurred in November, December, February, and March at the 'Ville. The only measurable snow this season (0.9 inches) came on January 25, 2023. Never before has there been just one measurable snowfall in a winter season and no measurable snowfall in all 4 of the months mentioned above. The moving 4-year average for snow is now the lowest on record at a measly 13.6 inches. Combine these stats with a record-warm January-February period, and the unprecedented nature of this winter is truly brought into focus.

64 at home at 3:45pm. Very little sun here today which kept temps a little lower than thought.

The renowned Ji just made the same post...

I'm a numbers guy...to the extreme. And I remember numbers far more than I probably should, including numbers that most people would find ridiculous. That said - there were a total of 14 posts made in the MA March Long Range thread yesterday...that is the "dedicated" thread to tracking snow/wintry weather chances. Again...14 posts in a 24 hour day, which is 1.7 posts per hour. That's not a lot of posts. Thing is, I was in that thread last evening...along with 31 other members. That's a lot of people following along (tracking) but not posting.

Repeatedly so. Noted.

NOT saying Canderson is guilty of this...but there are a lot of people who make that very comment across all of the sub forums in here - you know damn well they're following/tracking as well, they just don't want to admit it.

It's still March and I'd rather look for March-like weather than our first heat wave. It'll be hot enough soon enough. It's a very high level look with zero expectations anyway...