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10-14 days later, that may work out. Ridge axis through Idaho, 50/50-ish Low, nice block (though a +AO). It's so close.

This is exactly what we're hoping for in regards to a reload. I know I'm preaching to the choir, but patterns generally stick around for a good period of time, but they will relax here and there. If this pattern is now just beginning, we probably have about through the turn of the new year to cash in, but we have to accept that we won't go wall-to-wall. Pattern relaxes a little around Thanksgiving, then if we reload we get into much less hostile (even if not prime) climo.

Yup. I was also really surprised by how uniform the distribution was - pretty crazy.

They're not just accommodating the US audience though. There are nine Western Hemisphere teams in this tournament; most of their games are the later ones. Also, they have to play four games per day because this World Cup is condensed this year (because it's stupidly in Qatar in the middle of most club seasons around the world), so they have to spread them out throughout the day. Finally, the TV times are much better in Europe than they are here. If you're saying that we shouldn't play at 2:00pm in the group stage, then I have to disagree. There's no harm in having US games at that time as it doesn't affect TV times for any of our opponents except Iran. Those 5:00am EST games are being played at 2:00pm Qatar time. They could have started earlier, but that's not good for TV in Europe, and definitely not for viewership in the Western Hemisphere. East Asia is screwed for TV times, which isn't unusual at all for World Cups. I stayed up at night and watched many of the 2002 games (didn't hurt that I was in grad school and slinging beers at a pub at that time). Definitely good times, especially because we made a great run in that tournament!

Local CoCoRaHs were all right around 1.35" for yesterday. Definitely dumped at times. Interesting and all, but man...does that kind of weather suck.

@WxUSAF...fantastic post above, and not just because it shows how we could slip into potentially solid setup. It's still so early. We just need to be patient and see where we go over the next couple weeks. I'm feeling pretty good about the potential in December into January. If things line up in our favor for 4-5 weeks, let's take advantage of it and let the rest of the winter play out.

You may have read that wrong. The game is live at 2:00pm EST (10:00 pm in Qatar). During the peak of the tournament during the group stage, the games start at 5:00am EST - 8:00am EST - 11:00am EST - 2:00am EST. All of our group games start at 2:00 pm EST. If we make it through the group (top two advance), our first knockout game would be at 10:00am EST on Saturday 12/4 or 2:00pm EST on Sunday 12/5, depending on where we finish in the group.

You don't have sh*t to do otherwise. Do it!

Let’s be honest…38 with moderate rain sucks no matter what time of year. It’s 38 and raining moderately in Burke right now.

Pretty sure it's just rain here in Burke since we're at 43 degrees.

Are you at Arby's?

I don't really have a good place to do that or else I would. When you have 0.2 acres, 50% of which is taken up by the house's footprint, you don't have much room left! Agreed, though, that it would be good to leave some of them.

Oh yeah? F*ck Doug K.

So much fun. We trended from being fringed to what...7-8" of frigid powder during a weekend daytime storm? That's outrageous.

I have a decent pile of leaves against one of our fences in the backyard. I'll probably pick them up this weekend and mow to mulch. Then I'll probably do one more quick mulch mow in the first week of December to catch any stragglers blowing from neighbors' yards.

Someone has to stick their neck out from time to time.

I haven't mowed since September. We live so far north that it's not needed.

By the way, everyone... US-Wales in our World Cup opener next Monday at 2:00 pm on Fox and FS1 (and Peacock and other streaming services)!

Eagles are undefeated and smoked the Vikings in week 2. Just sayin'...

Pulled the tomato plants yesterday in advance of last night's freeze. Harvested about 8 lbs of tomatoes, maybe 1/3 of which had no blush of color at all. Definitely the best harvest of the season. In their place, I planted 15 cloves of locally grown Music garlic. I've had decent luck with Music in the past, but I've generally bought seed garlic online every other year or two, so it' not locally grown except for when I use my own bulbs as seed. Hoping that the local nature of this stuff will lead to slight more robust growth next spring than normal. Either way...can't be worse than this year's crop , which was almost a complete bust.

31 at 7:00 when I checked the local weather station in my neck of Burke. Wouldn't be surprised if it was 30...maybe 29 just before sunrise.

That’s really cool! I’m not a stats person, but the 20,000’ view to me is that we generally run in sets of three 20-year cycles.

Already a bit more rain than I had expected, given the trends over the last few days. Would be nice to rack it up now and then get this thing out of here in time for the weekend.

Sorry...we'll stop the long-range discussion.

Quickly looks up total snowfall in 2004-2005... https://giphy.com/explore/com-and-ship-this-with-meh