mattie g

The best thing to come out of the game (which I didn't watch )last night:

The maybe 0.25” I got this morning has been vaporized. Pixie flakes barely make the trek through the lower atmosphere without being nuked by the filtered mid-February sun, and if they do they last no more than 10 seconds on the grass.

White rain…oh how I’ve (not) missed you.

That’s a good call. Our big front porch addition started in April last year, so we really couldn’t do much in the front, and then we transplanted a bunch of stuff from the front to the back while we waited for new landscaping in the front. Hoping we can get started nice and early this year. Your idea of getting the mulch down early sounds like a great place to begin.

Sorry you missed out on your big dog. Hope you can get over your annoyance and disappointment.

There was some slush on my Burke-located windshield when I got up at 7:00.

Let me introduce you to someone. His name is psuhoffman, and he'll debate you to no end about whether the models actually hop around at this range or it's really just relatively small changes around the margins.

Money shot and everything.

Sure did! I planted La Bomba II from Territorial Seed, which got off to a great start and went gangbusters once the weather really warmed up. They ended up producing like mad - with the last harvest (at the end of October) ending as four pints of pickled peppers and give-aways (about a gallon bag full). Flavor was great. There was a nice sweetness up front, with a serious kick of heat on the back. I like to try to pump up the heat by reducing the watering, and I’ve always had good luck with that. Once jalapeños get going, it’s hard to slow them down, no matter how badly you treat them!

Time to get this bad boy started since the long-range is about to poke its nose into March and many of us are starting to get our seedlings started for the upcoming season. I'm planning to get my seedling going this weekend. Many of the same ones form last year with the goal to have a couple rows of spinach and lettuce to start things off. Then eventually transfer eight tomato plants, four jalapenos, three cantaloupe plants, and various herbs as we hit the middle of April. Lawn? Main thing for me is keeping alive the sections we had sodded in the middle of November; I'll worry about bare spots later. All seems to be going well at this point though...

Stop replying and it’ll go away.

The melts by the "north and west crew" in the long-range thread really are something.

Looks almost identical to the 12z GFS.

Be thankful for whatever snow falls at your house. Snow is snow!

You sure?

And trying to find an always-perfect correlation between a given hemispheric pattern and the weather in your backyards on a specific day and time.

That's not a feature of a Nina. It's just a timing thing. Causation does not equal correlation.

36 and impatiently awaiting my ice storm.

60 and absolutely pissing down rain in Burke.

57 here in Burke. Debated putting the A/C on before bed.

Congrats on your rain!

What I'm hearing you say is that we shouldn't be doing what the .gif in my profile pic is doing.

Meh