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13 minutes ago, Snowlover11 said:

we need a good 3-5” soaker, miss them.

No we don't. Water levels are high, soil moisture is high, soil temps are cool for the time of year and the flora needs a dry warm(ish) week to really fill in. Many creeks and small rivers are running high and a 3+ incher would flood a lot of vulnerable areas.

Alright I'm calling it after tonight, no more frosts or freezes and the 70 or so seedlings and plants ready to go clogging up my sunroom are going out to the garden tomorrow. The last seed potatoes are going in today though. 

11 hours ago, JustinRP37 said:

It seems like each spring now we get stuck in backdoor purgatory and I am struggling to find a reasonable explanation. Very odd spring patterns lately around here. Will be very interesting to see how ticks are this spring/summer once we can get back to our routine sampling (if we can get to that sampling). Usually after winters like this they are much lower in our experience. 

Anecdotally, from mt bikers, it's worse than recent years but I've yet to pick one up myself.

12 hours ago, Juliancolton said:

We have one more reinforcing cold shot. Tuesday morning freezes for many, Wednesday morning for most, and then I'm declaring growing season officially open.

Yup that's what I'm thinking too. I forgot to cover one bed the other day and lost my string beans and Hungarian wax hot peppers I'm excited about my potatoes, I built a potato box and all 3 that I planted in there are happening so I built 2 more and will be filling them with soil today. We should end up with more potatoes than we can eat if all goes right. 

11 hours ago, Hitman said:

Either way, rebuilding a dam, is no small project.

We have an old dam, revolutionary war era, that’s breached on the property.  It’s big, 20’ high, 6’ wide. It was the iron furnace that everything around here is named for, furnace brook, furnace brook lake, furnace dock rd, furnace woods rd... apparently it was a big in the 1750s.  We had a tropical storm (blanking on the name) about 15 years ago that dropped like 9” rain and ripped a huge section off the dam.

 

Heh, now I know right where you're at. Was that big storm Floyd in 1999? Most spots east of the river got over 10" and along the higher terrain was 13+. Fahnestock recorded 14.5 and a reliable station that used to be on Quaker Hill in Patterson/ Pawling showed just under 17. 

Well almost... The last of the snowshowers moved through around 8pm last night so no 5/10 snowfall record set   Hopefully this morning was the last freeze, I really want to get the tomatoes outside, the cold hardy stuff that's out there seems to have come through just fine. My wife's new flowers not so much  

1/2" of frozen whitestuff this morning looked great as the sun came up. The deep blue sky against the greens and white was pretty cool to see. The snowball fight my daughter and I had a little while ago was too much fun.

Alright forky we need some flamethrower pics. 

It's snowing pretty hard and sticking to cars, railings and even some on bushes and on the grass now.

I don't know is 34 degree white rain any better than 35 degree regular rain? I want to see the snow just to tie the record and I'm going to hope there's still enough moisture around as the whole thing pulls out Saturday night that it flakes after midnight and sets a new record as the temp drops and I "find" a trace on the grill top.

18 hours ago, Rtd208 said:

I actually started on the Wright Weather forum back in 2000. If I remember correctly there was also an AOL weather board, Larry Corgrove and @SACRUSused to post there.

I think HM and Jerry were there too.

LALALALALA I don't see this lalalalala

^ ?

It's got that raw mid March feeling out there today. It's kind of like deja vu... Is it over yet?

This wind is drying things out quickly. Yay.

Please, no snow or cold this weekend.

At least now with everything leafing out it will draw the surface water down somewhat.  

14 hours ago, rclab said:

If you have photos of that set up I would really enjoy seeing them. As always .....

I would too, unfortunately pretty much everything I kept at my parents house for storage when I moved out was ruined or burned in a fire about 20 years ago. Now it's just a big table in the basement with stuff piled 2 feet deep on it

When I was a teenager I had a 5 x 18' table set up with a three layer deep HO train set that went through 2 mountain ranges and three towns. I could run two 5 or 6 car trains at the same time. There was also over 200 feet of slot car tracks that went up to five layers high at points wrapping through the towns and mountains. I used to run two cars and two trains at the same time with a controller in each hand, it was quite a trick to run for any length of time without a major collision. I wish my house now was big enough to do something like that.

Yay for me being the flakey one 

3 hours ago, Juliancolton said:

0.79" here so far. Looks like another rainy afternoon on top.

The models have been frigid in the long-range for multiple cycles now. The GFS op has three or four shots of sub-528 dm thicknesses starting around D8, and the EPS/GEFS certainly support that kind of pattern. Frost danger through mid-month at least.

No more frost damnit! You stop talking like that... Are you seeing t-storms? It's brightening up down here but still drizzling.

1.5" since yesterday morning. It's soggy.

Ahh but will Sunday be nice too? We're going to need it because it will take the nice day Saturday to dry things out so we can do outside stuff Sunday.

^^ Damn

It's not very springy out there today, not even a little bit. Yuck. Again...

Yeah right, even on the nice days there's still a crispness that hints of winter. We've really only had 2 or 3 days where the air was warm and 'soft'.

5 hours ago, forkyfork said:

  

you snow people are mentally ill

 

 

April has been 45* and dreary for years now. This is useless weather for being outdoors.

2 hours ago, SnoSki14 said:

And they live in the NYC metro...not exactly a snow haven.

At least I'm north and at reasonable elevation for around here, my average has bumped to about 50" this century. I also have an easy shot to get further north when the weather is questionable. 

Every time somebody mentions WW the memories of some wonderful "debates" with DT come flooding back. He was quite the argumentative little firecracker 20 years ago... 

Ahh yes weather banter. Another 40 degree dreary day on tap. Yay! 

11 hours ago, Juliancolton said:

If memory serves, you were rarin' to get plants in the ground about 6 weeks ago. Glad I talked you out of it.  

I would absolutely not bet on no more frosts, or even freezes. Like you mention, that mean trough in the east is here to stay for two weeks or more based on the morning's ensemble guidance. Most interior spots are still yet to reach average last frost date (though maybe you're right on the cusp down there?), so a solidly BN pattern when climo isn't really that warm is a recipe for disaster for all but the hardiest food producing plants.

Even if you managed to avoid a killing frost, cold soil causes myriad and manifest problems that would likely stunt growth for weeks. The soil temp here is 42F, so maybe mid-40s by you. Nitrogen fixation close to nil, high risk of root rot, high susceptibility to bacterial and viral infections... just not worth it. You'd end up farther ahead by waiting for more conducive wx.

Are you sure you don't have some Vulcan in your DNA? Too much logic... Raised boxes should be able to have a tarp thrown over them on the cold nights right? Yeah soil temps are mid 40's, I didn't know about additional vulnerabilities due to that. Learning learning

11 hours ago, rclab said:

A field of iceberg lettuce? 

Cold weather resistant always goes in first, lettuce and spinach, stuff like that. 

The post that @bluewave just made sure does look wet and cold for at least  the next few weeks, this is no good for getting plants in the ground so we can have fresh veggies sooner rather than later. I think that when it dries out a bit tomorrow I'm just going to go ahead and get the less vulnerable plants in otherwise it's July before the garden is generating any real food. The trees and many plants seem to be waking up very slowly after what looked like it was going to be one of the earliest leaf outs in a long, long time but then they just stopped, in the last two days they seem to be trying to spit leaves out but it's been painfully slow to watch. Fingers crossed that we don't get another hard frost. What say ye oh wise gardeners and food producers?