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2 hours ago, MJO812 said:

Nice trough on the Euro for the end of next week with another trough waiting in the wings.

Love cool Aprils

No no no, this April needs to be 70 every day. Nunathis backdoor cool and cloudy with occasional drizzles stuff, we need to be outside and away from the people in the house and it needs to be nice. Yard cleanup and garden buildout happen over the next few days then more projects, bike rides and golf at the local course and it needs to be nice. Heck, we can't work or go places so it needs to be nice.

1 hour ago, jfklganyc said:

39F

I have spent the last few weeks in Florida...funny how the early “leaf out” never really occurred

Forsythias are blooming during the first week of April...as they should 

A little early, but nothing extreme

It is strange because it tried to start so early and then it stopped. I drove to Key West and back in the first week of Feb and leaf out had reached all the way up to the Maryland eastern shores by 2/10 and random bits around here softened and greened but then the leaves never popped. I was just saying to my wife yesterday when we were out that it started but never took hold and that I'm really looking forward to stick season ending if for no other reason than to add some life and freshness to a world that feels terribly damaged right now.

It's garbage can blowing down the street kind of windy up here right now, what's it like further east and south of me on the CT coast and LI?

9 hours ago, golfer07840 said:

Not in NJ. Murphy shut them down. No golf for me until, I'm hoping, Memorial day(ish) no driving ranges are open either. 

It's a ghost town here in NJ. 

Take a ride, many courses are open in NY. Driving ranges are closed. This is right down the road from me and the course is beautiful, easily worth the travel time and the $35-40 it costs to play right now. https://www.somersnational.com/golf/tee-times I'm sure there are plenty of others on the west side of the river so you don't have to pay the toll at the bridge but if you'd like to come up you could probably talk me into going out for a round.

4 hours ago, golfer07840 said:

Stuck inside, warm weather is just going to depress me. 

So go out. Ride your bike, play some golf, go for a hike... Dry and comfortable is perfect. Golf courses are allowed to be open because they have to be there maintaining the grounds anyway so as long as they practice social distancing and all that they're good to go. A couple of the courses around me are open and not terribly expensive.

I'm good with normal to slightly above but not "hot" at this point, especially if it's dry(ish). After two very wet springs it sure would be nice to get a dry April.

Many long low rumbles here with a short bout of torrential rain. 

10 minutes ago, rclab said:

Nor is the delight of being trapped with two felines that think your the entertainment committee. As always......

Try 21 year old twin daughters that are stuck with their old parents. 

This dreary weather isn't helping being stuck at home. 

Well, settling into our new normal doing some bike riding and starting to clean the house. Slowly. I could live with weather like yesterday and today for a month straight, see what y'all can do about that would ya. 

In all the chaos leading up to being stuck at home I forgot to check the oil, doesn't it figure that the last cold shot with snow is the night that we run out  Not sure if we can get a delivery today but they said they'd try otherwise I have to go out and get 5 gallons of diesel. I really don't want to go anywhere right now.

9 hours ago, rclab said:

Well done. Not sure how I would feed a sparrow. She seems to have done well and adapted to her domestic habitat. Frankly I’ve never known anyone to have the success you have had with an indigenous species. She probably doesn’t miss the company of her fellows as both of you have become that for her. Sadly yesterday what looks like a long billed shore bird hit the back parlor floor window of my row house. The poor fellow was dead on impact. It was the first time in 45 years living there that I experienced that. He must have been lost or pursued because he hit the widow at high speed, as always .......

 

I have birds fly into the windows pretty often. We have a big picture window that kills a half dozen a year and injures many more. The sunroom windows get beat up by birds flying into them, I think they see the plants inside and go to land on them but find a sheet of glass in the way.

2 hours ago, Hitman said:

I think we’ll be ok with food.  Are the nurseries going to be open to sell plants?

No Whole Foods will get some, not like usual but, between that and the seeds I have I can get started. There are a few farms I can ride by that might have seed potato and garlic so that's part of the plan. Hardware stores are considered essential and will be open so will they do their usual, will HD and Lowes? 

I know a few people in the food delivery chain and they are talking about shortages in some categories, mostly peripherals so far but that's fluid. Grow your own 

In 07? No, the last 3 frozen precip events were all sleet. 

Yeah I'm just worried about food supplies and such so wouldn't mind getting a jump on it. I know it's too early but I'm not real comfortable with our current situation. 

I could go wash the car if you think it will help.

Nah, already tapped into the beer stash.

After this round of cold it kind of looks like spring wants to spring. Time to get things planted yet or will that be a waste because we are going to get another shot?

^^You went to pick the kid up from school? Are things starting to leaf out along 17 yet? I feel so out of touch with things because we're essentially trapped in our little worlds now.

Looks like some seriously heavy rain rolling through. What's going on in Poughkeepsie and just north? T-storm or just heavy rain?

That was the worst period... The last 3 storms of 07 were pure sleet and the first storm of 08 was too. I don't remember ever expending so much effort to move frozen material out of the way. It was like picking up a shovel load of ball bearings which, as you might imagine, is a pretty challenging endeavor.

50 minutes ago, SnowFeen1 said:

I will go there, at least they’re normal!

Why don't you just go away. Isn't it obvious to you that nobody wants you around? After all these year and all these times of getting bounced don't you think a wise person would just leave because they're not wanted? IOW split kook 

Looks like the last of it finally melted off. Like Rob said at least we're on the board for March.

Snow! I woke up to look out at 4am and it was coming down pretty hard. Woke up now and the place is covered, well everything other than pavement. Easily .5" makes it the most in 2 months. Nice surprise

6 hours ago, MJO812 said:

Congrats 

And then again Thursday morning. 

Snow in my P&C for Monday night 

Well the wind and dry air has done wonders for drying things out quickly. I had a super fun 73* mt bike ride today on ribbons of hero dirt. Where were you?

Lucky. All I got was flakes and wind. Still have the wind which is good though, it's time to dry things out.