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56 minutes ago, KEITH L.I said:

I was 8 years old..it was very hot especially late June and early July. It hit 100 three times..snowy and cold the following winter with a snowstorm Christmas eve..a warm January and snow and cold all Feb and March

My mom was 7 months pregnant with me in July 66, they lived on the 8th floor of a building with no AC across the street from Brooklyn College. She complained about that summer for many years...

It's surprisingly dry in the woods all of a sudden.

I still have mud and the ground is wet right to the surface except where it drains well AND gets hours of direct sun. With the super slow leaf out the trees didn't do their usual thing and suck the ground dry. 

18 hours ago, IrishRob17 said:

For you bird folks out there, I have a Rose Breasted Grosbeak and a Baltimore Oriole at my feeder these days. Is this exciting or run of the mill birds around here?

This is the third or fourth great bird year here. Considering how flying insect and bird populations are decreasing elsewhere I'm seeing exactly the opposite. 

Nobody but us knows "what it could have been", all they know is it's not really warm yet and sort of fits the melancholy mood that permeates life in the metro area at the moment. I'm good with no 90's for the whole year if you want the truth, I just don't want another wet one. Wet enough that the garden does well but dry enough to keep the skeeter population in check because there's limited standing water for them to breed in.

5 hours ago, SACRUS said:

 Wetter likely a good bet again

 

Uggh. I'd be ok with a dry year for a change, the last 2 were wet enough to last me a while.

Is it really going to rain 4 out of 5 days next week? Yuck...

I got whacked good. I was outside appreciating all the newly planted goodies and what is going in tomorrow when the wind started. The treetops started rustling and it was nice then boom leaning hard and the wind worked down to the ground in a few seconds. The patio chairs started lifting as I threw the grill cover on. I grabbed the chairs from the fence, stacked 'em and ran inside soaked. 

The first one was hard and short without being terribly wet, the second line is super heavy rain without the strong winds. 

^ That would suck.

23 hours ago, JustinRP37 said:

Do you know if they are blacklegged ticks or dog ticks? 

I don't.  I'll try to pay more attention and let you know.

1 hour ago, Juliancolton said:

This wind is absolutely insufferable... it never ends. 

Without it we'd be mired in ankle deep goo. 

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.