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46.5F (and going down)Moderate rain. After a cold night last night and rain today had to bite the bullet and start up the wood stove. Arrgghhh....

You think of our forefathers who planted and lived in NNE. Colder climate. No weather forecasts or plastic to cover crops. A kill in July can mean the difference between starving the next winter and having a bounty. I was talking to my Mom in Bend Oregon the other day. They had a early spring and all the apple trees even Rhodos bloomed. Then the past week a hard freeze and everything dead.

Ouch. What a cold day coming up tomorrow with a nice soak too! Upper 30's to low 40's late afternoon?

I will not light my wood burning stove.... I will not light my wood burning stove. Guess it could be worse. Yesterday was the 8th anniversary of my 3.1" thundersnow. 3" in about 90 minutes with frequent lightning and thunder

Who are you? Do you ever have anything really intelligent to add to these boards? Such an ignorant post.

12Z GFS An inch of rain tomorrow and temperatures in the low 40's up here. At least Memorial Day was nice

As soon as I saw that I thought of you. Your almost never safe to plant their, maybe a few weeks in July. Have a nice Memorial Day. All my apple trees are in bloom so glad I will escape frost up on the hill.

78.3F as a high. First really warm feeling day. First day over 75F. Last time it was this warm was Oct 10 2018 about 7 1/2 months ago. Wonder when I will hit 80F? No time soon.

Last snow patch that I can see is melting on Ragged Mtn. Nice T storm last night about .70" Black flies are peaking

Just to get to base camp is a bit of a feat itself. Fly to Katmandu. Take a puddle jumper to one of the most dangerous airports in the world, Lukla. One way dead end runway at 9300 feet. About a week overland trek to basecamp at 17,600 feet. Have to acclimate to the elevation. Cost $40K to $60K to climb Everest with sherpas lugging all your gear. Almost no one climbs Everest without fixed ropes going in first which are done by sherpa teams. One of my wishes is to just see Everest. 12,000 relief mountain puts our New England hills to shame. There is another option and that is to climb from the China side. Bit more technical but I think easier access

Wow that is absolutely incredible.

In other snow/mountain/weather news.... I follow the climbing season on Mt Everest. They have a short window each May that is good for summiting. Not as cold as winter and before Monsoon season that brings big snows. Because the mountain is 29,029 feet in elevation the jet stream winds are a big factor. This year it sat over the mountain for much of the month so the window of good days was pretty minimal. This week Wednesday and Thursday were in one of those windows. I guess about 800 permits were issued and many people all at once tried for the summit creating a traffic jam. Several people died because it took so long to get up and down the last leg. Incredible picture of the traffic jam.

Thunderstorm in progress. About .50" so far this evening

During the "bust" outbreak I watched KONO out of Oklahoma City. The on air Met was talking about how smoky it was over Oklahoma from the Mexico fires. He did not connect it to the forecasted severe weather outbreak and I didn't think about it till I read this thread. I also noticed the smoke over New England the other day.

I had not checked. Howling wind, lots of clouds and low 50's. Meanwhile clear and upper 60's down there. I want!

Struggling to get above 50F up here. Snow virga up at Cu level. Mt Washington is 25F with snow showers. Surprised PF isn't posting flurry pictures at Stowe. Would guess its cold enough?

Struggling to get past 50F. I can see virga snow showers falling out of Cu. Looks like snow flurries on Alex's cam?

Some moderate/heavy rain but not very dark. No lightning that I can see. The heaviest part of cell just NE of me by a few miles.

Bright sun with deep blue sky coming out now. 69/66 Got about .9" in thunderstorms last night

It's true. Leave out seems to happen much faster up here than down in SNE. 3 days ago I was at 25% leaf out and now approaching 90%.

Nice T storm just moved through. No wind but quite a bit of C to G lightning bolts. Cam caught this one a little to close for comfort. Ignore the white line, that is just a bug flying by the infrared cam. Wait for the thunder, I'm still looking for my freaked out cats! https://video.nest.com/clip/b80d1c8cb07643c3b7095d055617e9dc.mp4

Severe thunderstorm watch for Western Mass, VT and extreme W NH. Sun is out and temps rising up here. Edit: NH not in severe box

Anyone watch the ABC Evening News? Large, damaging tornadoes. 70 million at risk. On and on. So much hype. Wonder what they will do with a moderate or high risk? We have been lucky lately without a huge outbreak or a large tornado going through a major metro. I can't even fathom a F4 or F5 going through Dallas or Chicago or any Metro with a million people.

Just finished the first mowing of the fields and the 2nd mow of the lawn. Apple trees are just starting to leaf out. If anyone likes mowing hit me up. Actually putting on headsets with some music and riding my 52" zero turn is enjoyable.

Let's bury the Mammoth sign. Winter Storm Warning with 24" plus expected. Rain is just moving into California now. I just checked the Mammoth summit cam. Beautiful day with people all around that sign top. Has it ever been totally buried?