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I think it was "only" 82kt, but crazy either way. I was still stuck in Logan when that was coming through because of a broken radar on my plane. Fun times.

5/31/98 was my first ever flight. BOS to MSP.

Up to 70° and mostly sunny. Beautiful day.

What a shitshow on the euro op. Perfectly timed Sat-Mon

Lots of pileateds up here, but we put suet out too. I think my favorite bird I’ve seen at the feeder is this guy. Only saw them for a couple of days back in 2016 and then never again.

“Only” 1.02” but still a good drink.

3k with the jack up here

Top loses heat out to space. Bottom has heat radiating up and down from the ground. They’re also sheltered from the foliage above that’s getting fried. When you get a light frost have you ever noticed it’s frost free under the tree canopy yet frosted around and outward from it?

Cold damage?

Bring it.

Oh I know. I’m pretty sure it would come back up even after a nuclear war.

Japanese knotweed. It got annihilated everywhere.

Not worried back this way. Mid/upper 30s at the worst.

Lows this morning

Probably. It may depend on the cultivars. I’ve had no flowers this year, but my tree is on its last leg.

All of mine were like that. Maybe it’s a protective mechanism for them. Guess we’ll see this afternoon. My potted grafted apple and nut trees look zapped. Pawpaws looked ok, but won’t know for sure until after it warms back up this afternoon.

AC for lows in the 50s?

HIE ASOS had never had a temp in the teens past 4/29 until this morning…almost 3 weeks later than that day in 2002. BML hit at least 19° as well and the ASOS has only been that cold once past this date (19° on 5/20/02).

The 25° in CON ties the record low for the date and it’s only been colder than this, past this date, 2 previous times. So this is pretty impressive.

CON 25° Looks like 28.3° will do it here. I’ll probably lose a few apple blossoms, bit nothing too bad…not sure how the emerging pawpaw foliage will react.

29.3° so far. CON 26° and HIE 19° Still a couple of hours to go unfortunately

35°

39.4°

Well the cowbirds are a “parasitic” bird. The mother lays eggs in the nests of other birds and doesn’t raise them on her own until they leave the nest. The cowbird eggs tend to hatch first and grow larger more rapidly and the babies can actually toss the youngins from the other bird out of the nest. So the cowbird has a distinct advantage over the other phoebes. The cowbirds are native so this is a natural thing that has been happening for some time. But I’d rather lose 1 cowbird than risk losing 4 phoebes.