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Time to install.

I’m surprised how breezy it is already here.

Let’s not forget gypsies

Yeah if we pop some sun I think I agree for S NH. That weak inversion is pretty low and could be somewhat mixed out easily. Model 2m temps are already u50s.

Nah. We talk about more interesting things like drizzle and dewpoints.

The t-rex

That was a rough first 10 days at Plymouth. I recall that one day that was barely above zero during midday with full sun and a biting wind.

Still have tomorrow morning at the rad spots. Maybe an outside shot late weekend as well.

3.0 useless degrees

The warmth will eventually get us, but glad we don't live at H5.

Those are NOHRSC maps https://www.nohrsc.noaa.gov/technology/

Oh I don’t give them the shell. I scramble them in a pan and just feed them like that. I won’t even do a peeled hard boil egg since it maintains the egg shape. Some people crush up the shells and feed that in place of oyster shell for calcium, but I don’t take the chance on that. Mine have been good about leaving the good eggs in the box alone. If one breaks or someone randomly lays one in the run they will clean it up. But they’ve been smart enough to separate the two. I give 18 birds about 10lbs of mealworms over the course of a month so they probably feel content with their protein.

Oh I agree wrt temps. I was talking about his mention of getting another 6”+ event. The chances of deep winter drop off like a rock after the first week or so of March.

The Brownville ME deer food pantry has been busy.

I’d love for it to end, but every nonweenie knows we have 2 months to go.

I mean I guess…but you could just view the other products from NOHRSC like the SWE.

IIRC there’s a spatial element to it where it’s estimating pack density based on observations. The satellite remote sensing detects the water content and then the raw obs are fit to it and the gaps are filled in. So fresh new powder gets underestimated. That was years ago though.

Those run into some problems when you have a lot of the region with a glacier and then pockets with 25:1 fluff. It's biased toward the high density packs right now so when it sees the SNE fluff with little water content it's only estimating a few inches.

I had a young one die last Feb but had a hole already dug for a different hen (who is alive and fine today lol) so I was able to bury her. If I did it over I think I would have a little firepit ritual…not sure. It’s going to look like pet sematary out in my back woods in a few years with all of the chickens I’ve had.

Permethrin doesn't really kill them directly. IIRC it makes them infertile so that they're not reproducing. Eventually the infestation wanes and they die off without a new generation. The first few days after treating I usually don't eat the eggs either, but I have fed them back to the birds.

Wed??? It's not really gone until Thu night.

Actually my bamboo thrives in temps of 0F or warmer. The pack helps keep the rhizomes warm. If I was in CON it'd probably be toast right now due to times where there's no pack and temps radiate down to -20F. I knew you weren't seed starting outdoors now, but it sounded like you planned on planting in Mar/Apr?? That sounds optimistic even in a warm early spring.

Yeah I'll sell 65-70 this week. Although the GFS stalls the fropa a bit Fri morning so maybe SE MA can get some early 60s before the CAA offsets it. Thu looks like a lot of clouds and a limit to the mixing (inversion below 850) and there will still be pack in most spots. It's gradual WAA all day and eventually we pop that dew sector at the sfc.

Pretty much the same