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NAM gone wild.

Any measurable at CON will make that the latest on record. Current is 0.5” on 5/13/1914, but hey had 5” 5/10-11/1945. I had an inch in MHT on 5/19/02 so I’m surprised they had nothing there for that.

If we can get some flakes down to the surface and relatively pound, I think we’ll have a good shot to go near isothermal here for a bit. I mean we did it with no problem 5/25/13 when we got almost 1/2” on the rhododendron flowers. We went from like 40° to 32° in a little over an hour and stayed in that 33-34° range until the precip moved out. A little latent cooling from melting in an otherwise cold column will help. It’s damn close though. We could easily be stuck at a 36F rain with an occasional cat paw.

Diane wants to know how the girl models are doing.

Here we come a’trowaling among the leaves so green

Whenever I see “trowaling”, like it’s a verb, I know it’s Sipprell. I hope he knows TROWAL is an acronym.

Just gotta get this isothermal down to the sfc. Toss those gfs 2m temps .

Nammy is a 33° paste during the afternoon for the ol’ Pit1.

Oh man GFS. Lock that in.

What are the bushes with the pink flowers? The lawn looks great although my chickens would hate it.

I love bees, but yeah...no thanks. Is that near the house or walkways?

Looks like we should avoid the rain up here tomorrow. Maybe we can even score a BINOVC and tickle 60F?

Love them. The only ones I may love more are indigo buntings. Lots of activity this morning...orioles, rose breasted grosbeaks, hummers, catbirds, finches, etc. The only elusive feeder bird for me has been bluebirds.

May of yore. They don't make them like this anymore. Cold and dry. The 24F for CON on 5/27 is absurd. 1969-05-01 63 27 45.0 -5.9 20 0 0.00 0.0 0 1969-05-02 66 25 45.5 -5.8 19 0 0.00 0.0 0 1969-05-03 75 47 61.0 9.4 4 0 0.01 0.0 0 1969-05-04 67 34 50.5 -1.5 14 0 0.00 0.0 0 1969-05-05 59 38 48.5 -3.8 16 0 0.00 0.0 0 1969-05-06 64 33 48.5 -4.1 16 0 0.00 0.0 0 1969-05-07 59 27 43.0 -9.9 22 0 T 0.0 0 1969-05-08 58 41 49.5 -3.8 15 0 0.09 0.0 0 1969-05-09 63 57 60.0 6.4 5 0 0.53 0.0 0 1969-05-10 59 36 47.5 -6.4 17 0 0.00 0.0 0 1969-05-11 63 34 48.5 -5.7 16 0 0.09 0.0 0 1969-05-12 60 34 47.0 -7.5 18 0 0.00 0.0 0 1969-05-13 61 38 49.5 -5.3 15 0 0.02 0.0 0 1969-05-14 60 31 45.5 -9.7 19 0 T 0.0 0 1969-05-15 65 29 47.0 -8.5 18 0 0.00 0.0 0 1969-05-16 78 35 56.5 0.7 8 0 0.00 0.0 0 1969-05-17 86 48 67.0 10.9 0 2 0.00 0.0 0 1969-05-18 66 43 54.5 -1.9 10 0 0.00 0.0 0 1969-05-19 68 44 56.0 -0.7 9 0 T 0.0 0 1969-05-20 69 55 62.0 5.0 3 0 0.36 0.0 0 1969-05-21 64 35 49.5 -7.8 15 0 0.00 0.0 0 1969-05-22 64 30 47.0 -10.6 18 0 0.00 0.0 0 1969-05-23 66 35 50.5 -7.4 14 0 0.00 0.0 0 1969-05-24 53 49 51.0 -7.2 14 0 0.08 0.0 0 1969-05-25 72 47 59.5 0.9 5 0 0.04 0.0 0 1969-05-26 60 33 46.5 -12.4 18 0 0.00 0.0 0 1969-05-27 65 24 44.5 -14.7 20 0 0.00 0.0 0 1969-05-28 75 39 57.0 -2.5 8 0 0.02 0.0 0 1969-05-29 82 52 67.0 7.2 0 2 0.01 0.0 0 1969-05-30 71 49 60.0 -0.1 5 0 0.01 0.0 0 1969-05-31 71 42 56.5 -3.9 8 0 0.00 0.0 0 Sum 2052 1191 - - 389 4 1.26 0.0 - Average 66.2 38.4 52.3 -3.5 - - - - 0.0 Normal 68.9 42.6 55.8 - 303 16 3.66 0.0 -

Summer of '69 maybe?

The same thing that happened to 4 billion of them a century ago. The wet, mank spring didn't help. I planted them late last summer so they've been battling a lot of moisture. The root systems are pretty tough though...they'll probably throw up new growth later in the warm season.

Most trees are beginning to leaf out. The maples and oaks are in the very early stages, but the beech, willow, aspen, and birch are well ahead. Of my 5 chestnuts, only 1 looks healthy. Of the 4 shaky ones, 1 is definitely dead, 2 show some life to them but the buds aren't swelling, and 1 is leafing out but has a canker around half of the stem which will probably choke off the upper portion of the sapling at some point. Definitely need to mow, but everything is waterlogged.

Try Craigslist?

I'm not an expert on weeds, but looks like a couple of different ones there? The ones that look more like a seedling (not the stringy running thing) looks like something I get in the torch spots of my yard near the house. By early summer they start to get very woody with their stems. They're easy to completely pull out at that point after a rainfall, but you risk them going to seed. Maybe it's something different though. Do you have a lot of it or just that patch? Looks like a lot of that would pull out easily right now.

GFS destroys Mitch.

I broke 4.20" in January.

46.8F and drizzle edit...46.3F CAD can go to hell

His beloved dews are causing moss damage now.