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Numerous showers passing through with a little thunder at the onset. About 1/10" this evening. 65.7/63

I don’t think a heat wave is a slam dunk. Tuesday may be a problem and we’ll see if we get a day later in the week with enough rain/clouds to foil it. The dews will be the worst yet though...days and days of swampazz. Maybe they can rack up a 70° min wave.

lol There is such a thing as moderate and heavy drizzle, but I doubt that’s what they were going for there. Droplet size is what distinguishes drizzle from rain. Intensity is different from rain though. Rainfall is based on rates and drizzle is off of visibility like snow. So drizzle reducing visibility to 1/4SM would be +DZ.

I try not to plan any, but ornamental cherry, dogwood, and japanese maples are some of your safer bets.

00z Euro keeps finding ways to deflect the worst of the heat from our region. I liked the d10 plume of near 30C 850s up to Lake Michigan though.

62/59 with a nice, steady rain. Putting a quick end to those backyard fireworks shows.

BTV is like 330ft. They can torch pretty well with the right flow. Same goes for the IZG/N. Conway area. I think most understand the scalar vs anomaly differences, but these over the top shots have been so extreme even the scalar values are higher over NNE than SNE. Maybe this one will play out differently, but the ec op has a couple of shots with the warmest mid level temps passing through NNE. As has been the theme, there's a remnant ULL turd in the punch bowl from the mid-atlantic into far SNE that's is just enough to keep the heat from being too extreme.

Maybe one of the pooches can pull the kryptonite out of his back.

Big waste of money is what it is. Poor topsoil and no irrigation. Weeds took over late last summer and think we had some grub damag Parts of my front look like yours. I dumped a ton of dwarf white clover all over the area before the recent rains. I’m hoping it’ll take off and improve the soil over time. If it takes off I may add more clover and grass seed before the winter pack settles in.

69/62 Overcast A bit chilly out there with the breeze.

More 90s for Freak and Phin.

Yup. Corn ftl

Missing the best cells, but should still get a shower. Hopefully it’s enough to cool it off.

This one has more legs. Maybe another 2-3 day big heat shot for NNE and then repeat with a trough nosing into the region?

80/68 SKC

I remember when the euro had 100° for today.

Encourage red squirrels? I swear, as soon as I made it impossible for the squirrels to get my bird seed they all left and the chippies moved in.

Nice...that may be it. Looks like it's native so maybe I'll let it grow under the apple tree and see what the flowers eventually look like.

I have a lot of sapsucker damage on my larger fruit trees and willow. The willow has some yellowing leaves and the crabapple is suffering crown dieback. Any tips on how to deter them with responsible methods? Does the cd hanging from a branch trick really work? I’ve never noticed them on the suet (just the cother common peckers), but should I take the suet down? I know Gene has some kind of product on one of his trees that seals the wounds of the tree. It didn’t appear to be sticky either like the products I see listed on Amazon. I really don’t want to put something on the trees that will stick to their feet. There’s so much of the trees affected that wrapping them in hardware cloth or burlap isnkt feasible either. Any recommendations?

I would think never fertilize a stressed plant...even grass. But you probably know more than me wrt lawns.

Anyone know how well white clover will grow in very sandy soil? I was thinking of overseeding parts of the front with it to fix some nitrogen in the soil. We've had some areas of topsoil almost completely erode out there, but I'm not doing a big fix. I figure the clover will double as a forage for the chickens.

ID'd this as yellow sweet clover today.

I'm still struggling with this one. The stalk looks like pokeweed, but not the leaves. I keep bouncing around giant ragweed, mugwort, and hog weed, but nothing quite matches it. edit...think I'm leaning giant ragweed.

Anyoneknow what this is growing under my apple tree? The leaves have me stumped.

My cats and chickens were petrified and hiding.