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An epic 0.08” here so far

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Release the files

Okay…just saw the wind advisory down there is 24hrs from now which makes more sense.

When? Tomorrow night? The CAA kinda lags during the day.

What elevation are you at up there?

Case studies can tend to have a lot of images to refer to anyway. It doesn’t make sense to me to add the same image twice as different figures. I assume your choice for this study is the point of having two outbreaks at the same time. So it only makes sense to tie each in with the same maps. Otherwise it would feel like 2 different case studies in 1 paper.

If it’s the same image then yeah, I’d just refer back to the same one.

This guy is always a good watch. He’s doing a lot with red fleshed apple breeding.

Early spring can be okay if the tree isn’t waking yet, but scions are usually cut dormant in mid/late winter and stored. Then they’re usually grafted dormant to a rootstock that has the sap just starting to flow. That way you’re getting sap push from the rootstock through the scion as the graft tries to take and callous. You don’t want the scions to blow through their stored energy before the graft takes or they’ll start to dry and die out. If you’re doing chip or T budding it’s a little different and you can do that any time during the warm season or even use semi-green wood with well developed buds and chip bud those in the late summer. That’s where you slice an individual bud off and graft it to the already growing plant stock you want. I haven’t done any chip budding yet, but it’s done often with peach trees. I may attempt a few next year on my guardian peach rootstock I’m growing out with some Contender buds. Most of what I’ve done is with whip & tongue or cleft using whole dormant scion wood. With fruit and nut trees, there’s differing times of the season for grafting certain fruit. Some fruit need warmer temps for the grafts to heal and callous or else they are more likely to fail. Apples and pears are easy peasy and are usually done early…but you can do them must of the warm season. Pawpaws and persimmons are later in spring as temps get more consistently near 80°. Many nut trees are later and can be difficult to get “takes”.

Min 34.2°…back up to 39° with the clouds. Looks like the front has trended wetter. Let’s get everyone an inch.

Hopefully this is 1104hr

Max 52.9° Beautfiul sunny day.

I don’t remember the major location change from in-town to the more elevated airport, but I know it was pre 1940s. 95-96 is when the airport sites converted to ASOS/AWOS. But yeah, most of that time frame is the same location.

@wokeupthisam Here’s a question I always wondered… The Christmas trees are getting cut dormant after Thanksgiving. Can you cut dormant scions from a tree (winter pruning) and bark graft to a cut stump in the spring when the bark starts slipping? Or are the trees functionally dead after cutting and sitting all winter? I’m not familiar enough with firs to know if the sap tries to flow despite being chopped a few months prior. Being able to reuse a mature root system would have the new grafts sizing up quickly.

Yup. Hoping for a half inch.

Busting aside…here’s to a good winter season. Hopefully everyone gets the weather they want…70° here while it’s snowing in Southington.

Deadbeat dad

Greta will be taking her flotilla to the arctic ocean in a few years after we take over Greenland.

Nice. Growing any concolors there? I will have to watch the HGTV episode now. Edit…n/m. I see them on your site.

Well my point is we’re on an 8 year run of very little “real” cold in October. Historically you’ve pulled a sub freezing with wind by now.

Just wait until the 2030 normals. The same month would feel even cooler.

Nah…we’re getting a few light frosts in rad spots in late October. We cool

From 1921-2016, ORH had 5 Octobers that failed to have a temp of 32° or lower. From 2017-2025, they have had 7 including 5 in a row.

Min 32.8° A light frost, but a little warmer than yesterday morning. The hanging petunia lives on.