Juliancolton

I remember it well. It started out as heavy snow. I was watching it from the kitchen, having just made lunch, I think it was steak and eggs but it may have been a PB&J. You know I never used to like PB&Js until I became friends with a guy down at the barber shop. Oh jeez, what was his name? Ah, it doesn't matter, he sold me on these things, he said to me, he says, you have to make them with extra-- and this is something his girl taught him, she was just a sweetheart. She reminded me so much of Barbara's kid. How's Babs doing these days? So like I was saying, I turned on the TV to watch Bob Barker's show, what's it called? Is he still alive? I tell ya, one time I ran into him at the airport in Chicago, it may have been Cleveland but I think it was Chicago, nice guy, just real down to earth. I was in line to get a rum and coke, I preferred RC Cola but they said they didn't have any, and I recognized him right away. This was before wearing face masks became popular so you could still recognize people. Anyway, I paid for my martini-- oh, what was his name?? Give me a minute, it'll come to me.

...yes... "we"...

1.60" of rain here. I won't lie, I'm a little bummed that I couldn't even manage any discernible flakes from this thing. Looks like the NE hills of CT are getting clobbered pretty good. January, April, October, it doesn't matter... eastern SNE always wins.

That ship sailed centuries ago. Local NIMBYs pose much more of a danger to the region's long-term health than monied NYers spending three weekends a year in the mountains.

Agree, plus I think they might get more snow, as well.

I'm a fan of using the snow depth and related maps vs. 10:1 snowfall in marginal setups like this. Using positive depth change, even the snow-friendly NAM paints this as a NNE event with perhaps a slushy coating at middling elevations further south. Hard to disagree.

There are starving children in Africa who would don't have any snow to shovel, you'll shovel and you'll like it

Garlic is growing nicely here as well. I've never grown it before this year, but I don't think there are that many ways to screw up a bulb crop. I have about 150 row-feet shared between three varieties, so hopefully at least something performs well.

Most scientists make lousy science communicators. Fauci toiled away behind the scenes for decades and then suddenly got thrust into the position of the international face of the pandemic response. It's really an unenviable situation. Put Bill Nye or someone on the TV to hype up the vaccines, and let the good doctor return to his wheelhouse.

When was the last time you had the chain sharpened? Dull teeth are really insidious... you might not realize it's an issue since it happens gradually, but it makes the saw, and you, have to work a lot harder to make the same cut. It was a game-changer when I learned how to file properly and now touch up the chain before every use.

Does it look like the other two can fill that supply gap? That's a heck of a drop at this stage of the rollout. Either way, I appreciate the heads-up on that. Who knows how long they'll wait to tell us that other options should be pursued.

Huh. For some reason I was under the impression that wasn't going to impact the short-term supply much. Definitely would just like to get it over with if it's going to be a drawn-out thing.

Yeah, scouting out clinics with your shot of choice seems to be the move, at least here where it seems we have a glut of all options. The county-run centers have been doing exclusively Pfizer and Moderna. Just as I was about to get on the list today (the first day I've been eligible), I got an email that town hall was hosting a pop-up J&J clinic for town residents in a couple weeks. That's my slight preference, so I opted for that route... one shot/appointment is definitely more convenient than two, and the viral vector vax is a little more comforting than the mRNA for my lizard brain instincts. They're all good though, probably no good overthinking it too much.

Not as dry up this way - just a beautiful but unremarkable 64/32F.

Parts of my yard are a wreck this year from the windy conditions this winter and newly dead ash trees. The big stuff gets hauled away but I share GL's philosophy of just mowing over most debris. We're too far north for the brood X shenanigans, right? I think I would have remembered the last cycle if it had been a problem around here... then again, those were still the days when such things were curiosities instead of calamities.

Light flakes or grains on and off pretty much all day so far. Nothing too noteworthy in comparison to the 3.0" I got three years ago this date.

The best humor straddles the boundary between parody and reality

Wow! I never expected much today, maybe a brief flip to flurries, but it's been absolutely ripping here, pounding even, for over an hour. Just puking snow. Went out a few minutes ago and measured 5.25" already. I wonder how long it can keep dumping like this.

Just noticed that POU hit 80 for the first time yesterday. Third-earliest on record.

Many are the well-intentioned gardeners who fell prey to the siren song of a warm March. You can plant brassicas now, that's about it. I think I mentioned this last year but even in the record-shattering event that we've already had our last freeze, you'd still really want to let the soil rest for a while. Planting in chilly soil opens you up to problems with nutrient lockups, crop-killing pests like nematodes and cutworms, and high early-season disease pressure... to say nothing of the beneficial microbes and mycorrhizal spores that still need to awaken.

POU put up a nice +21F day yesterday. We'd be primed to really torch it out today if not for that bruiser of a front bearing down on us. From low 40s to 70 in a couple hundred miles, pretty impressive for this part of the country:

Ooh, I hear a peeper. I guess we're really doing this.

71 here

Also, since I know Rob was waiting for my final grade, I give winter a C. March really has done everything in its power to erase the season's redeeming qualities garnered during Feb.

Yeah, my pond has been overflowing on and off since the melt started a couple weeks ago. 1.05" of rain yesterday. I'm just making fun of all the talk about how we're setting ourselves up for water issues in the summer months... it's probably true in the long run, but hard to compartmentalize climo departures when everything is so waterlogged and muddy. Precip is BN over 6 months, as well as 12 and probably well beyond that. Synoptic precip events have been on the decline lately. I think it's just a given that we abnormally dry unless there are tropical systems around.