Juliancolton

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.

Please kindly bail out your basement so we can resume drought talk, TIA.

Look forward to my flash freeze and back-end snows on Friday, those never disappoint

Picked up 0.4" of snow and grauple earlier this evening

You take that back

This wind is getting nettlesome, vexatious even.

Mud season certainly gets an A+ this year!

Yeah I just hit 70, what a coup by the HRRR vs. the rest of the NCEP suite.

49/42 with lots of cloud debris... starting to think the HRRR might not have the strongest grasp on reality today.

It's either my 12.5% Irish heritage coming in clutch, or certain people on facebook drilling the correct spelling into my head. Either way, I'm a learned fellow.

59.9F here and the first 60F day since 12/25. For all of this winter's innumerable and frankly appalling faults, no torches between Christmas and basically St. Paddy's is no small feat in our current climate.

This is one of the big disparities between the metro and the interior lately. My biggest January snowfalls going back a while: 2013: 3.7" 2014: 6.0" 2015: 5.0" 2016: 1.3" 2017: 2.8" 2018: 6.4" 2019: 4.7" 2020: 2.8" 2021: 2.9" (also the monthly total) I actually don't remember the last time I had a double-digit snowfall in the month of January. 2005? It's really bizarre.

I think my rating will probably end up in the C+ to B- range. Pros: - two big storms - holiday season snow - near-average snowfall (never a given) - sustained snowcover in February Cons: - mother of all Grinch storms - paltry lows - the big one: snowless, mild January - dwindling prospects for March though obviously subject to change Locally, February was good but not legendary enough to make up for the next two biggest climo months being non-starters, if that's how it turns out. Few things more agonizing for the weenie soul than being shut out in January.

Thoughts and prayers are appreciated during this difficult time. Actually, I'm glad for it this week. I had yet another break in my water line on Monday, and aside from maybe the uppermost inch or two, no frost to speak of while digging to China. Updating that crappy galvanized pipe is high on my list of projects this spring.

My pack isn't doing so hot these days.

Periods of sun here as we pull into the day's final stretch. Not much wind to speak of locally.

Welcome to the next 10 weeks

My favorite thing this time of year is people on like the south shore of LI talking about how the pattern is unfavorable until at least mid-March. Got bad news buddy...

Yeah, we're well beyond the point in the season where I'm still willing to set an alarm just to measure snow, lol.

I measured 0.9" when I got up at 7, but it was already raining by then. Up to 38F now with light drizzle.