Juliancolton

Probably a 175 kt super typhoon in the PHP.

It sounds like you have your bases pretty well covered! Yeah, handling the plants is a big contributor to spreading the fungus higher, especially if there's a lot of moisture around. At some point you just have to do what ya can and hope for the best. I neglected to get the first Sevin application out early enough this year, and lost a number of cucurbits to the beetles almost overnight. They seem especially bad in my area this year.

Early blight is pretty much impossible to completely stave off, but you can certainly delay the onset and slow spreading. The most important preventative measure you can take is to prune all leaves, branches, and suckers within about a foot of the ground. The disease starts when dirt containing the fungus splashes up on foliage, so if you can avoid that, it'll go a long way toward keeping the plant healthy longer. Combine that with a normal Daconil type fungicide, and fertilize with Neptune's Harvest or some other slow-release form of nitrogen to ensure that new growth keeps pace with the dying lower vegetation.

I took a weenie drive down to New Milford, expecting them to have gotten crushed under that western band. Actually got more snow back at home... seems like just a few inches of paste here. Still beautiful, got some nice photos at Lover's Leap https://i.imgur.com/yzCbnoI.jpg

Depends where you are in Arizona. There's a reservation that doesn't observe DST, within the Navajo nation that does, within the state that doesn't... https://www.cntraveler.com/stories/2012-11-12/daylight-saving-donut-arizona-ken-jennings-maphead

Hey @IrishRob17, it's almost time to start our annual initiative educating people about the earliest sunsets being in early Dec.

You know, the oceans and the sun cycle. It's caused by... the oceans and the sun. Q.E.D.

Tickling 60 for a couple days in the typical warm areas doesn't really feel like it should count as a torch these days. It's all relative of course and I'm sure the departures are deep enough to qualify, but eh... November is a transition month and we're capable of much warmer, much later.

If you move beyond the local FM station playing Mariah Carey on repeat for two months, there's a wealth of pretty good Christmas music to be found with a little digging. The problem is that it takes some effort to find stuff that isn't just the 100,000th cover of O Holy Night so sometimes it's easier to just turn on the Warren Zevon or ELO and pretend like you're Jewish.

That's not a huge difference... they're both up around .9. A verification edge like that probably isn't even discernible without the numerical scores.

Well, a bit over two weeks, anyway.

Speak for yourself!

That would be a terrible bet regardless of the month. I'd feel good about a sig snowfall though. Make it 4" and I'm in.

Glad we don't live there – LI or SNE.

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Fog is awesome. Only radiation fog that you can climb above so it becomes an undercast, though.

I asked the spruce tree out front but it just lobbed a pine cone at me.

I can't find my handheld anemometer. Now I'll have to stand out in the driving rain just for the heck of it

Anyone know why I can't hotlink imgur files anymore?

Probably 99% of us barely see wet pavement but someone slantgauges their way to 5.74" so the bust police will forbid us from being disappointed.

SB 51, 3rd quarter. Somebody somewhere sold their soul or something.

Yeah, but CAA ensures no fake cold so who's to say?

She took the post down but in the comments she was raving about how they use Doppler radar to create tornadoes for population control... it was a trip.