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Sets up great for below normal precip this winter.

No QPF issues at Pit2 either.

If you really need to dream, RAMMB had a little map background error on the floater.

I was going to do nematodes too, but with the baby at home I just don't know if I'll have the time to commit to applying them before they die. Might be a next spring deal.

She has a fetish for upslope but also doesn't want to miss the big coastals?

I think I have Japanese beetle grubs doing a number on my front lawn (neighbor across the street replaced his entire lawn after they got him) so I put down the milky spore for the first time. I prefer to do the least intrusive thing first before stepping up my assault.

They threw piccione on the menu in Florence and I didn't fall for it.

Very confused and very much have no idea what I'm talking about. They had the training wheels on Brady his entire first year and brought him along slowly. Lots of flat passes, screens, TE pops. So far the Pats this year remind me of that. Sometimes that brings fond memories of past teams. You should know something about looking back at the glory days.

Very 2001 Pats passing game. It actually gives me the warm and fuzzies.

This is what I'm most excited for at my new club. They have a huge chipping area and a grass driving range.

Partial wedges have been my greatest frustration the last several years. I carry a PW, 52, 56, and 60 for carry distances of about 135, 120, 110, and 100 yards. My most common approach distance? Probably 85 yards I need an extended series of range sessions where I just try and hit half wedges to various distances. Because if I even hit the green from 60 yards it's a victory, never mind getting it close.

The club I just joined does hole-in-one insurance. Every member who plays a round is charged $15. It all goes into a pot and if there is an ace everyone at the club is notified they are eligible for a free drink with money taken out of the pot. Once it dips below $500 they'll charge you $15 again when you play a round.

This is what is tricky about these kinds of systems. They produce these small, sometimes potent mesos, but they aren't always rooted in the boundary layer. While they don't always go on to produce tornadoes, they can (by locally changing the vertical pressure) drive straight line winds to the surface. That's likely what caused the sporadic damage within that tornado warning.

As it broadened out definitely, but there was maybe 3 volume scans there where I was really waiting to see the TDS pop up.

We haven't heard of any damage consistent with a tornado to warrant a survey. It was likely just a meso that wasn't surface based.

9/30/20 peak sustained of 39 mph and gust of 52 mph. That would do it.

Well NOAA released their report as they always do, and massive press coverage after that isn't really up to NOAA. And NOAA's observation dataset is still what it is relative to the other global datasets. They revised it down 0.01 degrees, so hardly a massive change from their initial report. The rest of the global suite didn't agree it was the hottest month ever - BUT they still agree it's at least tied for 3rd warmest behind 2019 and 2016. So I'm not sure the Wattsup blog is really dunking on anything. The fact is NOAA's dataset is still tied for the hottest July ever. I assume NOAA works much in the same way as NWS with deadlines to release certain climate info, and so they released the info they had on the date they were supposed to. It's not really a vast gov't wide conspiracy or anything. It's akin to BOX issuing the CLM saying BOS was +2.5 degrees above normal or whatever and then finding out that they had the low temp wrong on 7/13 and re-running it later.

Yep, time to move to the lawn thread for fall yard work.

Well yes one of these things is not like the other because they are two different datasets with two different resolutions, pretty colors aside. Where have you even seen info about this walk back of July 2021? Personally do I believe stories should be corrected yes, but it's also a fraction of a degree so I don't expect newsflashes from the media to report the change in September. They could barely cover it for more than a day in July.

CAR does their 10/2 foliage picture every year. And there are differences on the specific date, but overall most years are pretty similar. Warmer than normal definitely holds peak off like 2015, but dry can lead to early drop like 2020.

My favorite swamp maples on the way to work starting hinting in late August like they always do. They are really starting to turn color now and typically they are peaking around my birthday which is next week. So we even seem to be on track around here.

I'm stunned CT still has trees left to peep.

I'm not an arborist by any means, but there's just a window where trees will keep their chlorophyll. We're not going to shift peak peeping by a month.

Yeah I seriously took up the game in 2008 when I got my first "real" job and could afford clubs. The immediate impact of playing semi-regularly was being able to break 100 within the year, but it took my 4 years before I broke 90 and not until the end of my 5th and really 6th seasons when I was consistently between 80-89. 8 years to crack 80. Two kids later and we grind into the low 90s.

Of course the color change is triggered mainly by changes in sunlight (which won't differ) and the vibrancy of the color is what is mostly affected by weather conditions.