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We have a battle almost every year about end of season depth. We measure in the woods west of our parking lot to prevent drifting, but that means that it retains more snow than the surrounding area as we melt out. So we always have bare ground to PWM and some people want to report more than a T because that's what is physically at the snow board. I prefer to be a little more subjective about depth and not tied to the stake.

71/3 at EWR and 69/5 at NYC. Really mixed out there. Maybe a stray cigarette butt can burn its way from the UWS to Midtown.

When I first started landscaping the new house I got real tired of chopping out the grass in square foot sections, so eventually I just gave up and started with a cardboard base to prevent the grass from growing through and it worked great. Given the amount of food/Amazon delivery we've had in the last year I have no shortage of cardboard for the additional beds I'm putting in this year.

This might be the best one he's told on the board yet!

Nada for Maine as well, but you can knock off 26% with the federal tax credit (or not if you want to keep the cash for something else).

Not just the excess. RECs are used as a way to offset fossil fuel use (think people, companies, places with commitments to green energy). There is a market for each MWh of energy produced. So if you produce 10 MWh of electricity, even if you use some of that yourself, you can sell the REC for cash. Now if you're solely into solar for the green aspect, you can't then say your energy usage is green because you traded it to someone else and the electricity they traded you would be "dirty." I'm adding a ~15 KW array to the house this summer. More or less the loan is a wash with our electric bill (which we're going to pay regardless), so it's a net zero for 12 years, and the back half of the panel warrantied lifespan is all gravy. After paying off the solar loan, in the end the net should be around 35k that we don't have to spend on electricity.

Once we get into moderate drought this year just imagine the combination roll out and thin air on the Tolland Massif.

I don't know man, get a nice 85/70 day and the tourists stay away from the course you can really start bombing your drives like Bryson.

NSFW?

It's so true, but my yard is so sloped that after every heavy rain it ends up looking like Brian's chickens have raided the gardens.

Spent many days trying to convince the parents to take us to Funspot instead of forcing us to play at the beach on a chilly day.

Minor, but there's less wind today to mix out any of that sublimating snow.

Oh man are there some Scooter golden years in this plot. Just pumping out 300 hours of sub-50 dewpoints while he was crushing juice boxes.

I did it in my yard, but I can't decide if I want to cut hard edges into it every season or line it with some small pavers to keep the shape.

Yeah that was the reason I was told not to as well. So I raked it out and cleaned up the grounds a bit this weekend. I was hit by Napril though. Glad I wore a hat.

We baby step.

The cold bias has been improved upon but hasn't gone away.

52 knots at CON. See any chickens zipping past your windows?

Plymouth rocking and rolling.

I supplied the graphic but I wasn't the one who posted it. I've long said winter is 12/15 to 3/15 around here, and that graphic pretty much matches it.

It's been pretty meager outside of the December storm. I've actually only been able to sled with my kid 3 times because of all the mixed precip locking up the pack.

Has to be assuming zero snow going forward. Most of our sites are around average for the date but projecting towards below normal.

There really aren't though. You get plenty of HWWs issued on NW flow, but actual verification of them is extremely rare. It's just hard to do around here due to the combination of it's hard to create a strong LLJ when you're well mixed and our infrastructure (even CT's) is hardier to NW flow.

This does look like a slam dunk high end advisory gust event. MOS spitting out sustained 25 kt, that's pretty good.

I just can't think of any HWW on NW flow. Even if we did tickle 50 kt I'm not sure impacts would even be that widespread.