BOX leaning dry tomorrow tossing everything
Models continue to struggle with the extent of precipitation for
much of southern New England with a very dry airmass sandwiched
to the north with a upper level ridge and the dry slot working
in behind Ophelia. The best chance for rain appears to be across
southern CT and RI as the remnants of Ophelia track south of
Long Island. Because of uncertainty in northern extent of rain,
kept pops caped at 60% for CT and RI and less then 50% for MA.
Highs Sunday will still be below normal only reaching the low to
mid 60s. Winds diminish slightly only gusting 15 to 20 mph
inland and 25 to 30 mph near the coasts and over the waters.
Overnight lows Sunday night once again remain in the low to mid
50s.
I’ll try and grab a few pictures. I’m not sure of the exact type species maple.. but this area is loaded with them and they typically turn orange and yellow. Every single one of them is crispy brown and just dropping. That particular species was crushed by the fungus
Wolf won’t like this discussion but foliage is brutal. Every single yellow/ orange maple in a typical year are all brown and crinkly and falling. It appears maybe the only species not affected that will show any color this year are the red maples.. and even those appear to be muted.
In winter we’d take one look at radar and be very nervous… Scooter would be saying it looks shredded and flaccid, Ineedsnow would be posting the HRRR still showing 8-12”, and Emasseather would be talking about getting porked in a blog.
They have one next door . The wife sometimes uses it . And she told me it does ok, but it takes a lot of time and doesn’t get the ones that are hammered deep into the soul/ grass. So I assume that’s why he broke the shop vac .
I have 2 Hick trees in the back that hang over the lawn and the squirrels have been going apeshit on them up in the trees the last month. Chewed up shells everywhere. My tractor sucks most of it up thankfully. Living in the woods in an Oak forest is a tremendous amount of work