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Midweek rain fell apart overnight. Can’t break the drought. Yet…

Need all the help you can get watching the o’s… Moon is really beautiful rising right now. Full moon and looks sorta Halloween spooky.

I have a few mayapples! I have an area under some trees that I’m mostly leaving alone and intermittently planting some shade and dry soil tolerant natives. After 3-4 years, my Christmas ferns have started to spread. Dwarf crested iris has really spread and some asters have also spread into the shade a bit. There’s a lot of tree saplings and one sweetgum that volunteered is now like 6-7 feet tall. All that to say it can happen quicker than you might think if you don’t mow. I pull out any invasives that try to grow and any poison ivy (native but not welcome in my yard!).

It’s crazy how companies strip mine the topsoil of new developments to sell it off and leave the new homeowners with fill dirt and rocks. I’ll just generally encourage you to plant natives, and I’d be happy to offer suggestions if you want them! I was planting bushy St. John’s wort when I made that post. Have also added a new arrowwood, bluebells, blue mistflower, yarrow, and a “micropond” this year. HoCo and Columbia do lots of native plant giveaways every year so all of those were free.

Starting May in the 30s!

Just under 0.5” yesterday and about 2.4” for April.

Around 0.35” so far. Should be able to hit 0.5” with the second batch?

Just planted a few natives and boy is the soil dry despite rain the last 2 days.

About 1/4” so far. Up to about 0.7” for the “event” with yesterday

It won’t be immediate. But it will kick in eventually.

Giga-Nino cometh

Mini round 3 now

Jan 25 gets a Cat 4! Nice!

@Herb@MAWS, @Scraff, and I were winners. 0.3”+

Temp has dropped 20F with these showers. 61 now

Gonna get round 2

Showers popping, let’s see who wins and loses

A few hundredths

That was a record low for IAD

I always strongly recommend learning a few basic phrases in a local language. Hello, goodbye, please, thank you, etc. And note that Swiss German is a little different.

One of the reanalyses would be the best for that. ERA5, etc. Don’t know off the top of my head if there’s useful web visualization of those. PSU ewall used to, but those were like 1993 level graphics quality lol

Lots of 20s for lows at mesonet stations

30-31 around my neighborhood

5” rain bullseye for me on 12z euro.

Our Nino winter dream pattern arriving for May https://twitter.com/scweather_wx/status/2045950481189474580?s=46&t=JYOHM881b6groqc0-RqtxA