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Spring Banter - Pushing up Tulips


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The fact we had basically no rainers for most of the winter was pretty incredible

How often has that ever happened? No real torches. Truly remarkable

 

The cold these past 3 months has been memorable, but the above comment appears to have forgotten the Grinch storm - I'd like to forget it too - and the earlier Dec rains outside of calendar winter.  Also, we had a brief but significant torch-deluge on Jan 18-19, which dumped almost 1" rain at my place and warmed to +23 on the 19th. 

 

However, the smashing of all time 3-month cold records in so many New England locales with long-term data is remarkable.  Outside of the region, but I saw a facebook pic of the small (60 acres) NNJ lake where I grew up, and though the ice is getting dark, it's still covering essentially the whole surface.  I don't recall ever having the ice survive past 3/15 in the years I lived there, 1950-71, and those included some cold winters, too.

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The cold these past 3 months has been memorable, but the above comment appears to have forgotten the Grinch storm - I'd like to forget it too - and the earlier Dec rains outside of calendar winter.  Also, we had a brief but significant torch-deluge on Jan 18-19, which dumped almost 1" rain at my place and warmed to +23 on the 19th. 

 

However, the smashing of all time 3-month cold records in so many New England locales with long-term data is remarkable.  Outside of the region, but I saw a facebook pic of the small (60 acres) NNJ lake where I grew up, and though the ice is getting dark, it's still covering essentially the whole surface.  I don't recall ever having the ice survive past 3/15 in the years I lived there, 1950-71, and those included some cold winters, too.

Well those happen almost every year now. Especially with a nice snowpack. If there's no snow cover..they don't happen.

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LOL, nah, just one last example of the season we had. As you know, snow water equivalent means everything.

 

yeah - you're getting our 2011 but a month later.  A lot of the snow around my sugar house is very slushy today.  I spent some time today piling it up around my sap tank to make it through the weekend.  A clear sign of the end of sugaring season here.  I probably have a couple of weeks and then we're done.  That will be the latest I've ever boiled but also a very short season.

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Well those happen almost every year now. Especially with a nice snowpack. If there's no snow cover..they don't happen.

 

Wish that last phrase were true, but Grinches don't seem to discriminate based on snowpack - they're just more frustrating when they ruin a good pack.  We had Grinchy rainstorms a few days before (or on) Christmas in 1999, 2001, 2006, and 2011, each with zero snowpack.  We didn't get Grinched in 2010 or 2013 here, but those are about the only years 1998-on that we escaped.

 

Hanging close to 40 in Augusta, but there are upper 50s in SNH and up to LEB.  We'll get our mild-up tomorrow, for a short while.

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60.8* feels amazing out.

 

20 mins south they are pushing 70* in Arlington...68*.  Saw a couple 70* readings near ALB

 

Yeah I've got all windows open, airing out the place.  I can also see the top edge of the planter bed for the first time in a long time and that's about a foot high.  So probably down near 10" now in open areas but bare ground under the big pines.

 

Tonight is going to do some damage.  The Stowe Village CoCoRAHS had 12" this morning, so we'll see what tomorrow morning brings.  It is so elevation dependent right now, there's still 20"+ from like 1,300ft and higher.  Probably down to 26" or so now at 1,500ft at the base of the mountain.  You can see a weenie 30"+ report there but that's probably like 1800ft or something.

 

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Yeah I've got all windows open, airing out the place.  I can also see the top edge of the planter bed for the first time in a long time and that's about a foot high.  So probably down near 10" now in open areas but bare ground under the big pines.

 

Tonight is going to do some damage.  The Stowe Village CoCoRAHS had 12" this morning, so we'll see what tomorrow morning brings.  It is so elevation dependent right now, there's still 20"+ from like 1,300ft and higher.  Probably down to 26" or so now at 1,500ft at the base of the mountain.  You can see a weenie 30"+ report there but that's probably like 1800ft or something.

 

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Huge discrepancy in pack through elevations. Driving from my house to Stratton/Bromley,  you can just see the pack increase every 100ft of elevation.

 

Although my backyard pack at 900' seems to be laughing at this 61* weather. 

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Yeah I've got all windows open, airing out the place.  I can also see the top edge of the planter bed for the first time in a long time and that's about a foot high.  So probably down near 10" now in open areas but bare ground under the big pines.

 

Tonight is going to do some damage.  The Stowe Village CoCoRAHS had 12" this morning, so we'll see what tomorrow morning brings.  It is so elevation dependent right now, there's still 20"+ from like 1,300ft and higher.  Probably down to 26" or so now at 1,500ft at the base of the mountain.  You can see a weenie 30"+ report there but that's probably like 1800ft or something.

 

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Feels like a Sierra day, warm with low dews, the glaciers here seem unaffected.

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