CapturedNature Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 Just noticed we were still using the winter thread when it's nearly the middle of Spring! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 Classic start to spring Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 Could just use the April thread. It's doldrum season so it doesn't have to be just disco. We've been posting obs in there for days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 Signs of spring this week, other than the usual cold rain: --Wednesday morning - turkey gobbling just out of sight in the field across from the house. --Thursday (and especially this morning) - Worms on the sidewalk, means the ground has thawed enough that the rain drives the poor critters up for air. Storm total precip (all RA) was 1.83" at my place thru 7 this morning. Probably not quite enough to enable the Kennebec to wash the west-shore parking lots in Augusta. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 15 minutes ago, tamarack said: Signs of spring this week, other than the usual cold rain: --Wednesday morning - turkey gobbling just out of sight in the field across from the house. --Thursday (and especially this morning) - Worms on the sidewalk, means the ground has thawed enough that the rain drives the poor critters up for air. Storm total precip (all RA) was 1.83" at my place thru 7 this morning. Probably not quite enough to enable the Kennebec to wash the west-shore parking lots in Augusta. My exit up here (19) has a pond with cattails between the highway and off ramp. Every spring the same (I presume) goose and gander return to mate and raise their young for a month or two. They returned a couple of days ago. Unfortunately the plows pushed quite a bit of trash along the edge of the pond and no one has been out yet to pick it up. The gander would probably chase them off at this point. He likes to angrily come up to cars that are forced to stop 5+ car lengths back at the stop sign. We had a male and female mallard duck chill in the yard the other day too. Apparently they think our yard is now a pond. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 On 4/3/2020 at 9:19 AM, dendrite said: My exit up here (19) has a pond with cattails between the highway and off ramp. Every spring the same (I presume) goose and gander return to mate and raise their young for a month or two. They returned a couple of days ago. Unfortunately the plows pushed quite a bit of trash along the edge of the pond and no one has been out yet to pick it up. The gander would probably chase them off at this point. He likes to angrily come up to cars that are forced to stop 5+ car lengths back at the stop sign. We had a male and female mallard duck chill in the yard the other day too. Apparently they think our yard is now a pond. Birds going crazy singing this morning. Our dove pair is back along with the Robin's who nest in the Pines. Worm castings showing up more and more, forsythia bloomed yesterday. Now let's get some sun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoth Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 Can't wait for this. 6 weeks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxeyeNH Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 32 minutes ago, Hoth said: Can't wait for this. 6 weeks. Watching towering Cu go up is one of my favorite pastimes. People think I'm nuts when I keep glancing at a particular cloud. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceanStWx Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 10 minutes ago, OceanStWx said: Florida is f*cked in that case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 NApril 2020 style 3 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 Beautiful warm winds today. Was out in my woods. 14 trees of various sizes came down Monday in a size of 3/4 acre. Another 10 have damage. We dropped 3 more before they took out anything else. I have a shit ton of wood now that's will need cutting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 First 40° diurnal range of spring yesterday, 59/19. Looks like that will be the April max. First 21 Aprils here all reached at least 64. Wood frogs quacking in good order and a few peepers last night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 @Ginx snewx @dendrite Do you guys know where they buried the monthly climo data and hand written climo sheets for the COOP stations on NCDC? Looks like the changed it around. I found a monthly sheet with the data, but missing the hand written stuff. I can't find anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 19 minutes ago, CoastalWx said: @Ginx snewx @dendrite Do you guys know where they buried the monthly climo data and hand written climo sheets for the COOP stations on NCDC? Looks like the changed it around. I found a monthly sheet with the data, but missing the hand written stuff. I can't find anything. I think all of the recent years are digital, but there's this link... https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/IPS/coop/coop.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 I HAD A SEVERE WEATHER DREAM LAST NIGHT!!! Was under tornado warning and saw a massive gust front...severe season getting close!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 8 minutes ago, dendrite said: I think all of the recent years are digital, but there's this link... https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/IPS/coop/coop.html Yeah that's it, will have to bookmark it. Thanks man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 Jeez it was right under my nose and I missed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 16 minutes ago, weatherwiz said: I HAD A SEVERE WEATHER DREAM LAST NIGHT!!! Was under tornado warning and saw a massive gust front...severe season getting close!!!!!! Was it wet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 1 minute ago, dendrite said: Was it wet? I'd say it was a pretty decent wet macroburst Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 On 4/19/2020 at 6:39 PM, Ginx snewx said: Thought this Lyme story would interest you. A couple years old, but I had never read about that before. Would debunk the conspiracy theories. https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/15651/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 1 hour ago, dendrite said: Thought this Lyme story would interest you. A couple years old, but I had never read about that before. Would debunk the conspiracy theories. https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/15651/ Thanks very cool and what's even cooler I know Kathleen from my museum days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 RIP Little Boy. The flock will never be the same. Went out to the run tonight and found him dead. I had just heard him crowing an hour before and he seemed totally healthy. No idea what happened. Shocked is an understatement. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 Just now, dendrite said: RIP Little Boy. The flock will never be the same. Went out to the run tonight and found him dead. I had just heard him crowing an hour before and he seemed totally healthy. No idea what happened. Shocked is an understatement. That's stinks, sorry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 Wow what the heck? That is strange. Sorry to hear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 8 hours ago, CoastalWx said: Wow what the heck? That is strange. Sorry to hear. I was raised with having chickens. They sometimes just die. The most important thing is to make sure they don't have anything that would effect the rest of the crew. After one died my dad made us clean the coops thoroughly with a hose and scrub it out. Lol that made me remember the huge rubber boots that never fit me right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 This last storm brought to light another possible issue. Either my chimney flashing or a gap between the house and chimney need to be fixed. I had water coming into the basement following the chimney line from the house. Originally I thought it was my new window I had put in, but I caulked the hell out of that. This looks different. Ugh. It's on the N side of the house which takes a beating in storms. Suddenly this has become the moneypit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 1 hour ago, Ginx snewx said: I was raised with having chickens. They sometimes just die. The most important thing is to make sure they don't have anything that would effect the rest of the crew. After one died my dad made us clean the coops thoroughly with a hose and scrub it out. Lol that made me remember the huge rubber boots that never fit me right. He showed no signs of anything. I think he just had a heart attack or he got something down his windpipe. He was in o ne of the many holes he loves to dig. He would nestle himself in there and chirp to call one of his girls over. Maybe he swallowed some dirt down the trachea and got a little too excited. No idea. Just sucks. We never wanted a roo, but he certainly grew on us. He didn’t crow much, was a gentleman to his ladies (minus the Weinstein mounting), and was a good watch dog. He was great with me and Lisa too. The flock must go on though although the dynamic will greatly change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 Just now, dendrite said: He showed no signs of anything. I think he just had a heart attack or he got something down his windpipe. He was in o ne of the many holes he loves to dig. He would nestle himself in there and chirp to call one of his girls over. Maybe he swallowed some dirt down the trachea and got a little too excited. No idea. Just sucks. We never wanted a roo, but he certainly grew on us. He didn’t crow much, was a gentleman to his ladies (minus the Weinstein mounting), and was a good watch dog. He was great with me and Lisa too. The flock must go on though although the dynamic will greatly change. Yea it sucks losing a pet. Having lost a lot being a rescue foster I always fall back on the fact I need to remember we outlive our pets. Doesn't make it anymore devastating but knowing they had a great home and were well provided for during their limited time on earth brings me some solace. Sorry again bro 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJonesWX Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 11 hours ago, dendrite said: RIP Little Boy. The flock will never be the same. Went out to the run tonight and found him dead. I had just heard him crowing an hour before and he seemed totally healthy. No idea what happened. Shocked is an understatement. that's a bummer man, sorry to hear. do you have a web cam or game cam facing your chicken run? might be a good idea so you can watch for predators. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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