IrishRob17 Posted April 21, 2021 Author Share Posted April 21, 2021 @Juliancolton You chasing the twister? I expect photos of hail at the very least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LibertyBell Posted April 21, 2021 Share Posted April 21, 2021 51 minutes ago, IrishRob17 said: @Juliancolton You chasing the twister? I expect photos of hail at the very least. is he chasing the twister, or is the twister chasing him? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juliancolton Posted April 21, 2021 Share Posted April 21, 2021 53 minutes ago, IrishRob17 said: @Juliancolton You chasing the twister? I expect photos of hail at the very least. Hail to my south in Lagrange, hail to my north in Millbrook, nothing here. Wouldn't have thought it possible if I didn't see the pictures. Good lightning show, though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gravitylover Posted April 21, 2021 Share Posted April 21, 2021 Meh, basic frontal passage but there was 4-5 minutes of pea size hail, actually it was more like caper size Sun is back out now and the temp is up 5° in the last 10 minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juliancolton Posted April 21, 2021 Share Posted April 21, 2021 Anyone seen any photos of the supposed funnel cloud in Lagrange? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishRob17 Posted April 22, 2021 Author Share Posted April 22, 2021 11 hours ago, Juliancolton said: Anyone seen any photos of the supposed funnel cloud in Lagrange? I just saw it in Walts thread on yesterday’s event. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juliancolton Posted April 22, 2021 Share Posted April 22, 2021 3 hours ago, IrishRob17 said: I just saw it in Walts thread on yesterday’s event. Hmm, looks like a bumpy shelf cloud to me but static pictures don't always tell the whole story. Pretty gnarly looking in any case... contrasts nicely with the snow flurries falling this morning. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishRob17 Posted April 22, 2021 Author Share Posted April 22, 2021 3 minutes ago, Juliancolton said: Hmm, looks like a bumpy shelf cloud to me but static pictures don't always tell the whole story. Pretty gnarly looking in any case... contrasts nicely with the snow flurries falling this morning. Agreed on all counts. One of the first things I recall from Storm Spotter Training is the warning on static photos. It did look gnarly and considering the radar had rotation that gives it some street cred but I'm guessing it never reached the ground. The occasional stray flakes over here as well, 32 was the low on the day. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gravitylover Posted April 22, 2021 Share Posted April 22, 2021 I saw 30 at about 6am, flurries this afternoon even this far SE. It's cold and uncomfortable out there... I don't like wind but it is doing a heckuva job of drying things out from the (huge) .2" of rain yesterday. High temp today was 47 but it sure doesn't feel like it, 44 now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juliancolton Posted April 22, 2021 Share Posted April 22, 2021 8 hours ago, IrishRob17 said: Agreed on all counts. One of the first things I recall from Storm Spotter Training is the warning on static photos. It did look gnarly and considering the radar had rotation that gives it some street cred but I'm guessing it never reached the ground. The occasional stray flakes over here as well, 32 was the low on the day. Very well could have been the precursor circulation to the confirmed Kent touchdown. This is pretty bonkers. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LibertyBell Posted April 22, 2021 Share Posted April 22, 2021 What's the shortest time and distance our region has gone from severe weather to snow? I remember something similar to this happening in May 1996....around the 12-13-14 I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishRob17 Posted April 23, 2021 Author Share Posted April 23, 2021 30 for the low this morning but already up to 35 in the last 40 minutes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gravitylover Posted April 23, 2021 Share Posted April 23, 2021 Looks like I got down to 32 this morning, it's 49 now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juliancolton Posted April 23, 2021 Share Posted April 23, 2021 Lows were 30.0F yesterday and 30.2F today. Nothing too terribly remarkable, but we gladly take boring at this critical point of the growing season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gravitylover Posted April 23, 2021 Share Posted April 23, 2021 3 hours ago, Juliancolton said: Lows were 30.0F yesterday and 30.2F today. Nothing too terribly remarkable, but we gladly take boring at this critical point of the growing season. Yeah an hour or three at or below freezing doesn't bother me much. Pretty much everything I planted is coming up, even the seeds that were two or three years old are doing their thing. I put in a bunch of stuff today. Veggies and flowers, flowers and veggies... We should have a garden 2021 thread. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juliancolton Posted April 24, 2021 Share Posted April 24, 2021 1 hour ago, gravitylover said: Yeah an hour or three at or below freezing doesn't bother me much. Pretty much everything I planted is coming up, even the seeds that were two or three years old are doing their thing. I put in a bunch of stuff today. Veggies and flowers, flowers and veggies... We should have a garden 2021 thread. Garden threads invariably devolve into just lawn minutiae, nobody needs that kind of energy in their life. Everything in my hoop house is thriving. Even on these cool and windy days, as long as that late April sun is shining, it's bound to be toasty in there. Electric heater keeps it AOA 70F at night, which is when the young plants do most of their growing. The only tranche still inside under grow lights is tomatoes. Even though natural light would be a little better for their short-term vigor, I like to let them get just a bit more established so they have better odds of fending off any minor pathogen pressure once the hardening off stage starts. I've had a couple season-ending early blight outbreaks from just the most tenuous contamination sources. A worse heartbreak I've never known. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishRob17 Posted April 24, 2021 Author Share Posted April 24, 2021 Here’s for you gardeners, at least IMBY, it wasn’t below freezing for long yesterday. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gravitylover Posted April 24, 2021 Share Posted April 24, 2021 19 hours ago, Juliancolton said: Garden threads invariably devolve into just lawn minutiae, nobody needs that kind of energy in their life. Everything in my hoop house is thriving. Even on these cool and windy days, as long as that late April sun is shining, it's bound to be toasty in there. Electric heater keeps it AOA 70F at night, which is when the young plants do most of their growing. The only tranche still inside under grow lights is tomatoes. Even though natural light would be a little better for their short-term vigor, I like to let them get just a bit more established so they have better odds of fending off any minor pathogen pressure once the hardening off stage starts. I've had a couple season-ending early blight outbreaks from just the most tenuous contamination sources. A worse heartbreak I've never known. I was a lazy gardener this year and didn't start anything early. I also only bought 3 strawberry starts and a few early lettuces, everything else is sown from seed in place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juliancolton Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 Quite chilly out there today with the unexpectedly gusty wind. It certainly can't be said that we didn't get a "real" spring this year. Months and months between last real snow and first sustained warmth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gravitylover Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 I was thinking the same thing, the only thing missing is precipitation. I think I'm down about 4 or 5 inches since it stopped snowing in February. The leaf out and bloom is sluggish because of it, I don't think that the persistently chilly nights are helping either. If you don't have a moisture meter for your garden this ought to be a good year to get one. Speaking of gardens... lol. I laid out about 100 feet of new hugelkultur beds along the north fence line and another about 75 sq ft in the middle of the existing garden for complimentary flowers and herbs. I'll have a crazy mix of stuff to draw pollinators and hummingbirds, have to do it because two neighbors sprayed for insects and I'm hardly seeing any bees or birds this year and almost no squirrels or chipmunks either. The fill for the new beds is almost entirely native. The base is the crown branches from all of my downed trees then for the cap I did the most thorough raking of the yard ive done in a few years. I took all of the leaves and sticks and rough brown matter and chopped it up twice with the mower then spread it and wet it. Then raked again and took the entire layer of duff and capped the brown mix. Today I went and got 400 pounds of organic topsoil that I'll mix Miracle-Gro into and use for the base for the seeds over the top of the mix. Fwiw I won't use the MG to grow food but it's great for flowers. That's the first time I've raked the yard this clean in 20 years! I have grass and wildflowers growing like mad. I think the ground needed to breathe my back hurts though... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juliancolton Posted April 27, 2021 Share Posted April 27, 2021 Who wants to make a run at 90F tomorrow? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gravitylover Posted April 27, 2021 Share Posted April 27, 2021 Nah you can keep it. On the upside, a day like that will go a long way to warming up the soil. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juliancolton Posted April 28, 2021 Share Posted April 28, 2021 Well that's not happening, HRRR ftl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishRob17 Posted April 28, 2021 Author Share Posted April 28, 2021 26 minutes ago, Juliancolton said: Well that's not happening, HRRR ftl. That said, it is up to 77 here. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juliancolton Posted April 28, 2021 Share Posted April 28, 2021 49 minutes ago, IrishRob17 said: That said, it is up to 77 here. Certainly a toasty one, especially without much acclimation so far. 77 here as well. At least dews aren't bad, yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishRob17 Posted April 28, 2021 Author Share Posted April 28, 2021 Up to 85 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juliancolton Posted April 28, 2021 Share Posted April 28, 2021 20 minutes ago, IrishRob17 said: Up to 85 Me ftl 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishRob17 Posted April 28, 2021 Author Share Posted April 28, 2021 24 minutes ago, Juliancolton said: Me ftl I just lucked out and have had sun for a good bit now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gravitylover Posted April 28, 2021 Share Posted April 28, 2021 84° through thin clouds. Too warm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juliancolton Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 That mid-afternoon warm push meant business today. Highs around the area seemed pretty in-line with that extended HRRR map from last night, go figure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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