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Just popped up over me

Go suck on your delivery trucks tailpipe…

Southern MD about to get drowned.

Good lord

.85” for me - my gauge hadn’t updated earlier

I would say June was comfortable the first half, although wet. The second half mostly hot.

A decent line after all.

Tiny downpour. It poured for about 2 minutes.

Picked up 0.2" pretty quickly there. Temp is down to 76F. Couple screen grabs from the time lapse I captured.

I think we finally got a round in my yard after missing the first 2 rounds earlier... ill see when I get home.. Definitely over here in Northern Albemarle into Green there is going to be some big totals...

Wow. My sister went to Dickinson. That FB feed brought back memories of visiting her. It is a lovely campus and Carlisle is a nice town. Thankfully no one was hurt.

Scooter knew

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Brother lives in new Britain and lighting hit something about 1/10th of a mile from his house

Hi Bob, Wow - that's impressive! You've really done a lot - to say the least! Very nice layout for the raised beds. I wish I had the time to work on home projects F/T. Maybe in a couple more years. Can appreciate the clearing work. After moving into our place in 2009 we reclaimed 1/2+ acre that was not maintained for decades. Removed 30+ trees, regraded the ground with a power rake, removed four 30 yd dumpsters of debris and spread over 100 yds of 50/50 topsoil and mulch and 400 lbs of seed. Managed to grow some great weeds! It was a lot of trips with the Kubota BX and a 4 foot bucket. You have a REAL tractor with that MX5200. Would love to have a Kubota B with the glass cab, AC/heat and 5 foot bucket, but can't justify it with our smallish spread. Below are a few pics of our wall project. Started the project 3 years ago by relocating some azaleas that were on the hill where the terraces are now - fortunately they all lived! In 2024 I removed the old steps, graded the terraces and relocated the water line running from our well to the house. (we live 1/2 mile from Vienna but are on well and septic - go figure). Started laying block last Fall with 42 pallets of wall block - 82 lbs each. Have a little over 1 pallet of block remaining along with 5 pallets of caps. The caps will be a patio at the bottom of the lowest wall to the right of the steps Will be happy when the project is done, but it's been fun - most of the time. Can relate to the humble part too. Part way through the pile of blocks I was not sure how it would go. Kept at it steadily with a focus on the big picture. Managed to lose 26 lbs in the process and feel pretty decent these days. Not as sore in the mornings as when I started. Good luck with the rest of your adventures on your homestead. R.

Same folks clamoring about higher night mins with agw. yawn

I believe this. It has been terribly humid.

temps cooler with lower dews, don't be a nitwit. lol

…and then December just continued to deliver.

Well, I was standing outside looking up at my drone when this strike reached down from the sky and startled the shit out of me. lol

1" this afternoon/evening and .40" early today. July is out of the gate wet imby

Those storms exploded along the outflow

Light rain and thunder

The winter/ski seasons all blur together for me, which I think is in part due to our climate here in the Northern Greens. While we certainly get memorable storms, the majority of the winter features day after day with light to moderate snowfall events, which don’t stand out as easily from one season to the next. In any case, it’s a good climate to maintain high-quality snow surfaces for skiing and riding, and it’s one of the reasons that I really like having the reports from my ski outings to refresh my memory for specific periods though. I was curious about that strong start you mentioned for the 2023-2024 season, and indeed it does pop up on the plot for the Mt. Mansfield Stake data – the snowpack depth hitting 40 inches in the first half of December is a great place to be, and it quickly gets a lot of off-piste terrain in play. I checked my snowfall numbers and saw that our site in the valley only picked up about a foot of snow in the first half of December, which is below average and certainly not a standout performance. After looking a little closer, I realized that November 2023 also brought us 20 inches of snow in the valley, and that was a big help in priming that great start to December. I hadn’t caught that the first big rise in the 2023-2024 snowpack plot is actually from the end of November, but I see in my data that we had 6 snowstorms in the valley in the last 10 days of the month. On my Bolton outing on the 28th I measured the snowpack depth at 20” at 3,000’ and then on the 29th it was up to 24”. The skiing was great even before the calendar hit December.

Looks like a rough I-84 drive right now.