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Awful out there. Congrats SW

Best week of the warm season?

WB 12Z 12K NAM for Sunday....

Lovely

Absolutely-even a couple half decent days on the south shore. It was July like yesterday with lightning to the north and humid conditions.

83F at just before 11am. Projected high is 89F but I think I'll hit 90F. Last of the heat then we cool down little by little. Mon looks super chill... struggling to hit 50/low 50s?

Already 77 and pretty humid with bright sun. Vegetation has exploded. Central air is on. Nice bangers last night. What a week.

April here has never been early enough to threaten late frost damage, but May is different, especially in 2010. That year had 3 straight months, Feb, Mar, and Apr, as our warmest, then May 1-5 was +14 with average highs of 77. Everything was 3-4 weeks ahead of average, then May 11-13 had minima of 22/26/25. 100% kill of apple blossoms and ash shoots, serious damage to maples, beech, birch, lighter damage to oak.

Tiny sample size, but I wonder how the summers in those years turned out. I know '77 was the year with the brutal heatwave and legendary blackout.

could be a sneaky interesting day if we can get something to pop

Only 0.17" here from the broken line of storms last evening. My April total is 5.56".

ISP hit 81

It’s not just 2023 though. Didn’t Nino years like 1976(or was it 1977) and 2002 do the same? I know 2002 had April heat and a very cool May. Obviously those years didn’t end up being strong Nino. I think it’s more of just a “Nino thing” regardless of eventual strength.

Oh yeah all fruit and flowering trees are in bloom. All maples have tiny leaves and even some Oak species have popped . I’d suspect after the next 2 still warm ish days everything will have leafed

Barely managed to carry pack into April, only to 4/1. Average here is April 6 and it's ranged from March 13 (05-06, only 7.8" after Jan 1) to April 24 (00-01, 55.5" in March, 48" pack on 3/31). Average days with 1"+ is 123, and for consecutive, 116. Range is 81 days in 15-16 to 163 in 18-19, consecutive 73 (11-12) and 162 (also 18-19). Earliest start of consecutive pack was Nov 10, 2018 and latest Jan 4, 2000.

Trading today for a much better Friday. Possibly Saturday too as I’ll be in Portland

Gotta watch exactly where that boundary ends up because we may see some transient supercells along it

We talk about NC a lot in here but man the upstate and especially southern half of GA and Florida are in even worse shape with almost those entire areas in D3 or D4

Clearing is actively working N-E ...question for me is whether there's a temp burst as that CT runs over as the sun is shining thru. interesting

nice to see that...we'll see how it works out. There's quite a bit of clearing sweeping up across the area at mid and u/a levels according to high res vis loop this hour. As that expands over this sludge it will be interesting to see how the mid April sun goes to war over top. The day glow is also already elevating over the last 10 min here so my est for 11 am might not be so bad.

Eh....maybe more like replacement level...say Darren Bragg https://www.fangraphs.com/players/darren-bragg/83/stats/batting

The good news is that this is one week w/o that crap-sometimes the whole month is lost to BDCF/east flow

Not directly New England golf related but what do people make of the LIV Golf news? LIV Golf not shutting down? CEO says 2026 season will be completed amid speculation over Saudi Arabia funding I don't think I would have an issue with a competing tour if the product they provided was at all comparable to the PGA Tour. Right from the start though I was skeptical about 54 holes, limited fields and no cuts. The shotgun starts didn't work for me either and don't even get me started on the stupid loud music blaring on every hole. I don't have an issue with music or shotgun starts when I am playing but it just didn't work me watching a tournament. As for the players that left? I don't blame many of them for taking the money but I do think some of them have definitely tarnished their reputations. Greg Norman and Phil Mickelson in particular seem to have done lasting damage. On the other hand, LIV forced the PGA Tour to make some changes that resulted in a better product in some ways. If LIV dies though, I won't miss it.

Yup!