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Similar... 56 but that pancake cut bloom patched it's way off to the SE and has left us 90+% open sky with some of the most uncontaminated blue the Earth can muster in this pre-holocaustic industrial history lol Very light wind, and with the sun now officially insanely hot standing there it's giving that allusion to it being warmer.

Spur. There were supposed to be all hens when a couple dozen was purchased 4-5 years back, but 2 were roosters, so the dominant one (Houdini) ruled the roost, frequently pounding the other rooster, Meriodoc (and other trespassers). Both are now deceased.

Are these spur or beak wounds? I'm glad my city has a no-rooster rule, they intimidate me. My surviving hen from flock 1 is defensive of the 1.5 year old flock 2 hens. I picked one up when she was stubborn about coming in at dusk and when I went to set her down in the run, the old hen delivered a direct peck (more of a bite, actually) to the back of my hand. This is now the chicken thread plz rename and pin @dendrite.

Got a good three week trip this May so somewhat glad for this lull while I am away

pain

Yeah we noticed that on the crown of your head some years ago

Mine got me. Scar remains. Old Ginger is a beast. Sardines? @dendrite

I still look through the thread to this day.

yes but beer is added in as well

I wish destructive sunshine. Living in Brian's world

All of the above!

Bears Foxes Bobcats all seen in my hood again this spring, not to mention all the hawks. Extreme numbers of squirrels, chipmunks around. Chicken free range cancel

60 here with bluebird skies.

Looks like it's thinning out some

I still have a scar from a rooster attack in May of 2024. Was taking some veggie scraps to the grandkids' flock in SNJ, all the hens came as a swarm and "Houdini" (kids name all the birds, of course) wasn't tolerating competition for ruling the hens. Its 2nd attack was repelled when I (carefully) flipped the rooster onto its back, after which it scooted next to the pen and crowed a dozen times - "I won! I won!" Then I noticed the blood running into my shoe.

haha, I know where you live just be studying the tendency that seems to be fixed. Seriously, it's probably terrain determined to some degree

Well considering that it was showing a moderate/borderline strong El Niño on the last run then suddenly jumped to a super El Niño in one run, yea, it’s safe to assume it’s still adjusting and playing catch up to all the other guidance

Do you really want to talk about small sample sizes? Your entire existence on this global climate change board is substantiated by a thread where you talk solely about your county’s climate data. Like, are we being for real?

I was just logging on to bitch. I’ve been sitting under this turd for 45 minutes now.

Tomorrow’s system is going to have a painfully tight gradient in rainfall with amounts over 1/2” and under 1/10” likely spanning a single county

finished the month with 2 1/2" of rain.

Exactly the same here, 0.40" thru 7 AM and 0.78" 7 AM thru 9 PM. (Another 0.01" of DZ overnight, but that goes in the May bucket.) Month finished at 4.00" - 7th consecutive BN month and 10th of 11, but only by a whisker. April average is 4.06".

The reason many of the big mets on twitter are going with super and east based is because most Ninos that have started out the way this one is starting out have gone that way, so they’re not just doing it because they have some inherent warm bias - they have data to back it up. But the thing about meteorology (and the broader sciences) is that past data is only right until otherwise proven wrong.

Thanks. 1. You’re right that 1911-12 was colder in the Great Lakes/Midwest than in the South (see image below). So, good find and makes my statement wrong about ALL moderate or stronger El Niños on record not being colder in the N than in the S. I stand corrected. 2. However, though not as cold, the South still had a pretty cold winter (2-4 BN), which is unlike the NN on the Cansips. So, in that regard, the Cansips is still not making sense to me. Also, 1911-2 was about as cold in the S as the NE. 3. By the way, 1911-12 was just a lower end moderate with a peak of +1.2 per Webb rather than strong. But it’s still an exception to my statement since I was referring to moderate or stronger: https://www.webberweather.com/ensemble-oceanic-nino-index.html