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Not here. Just 0.01” from first line. Maybe we get a few hundredths of an inch with the last line. Bad miss

Golf weather is coming, I predict that your patience for yardwork is lower than you think right now.

The Lord is risen indeed--Alleluia!!!! Victory over the grave...Amen, Amen, and AMEN! Happy Resurrection Day all!

Euro has widespread 90s for days mid month

Yeah I ended up right at .92 inches of rainfall myself. Wind has been cranking and temp is all the way down to 51 degrees.

Ended up with .45. Likely no rain for at least 10 days.

I didn’t because I was a weee lad but I read about it today. That would have been amazing.

There’s also the rapid rate of change, which is way too fast for most species to keep up with. As one example, marine heatwaves may be driving sea star wasting disease that has caused huge mortality of starfish on the US pacific coast. Then of course there’s coral reef bleaching, where warm SST’s are causing the wholesale destruction of entire reef ecosystems…those are just a couple of examples. It seems like coral and starfish aren’t able to respond quickly enough to the changes to avoid their populations taking serious damage from them. Maybe if this were all taking place twenty times more slowly, it would be different, and coral could adapt or migrate to new areas more easily. The media tends to way underreport on the non-human impacts of climate change, since people are disinterested in things that they don’t think will affect them personally. Also it seems like ecology is one of the least well-understood sciences, which is probably why we keep being blindsided by problems like colony collapse disorder in honeybees. All this to say, it’s not just about whether a warmer earth is “better” or not, it’s a question of how fast that rate of change is and whether human society and the natural world can respond in time.

I need to do some serious work on my garden and back lawn. Think im gonna rip it all out and rebuild from scratch this year.

The rains have finally come. Currently at 1.09" and counting.

I ended up with an inch of rain and I am very thankful! The pollen has been washed down and cooler air is filtering in. I could make a run at freezing in the morning. We'll see about that.

for the record, this should be a strong Nino per ONI and even RONI, but taking those +2.5C euro forecasts in early April to heart is silly. wait a couple of months and see if it sticks. the euro has overdone many a Nino in the past

GFS and Euro both have us dry the next two weeks.

funny you say that. I was gone most of the day today, when I got home it sure looked like the grass got a lot greener, and even the forsythia are starting to bud and flower

It was a good rain here as well. It rained really hard when that line came through. Heaviest precip I've seen since being under those extreme LES band on the Tug back in January.

This is true. They are super invasive. They are all over the NY Botanical garden in some of the old growth patches. (The majority of the forest is second growth but there is some old growth in the Bronx river ravine) .

Good soaking rain today!

Newport News Intl says .66 inches of rain. It was at least 1 inch in my bucket. Looking at the models, this is the only rain we will see for a week.

0.58" Most moisture here since the snow melted into the soil.

Never fails. Forecast winds for 22 mph - blowing 34 mph

Yesterday was the nicer day of the weekend, so my wife and I headed up to Bolton Valley for some spring skiing. Temperatures were in the 40s F up on the mountain, although I wouldn’t be surprised if there were some 30s F up in the 3,000’ range. The sunniest part of the day was early afternoon, and altogether the sun and temperatures were enough to nicely soften the snowpack in many areas. Conditions were still somewhat inconsistent though, with firm areas underneath the spring snow in various spots that made the skiing a bit more challenging than when you get those perfect sunny days with just the right temperatures that set up great corn snow that is soft but not sticky. One of the best areas we visited was the lower half of Hard Luck, it had some of the most consistent surfaces and just the right pitch to go with it. Surprisingly, Spillway right next door was closed, and it was perhaps due to its steep pitches with some of those areas that had been scoured and were very icy.

Cooler conditions will return to the region tomorrow. Temperatures will likely top out in the 50s through Thursday. Highs on Tuesday and Wednesday will likely struggle to reach the lower 50s. Wednesday morning could see the low temperature approach 32° in New York City. Should the mercury reach 32°, New York City would see its second consecutive April with a freeze (last year's last freeze was April 9). The last time that happened was 2015 and 2016. Temperatures will return to the 60s on Friday. The warmth will extend into the weekend. The ENSO Region 1+2 anomaly was +1.3°C and the Region 3.4 anomaly was +0.2°C for the week centered around March 25. For the past six weeks, the ENSO Region 1+2 anomaly has averaged +1.25°C and the ENSO Region 3.4 anomaly has averaged -0.02°C. Neutral ENSO conditions will continue through at least mid-spring. The SOI was -7.79 today. The preliminary Arctic Oscillation (AO) was +2.006 today.

Rainforest almost matched my yearly amount in one event.

We jelly

I'm a shorts and t-shirt in winter kind of person. However, you are a special case. lol