All Activity

I wonder where all those bees and wasps that were out last week went ?

Northern Catalpa are traditionally only native to parts of the MS river valley, but they grow like weeds everywhere. Blue ash isn’t native here either, but it has shown a little more EAB resistance than green and white. Of course it could just be a preference thing and once the green and white are gone they’ll move onto the blue. Can’t help you with the beech though. Hickories and black walnut are nice shade trees, but hickories take a long time to grow. Butternut is faster, but those are diseased and dying too. The NH state forestry nursery has butternut hybrids that they sell for cheap in bulk. We need more people growing pawpaws too.

Overnight low of 25 here.

32.8 imby/Columbia this morning. Up to 44.3 at 10:30am.

Came back 20 deg so far... 24 --> 44 Pretty much 0 discernible wind ...any movement out there is closer to untouched and unknowable. With that purity of the clear sky and now late summer sun intensity, that's about as close to a 10/10 nape factor as can be found.

First I've read of green ash surviving. Many sources have confirmed some survival of white ash but things look grim for green and brown. In Maine (also probably elsewhere), efforts are being made to collect brown ash seeds, to fend off extirpation of this species of great importance to indigenous peoples in the Northeast. (Other than urban plantings, Maine has very few green ash.) No sign of EAB on our woodlot but it's not far away. White ash is the 3rd most abundant there, trailing only red maple and balsam fir, and brown ash is a significant component as well. I plan to have a harvest in the next few years, and would harvest all ash of sawlog/veneer quality 14"+ diameter while retaining all other ash. (The 2013 harvest included no hardwood sawlogs but took a significant volume of hardwood pulp. A second harvest would take some red and sugar maple logs along with the ash.)

No issues or crop damage to any of the flowers, flowering shrubs, tree leaves etc, Everything vibrant and growing . Despite being below 32 for 7 hours

Funny stuff

Hopefully .50 to 1 inch says the WPC. We really need a ton more rain as we near peak sun/heat in a couple months.

I recall Snowman posting the BOMM at +3-3.25C in 2023 and only broke +2C for 1 trimonthly. Location of the best forcing will be what makes or breaks winter in the east this year.

31 F even here. Open water outside were all frozen.

Got to 26 here. Potted plants froze through but seem to be fine this morning after a little sun. I think the garlic liked the kick in the head, it looks so happy this morning.

Wow big last-minute drop at my place near Leesburg. Had leveled off at 35-36 for a couple of hours and even started rising a bit, then starting at 5:30 plunged down to 32 within 90 minutes.

Loosing ash and beech so close together is a nightmare. We do not have ash on Long Island but tons of beech. Catalpa is the latest native leaf out tree I have seen. Latest overall is crape Myrtle, I have had multiple clients complain that they want them replaced because they are dead. But inevitably they leaf out 3 weeks after everything else. LI is about the northern extent of where they are viable. .

My guess is the Pope’s tomato plants got fried with a low of 27°

Pretty big frost and 35 at the house

April 21 1910: A snowstorm hits northeastern Minnesota. Duluth picks up 6.5 inches. For Tuesday, April 21, 2026 1958 - Portions of Montana were in the midst of a spring snow burst. Snowfall amounts ranged up to 55 inches at Red Lodge, 61 inches at Nye Mine, and 72 inches at Mystic Lake. (David Ludlum) 1967 - Severe thunderstorms spawned 48 tornadoes in the Upper Midwest. Hardest hit was northern Illinois where sixteen tornadoes touched down during the afternoon and evening hours causing fifty million dollars damage. On that Friday afternoon tornadoes struck Belvidere IL, and the Chicago suburb of Oak Lawn, killing 57 persons. (David Ludlum) 1980 - The temperature at International Falls MN hit 90 degrees. (The National Weather Summary) 1987 - Unseasonably warm weather prevailed from the Gulf of Mexico to New England and the Great Lakes Region, with twenty-nine cities reporting record high temperatures for the date. Afternoon highs of 82 degrees at Caribou ME, 94 degrees at Mobile AL, 95 degrees at Monroe LA, and 93 degrees at New Orleans LA, were records for the month of April. (The National Weather Summary) 1988 - After having had just twelve rainouts in the previous twenty-six years at Dodger Stadium, a third day of heavy rain in southern California rained out a double-header at Dodger Stadium which had been scheduled due to rainouts the previous two days. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 1989 - The temperature at Las Animas, CO, soared to 100 degrees to establish a state record for April. Twenty-two cities in the central and southwestern U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date. Eight cities equaled or exceeded previous April records. (The Weather Channel) (The National Weather Summary) 1990 - Afternoon and evening thunderstorms produced golf ball size hail in Oklahoma, and also caused some flash flooding in the state. Thunderstorms over the Southern High Plains produced golf ball size hail at Roswell NM and El Paso TX. Easterly winds and temperatures near zero produced wind chill readings as cold as 50 degrees below zero for the spring festival (Piuraagiaqta) outdoor events at Barrow AK. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 2007 - The South Plains and Panhandle of West Texas were hit by an outbreak of severe thunderstorms. Between the hours of 5 and 6 pm, several thunderstorms developed across the western South Plains. Around 7 pm, a supercell produced a tornado which touched down around Fieldton (southwest of Olton) and then moved just south and east of Olton, doing damage to several structures and equipment. The thunderstorm continued to move northeast across northeast Lamb, northwest Hale, southeast Castro and southwest Swisher Counties, producing a long-lived tornado (along with hail up to the size of tennis balls). By 7:45 pm, the storm approached the town of Tulia in Swisher County. A tornado touchdown was reported in the town, causing major damage. The tornadic thunderstorm continued to move northeast across Swisher County over open country through about 8:30 pm. (NWS Lubbock, TX)

We've actually lucked out somewhat-a fair amount of sunny days (Even if chilly) this spring and last week was a bonus.

Whoa our Xfinity service down in southern Calvert has been down since 8:30 last night. Says “network damage” which doesn’t sound good! Got down to 34° with some frost and now up to 47°. Waiting for 50° to put the plants back out

That commercial came to mind

Stations around my neighborhood ended up in the upper 20s mostly.

Even July 4 weekends. I remember a few years ago it rained that whole weekend and didn’t get out of the 50s. Usually Memorial Day is around when we stop getting hit with the nasty backdoor fronts.

Yeah ... in so far as this, I was not intending to argue that. Ha. No I'm just changing the subject a bit that we've appeared to slip back into this bias of cooler loading into SE Canada and NE/CONUS, not dissimilar to what plagued the the winter months. I provided those monthly means ( C/O NASA) around the 10th of every succeeding new month over winter and into early spring. Every month with the possible exception of March ( though arguable...), demoed we were cooler, either relative to local climatology when not relative to the planet as a whole. That annoys me, full disclosure. For a couple of reasons. One being that I was afraid of a spring that forcibly jams cold shit down our throats and being powerless to stop it haha. I'm grappling with how much of this is "normal" though to be fair. The other reason is that CC-sociological stuff... which is a murky imperfect science of human oblivion that I'll leave alone for now. I've shown no pause or shyness in extolling my extra special hatred for April over the years, despite my love for "springing" away from winter - but therein is the problem. Seldom does this geography experience that kind of transition. I am definitely done with winter ( usually...) by February 15th every year, so let's big brother seasonal change while mother nature's not looking! Anyway, looking forward at guidance for the next ...actually out to the end of the 360s, if that really characterizes our verification we will likely be back in that cold bias region..

To state it better - The above chart Charlie highlights shows that NCEI has met their objective of taking out actual raw station data to alter the data to hide the cyclical pattern in the raw data. Of course, if you leave in all the station changes you won't match the revised/altered NCEI or any other "scientific" analysis. The above thread and data produced by chescowx consistently uses certified NWS actual data and ensures it is not influenced by bad analysis or exhibits any of the clear confirmation bias that underscores the altered data often used to support climate alarmism.

People forget that spring sucks here. Always has and always will. Anything before Memorial Day is a crap shoot. We’ve had shitty Junes before where we couldn’t hit 80.