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I wanted to see if there were budget cuts to Mt. Holly that would make any difference to these warnings or forecasts, and when I googled it, the third result was from this weather forum in 2012 lol. The third result was from last year. The first result was from a month ago. It seems budget cuts or lack of proper funding and the NWS seem to have a long standing tradition spanning all types of administrations.

Growth rings usually get thinner as the tree gets bigger, in part because adding diameter on big trees adds more basal area than the same diameter growth on smaller trees. Forest researchers I respect have stated that some white ash can tolerate EAB and the western blue ash has even more tolerance, but green and black ("brown" in Maine) apparently have almost no tolerance.

May's Cansip link for December. Though not a Niño, I wouldn’t mind this forecast being correct with warmest anomalies in the western Pacific. Cansips does continue to warm central and eastern areas after December, a bit odd. https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/models/?model=cansips&region=global&pkg=ssta_noice&runtime=2025050100&fh=7 P.s. Cansip NA forecast temps for the winter look very similar to its forecast for last winter with BN temps to the north. Here's a link to December you can scroll forward. It did pretty well last year with the colder temps, but who knows. https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/models/?model=cansips&region=us&pkg=T2ma&runtime=2025050100&fh=7

For Central Park. And zero for the rest of the city lol

Looks like April was the 2nd warmest on record. https://bsky.app/profile/climatecasino.net The global temperature anomaly for April, 2025, came in at 1.51°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline, making April, 2025 the second hottest on record since 1940, behind only 2024 (1.58°C). The year-to-date anomaly is currently at 1.61°C above pre-industrial

An additional. 11 so far with this batch

Extremely foggy morning and a very cool morning with a low of 42 degrees. This upcoming week looks picture perfect for early May.

.13” overnight with light rain this morning.

Like sand in the hour glass… When I went to bed at midnight, the radar looked pretty good so I was a little disappointed to see that I didn’t pick up more overnight. Then I looked at this morning’s radar and I’m right back to happy. .77” so far.

Looks like the longer term dry pattern will remain in effect since last fall especially in SE PA into parts of NJ. Models focusing heaviest rains to the north and east of those driest spots that are down 10 inches of rain. Dry pattern quickly returns after this cutoff pushes to the east of our area.

.39 inches so far for the weekend. I'll take that as a win. Even saw the sun today when it first came up.

Begging worked. Since midnight, I recorded 0.90"

Science China Earth sciences. Those the same guys that make the tools at harbor freight?

1.4" event total so far.

You did well keeping it going that long. Not many of the big ones left. The last of mine succumbed this year. Judging from the trunk that was healthier than most.

Not a drop on the south shore of the island. But such is to be expected for those in the know. Hoping we finally get some strataform rains and some elevated convection later today.

Storms on upper Eastern shore moving this way. Meanwhile, the Philly Broad Street run starts soon.

.68 overnight.

Yeah. I think we talked about it before but my wife and I also thought the insecticide long term wasn't a good plan as Imodclprod is terrible for pollentors. I could see all the dead green EAB adults all over my driveway and it was killing a ton of other probably beneficial insects. I could actually gauge how bad the infestation was over the years based on how many dead adults I saw. Early on my driveway was littered with them but only saw a few dead ones the last few years. Every Ash has been dead for around 10 years here.

Maybe it has something to do with the soil drench stunting the growth.

0.38” overnight all the heavy rain was north and west radar looks promising for a lot of us this morning

Had another 0.3”ish overnight. Next batch on the way.

0.00 Another boring non event. I'm so ready to experience weather besides wind and heat.

An interesting paper on the distribution of ocean warming. Particularly relevant to those living near 40N The world's oceans are heating faster in two bands stretching around the globe, one in the southern hemisphere and one in the north, according to new research led by climate scientist Dr Kevin Trenberth. In both hemispheres, the areas are near 40 degrees latitude. The first band at 40 to 45 degrees south is heating at the world's fastest pace, with the effect especially pronounced around New Zealand, Tasmania, and Atlantic waters east of Argentina.The second band is around 40 degrees north, with the biggest effects in waters east of the United States in the North Atlantic and east of Japan in the North Pacific. "This is very striking," says Trenberth,of the University of Auckland and the National Center of Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. "It's unusual to discover such a distinctive pattern jumping out from climate data," he says. The heat bands have developed since 2005 in tandem with poleward shifts in the jet stream, the powerful winds above the Earth's surface that blow from west to east, and corresponding shifts in ocean currents, according to Trenberth and his co-authors in the Journal of Climate. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/05/250501122720.htm https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/clim/38/9/JCLI-D-24-0609.1.xml

It's interesting that you can see from the rings even with treatment the tree pretty much stopped growing around the same time EAB hit.