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Quite a bit of lightning and thunder here. Sent from my Pixel 10 Pro using Tapatalk

Well, this looks all too familiar.....WB 18Z EURO AI total 15 day precipitation.

I'm getting a nice shower this evening. Grateful for the rain!

Ha, I get 2 minutes of peas yesterday and I’m super excited. Denver is like, hold my beer.

Invasives are a zero sum game. Blackberries take over a native meadow, multiflora rose takes over blackberry, porcelain berry takes over the multiflora rose. I do get a bit of satisfaction seeing anything take over multiflora rose. But In the end you lose.

I think it's been pretty established by now that the summer will be back-ended and July and August should be warmer. Still beats 50s and 60s. Also looks like a potentially tropical system will be in the area on Monday. If it stays to the south, it may get warmer just by virtue of the sun being closer.

Yes, started July 1, 1973

That's going to leave a mark.

It doesn't like shade, which is good. The 2 neighbors have it but we have about 100' of kinda swampish woods that keeps it away I think....for now.

The new thing is to lay 1/2” hardware cloth over the area and let it grow through it. It keeps girdling itself as it grows. Not sure that would eradicate it with time though as it doesn’t need much photosynthesis to refuel the rhizomes.

naw looks like a average Summer at best.. after your 2 to 3 day 80 degree heatwave we cool off..

This is a strong Polar Vortex over the Arctic circle for the next 13 days! Since 2012, May-Aug SLP anomaly 60-90N has flipped in the Winter every time. That's a Winter -AO signal (but it's still early)!

The cool is over. Summer is here. You’ll disappear until September shortly

Next 10 days look dry east of the Apps especially on most guidance but it could pick up after then

there's no big warmth coming if 2 days of 80s is big warmth in June then I don't know what to tell you..

I think in 1896 they were placing the thermometers too close to the roads and would give false warm readings from horses walking by and farting. The climate records are all ruined!!!

They had 50’s. The point is you take the model output and change it based on what should happen. Like when they had 50’s last week.. you knew that was wrong looking at the pattern and ensembles and could see big warmth was coming . It’s not just taking an op run temps and thinking that’s what the outcome will be . Or for one poster who uses an app for his forecasts and thinks it’s correct

We used to have people cutting it and ripping it out of the ground each summer along the river but it was a losing battle. Now it’s just taken over all across the banks for like 5 miles.

Is this a cruel joke?

well this is pretty interesting.. hopefully we can actually get a skillful model https://windbornesystems.com/blog/wm-6-case-study

sun feels dimmer when it’s not diffusing through layers of haze

I needed to hit it last year when it first germinated…may alert the town. They make a halfhearted effort every summer to nuke it only for it to grow right back before fall.

Good luck but you won't win. Thankfully that's one of the few invasives I don't have. Not that it matters the others are doing just fine.

Invasives, scourge of the earth. Especially around wetlands.

It’s pretty bad here too. There’s a big patch of it down the road along a stream that feeds into the Winni River. Last year a patch sprouted up roadside halfway up my hill and I’m tempted to roundup that shit myself before it starts spreading.