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Wasn't that long ago when forests were rare in Eastern Massachusetts. Attached is a picture of the old farmhouse probably taken around 1900. If you look over the shed on the right hand side you'll see what looks like a mountain. It's the biggest hill in Sherborn at about 440 ft. You would never notice it from any spot in town. Too many trees.

Snow mixing in with rain at 6300 feet.

Actually I see it as the opposite. There were a few very disappointed with how last winter turned out cold/wintry. Didn't sit well with them at all so with a big nino coming and better odds for a milder winter, the excitement cant be contained. We will still get winter regardless, but if you want the mild strong el nino pattern, you can say goodbye to any winter sun. No winters are grayer in the already gray Great Lakes than mild nino ones.

Farming became unprofitable. England never got there their forests back.

We’re close to 90 today, can’t see the in between, so not sure, but getting 89-Ed is at least secured.

And cows. A lot of those walls were used as fencing since wood was scarce and expensive. Interestingly enough you can tell if a farm was used for planting or grazing by the size of the rocks. If you see many small rocks contained in the wall It was most likely tilled.

Won't be today, lol. 88.3/61.1 at 5 pm, and the high was 89.0.

Made it up to 90 today

Glad we don't live there.

Couple pictures from our spring sojourn up north this past weekend.

95 in Maytown. Wayyyy too hot.

Dew-point is 67 here, starting to ramp up now. Getting ready for tomorrow’s big heat.

Well there’s alot more than there was before …so that’s the point. Plenty of forest out there.

Nice storm cluster to my west might end up north of here

Estes Park RMNP web cams shows 5 to maybe more inches at RMNP Fall River Road. Pine trees look like they have 8"

Hey you guys ever try some Ghost Pepper sauce? Or Reaper Pepper hot sauce? Excellent flavor, but that son of a birtch is so HOT! Those pepper sauces impart scoville heat units around a million units. They are hot as lava! Sweet green peppers are for p-u-s-s-i-e-s. Down here in South Texas we like our peppers super hot! That Ghost pepper sauce damn near killed me! I am glad all I did was put some on my tounge! I lost a bet had to do it. Man that shit is so damned hot! Stay the hell away from Blazing hot type wings or super hot chicken sandwiches, you WILL REGRET it.

Currently 90. Looks like 92 was the high. Very Summery with the mid 60s dp.

LMAO at how fast we flip from chilly, windy evenings to 100F on my car thermometer on the way to DCA. Like 48hrs.

94.6F today. No, thanks.

Up to 94 here in the woods.

Oddly enough, 1991 was a pre-nino May (although there would be the major volcano the following month that made sure the nino event behaved weirdly).

MSP picked up 1.15” of very much needed precipitation yesterday. 2026 total stands at 7.88” Thats 14.6% of our year to date precipitation.

I didn’t realize until recently how much of an effect Merino sheep had on our landscape. Most of those walls I guess were from sheep fever in the 1800s. I had always thought they were from “normal” farms

88 yesterday and 87 today here.