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Happy Opening day to any and all baseball fans. I have tickets for exactly 35 games so far between Baltimore, Philly, Pittsburgh, Detroit and Chicago. Gotta get my fix in now with the lockout looming...

Such is April. Never expect nice Spring weather until May.

Something else that hasn't happened much at all recently...the rainfall amounts for tonight have actually trended upwards over the past 24-48 hours.

The only spring 3 weeks ahead in our nearly 28 years here was 2010 (had our mildest Feb, March and April), and it came to a crashing halt when May 11-13 had minima of 23/26/25. Disastah!

Ya…I have no idea where he’s seeing that? It all depends on what the weather does coming up in April..if we get some nice sunny and mild weather it’ll bring em out sooner. But if it goes to crap and grey and cold…it’s no green up or leafing until later.

You know I wonder if there's like a "green up line" I think there's something like that with trees. I could swear I've seen it, the leaf out line or something. But not sure that's the same. That pithier verdancy of spring where the fields are delicious with it like a 5-star eatery's salad .. I mean there comes a time every spring whence that is noticeable and it's not the same as a couple of fluke early warm days driving a greener patch here and there. Talkin' full commitment, and it does tend to flash over the landscape across an instra-weekly time scale - days in other words. Not sure when the first (average) time that is - I suspect that season's climate bias plays a role. It's nostalgic. I've seen pre leaf out budded trees, with perhaps Norway maple flowers - that's one of the best spring aromas there is outside of Lilacs. That green complexion in the field, festooned with yellow dots from dandy lion, comes on prior to the trees. Spring fever afternoon if it's 72. Four days later there's leafs cracking out

Cherry picking always gives the desired answer.....

So far this year we're running just over 60% of average. I'll believe that 'ton' if it arrives. (Would welcome it, too.)

Grass is greening up here nicely.

Ill look up the Denver one because for some reason it didn't look to be listed from the link.

I know I've said it before but I'll say it again, really good work on these, much appreciated.

To those that celebrate....welcome to Phillies Opening Day!! Go Phillies! It will be a beautiful spring day today with highs reaching the 70's. Shower chances increase tonight into tomorrow morning. Much colder tomorrow with temperatures falling during the day and falling below freezing tomorrow night. Saturday will be the coldest day of the weekend with highs barely escaping the 30's. We moderate back to near normal temperatures by Sunday. Go Phillies!!

To those that celebrate....welcome to Phillies Opening Day!! Go Phillies! It will be a beautiful spring day today with highs reaching the 70's. Shower chances increase tonight into tomorrow morning. Much colder tomorrow with temperatures falling during the day and falling below freezing tomorrow night. Saturday will be the coldest day of the weekend with highs barely escaping the 30's. We moderate back to near normal temperatures by Sunday. Go Phillies!!

My mother in law adopted two cats when she was 80, they were adult cats so she's still around at 96 and the cats are gone. I was worried we'd get stuck with them if anything happened, dodged a bullet.

The majority of the historic storms have been updated with these new maps https://www.jdjweatherconsulting.com/historic-storms

From an independant casual reader and practical perspective-Agree 100%. Not enough widespread interest in this forum to be very meaningful. Can read like a bit of an echo chamber with the daily updates of rote tables about specific small locations, as example. I get the desire for independence- but would be better to be part of a meaningful mix than an empty room. Sometimes "1 + 1 = 3". Opinion respectfully submitted.

With this dead March we've been having i had some time to work on the website and archive. I've updated about 70% of the historic snowstorms section and added new Lower Northeast view maps for those. I also created a new page for L. Northeast that will have all the events in that wide view. 2026 is up and 94-25 will be updated throughout the year. There's also a filter for contours only, all historic storms and storms >30" Website updates https://www.jdjweatherconsulting.com/historic-storms The 4 major storms of the 14-15 season

Yeah I like that, "...need the freeze risk behind us" I've used that in the past internal monologues while suffering yester-year doinks by the NE shit show spring climate. Don't be fooled by that random 75er like 10 days ago... they're only occuring along the space time continuum to prove there is a god, and he/she ( probably Lucy) is complete asshole.

I look forward to the strong+ Nino and +PDO to help flush out this hangover breathe of a -PDO regime. Not that a -PDO is bad….. but time for something different.

Took a ride yesterday evening through the Pine Barrens. Rolled up on an active prescribed fire area. There was a recently cut fire break, so I decided to get out and follow it to an orange glow in the distance. I made it to the active burning area. The sounds- the roar of the flames and the endless snaps, pops, and crackles were incredible (and I'd be scared shitless if it were an actual wildfire). It's really cool seeing how fire creates its own microclimate. Wind was otherwise calm around 7 PM but within about a 50 yard radius, the wind was significant stronger, hotter (obviously) and progressed the fire quickly (moving at about 50 feet per minute)

The colors and shades are the same here Tip. We need the freezing risk behind us. Our climo is really that doesn’t happen until end of April in seacoast NH. Once that last freeze is behind us, the green up is like a light switch though. I expect, this time, to coincide with the beginning of April.

GFS and EURO both very wet for the eastern US

I dunno about early spring around here anyway... Not speaking for back-town states everywhere, but this part of N-central MA still looks like the Middle East (forced) conflict musta went ahead and dominoed the world into a nuclear exchange. Lawns and fields are death-vomit beige. Not even the forsythia buds are swelling. nothing - It does however hurt your hands to hold onto cold steering wheels on the way to work - so ...I dunno, is that an early spring? It may look early by some scalar recognition/in isolation over who-knows-what one is using, like a few verified daily highs/low temperatures? not good enough. If so, that utterly fails in relativity to every other metric that really matters in making the distinction in a fair and objective way. Fwiw - April 1st. It's been that way in the guidance for over 10 days worth of aggregate head bang to wall persistence. The thickness tapestry alleviates "blue"/sub 540s by a bigger percentage than has been the case yet this early transition season, thus far. That combined with post March 21 and a back ground CC aspect ( that has for some reason been hell bent on being fudge packed into the SW so hard and violating that one else has a fuckin clue we are still a part of ...) may have a chance to start busting machine guidance too cold with milder times and pushing real green up. But Scott's right ... there's a probably at least a transient warm afternoon or two prior to that in the the meantime. Those are like bleeds through the dam bulge out ahead of time, hints that trigger the old timer to toke his pipe while squinting, "I reckin the change she's a-comin"

Yes. When you have a vegetable garden you remember this stuff pretty damn well. We’ve been having last freezes consistently in 2nd half of April. 20th ish…

Solidly AN month so far.