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Turned into a gorgeous day. The haze has really thinned out this afternoon. Summer is the goat.

We had this big complex of rain hit us last night. We waited 6 hours for it. When it finally got to us in Austin it stalled about 40 miles off to our west and swirled. We got about a third of an inch then the damn thing just kind of dissolved, as in it turned to clear skies, then part of what remained slammed into Dallas for the 3rd night in a row, then East Texas got waterboarded all morning into this afternoon. Talk about Cursed! Flood watch is in effect 3 miles to my north. Damn. Lucy resides in Hays County TX and she loves to pull that rainy football right out from beneath me, EVERY TIME! I'd pay exorbitant taxes for more rain.

Tomorrow will be the warmest day of the week with the mercury rising into the upper 80s across much of the region. The warmest spots will likely reach or exceed 90°. Friday will see temperatures top out near 80°, but it will turn cooler for the weekend. Shower and periods of rain are also likely during the weekend, especially Saturday afternoon and Sunday. Sunday will likely be particularly cool with the high temperature struggling to reach 70° in New York City and many areas around the City staying in the upper 60s. Rainfall amounts will generally be light with most of the region seeing 0.25"-0.50" of rain. No exceptional heat appears likely through the first three weeks of June. The ENSO Region 1+2 anomaly was +0.4°C and the Region 3.4 anomaly was 0.0°C for the week centered around June 4. For the past six weeks, the ENSO Region 1+2 anomaly has averaged +0.23°C and the ENSO Region 3.4 anomaly has averaged -0.07°C. Neutral ENSO conditions will likely continue through at least mid summer. The SOI was -7.59 yesterday. The preliminary Arctic Oscillation (AO) was +0.658 today. Based on sensitivity analysis applied to the latest guidance, there is an implied 59% probability that New York City will have a warmer than normal June (1991-2020 normal). June will likely finish with a mean temperature near 73.0° (1.0° above normal).

lol, me too. Wife still too scared to try it. I keep telling her you'll never use TP again other than for the quick 'dab' at the end.

Bidet. Always. I've even got one in my RV.

and what a supercell there in Idaho

Looks EMLish

Second 90F reading of the short season to date at O'Hare Airport in Chicago.

That car looks worse than one from which Customs dismantled to find all of the 100kg of meth.

I'm sure kevin could provide some TP for you

Could be two sides of the same coin. As always …

CPC is leaning warm but also leaning AN precip. That particular combo usually means warm nights but day time temps in control due to rain/storms.

It depends on the bug. Lanterflies have been found to not do the damage they were feared to cause. Thank goodness. The Asian Longhorned Beetle was bad though. It would kill the tree. But because it's easy to spot and doesn't move as swiftly they actually did a good job of keeping it under control.

So bucolic I could just shit.

If the damage is too far gone there's nothing you can do. A couple years ago the city came around and put a green dot on all the Ash trees and then injected insecticide. What's annoying is that these little beasts move fast to damage a tree. They did this last year too. I think you can only slow/possibly halt the damage if you consistently inject insecticide but otherwise you can't do anything else.

Well this weekend's washout looks like more scatter showers as of now.

You really can't. too widespread at this point. I laugh when people say to kill any spotted lanternfly you see-that's like trying to hold back the tide with a broom. Years ago they sprayed malathion to combat west nile disease in mosquitoes-it possibly led to a large die off of lobsters in LI sound. Not worth it in the end.

I saw lots of white oak along Nicolls road (CR-97) refoliating this week after being completely eaten bare by gypsy moth caterpillars

How do you kill these insects? Is there a way of eliminating them so you don't have to cut down these trees?

and most of the trees are male so it causes loads of problems with allergies

monotype culture, it's the problem with our food supply and farming system too. We're going to face a real crisis in a few decades when our food supply starts to run out. One single plant disease could do it.

Allot are invasives. Like Norway crap maple, black locust and tree of heaven. Doesn’t make for a productive ecosystem because our animals and insects aren’t adapted for them. And tree of heaven for example is the host of spotted lantern fly. They should all be removed where ever possible so the few native species still going strong can take over. Very dependent on location which trees. Here on the island it’s oak, hickory, red maple, tulip, sweet gum, sassafras, and black gum to name a few of the most prominent and least blight/disease prone.

Also lots of Sweet Gums in my area

Seriously though I'm a huge tree lover and all this crap we've had to deal with is very depressing. I've mentioned before I had to cut down a huge 60 year old Ash 3 years ago from my backyard that made great shade and amazing fall color because of the Emerald Ash Borer Literally all of it is a product of globalization correct? I think all the pests/diseases are all imports?