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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.

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.

.48” here in E CT since Thursday, looks like most rain today north and west of the river.

The one time he breaks from he gets

For you tree guys. @kdxken @tamarack Been keeping this monster green Ash alive with a soil drench of Imodclprod since EAB first hit in 2012. Had to take it down as we are getting a new driveway/drainage and the roots were so shallow. My wife and I counted the rings and got around 130 years old. Was almost 4 feet across the base.

I don't even bother with seed. It's expensive but I just buy a strip of sod at my local garden center from Kingston Turf in RI. Just keep it watered and you get beautiful KBG with zero weeds as they are chocked out. https://www.kingstonturf.com/

.47 overnight for a total of 1.22 so far. That's a nice batch gathering to my south let's see if it stays enough west to add to my totals.

Larry, I was down here, and mile or two from Shack, but oddly the event doesn't stick in my mind. Maybe I was out of town? Thanks for the warm fuzzies I do love to write. As for the airport, I am aware that a central spot that can keep detailed records is necessary, and back in the old days the airport was not the swirling unreality of jet wash, and aberrant heat. Prop planes probably didn't effect the climate like jets do. And, to be fair, it's pilots that needed the up to date findings minute by minute. My sole access to decent weather reporting at one time was PBS at 7am giving pilots the latest updates on what was happening coming into and leaving the airport. Particularly interesting were reports from planes as to what altitude they were encountering snow, or sleet. So, yeah, while I wish there were scattered reporting stations that would give a local specific, and not general, look at weather around the largest sprawling settlement in human history, I'm not sure the money would be there to man stations, record readings, correlate findings, and store the records. Oddly most citizens are not concerned about the weather on a micro level anyway, lol, unless it's something that will be more than hot or cold, wet or frozen, placid or dangerous. And even then it's way too general. A good example was tonight about a quarter to nine when the weather radio and my phone buzzed with an alert for a tornado. Run, hide, seek shelter, flee, flee, cover your head. I was calm, because I realize the hysteria that is what general reporting goes with...and it would be way way too general....and the siren hadn't gone off.... and I pulled up several radar sites and noted the storm in question was going north of me, and probably by a good bit. And that's the rub, with too general reporting. If a big wind blows a shingle off an outhouse roof 100 miles from here, these days it's reported to everyone hysterically. No specificity....is it radar indicated, or on the ground? Where is it, like what town? What roads? None of that. If was just warning, get in the basement, the sky is falling. I stream tv so don't get local weather with the street by street reporting. An aside about the airport, and it's questionable environment for weather reporting, when I was repainting a sign for Hertz in the 90's, I had to remove the metal sign from a building in the parking lot, and bring it home to work on, and was stunned to discover that is was deeply coated with jet fuel residue, basically diesel fuel, kerosene, naptha. That let me know that the whole airport area is awash in droplets of various unburned fuels from the planes coming and going. And does the reporting of the weather and climo coming from the airport take the nature of the air quality over that space into account? Droplets of diesel fuel, acre after acre of concrete, jet wash...it's all got to affect what happens in the climate over the airport. I just think we could do much better, if it mattered to enough people.

Beer?

It’s a gustnado. Meh.

This is truth. I had my daughter’s senior meal at church tonight. I dressed in my winter long sleeve. Tomorrow morning senior day at church is going to be chilly. Still better than hot. Had to turn on the heat in the truck on the way home. Then turned on the heat in the house.

Finished Saturday with 1.01" of rain.

Starter fertilizer

Observed is probably the wrong word. I would imagine models fill in the gaps of observations or Vice versa.

First time trying to grow grass. The rain and garden hose are getting the job done. Tomorrow’s rain will be welcome. Look at these little babies.

Looks like the activity is coming to an end for sw Lehigh County this evening - 0.60” today and 0.73” for the weekend thus far. Wish I had a little bit more rain tonight but really happy with the lightning show. There are definitely more opportunities coming in the next couple days.

Dang, radar is looking legit again.

0.00" towards drought busting. I thought I felt a rain drop earlier... turns out it was bird poop.

almost a inch of rain for nyc.