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Decent amount of rain fell overnight. Total since Thursday is 0.92". I'll take a short walk later and see how the wetland is looking.

Pretty steady rain falling once again the last hour or so. Up to 0.60" since yesterday morning.

0.48" of rain since yesterday morning. Most in quite a while. Cooler day with temp around 47.

73 here. High for the day. Feels a tad humid. There was a big lightning strike in the town of Ridgely this morning apparently. Stopped at the local hardware store on my way home and they were only taking cash/checks because it knocked out Comcast service. They said it was like a bomb went off. I was in Easton and only heard some rumbles in the distance.

I deactivated my WB account a week ago. I'll reactivate it for Dec to track our initial snow threats with a CP based Nino established.

The probability maps have looked just like that all winter. Now it's Spring. Why bother lol.

low of 22 here.

It is pretty clear where my mosquitoes come from lol. Hoping it stays as is, but as usual I have my knee boots ready, and 5 pounds of this- https://www.domyown.com/altosid-prog-mosquito-larvicide-p-243.html

Down to 39 here after hitting 40 last hour. Cold, dry air mass. Mild and (maybe)wet coming in a few days.

I have plenty of firewood left for next winter.

Any good thunderstorms showing up? Another high probability fail for this region. Heat and wind we do!

From Mount Holly morning AFD- FIRE WEATHER... A dry cold front has passed through overnight. Humidity only recovered to around 40 to 50 percent overnight, and is already decreasing early this morning from the Delaware River northwestward. Colder and drier air will spread into the region today, with high temperatures in the upper 30s to mid 40s, and surface dew points dropping well into the single digits. West- northwest winds will be sustained 15 to 20 mph with 25 to 30 mph gusts much of today. Min RH values this afternoon will range from 20 to 25 percent. Additionally, 10-hour fuel moisture at most area RAWS were in the 7 to 9 percent range Saturday evening, with little recovery overnight, and may tend slightly drier this afternoon. After coordination with fire weather partners on Saturday, a Red Flag Warning has been issued for our New Jersey zones, while a Special Weather Statement is in effect for our Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware zones for Sunday.

Here are a couple shots of the seasonal woodland wetland on the back of my property. This whole area is normally under a foot or so of water by mid February, as the water table breaks the surface. As of now just one small puddle, and most of the area isn't even muddy. I ordered 100 bucks of larvicide as usual, as one or 2 soaking rains over the next couple weeks will get it going. It normally dries up by late Spring with warmer/longer days and increase in evapotranspiration.

Is anyone actually still tracking snow? We can't even get a rain storm lately. My seasonal wetland/mosquito breeding ground is barely damp, so I am ok with dry this time of year. I was just outside watering some of the newer trees/plants I put in during early Fall though. That 0.01" of rain last night didn't do much.

Exactly. Emotional expectations based on a specific desired outcome by a weenie attempting to interpret a D10 mean aren't really relevant.

Was there really a consensus for the ice age idea among the scientific community back then? Or was it mostly speculative? That's a good exercise right there.

Friday HH on St Patty's day. I'm more green than usual. And no, fuck green beer. That's not the green I mean. Be careful out there.

Yeah it's kind of a waste of time to draw conclusions from scientific data. Truthiness is always better.

I love this place. Even more when it never snows.

The snowy periods are less snowy, and the non-snowy periods are more snowy. Not sure how we can move on from this one.

A bit more variable here. Last year was incredible compared to this lol. Jan 17 and 18 were also pretty darn good- more so to my east. Beginning to think I need to root for cross polar flow/Arctic cold w/progressive pattern, as long as the western Atlantic is on fire at least. Seems to produce the most snow here in recent winters, but sucks pretty bad for inland areas.

We need our very own ENSO thread to track all that truly matters, until ultimate failure this time next year(following a long period of high expectations). A subtitle something like 'the new hope', or 'we are still so royally fucked' would be cool.

@vastateofmind Drinking one of these from RAR. Pretty darn good!

I think I had 12" here for 2020-21. Not too far from median. Some of it was sleet during the Feb period. Had some ice too. The winter before was a disaster. An inch or so total.

Wave 8? Might be the one.