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Very sloppy. Disappointing effort.

Not much to track in the LR thread. Lots of sunny and cold followed by sunny and quite mild by mid next week. Zero complaints.

This weekend will be perfect for getting some pre-Spring yard work done. Clean up the leaves that blew back into the yard, and put some new mulch down. Maybe some Preen. No sweat, no bugs.

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My dad had solar installed 6 or so years ago, and also has a geothermal heat pump. He has 20 acres so his solar panels are in a field next to the house. He tracks everything and showed me the numbers on a spread sheet. I am totally jealous. All I have is a standard heat pump(and a wood burning insert). If it wasn't completely wooded here, I would have solar.

No sign of precip for at least another week. Mostly sunny every day. Glorious. Next chance of rain looks to be late next week with a low tracking well NW and a front moving through.

I think you meant to say Nino here. I don't think we have enough of a sample size to say changes in Ocean temps/Pac jet has completely overwhelmed the characteristic impacts ENSO state has on our weather patterns. That is arguable at this juncture. 2015-2016 isn't that long ago and the outcome of that winter was very much on par with a strong Nino- warm overall but one 2-week colder period with some blocking produced a KU. The results of winter of 2017-18 was in alignment with the character of a Nina for the MA. The last few years the 'expected' ENSO-atmospheric coupling has been muted/overwhelmed by other factors like the MJO. One of those years, 2018-19 I think, the Nino got going late and ended up being diffuse/undefined, and the atmospheric response was minimal. This sort of result may or may not be an indication of things to come. We cant know yet.

Ofc he is.

Drinking a TripleBerry Hazelnut stout as I scrolled down and saw that pot of chili. I could defo go for a bowl right now lol.

St Patty's day gradient pattern.

I will await Psu's obligatory dissertation style reply explaining how ENSO state really doesn't have much influence on our weather outcomes anymore.

This is how we waste good NA setups in a Nina. This really had no shot with the ridge axis practically right on top. Hostile PAC with a super -PNA is a wrecking ball here.

Growing on ya? I just couldn't lol. The hickory smoked bacon smell/taste was just too much.

I found out pretty quickly when you travel and the menu has "Maryland style" crab cakes or crab soup, or anything, avoid it like the (pandemic).

Only red wine I would drink in my 20s was Manischewitz lmao. Basically welches grape juice, but with alcohol. Suffice to say I have come a long way, as I really like dry reds now, and don't like more than a slight hint of sweetness even in a white.

Looking good. For N NH. Not. Poor Phin.

1.8" total for this protracted rainy period since Friday night. Looks dry for the next 7 days at least. Love it.

RG3 is available.

Are they still huge? I thought they had changed ownership or something. I remember the place was always crowded, and standing in line to get them years ago.

I really only drank beer(crap beer in those days) until I was probably 20, and not that much really. Around then I tried some sort of nasty mixed drink at a party. Never liked wine until years later, and as for hard stuff, even now I only occasionally drink vodka and bourbon. Over the last 10 years or so I have gotten into craft beers and wine, mostly reds. I really love the high gravity beers now- bang for the buck. I have smoked pot on and off since I was a teenager, but much less since those early days. I really don't like smoking anything now honestly. I could get into the edibles, but that would probably be in direct conflict with my healthy eating habits lol.

I recall those being very good, and big. But then I went there a few years ago and they seemed to have some breading/filler. Best crab cakes I get now are over here in Centreville. I buy them "uncooked" and ready to heat in the oven. Put a slab of butter on top and bake at 425 for 20 mins. All lump, and no filler. Outstanding.

First alcoholic drink(other than some sips here and there)- I chugged an ice cold Budweiser from the mini fridge in the finished basement bar after being outside playing football, and was sweaty and thirsty. I was 13. I felt naughty for like 5 seconds. It hit the spot.

Still some rain falling this morning. Over 1.5" since Friday night. So looking forward to a week of dryness. Looks like a decent period of wind for later today through tomorrow too. Bring it.

0z EPS at least keeps the idea of precip in the realm of possibility. GEFS is so far south it fringes the gulf coast and misses Bermuda.

I taught a digital electronics course years ago and this would have probably been too simple for a fundamental assignment. http://www-classes.usc.edu/engr/ee-s/477p/s00/pong.html