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Some decent TL, torrential quick downpour, picked up about .50" in under 10 mins a little earlier.

Dropped some fert over my acre+ of lawn this evening. Solid drink as a cell just moved through to water in. We take.

Looks good. Surprised that fescue patch has survived and looks that good in what looks like deep deep shade.

Awsome day in Daks for some beachin' and swimming. Temps guessing near 90F, dews feel pretty comfortable though.

Weather has been great, but 10 straight days of sun and no rain means my lawn is starting brown a bit in spots. 86-87F today and another wall to wall sunny day and a few more torch days to come still. I would guess by Friday lawn will be worse its looked since I moved to VT. Dont recall an almost 2 straight weeks with no rain here.

Headed over to the Daks today to work on the building the deck on the family lake house..absolutley glorious out and almost no bugs working near waters edge.

TOR warning..heading to basement

Like Coastal mentioned, looks like they lucked out getting the deform with upslope combo. But your right, most "normal" synoptic snow events with E/Se flow Bennington VT over into Cambrige NY struggle and normally end up with lower totals. But they do sneak in some good events with blocked flow upslope. In that big NOV 2016 upslope event Shaftsbury VT had 16-20" IIRC, I had I think 8"-9"

Damn--crushed 12" in ENY. I think ALY had 1-2" forecast there. Getting a foot when NWS call is for 1-2"--epic positive bust

Sun peeked out just long enough to squeeze in some nice shots, some squalls going through now.

4.1" total here, bottom couple inches pretty wet with some drier May fluff on top from this mornings upslope.

That area can do OK at times with NW wind as the Taconics are right to their east, but that is a big precip discrepancy in all directions. But there are 4 separate reports of 8-9" in that area, so its legit.

Yep, check out weathernet, 2 more reports of 8+ in Washington county NY

Whoa, about 15 miles southeast of here in West Arlington VT reported almost 9". That's not some weenie elevation spot near Mitch, maybe like 300-500ft and they are always near the bottom of snow totals in SVT--impressive. Most have been some type of nice banding at some point over night.

Probably close to Mod SN here now. May accum in the books with .4" on the board.

34.7F mostly snow now. Interesting that east of the spine at 2k still at 38F..waiting on cold air to ooze in I guess.

Looks like it snowed overnight for 3-4 hours looking back at my cam and maybe 1/2 inch accum here at 1100ft, but temps were 34ish and it was pretty much gone when I woke up. Did a quick drive and any meaningful accumulation started around 1500ft and looked to be 4-6" around 2200-2300ft.

37.6F here. Rain with some occasional pellets mixed in at times. What a spring, what an April, hideous.

For you guys in SE MA I would check out this place. I'm not sure if they sell it in stores, but pretty sure you can buy it direct from them and pick it up in Quincy. $3.50 a bag and pretty similar to what Milorganite is. http://www.baystatefertilizer.com/

I've used it a good amount over the years, good thing is you can apply at any time of year, even mid summer which you wouldn't want to do with synthetic fert. Its a little cost prohibitive for me now with 1.5 acres of grass but if I had a smaller yard I would definitely look at as an option. Has some iron in there too to help with darkening and better grass color.

Only .7" here. Just never got the rates on the northern fringe. Even at 1800ft nearby only had 1". Looks like a little more to the south near Mitch/Woodford.

About 3" of fluff here. Now time for some sun to melt it.

I personally would hold off on the fert if you are overseeding into an established lawn, the fert will jump start the existing grass and thicken it and make it grow more quickly out competing the young grass seedling for sunlight, moisture etc. It will also make you mow more often and greater likelyhood to trample young seedlings. Would wait a couple weeks until the new grass seed emerges and is 1 or 2 inches maybe. Grass seed doesn't need any fert to grow initially, but obviously its helpful once its tillering and getting a larger root system established.

Did a little haircut today of front lawn, not much came off, but wanted to fire up tractor. Timely fall fert app helping with green up. Shady side of lawn still waking up a bit slower.

It can rip here with SE winds and potent LLJ, but today has been calm most of the day, maybe 10-15mph tops since it's more southerly. Maybe that cluster in ENY will bring something.