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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.

Wow, that's a sick 4 season pad. Congrats, and to think Bennington was mentioned as an option... Nice choice

Sorry to intrude in your forum, but your right, it is chickweed from the looks of it. I dealt with it alot when I lived in SEPA. You have to use a product with a specific active ingredient to take care of it--triclopyr. Ortho has this product that contains it that I linked below. The general Weed B Gon products that you use for dandelions, etc will not take this out, they may stunt them, but not kill them. Also regarding your granular pre-emegent--- chickweed germinates in late summer/fall and then sits dormant all winter and then explodes in spring--so the pre-emergent wont have any effect on chickweed. It will be good for all the spring germinating weeds though. You would need to do late summer pre-emergent also if you wanted to target chickweed (and other fall germinating weeds). Hope that helps a bit. https://www.homedepot.com/p/Ortho-Weed-B-Gon-16-oz-Chickweed-Clover-Oxalis-Killer-for-Lawns-Concentrate-0396410/203686814

Not bad..

I would triple confirm what Will and PF said. 1500+ is where you need to be in SVT. Whenever I drive from my place to Stratton, snow pack drops somewhat quick from say 1700-1800ft down into Bondville at 1250ft (the town at Stratton's entrance).

Oh yea, even in the little village of Jamaica at 750' the retention is outrageously better than Bennington, Brattleboro or even here in Manchester at similar elevation.

Just going to have to watch it going into summer, especially if its DIT special with HHH throughout. I think you mentioned being on a well, so need to watch running that dry--you most likely will need to water through summer. Fall seeding is definitely a better option if you can wait, but just make sure to not let the seed dry out if your seeding now or in fall--constantly moist.