Eskimo Joe

The LWX TOR is a confirmed tornado.

Heads up CHO:

Anything less than 4" across a good swath of the region isn't heavy rain. 1" - 2" over 12 hours, especially with us being dry and starting to leaf out, is the height of meh.

I think so many people chose the Derecho for 3 reasons: It was relatively unpredicted. There was some wavering meso guidance in the 12 to 18 hours leading up to the event of an MCS coming through, but nothing to the extent that happened. It occurred very late at night. Most of the severe weather in this happens before 9pm and this was almost 2 hours outside our climo window. The heat that followed the storm was significantly magnified by the event. So many people lost power that it essentially shoved folks back 20 or 30 years to the 70s and 80s when not many people had AC. It was rather anomalous.

Onions will do well as the cool weather will allow them to slowly grow. They do not like a fast transition to hot weather. Carrots are a tad finiky with soil temperature and type. Heavy clay soil that is not properly broken up and aerated will stunt growth. Be careful with the greenhouse once May rolls around. If you do not provide some basic ventilation you will literally steam the plants. It happened to us the other year. I put a small mobile greenhouse on the deck and came home to steamed tomato seedlings.

Derecho hands down.

A picture or two would help. I've got some ideas.

With winter now behind us, it's time to get into summer mode and that means: lawn, gardens and pools! Started off yesterday by roto tilling the side garden and looking to put a couple more 4' x 10' raised beds in the next year or so. So far I've planted: Music garlic (100 cloves) Georgian Red garlic (60 cloves) So far I've ordered these seeds: Squash - Waltham Butternut & Long Island Cheese Cucumber - Early Fortune & ISIS Beets - Bull's Blood & Burpee Golden Pepper - Jalapeno Traveler Strain Tomatillo - Purple Radish - French Breakfast Tomato - Berkley Pink Tie Dye , Black Beauty, Kellogg's Breakfast, Rutgers, German Gold Poppy - Black Swan Sunflower - Russian Mammoth, Autumn Surprise Lupine - Purple Cosmos

Heh, that western band is literally hugging I-91 for all it's worth.

Man this is a beautiful event to witness, too bad it's not hitting DC -> BOS. Congrats all.

So question for the group...any ideas why BOX hasn't extended the Blizzard Warning further west into RI? Providence and Newport are certainly meeting the criteria. I know it's for 3 consecutive hours, but conditions appear to be only worsening through midday.

True dat

When, if ever, do you think we will have an ice free summer in the arctic?

That was an epic few days with you, me and Anthony looking at the SREFs and ensembles.

This is quite impressive. A cool summer that has owned my garden from start to finish.

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Thank you for posting this. Very informative!