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light sleet/flakes falling here

Just got a report of a mountain lion sighting near the school here in Brooklyn. I think 99% of the time these are just folks that don't know what a bobcat looks like. We'll see if any pics surface.

I only got to play the course once, as we had moved to Brooklyn shortly before it closed. But I use the range across the street all the time. I've chatted with the all 3 parties involved in the course/property/restaurant relationship over the years, and it's interesting to hear the different sides to the story. It would be good to see it stay as a field or go back to farmland at some point.

We bottomed out at 31.5 here. Need to inspect some of the plants to see if anyone got zapped. Fam was not happy that I haven't finished the winterized nesting box for the rabbits yet, either. If the cottontails survive in the yard, I'm sure our rabbits will be fine in the tunnel they've dug under their hutch.

A few pics from a weekend trip to Dorset/Manchester VT.

This impending OPEC price gouge probably won't help things, either.

FT Myers beach area looks fun right now. My MIL is in Gateway. I told her to expect some gators sleeping in her patio tonight.

We saw one of these launches this summer at the Cape. Very cool to see for the first time, and it definitely had people thinking alien invasion until we realized what it was.

Nice! I heard the commercial for the show on the radio the other day. It mentioned that this was their largest pyrotechnic show ever, so it should be intense. Looks like it will be a great night for the show. Enjoy.

.52" here, although I had a spider nest in my gauge, so any precip before 10am was not counted.

Cam Smith is one of the few guys I will miss. He's been fun to watch this year, and I love his attitude and his mullet. The rest of the guys that have gone over I can live without, for the most part. Maybe if enough guys leave, Rickie Fowler will be able to climb back into some meaningful tournaments.

There was really nothing happening underneath in the Brooklyn storm, from what I could see. I didn't see any rotation or debris flying in from different angles like I normally do when some of these storms pass over. Torrential rain for a few minutes, and some frequent lightning.

Got some hail in the last few minutes here in Brooklyn. No real wind, though. .56" and counting.

Should make for a fun evening at the Brooklyn Fair with the kids tomorrow.

Getting crushed here. Tropical rains. Lightning right on top of us. Picked up close to .5" in a matter of minutes. Over 1.5" for the day.

picked up a quick .02" in the last 30 minutes. At least Stein won't be pitching a perfect game here today.

Do I get my hopes up for rain Monday, or is this another .02" drizzle job?

Yup, just heard them flyover. Knew they were military but was too lazy to go outside and spot them.

Just mowed. The majority of the lawn has survived quite well, and this is with about 2.5" of rain since July 1st, no watering, no fert, no lime. Nada. The clover is starting to brown and thin in spots, but the "summer" grasses have thickened in and are nice and green. In the fall the summer stuff will die back and the other grasses will thicken back up and stay there through late spring. I usually get a lot of wild plantain but this year they are really struggling to get a foothold in the lawn, which is fine with me. We had to reseed a lot of areas in late May, due to construction, and the shaded areas grew in fine, but the full sun stuff areas burned out once I stopped watering in July and are now all crabgrass. I think I'm just going to rake out as much as I can, topdress and reseed in the fall, rather than nuke the crabgrass with herbicide and then have to wait all over again for that to wear off before reseeding.

just hit 110 on the "feels like" here. 93/78.

87/76. The clouds are getting progressively darker as they roll over. But it is brutal when the sun pops out. Hoping for a shower before everything is wrapped up tonight.

Quick .04" around 4pm. Sun came back out. 81/77, 85% humidity. I'm thinking I made the right call to cancel a cookout/patio party for this evening.

.67" for the day. The last storm had some nice rotation underneath as it passed over the house. Not sure if this video link works. https://youtube.com/shorts/B4hbFaJSe2c?feature=share