tunafish

The wussification of America. Sad!

The fact that PWM is only 7" short of your total is telling.

You're young. Don't look. Not worth doing to yourself.

Is there data for the climo sites on days between measurable snow (within D/J/F/M)? I think we were at 35 days 2/16-3/23. Prob not a record but feels damn impressive.

Yes he's at 29°, couldn't convince him to go check the glaze, but he said precip had been light. He's got a big dumb white pine over a 200 year old farmhouse so ice (and wind for that matter) is always a concern. Parent in-laws in Henniker are at 600 ft, 31° and they've been in that steady band, not sure if heavier rates will mean more accreciation though.

My BIL is just above 1K on an east facing hill in Deering. How siggy ice is he in for?

Tough realization of how early it is in the Spring season.

3.4" will do it for PWM as we're over to a spitting mix. I heard the first Spring Peeper as it started to snow at 05z last night. Dumb thing is now in a vernal slush.

They'll learn eventually. It took several years but now I have my neighbors trained. They follow my lead w/r/t driveway stakes, parking cars in garage, clearing right after the changeover to rain, not sweeping the sand off the sidewalks and driveway on 3/15, etc.

2.1" new at 12z for PWM.

First flakes and 40/13 in PWM.

I have gas left in my tank. I'm not above using the snow blower on 3" of junk in late March.

Chemtrails.

Ha, well, in Southern Maine this is the first measurable snow since 2/16. That's long enough of a stretch for people to forget, even here.

Red dogwood.

Pretty cool the Mrs is on board with that.

Here too. Will grab an observation at 18z. This'll be the first measurable snow all month which is wild.

CC has the mix line washing out Rochester over to Wells. See how long that holds.

I don't think any short-range models had us starting as snow in PWM, but here we are at 35° (off a high of 39°) between SN and SN-.

Sucks. That was always my fear with voles, especially when we woodchipped everything. We haven't lost anything to girdling yet, thankfully. Yeah legit brown rats. They're small, but there's a lot more of them than the Fall. I really don't want to use rodentcide. I'm making a half dozen bait stations and going to see what I can do with my home mix. I only had one last year so hoping this is more effective.

Oh alright, I guess I'll give it a rest, too. Now that the snow has mostly melted I can see the brown rats I tried to eradicate with traps last year had a prosperous winter. Tunnels under the snow and grass throughout the raised beds, fruit trees, and cedars. Under the shed too. No obvious food source - chicken feed is in a galvanized bin. Compost pile has been limited to coffee and coop waste for the past 7 months. Bastards ate a bunch of my carrots last Fall. Hoping they haven't hit my garlic yet. I'd cry. No sign of them within 15 yards of my coop or run. Keeping them from free ranging until the migratory waterfowl have mostly passes, anyway, but I don't need them interacting with rats. Tried trapping and baiting (equal parts sugar, Cornmeal, baking soda) last Fall and it made a dent, but it doesn't matter now - they've taken over. I think my only option is bait stations as far away from the run as possible. Unless anyone else here has had success using a different method.

My solar production really took off today with full sun and especially that extra hour of daylight.

It does. I've never seen a pack so "ripe" yet I'm able to stand on top of it without breaking through (when it's below freezing).