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MAJOR WINTER STORM INCOMING. CHARGE YOUR DEVICES, BUY YOUR PEPSI.

17 minutes ago, NorEastermass128 said:

Cries in AEMATT!

you and i (and Ray) are all in the pork zone for the next two systems as it stands right now.

climo and blocking FTL

Just now, CoastalWx said:

Blocking preventing him from coming northeast.

LBSW

1 hour ago, Damage In Tolland said:

@tunafishWere you by chance rooting for Iran today?

I genuinely have no idea what you're talking about.

My 'confused' reaction was because you're randomly chanting USA in the December thread.  Did the NAM show something you liked?

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34/24F

52 minutes ago, bwt3650 said:

You’re out of your mind. My backyard in nj has looked like this for a month. I’ve seen flakes already and had multiple mornings below zero. But yeah, just like august.



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Below 0?

Just hearing about the tragedy with the hiker today.  I think NoPoles and PF nail it:

- She was set on a goal, stubborn to a fault

- Only experienced in non-hostile conditions

- Perception is that 4K is NBD

- No responsible adult thought about prepardness

Sad.  Hopefully a lesson to others down the road.

14 hours ago, dryslot said:

Sure, There's still a lot of growers but many are switching to Hemp to make CBD.

Not much of a black market left up here at all.  Hasn't been for about 10 years.  Everyone either started growing, or is friends with a hobbyist grower.  Or just went and got their med card.  Anyone who uses regularly and goes to the rec dispensaries is foolish or just has a enough money to not care.

16 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

Let's face it....for many, it doesn't matter what the ensembles show. The snowfall is the only thing that matters and ensembles won't tell you a lot about that more than a week into the future. They can just tell us if the pattern is more or less favorable for snow than the baseline.

 

While cumbersome at times, there was value in having the pattern and models broken out into different threads a few years back.

12 hours ago, TauntonBlizzard2013 said:

This is me, I wear shorts pretty much year round unless it’s like 0 degrees out. I’m never outside long enough that it’s an issue 

A supposed weenie who's never outside long?  Hmmm

This is, essentially, what we're working towards here.  As little grass as possible/as much food or native flowers/shrubs as possible.

https://modernfarmer.com/2022/11/edible-landscaping-foodscaping/

We've had 3 growing seasons of transformations and have reduced about 1/3 of our lawn (a 0.25ish acre lot).  Goal is for 2/3 of the lawn to be replaced by growing space, the rest retained (untreated, of course) for recreation in the warm months.

Materials to turn the lawn via sheet-mulching are mostly free.  In the fall, we cover the desired area in cardboard from package deliveries or the city recycling center, followed by compost (as much as we can source on our own), and topped with wood chips delivered for free by the city.  By the spring, the area is ready for planting.  Compost/Mulch/Soil mix for top dressing as desired.  

You can be bound to your lawn or turn it into something that benefits you and the environment - I know what I'm choosing.

Could only muster a Trace here last night.  Seeing some pooling of the rain in various spots.  Made me wonder if the top layer of the ground had frozen this week.  

Yep.  Definitely frozen.

Haven't been paying attention here on the coast.  Noticed I'm at 31°F.  Not prepared for flakeage.  Guess I need to set an alarm.

ah man, that sucks. so sorry to hear that.

1 hour ago, Lava Rock said:

30.2. First freeze

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amazing.  Had mine exactly a month ago.  bottomed out at 24.6F

5 hours ago, ineedsnow said:

We cone!!

Any chance my flight makes it out of PWM at 5PM Saturday?

2 hours ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

A history of tainted Halloween candy from a CNN article.  As I said last week, very few incidents have ever actually occurred. 
 

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/30/health/halloween-candy-panic-conversation-wellness/index.html

And 0 incidents where it was a random trick or treater getting tainted candy.

I will continue to "check" my kids though.  How else am I supposed to get dibs on the good stuff?  

11 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

34 at MWN. Fake as Fuck.

Lol same as here on the coast, 33.6F.

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Growing season is a relative term for us. 

We picked 40 lbs of unripened tomatoes before the first frost on 10/9. Of that about 10 lbs are left to ripen or process. 

Picked a pint of raspberries yesterday from  cold hearty, late season variety plants.

Lettuce and spinach ready to harvest in the cold tunnel, and will reseed after for a harvest in March or April.

Plus carrots to pull in late Novie, to be replaced with garlic bulbs for next year. 

This all on 1/4" acre in suburbia with ample room for accurate snow measurement. 

50 minutes ago, Lava Rock said:

33.1F. coldest yet. Looks like any hard frost or freeze will be quite late this year. Called the marina earlier in the week and they still haven't winterized boat and it's going into the 20s tonight. Probably 29-30F right at the water which is where the boat is sitting. It'll be ok,  but c'mon man get it done already

Interesting, we bottomed out at 36, usually we have opposite results at this time of year.  We had our first frost and first freeze on the same day, 10/9.

My buddy has a boat in PWM and all I hear from him is how much the marina drags their feet every spring and fall.  They seem to operate on their own schedule with no care or communication.  Ball's in their court and they know it.

Incredibly still night tonight. Past 4 days of rain and mank have helped preserve whatever semblance of warm season remains.

Remarkable that on 10/26 in central New England you can still hear the forest vibrating with life. Don't remember that ever happening this late in the season.

Whatever critters weren't killed off by the freeze 2 weeks ago are making their sounds loud and clear tonight.

12 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

that map makes caribou look to far south.  

That's where their radar site is located (Hodgdon, ME).  NWS Gray put the map out.

1 hour ago, dryslot said:

First of 14 days that the GYX radar will be down............

I've at least got BOX to cover me somewhat, but you're in the dead zone.

1 hour ago, Whineminster said:

No one wears shorts north of the mass Pike and west of 128, unless at the pool, beach, playing sports, or summer party. That's it.  You're not gonna go clean gutters wearing shorts and white new balances, get real, you'll look like a honky. 

I don't care what people think I look like.  All about comfort, baby.

28 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

I’ve never seen anything like it. It’s like a few  of these posters are living in some other warped world . Just bewildered 

Shorts ftw straight through to Novie.

1 hour ago, Lava Rock said:

same here. when I'm lazy and it's hot, I'll wack with shorts and long socks, but inevitably, some rocks will still sting me in the shins.

Is this what happens when grass doesn't grow?  Whack rocks instead?

54F

2.10" as of 7A, puts us at 4.98" since Thursday.  

3 hours ago, OceanStWx said:

Wrong side of the coastal front. I pulled off 3.61". 

Just like in winter

10 minutes ago, dryslot said:

I always laugh when folks say can you imagine if this would have been all snow? I go yeah, If my aunt had balls she would have been my uncle too.

Not sure if that's in response to my post, but I understand why you can't make that comparison.  T'Was a (poor) attempt at self-depicting humor.