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34 here.   We brought in all the outside plants and fortunately held off on planting things in the ground over the weekend.  Three of the rooms look like a greenhouse at the moment with so many seed trays and terracotta pots in them.

4 hours ago, dendrite said:

54/32 Avocadoes and figs are coming in.

Avocado and lemon trees came back in the house here too.

36 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

What happened in the 80s and mid-2010s?  I honestly don't remember a thing regarding drought in the mid-2010s... what effects would we have felt?

Most noticeable effect in VT will frequently be people's home wells running dry.  If I remember right this was a big issue in parts of Vermont 2 summers ago.  In late 90's my town at the time would have to resort to secondary ponds in dry times leading to boil water notices for people on town systems.

Here are a couple of articles:

https://vtdigger.org/2018/10/11/drought-continues-plague-northern-vermont-leaving-farms-wells-dry/

https://vtdigger.org/2018/09/23/drought-takes-toll-wells-northern-half-state/

map from time:

Down to 84 out.  Was outside for a few minutes and the house felt like an AC was on when I came back in.  Glad the dews are not too bad yet.

97F now down from a high of 108 about ten minutes ago.  The thermometer may or may not get some direct afternoon sun before the trees on the steep hill behind the house put it into shade.

20 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

17 feet of (mostly manmade) snow in a pile on Wachusett still.  

Almost as tall as the pollen piles of Tolland!

storms popping over the central Greens now, Whites too from the looks of it.

slant sticking the pollen

53 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

This is legit heat for July and August for sure.  +20C at 850mb over southern Quebec.

BTV hit at least 91F...

First 90s in New England this warm season?

Torching at the NNE Mtn valley spots.  From fake cold to fake heat.

88F here at MVL

89F at BML

88F at SLK 

87F at MPV

90 at Lebanon

https://w1.weather.gov/data/obhistory/KLEB.html

39 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Neighbors had a huge fireworks show last night and this morning I have a crap ton of debris in my backyard and woods. Yeah, it’s pretty, but why do they allow this crap again?

Live free or die.

Worst I have ever had it was the summer of 03.  We were living in W. Warwick RI at the time.  The neighborhood sounded almost like a warzone on July 4.  The dogs were manic.  Making it hard to understand was that we lived about 4 blocks from the Station Nightclub and the fire had just been about 4 months earlier.  Only having one neighbor within a half a mile has lessened this issue.

17 minutes ago, greenmtnwx said:

Another amazing day in the Greens. High 70s, bluebird.

 

 

Another day, another collection of photos by greenmtnwx of people pointing their butts at him by a river.

13 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

I would say there’s 12-16” of pollen on everything. Good Lord what a mess 

Any power outages?  Big big Spring incoming!

17 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

Better thong

"No honey, I swear I was taking a picture of the waterfall. The interplay of the water and granite is really quite striking."

Back down to 73f after hitting 102 earlier.  (okay the thermometer may get a bit of mid-afternoon sun)

KLEB at 87 at the last hour

13 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Already 75F. 8F ahead of yesterday at this time and we managed 81F. Warm, but at least not humid.

Dews at KLEB are up to 49.  I should have installed yesterday before this oppressive sticky heat hit.

22 minutes ago, dendrite said:

That is such a cool graphic!

KLEB  with 84/29 and 13% at 15:53

https://w1.weather.gov/data/obhistory/KLEB.html

39 minutes ago, dendrite said:

78.3/23 13%

Pretty rare for me to run this dry.

AFN 75/24
EEN 75/14 10%!

79/36  21% at KLEB  at the 1:53 reading.

https://w1.weather.gov/data/obhistory/KLEB.html

66 already off of a low of 39.  Big big COC incoming!

1 minute ago, Cold Miser said:

Sweet.

"What does mine say?"

1 hour ago, Ginx snewx said:

Your poor deck.my truck is green now.

As SNE finally sees a form of accumulation in 2020

4 minutes ago, dendrite said:

I usually put them on the north side of my house so that they only get some weak UV in the morning and late afternoon. After a week I put them under my willow tree and let the filtered midday light hit them. After a week there I put them out in the full sun. I may get a few minorly burnt leaves, but they make it through or just fall off.

My trees under the grow light this winter got a little leggy so I pruned back some of the new branch growth anyway. So the majority of my leaves are already UV tolerant.

Is your tree from seed or is it an actual grafted Haas plant?

The tree grew from a seed which I took from an avocado I had eaten.  I started it at the office and had it there for two or three years until I brought it home last fall.  It is probably about 3 feet high at this point with lots of good growth.  It has never been outside and sits in a west facing window but rarely has ever gotten direct sun.  Our house only has one south facing window and that is for the Lemon trees.

11 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Not really worried about 32F here this week on my hill. CON may pull 34-36F, but I should be safe. The avocado trees will probably go outside for good during the day on Thursday.

Do you have a routine you use to harden the avocados off to go outside? 

I have one which is about 3 years old that I have been growing inside but I would like to transition it outside for the summer.  I assume low light (no afternoon sun ) and wind during daytime at first, bring back in at night, etc.  Increase exposure.  Is this your approach or have you used some other way.

Oh yeah the wind is back!  So excited for another windy run- joy oh joy.  Otherwise perfect.