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Rains really held on despite the radar looking like the back end was arriving hours and hours ago. We really do end these kinds of storms well. Love winter storms when things fill in, and even em when the radar is unimpressive the OTG reality is good precip.

Yeah...totals ramped up quickly with that extended burst.

Dumping in Burke right now.

18z 3km NAM is a beatdown on Friday. @mappy...it's looking like Saturday should clear up before the rains come back for Sunday-Monday.

Things are shaping up for a pretty decent beat down.

Euro drops 2" IMBY through about 03z with an additional 2.25" through about midnight Sunday-Monday.

12z GFS keeps up the big totals area-wide through Monday. Saturday looking like a serviceable weekend day, sandwiched between decent rains.

2" of rain over 3-4 days should be nice, even if the weekend won't be.

3km NAM has 1.5" to 2.5" locally through Friday evening. Rather that than have a Saturday rainout.

You don't say...

There's no appreciable benefit to getting summer crops like tomatoes and peppers into the ground at the end of April compared to the beginning of May. Sure...if there's an extended warm spell you can take advantage of, then there can be benefit, but for me the potential benefits (small percentage chance) don't outweigh the benefits of leaving the planting until a couple weeks later. Unless the extended forecast shows warmth, I almost always plant in the first weekend of May. There are times when the roots are bursting at the seams and the plants just need to be given room in the ground, but even then it's got to be a calculated decision.

That's pretty cool to have their first-noted arrival be on the same day year after year!

First confirmed sighting this morning! A male stopped by the backyard feeder at about 9:00 am.

Had a nice downpour via a small cell that moved overhead prior to the main line earlier today. Not sure how much I got, but I’ll play along with the drought angle and say it wasn’t enough, despite the fact that we’re unlikely to make up a few inches of rainfall deficit in just one event.

https://www.pivotalweather.com/model.php?m=ecmwf_full&p=prateptype_cat_ecmwf-imp&rh=2023042100&fh=loop&r=conus&dpdt=&mc=

Depends on what's in your garden! If it's tomatoes and peppers and the like, then yes...definitely too early. If things like broccoli, lettuce, and spinach then they should have been in the ground for at least a few weeks now, so you'd be fine!

Interesting. Mine is green and lush and just yesterday got second mow in the last 10 days.

Exactly. This is glorious stuff.

Have yet to spot a hummingbird at either of our feeders so far this spring, but plenty of reports around.

You definitely have that right!

Really the point I'm trying to make is that we don't really "drought." We get dry, but how often are things so bad that we need to think of it as a drought? And if we're like 5" below normal precip over a few months, people start talking about it, but if we're 5" above normal precip over a few months, there's virtually no discussion. I'm definitely playing devil's advocate in here, but referring to dry periods as "drought" does trigger me

I have places on my front and back that do better or worse, but I think it's related to sun exposure. Probably a bit of family traffic, as well!

I'm not really interested in watering my lawn. Garden? For sure.

What I find interesting is that when things are dry, there's this big concern about "drought," but when it's been wet there's basically no discussion about it. I guess that's because there's no term for anti-drought except when there are flooding concerns.