IronTy

Ok I'll admit it. I hate endless summer. As a HS'er running cross country I can't imagine having to deal with this crap. In Michigan I can remember running in snow with 5/8" spikes in October. Down here it's just as likely I'd be running topless through sprinklers in November. Where's a solid volcano eruption when we need it?

There's Sudden Oak Death disease which I believe started on the west coast. I believe I live relatively close to @CAPE but on the west side of the Chesapeake (?)...we haven't had any issues with oak here to date. Heat and drought seem to be a larger problem. One tree that has really suffered here recently are white pines. Dozens of landscape white pines have died down here in the last ten years just on my way to work. Not sure the reason, I assume heat/drought. I have one that grows like 5ft per year but this winter when we got all that snow the top broke off so now it looks all funky. Seems healthy otherwise though. Loblolly pine seem to grow better down here.

I agree. From the heavy snow in January this year a number of locust trees came down in our development so of course i went out with the muck truck and chainsaw to harvest them. I had to sharpen my chainsaw quite a bit cutting the locust. That and leatherwood are extremely hard. The locust trees are never really large enough to split around here so I can't comment on that. I had to make a rocket launcher for my senior project as a EE major. A log splitter would have been a lot more useful, wish that had been my capstone.

If you have a deck to measure snow depth, at that elevation you might get some snow while the rest of us get mix to rain. I'm at about 90' in Calvert though we have 3400' in Bittinger.

Electric is nice and easy - quiet and lightweight but you're limited by the design which is for a standard 15A circuit breaker so there's only so much they can do. I've used my little Honda generator to use it in more remote locations but really gasoline is better for serious work. We mostly have tulip poplar to split around here after storms. Randomly the county came by and cut down a while bunch of trees by the sides of the road early this year so I went out with my chainsaw and muck truck and got all my firewood this winter for free. The tulip trees are randomly easy to split, even huge logs. I'll get a gasoline one for the mountain property though.

Awesome. In a previous life I did flight test instrumentation. RTDs, T/Cs, strain gages, etc. Never did any work on ships though. Sounds like a cool job to get paid for. Bet you get to work on some cool ships.

Oh I have a hundred years worth of forest to harvest as firewood, but you know what's easier than that? $500 and a phone. Down here in SoMD I agree with you. I can usually find cut wood and split it myself with my electric-hydraulic splitter. We're always one hurricane away from a lifetime's worth of firewood, yes?

Was that the winter he had his JMA total capitulation? It was so embarrassing, I felt bad for him.

Oh do expand on that. I'm a consulting engineer for the O&G industry so I do all sorts of automation and electrical engineering which includes world scale tanker ships. Gotta keep Europe's lights on for the time being (local electric bills be damned).

I'm tired of the heat and humidity. Good for my caterpillars but I just had 2 cords of firewood delivered to the mountain property and am looking forward to winter there.

Look at these babies. They put the lotion on the skin.

I'm guilty of doing that shit too so I'm also poking fun at myself. Mostly with JB though and since I've paid hundreds of dollars a year for quite a few years now for my WB sub I don't feel too bad about it.

The nerve of that guy not to post up free forecasts for everybody on the internet and maintain a free blog and be subject to ridicule and have to defend his weather predictions years later.

Chemtrails. Deep state seeding clouds and spreading vax in the air....

Well the storms last night were a bust but it feels pretty nice outside right now so I'm cool with it. Just sleeved out about 125 imperialis ova, gonna be busy in 3 weeks.

I spent a month in Borneo for work about 8yrs ago and every.single.day. at almost the exact same time it would rain so hard you'd start to look for an ark. Then about 30mins later the sun would come out and humidity would go to level 11. Really boring weather if not for the king cobras and giant monitor lizards roaming everywhere like feral dogs.

Downsloping katabatic winds. It's to be expected.

Color me unimpressed with these storms so far. Maybe I'll changey mind later this evening. Certainly feels humid enough out there.

It's unstoppable. Drought six ways to Sunday.

Oh shit I take it all back. Storms are barreling down on us now, heavy rain to commence in 15mins or so.

Wut the fuk? I just checked radar and the entire precip complex is gone. Like totally disappeared. Radar history doesn't even show how it happened. Feels like Theranos. Is it winter already?

Bummer, the southern end of that precip complex seems to be falling apart. Hope it holds on another hour or two.

Wow a solid blob of rain coming in from the SW. This is perfect. Overcast day, solid dump of rain, then nighttime...perfect to help soil moisture. Maybe I should.lay down some seed before it hits.

Seems like our rain chances keep drying up the day before. I need to overseed, typically I do it during a damp stretch in September. Luckily most of my lawn has transitioned over to moss as trees have grown and shaded it out. It's always green and from a distance looks like lush grass.

Gotta keep that heat in the tropics to feed the snowcanes come Jan and Feb. Foe early, friend later. I can dream.