IronTy

Up at the city house I saw 81F on the car thermometer on the way to Trader Joe's today. Have company over for dinner and turned the AC on to keep it comfortable inside...first time of the year for the city house.

"But it snowed in April that one time back in...!"

If wind was rain we'd need a boat and two of each animal lined up to board.

I don't buy it. Maybe the stratwarm will shock the system (haha) and change the pattern but I'm skeptical. I think we need Yellowstone to erupt to get us out of this dry pattern.

31F when I walked Benson this morning and my neighbors had their sprinkler system running smh.

I think we've reached the sun angle whereas as long as it isn't too windy it feels warm outside regardless of the actual air temp. I approve.

DOGE must've known. We don't need any of that NOAA overhead apparently. Hopefully the new AI will forecast at least 60" storms for us perennially at d10. That would be cool. https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/ai-breakthrough-offers-weather-forecast-161544914.html Tests of the Aardvark model revealed that it is able to outperform the United States national GFS forecasting system using just 10 per cent of the input data, leading researchers to say it could offer a “revolution in forecasting”.

Good luck trying to compensate for the gales whenever throwing or catching the ball.

I hate march

Getting dumped on here now. Beneficial rain so I won't complain.

Dude I was just at my piano teacher's house in the pax river side of Calvert and my car thermometer said 76F when I left her house. 7mi east on the bay side at my house it is 61F, 15 degrees colder!! Went from AC to heated seats during the ride home.

Fuck the marine flow this year. It's been brutal. Driving home from work going through Prince Frederick it was 68F and sunny. 3mi to the east at my house it's cloudy and 57F.

Well my spring peepers are now out in force in the backyard.

I finally heard my first ones last week, was expecting them today but so far nothing. Haven't heard any wood frogs yet either.

I hope you're right. I'm looking at the southern edge of the line to the west disintegrate over the mountains though. Maybe it redevelops after it gets past the Appalachians but it's not very inspiring to me at the moment.

I'm not at all impressed by the radar. We never seem to get significant rain from basic front passages so I'm taking the under unless something big shows up on radar.

Today is starting out pretty shitty in DC. Sitting on my stoop watching the marathoners run by my house. I guess it's good marathon weather at least. 44F.

Up at the DC house this weekend - clouds are finally starting to break up.

After last winter's epic period bust I was not a believer in this winter's period. We haven't had an actual coastal storm pattern for so long now that I'm going to stick with persistence until we can throw up some real results. At some point I'm sure we will see them again but until I see results from that I'm going to remain skeptical of any LR modeling showing them. Maybe next winter...

DESTROY'd

Today sucks. I hate March. Wedge can go to hell.

You can't ask for much better for a mid March day than today. I feel a cool east breeze off the water by the bay though. But not too bad.

+1. Fresh wood chips reduce available nitrogen in the soil as they start to decompose initially.

My tomatoes and peppers from last weekend have already sprouted and are about an inch tall so all it's going well there. I need to get my oscillating fan wired up on the timer so they don't get too leggy. Just planted my lettuce seeds and first crop of radish seeds. I'll plant the snap peas in another week or two and do subsequent radish crops every week or so. My lemon and lime trees are getting flowers so I gotta pollinate them and for the first time ever I successfully overwintered a mandevilla vine, it's getting tons of buds. They won't go outside til April after all threat of frost.

I'd have to give it an A down here. About 150% of climo for snow and you can't ask for much better on sustained cold temps.