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Flakes flying here again, deck is a sheet of ice with a coating of snow...31.1 this morning.

Wind is whipping, temp down to 35 and now we have some snow falling....what a May 9th!

Every one of these maps look like they should be from late November or early March, not May 9th...crazy

I just want to plant my tomatoes May 15th for God sake, is that too much to ask for!?! Lol

The orioles never hang around, take some food from the feeders, play around in the flowering pear trees and the apple tree (if it is flowering, which it isn't yet) and move on...

Probably couldn't pick her out from the other 50 brown birds that come along, lol...it has been quite the 24 hrs for bird watching at the house. Had a Pileated Woodpecker, a Spotted Towhee, and now this guy...

This guy actually ventured up to my window feeder this morning....no fear

25.5 out there right now....heat has been been running off and on all night.

From hail to a rain/sleet/snow shower, what an April so far....

I do not not heat my greenhouse, by this time I typically wouldn't need to anyway. The past 2 weeks have been close to killing off some of my plants in there, my strawberries started flowering a week ago. It has been consistently 80s and 90s during the day, 30s at night...

I will take the snow without the power problems....my stocked freezer + no generator is not a great combination

lol, 4-6 inches here...Would be the biggest storm of the season for me, go figure

Flakes have been flying for the past 30 minutes, a good coating on elevated surfaces..nice surprise here 34.0 degrees atm

My sugar peas finally broke ground and are an inch tall, so why not...could be the latest snowfall I have ever experienced, so let's do this.

Just dumped the stratus, 3.57" of rain and a giant branch from the white pine that snapped and is dangling right over my garden...

A couple of big gusts earlier, the rain has been quite impressive though....Davis has over 2.50 inches so far, so probably pushing 3 on the stratus

I would prefer not to have power issues during the whole pandemic...at least there isn't any leaves on the trees yet, hopefully that will prevent some power outages. So what are the social distancing rules during high wind warnings?

With the way this winter has gone, if this somehow finds a way to be correct the whole SNE portion of this forum might just quit until next March....lol

I am fine with a snowy March, as long as I get a super torch for April and May....

The climate is clearly doing some weird things, besides just warming up and has been evident for quite some time. The planet's "natural" defense against warming might be to try and refreeze the poles which might be what we are seeing from time to time (clearly bad for those who like snow here in New England), but obviously that has been trumped by crazy amount of warming that is happening. I see it as the planet releasing antibodies to help fight an infection that it has and helping to return it back to its natural state. In this case it is trying to fight something that it most likely won't be able to defeat. Just my 2 cents... Long story short, winter seasons like this year and last, and 2011/2012 may become a more common occurrence as we go along. Not that blockbusters won't occur, they will probably occur more often than not (extremes will become more normal on both ends of the spectrum), until the snow just disappears completely around these areas and we all look like great plains during the dust bowl era...

CC preview?

We are actually in winter now and it has been pushing 4 days since we have been below freezing here....the mosquitoes are going to be out and about soon.

Nice down this way today, temps near 50 felt great...finally melted the ice left over on the cold side of the house. On another note, spent the beginning of the holidays back in my hometown of Lancaster PA and noticed a Los Angeles like haze for the 3 days I was there. Definitely not winter like down that way...

Midlevel magic ftw here in wct...snowing moderately but the heaviest seems to be over now...

Just hit 7 inches here, this band in wct is starting to move, but has been great while it lasted...31.4