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Amazing evening in progress. Even saw the first firefly of the season.

yoda stfu

It was a little sketchy for a while, but I'm going to mark my family as safe from tonight's pavement wetting event.

I remember the white pine needlecast from a few years ago following a wet year. https://extension.unh.edu/sites/default/files/migrated_unmanaged_files/Resource007498_Rep10836.pdf Sadly it did not kill any of the view obstructing pines near me, just the privacy providing ones.

Pollen emergency declared. Mountains have become almost totally obscured over the last hour.

I guess this is going to be another gray squirrel apocalypse year. Too many to count. They're digging endlessly and wrecking my prepared garden beds. Every single planter barrel has a ring of dirt kicked onto the ground around it. I'm going to have to plant through landscape cloth or they'll just kill everything.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiWG_5941YQ Nice pulse around 10 minutes ago.

Brutal. I've had these convenient and weirdly persistent cloudless areas to my east and overhead all evening, but things have suddenly filled in. Sky looks rather ominous now with little glowing holes in every direction.

That was nuts... basically a 3/4 corona.

Faint but visible rapid undulations of white light directly overhead.

Nice white/pinkish glow in the northeast.

This is the longest it's ever taken to get dark.

We're gonna be too far north.

Bt of 73.8 is the highest I think I've ever seen reported from the ACE spacecraft. I think 2003 was like 50ish. The potential for tonight is some serious once in a lifetime stuff. You wouldn't get a high KP without a negative bz.

I decided to box up a 6x10' section of my garden and heat it to 40 degrees for last winter. Things didn't go so well. Bougainvillea 'Bengal Orange' - dead Red Abyssinian Banana - dead Blue Java Banana - dead Castor Beans - dead Acalypha - dead Thailand giant elephant ear - dead Gardenia - alive, but defoliated by mites Trachelospermum jasminoides - alive and well No idea what happened. I haven't dug them up yet so maybe I'll find underground rodent damage. Misc: hard to believe that if I had covered the windmill palm for that night of -16 two winters ago, it would have sailed through this winter with ease too.

Wow, that is ridiculously gorgeous. Petunia breeding sure has yielded some pretty wild colors and patterns over the last few years.

That pizza looks dreadful.

I’m still mad at the last convective season, but today proves my heart always has room for more anger.

I wonder if the backlight on my original VP2 console will ever burn out? It's been on for like 20 years now.

I feel like every explanation for shadow bands I've read over the last week has only left me progressively more and more confused.

Ugh, the last thing we need are gray squirrels with the attitude problem of the red squirrels. The last few times I tried to scare off a red squirrel, the damn thing got all jumpy and spastic and started coming towards me.

Had my first ever bluebird sighting today.

Looks like the gray squirrel tracks that are all over my backyard.

Pretty amazing even down here. The light is so weird at the max.... just feels wrong even though everything looks normal. I regret not having the idea to start a timelapse of the northern sky until now. It was pretty amazing how much darker it looked off to the north and how fast it moved along the horizon.