Lava Rock

2 minutes ago, dryslot said:

Stay safe out there and remember find a room in the middle of your home or take refuge in a basement!

looks like precip is going to be on the low side unless we get under a heavy cell. I'll go out on limb and say 0.1" by tomorrow a.m. Our little mini drought continues.

 
I think you're supposed to walk slowly backward.

9 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Exit 68. Where Pickles frequents the Electric Blue. 

Make sure to eat at Willington Pizza . Great food 

Red potato pie is the best

5 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Nice. We welcome you. What part of town? 

It's actually willington. We'll be swinging by Uconn first (old grad school stomping grounds).

28 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Glad we don’t live there 

wife and I will be visiting a friend this weekend in tolland.

16 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Definitely looks a little weird during the dormant season without snowcover (April and Nov/Dec). And yeah, it’s not an overnight fix. I’d probably just overseed before the first snow. Come spring it’s ready to go once the glacier is gone. I’d stay away from planting zoysia via seed too.

I did the overseeding Fall of 2017 and rented a slit seeder and used KYB mix. Obviously I suck badly at lawns cause that didn't take either.

19 minutes ago, dendrite said:

I think I went through zoysia farm. Looks like they had trouble with their harvest and are out for the season. But here’s their instructions...

https://www1.zoysiafarms.com/plantzoy.jsp

I pretty much put mine in bare spots and didn’t have to do a large area. Now that it’s established I can take my own plugs from that if I want. They’d probably take off even faster than the ones I had shipped.

This was fall 16 to early fall 18. It’s pretty much full coverage this summer.

those blades look more fescue like. Not like the thick, stiff blade I see online. Are there different varieties?

1 hour ago, backedgeapproaching said:

How quick do those plugs spread in a season?  He is going to need A LOT of plugs to get any type of coverage.

I know nothing about Zoysia, but at this point for Lava, I wouldn't eliminate anything. Seems like something low input is needed there.

Been reading online a bit today. The flat spot out back is 7000sqft. Suggestion is to do one plug for every sqft = 7000. Granted, not every sqft of that area needs fixing, but it's gonna look weird to have a grass species like that next to fescue, KBG until it eventually takes over. IDK what to do. Apparently zoysia seed is difficult to grow, requires a lot of water early on and only works well if starting from topsoil. The more plugs you put in the faster it spreads, but from what I read, 1-3yrs or so. I'm tired of waiting to have a good decent looking lawn, so not sure I want to put in the effort of plugging.

1 minute ago, dendrite said:

I don't think you're much different than my location temp wise. Frequent snowcover will help it as well.I'd probably be more worried about zoysia in a frost/torch pocket like CON than up where I am.You could buy a sheet or two of plugs and just let them go. I will say my plugs in the back that I planted in loosened, bare soil took off a lot faster than the ones that I planted in the hard pack front that was already full of grass and weeds.

Found this place online out of Maryland. $29 for box of 50 plugs.

https://www.zoysiaplug.com/products/zoysia-grass-plugs

3 hours ago, dendrite said:

Yeah Lava. You may want to try the zoysia. Maybe try a little area of it to see how it does in your area but it grows fine here. You don’t radiate well either which helps. The zoysia won’t care about sun and dryness once it starts getting established and it will choke out all of the weeds since it almost acts like a weed itself. You’ll just have to deal with a dormant lawn in the beginning of May and Oct/Nov but it should thrive during the summer when you want it green the most. It’s really no fuss. It just takes awhile to fill in...like a few years if you space the plugs a foot apart. 

May try the zoysia. I was chatting online with a place and they were a little skeptical about it doing well in maine.

20 minutes ago, Baroclinic Zone said:

Southerly exposure on a hill is a recipe for failure.  Irrigation would be the answer if he's not willing to plant more trees. 

the slope torch makes sense since much of the water flows down and away from the roots, but what about the flat section (newly seeded 2 yrs ago) in the background? This was prepared with 12" sand then 4" loam. Granted, it's in the sun all day too, but I figured the moisture would be better retained there then slope sections, yet the soil is bone dry. Anyhoo, we need rain.

 
Nice spot---is that winterized?

I bust balls with you, but jesus h. That SW slope must just bake. You probably need irrigation to get the look you want...either that or plant a few trees for extra shade. But I’m sure you don’t want to block the views.

Heavy lawns here in SVT for early AUG.  Just enough rains to keep most lawns around here green all summer so far. Guess the nonstop, relentless dews have helped retain moisture 
Sorry Lava....your pics in the other thread look bad..not sure what the heck is going on over there on that moonscape. 

We own a 15 acre parcel looking over Newfound Lake.  I don't do anything to the grass, just mow once a month.  With frequent rains this summer it looks darn good.
Anyone want to picnic or camp on it?  Free to any AMWX members!  Private night under the stars for sure!

Won't be cutting lawn anytime soon

Off grid cabin this wknd up in Evans Notch. Little cycling and hiking, swimming in the Cold River. Outdoor shower was refreshing. Back home, 80/47.7

2 hours ago, tamarack said:

Wow!  You have really been dry this year, if that's accurate.  I've measured 28.17", 1.03" AN thanks to January's +2.25".  Last evening's 0.36" brought July a whisker above 3" (and another 0.07" came after I'd dumped the gauge at 9 PM.)
July 2019
Avg. Max: 77.74,  1.35 AN  Hottest: 86,  20th.  High min:  65, 21st
Avg. Min:  54.58,  0.28 AN  Coolest:  44,  8th.   Low max:  65, 12th, 23rd
Mean:  66.16,   0.81 AN   Highest mean:  74, 20th,21st   Lowest mean:  60, 25th
Only 29 HDDs, only 7/2006 (a much warmer month) had fewer, 26.  The month featured no really hot days but also very little significantly BN.

Precip:  3.01", 0.87" BN  Most in a day:  1.02,  12th.  3 days with thunder, avg is 4.5

The month featured 15 days of sunny/mostly sunny and just 3 cloudy/mostly cloudy.  Using my sunny+(PC/2), the "sun proportion" was 21.5 days.  No other month (any month) has recorded more than 20.

Does your total rain include melted snow?

48 minutes ago, backedgeapproaching said:

There is no liquid from snowfall in that data--which is why its so low I assume.

Actually there is some, but since I'm not diligent about removing the snow from the davis before it melts, my rainfall totals are not very accurate for the year. Meanwhile, won't be needing to mow or fertilize the lawn any time soon. The front yard is turning into a desert.

I don't know what our July avg is supposed to be, but I recorded 71.9F. The rest of the stats:

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   Averages\Extremes for the month of July 2019
 
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Average temperature     = 71.9°F
 Average humidity        = 72%
 Average dewpoint        = 61.8°F
 Average barometer       = 29.511 in.
 Average windspeed       = 0.4 mph
 Average gustspeed       = 1.3 mph
 Average direction       = 156° (SSE)
 Rainfall for month      = 2.098 in.
 Rainfall for year       = 15.555 in.
 Maximum rain per minute = 0.060 in on day 06 at time 16:21
 Maximum temperature     = 90.3°F on day 30 at time 14:51
 Minimum temperature     = 55.6°F on day 07 at time 06:43
 Maximum humidity        = 100% on day 28 at time 08:13
 Minimum humidity        = 32% on day 08 at time 14:34
 Maximum dewpoint        = 76.2°F on day 21 at time 10:57
 Minimum dewpoint        = 45.6°F on day 08 at time 12:00
 Maximum pressure        = 29.88 in. on day 27 at time 09:02
 Minimum pressure        = 29.21 in. on day 21 at time 12:12
 Maximum windspeed       = 8.1 mph from 210°(SSW) on day 27 at time 15:53
 Maximum gust speed      = 15.0 mph from 225°( SW) on day 28 at time 15:11
 Maximum heat index      = 98.6°F on day 20 at time 12:41
 Avg daily max temp :81.6°F
 Avg daily min temp :63.7°F
 Total windrun = 320.4miles
 -----------------------------------
 Daily rain totals
 -----------------------------------
 00.01 in.  on day 1
 00.61 in.  on day 6
 00.26 in.  on day 11
 00.91 in.  on day 12
 00.08 in.  on day 17
 00.09 in.  on day 22
 00.14 in.  on day 23

We got porked here.  I have to check but I believe I am under 2" for the month of July.

Wtf. Everyone along the front in Maine gets rn except sebago south

Luckily Logan doesn't have the major altitude differences that cause many of the low level shear plane accidents. So by the time they reach visibility minimums, pilots have plenty of time to go around. Logan got down to a cat 1 ceiling today. In order to fly a CAT I approach, the cloud based (ceiling) must be no lower than 200 feet and the visibility must be no lower than 550 metres. This is because the pilots must be able to visually identify the runway no later than 200 feet above the ground to be able to land. It goes up to cat 3 ils, there are also several variances to cat 3, making landing requirements more strict. 

CAT IIIa has a minimum ceiling of 50 ft and a minimum visibility of 200 metres.

CAT IIIb has no minimum ceiling, but there must be at least 50 metres of visibility.

For a CAT IIIc, which has not actually been implemented anywhere, there are no minimum limits for ceiling and visibility.

Would lead one to believe, 'why isn't cat 3 all the time?'. Cost and pilot experience from most of my research is what limits that. 

Always loved planes. It what drew me to weather. Trying to land in low vis while following exact directions is difficult to do alone in a flight Sim, let alone in real life. 

I've seen bad conditions ground planes for awhile at Logan. Usually only 30-60 mins. Snow operations some times cannot keep up more than anything. Especially considering blowing and drifting on open airport hellscapes. This was a unique one. Perhaps the type of event we really only accurately pick up immediately now due to things like TDWR. We can see the microbursts in real time now. 

Thought it was really obvious pike region to BOS was the target about an hour before due to the cu field and boundary. Did not expect the multiple microbursts though. So a lot of lightning today out of tcu that wasn't even registering on radar yet, exploding into hail packed 70mph monsters just 7 minutes later. There's a really delicate balance of Seabreeze, outflow boundaries etc that seems to contribute to promoting these microbursts right at the coastline. 

I truthfully believe Scott may be right regarding uhi and addition of building in Seaport. It's become truly obnoxious. It's beautifully obnoxious if you enjoy coeds.

But a SW wind or W wind probably does bring more heat than even five years ago. But this does not excuse more recent issues with the *temperature* (not wind) readings. 

Hallelujah, it's raining.

Hallelujah, it's raining.