tamarack

March here was +1.8. April will finish at +1.1. Since 1999, April has averaged 44% of available sunshine. April 2026 will have exactly the same. Precip will finish about 1/2" BN - we're at 0.5"-0.6" from the current event and the best is past. Yesterday's forecast of 1-2" for today was optimistic. Month is finishing close to normal.

Why do I hate ticks? One mid-range (pinhead size) deer tick latched onto my right lower eyelid last evening, within 1/16" of the top edge. After numerous tries I extracted the little horror, but the eyelid is nicely puffed up. The bit of pain with each blink reminds me just how much I despise the critters.

Heading into our 29th summer here, all the hail that has landed in our yard (only 2,000 sq.ft., but still) wouldn't fill a one-gallon bucket. One storm might've dropped a flattened chunk 5/8" on its longest surface. (On August 30, 2007, nickels/quarters hail 6-8 miles southeast from from our place accumulated up to 4" and fully defoliated/partially debarked trees on about 2,000 acres, so that kind of excitement isn't impossible here.) Low 60s for the high here, about 10° above the forecast. 3 hours of midday PC did its work.

Since you noted the errors first (a triple play), I'm responding your way. Average: 88.4" 2025-26: 86.8" Deficit: 1.6"

Sunny 60s here with the trout lilies beginning to bloom. Snow total for 25-26 (barring something very unusual) is 6.8". That's 1.8" BN, currently the closest to my average in 28 snow seasons, with only 2012-13 (90.4", 2.0" AN) being close.

72/30 yesterday, back down to 30 this morning and cloudless. The best of mid-spring.

Sliced and diced from your post. (And I appreciate the info on climate and forecasting.) A friend was a train fan - I think there's a mag by that name - and he had multiple albums filled with various engines doing various things. Once he was a bit to close after a big snowfall and got sluiced as the plow-fronted engine roared by. When I was 5, I was headed toward train-fandom. I knew more about trains back then than now, 75 years later. Temp over 70 after a low of 30; another '40' diurnal. Cut/split some firewood and worked up a good sweat.

If there's more sun than cloud in late April, the max will probably be AN at least 90% of the time. Last 2 days' max here averaged 61, which is 4° AN. The minima averaged 26, or 6° BN. The sun is mid-August strong.

Sandy River median is 2,990 cfs, record minimum 819, current 1,050. Bring it on.

Pawpaws at our frost pocket would probably fare the same as Reliant peach, which was (almost) a total failure. Hit 17° this morning, cool for late April, though we've matched it on 4/29 (twice).

First I've read of green ash surviving. Many sources have confirmed some survival of white ash but things look grim for green and brown. In Maine (also probably elsewhere), efforts are being made to collect brown ash seeds, to fend off extirpation of this species of great importance to indigenous peoples in the Northeast. (Other than urban plantings, Maine has very few green ash.) No sign of EAB on our woodlot but it's not far away. White ash is the 3rd most abundant there, trailing only red maple and balsam fir, and brown ash is a significant component as well. I plan to have a harvest in the next few years, and would harvest all ash of sawlog/veneer quality 14"+ diameter while retaining all other ash. (The 2013 harvest included no hardwood sawlogs but took a significant volume of hardwood pulp. A second harvest would take some red and sugar maple logs along with the ash.)

I guess that means I'm not one of "those that live in the woods". (Pic from late May 2024, quince blossoms, apple blossoms in background).

Any ash trees still alive there? they're one of the latest to break bud. Only black locust might be later. Still stick season here, though some tiny sugar maple seedings have a bit of green, thanks to the sun warming the leaf litter. Had a pretty flurry 10:10-25 this AM, briefly whitened the lawn during 2 minutes of heavier snow but just a trace.

Grandkids in Gloucester County enjoyed the heat. We managed to reach 70 last Tuesday. Then yesterday brought cold rain (0.66") that ended with a coating of snow, and 24° this morning.

48 years ago, the opposite occurred in Maine. On May 29, 1978, Eastport touched 70 then the onshore breeze and fog dropped the temp to 49 at mid-afternoon. Same time, HUL read 96. Yesterday the sun at least tried soon after lunchtime. No tries today.