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We do not need the 7" that the euro has. 3" in that time frame is plenty

Yikes! Hoping the GFS is closer to correct. 7" of rain would be terrible.

It is pretty easy to find studies that agree with you and ones the go against others ideas. Pick your poison kind of deal. You can go all in either way, but I feel like that clouds judgements as we have seen posted here and elsewhere.

Got to 39 here, now it's 82.

Fast tracking Net Zero

yeah, we got into the upper 30s 2 nights in a row. its been good sleeping weather with the windows cracked open. Worst part is the birds singing their sex songs at 445 am though waking me up.

2.52 for my area

Lost 2 established broomstick plants as well that were like 6' high and 5' wide. They were about 5 years old.

Similar here, quick downpour. .22" total

Same here, .12. Maybe a quick downpour in 40 minutes if that cell by Easton holds.

I just looked over the past 5 years on my camera roll, and this year is like a week behind the past 2 years. 2022 my flowering trees were full bloom the first week of April. 2021 about even with this year and 2020 about a week behind as well. Prior to that I didn't really have pics from when I moved here for my first spring in 2017.

Decent amount of rain in PA

.11 so far

Everyone hates the healthcare industry, until they or someone they love is sick and dying, then they beg for meds. It makes me laugh. I wish all that hated them just didn't use any pharma product ever created, it would thin the herd quickly.

Its funny, I planted 3 butterfly bushes at the same time about 6 years ago. All 3 got huge by year 3, but then the 2 in my front yard the past 2 years took major hits. I plan on removing the dead parts today. We put in 4 arborvitae's last year. I think the dry conditions might have been the problem for it. I was watering them, but maybe that one was just weaker or something. I don't mind having to replace 1. The other 3 look good thankfully.

One 6' green giant arborvitae and 2 butterfly bushes. The butterfly ones are still alive, but like 90% of both died.

The cherry trees here are beautiful. My neighbor has several mature ones and I'm a bit jealous of them. I wish I could uproot one and pop it in my lawn somewhere, haha. But, my weeping cherries, dogwood, eastern redbuds, pear and magnolias are all popping now. Only bad thing is besides one magnolia, all are pretty young trees that we planted over the past 8 years here.

Everything seems about normal here. I noticed a decent amount of shrubs around the neighborhood are dead. Maybe the drier fall/winter attributed to that, along with 4 days going below zero? I have to replace 2.

81, beautiful. Wish these days could have been the weekend, but working on the deck isn't too terrible

Industrialization is also a reason why we live longer lives. The hockey stick charts that get posted all the time pretty much go hand in hand to the average lifespan for humans if you lay them on top of each other and also with the global population charts. Maybe one day we will go back to the early 1800s where all those charts still line up almost perfectly, but we only live until age 30 and we are down to 1 billion people on Earth.

agree, .75"+ would be nice.

It is location dependent too, even around here. The past 7 years, in the central nj area 15 miles west of Rutgers University, I am: a tick below ave Well below Way above 66% of av way below Ave 66% of ave. Those 7 years are a hair over 23" average for me and I average 29". So yes, it has been below average. But next year if we happen to get a nice winter, I can be right near average again for the past 8 years. His 7 year thing is so cherry picked it is laughable. The prior 7 year to that I averaged 11" above average. If I combine the 14 years, I am above average overall. Somehow the last 7 years are the new norm, but the 7 years prior to that just get tossed.

78. It is a bit breezy here

I have no idea, but they turned them black as you can kind of see from the pic above and seemed to have killed them. I never knew what kind of trees they were until the lanternfly came. There were legit thousands on them and they secrete a liquid (maybe that was what the black was on the bark?) that made it almost look like it was drizzling outside. 73 out and watering system just got turned on for the season.

Yeah, the ones I had were behind 2 giant pines that I have, so they weren't bothering me much. Their leaves looked similar to the Eastern Black Walnut tree that was mixed in with them. I was able to save that tree when the trees of heaven were removed.