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Rain went through, added .04" sun trying to pop out again

That area is getting good rains now, se pa and getting into snj. Did the rgem miss it or it doesn't have much after this.

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It's becoming sad, as he obviously is a good poster, but his head has become so clouded now is downright laughable. Talk about letting your bias get in way, lol. You are 100% right, we went through a stage where we averaged a good 7" or so more than normal for 20 years. Now since 2016 it is a below average stretch and the new norm. So delusional.

17-18 and 20-21 were well above average here (I'm pretty much dead center between Philly and NYC). Again, some of these things are location dependent and picking a big city like many do isn't necessarily accurate. Last year (23-24) I was exactly average due to one sneaky storm that dropped a foot in a small swath. But the same can be said for other winters when a nor'easter gets Long Island/NYC putting them above average snow and gives me an inch since I am 10 miles too west. We are running 3" below average here for the past 8 years, but some area's are much lower, some are higher.

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

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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.