gravitylover

Nobody but us knows "what it could have been", all they know is it's not really warm yet and sort of fits the melancholy mood that permeates life in the metro area at the moment. I'm good with no 90's for the whole year if you want the truth, I just don't want another wet one. Wet enough that the garden does well but dry enough to keep the skeeter population in check because there's limited standing water for them to breed in.

Uggh. I'd be ok with a dry year for a change, the last 2 were wet enough to last me a while.

Is it really going to rain 4 out of 5 days next week? Yuck...

I got whacked good. I was outside appreciating all the newly planted goodies and what is going in tomorrow when the wind started. The treetops started rustling and it was nice then boom leaning hard and the wind worked down to the ground in a few seconds. The patio chairs started lifting as I threw the grill cover on. I grabbed the chairs from the fence, stacked 'em and ran inside soaked. The first one was hard and short without being terribly wet, the second line is super heavy rain without the strong winds.

^ That would suck.

I don't. I'll try to pay more attention and let you know.

Without it we'd be mired in ankle deep goo.

No we don't. Water levels are high, soil moisture is high, soil temps are cool for the time of year and the flora needs a dry warm(ish) week to really fill in. Many creeks and small rivers are running high and a 3+ incher would flood a lot of vulnerable areas.

Alright I'm calling it after tonight, no more frosts or freezes and the 70 or so seedlings and plants ready to go clogging up my sunroom are going out to the garden tomorrow. The last seed potatoes are going in today though.

Anecdotally, from mt bikers, it's worse than recent years but I've yet to pick one up myself.

Yup that's what I'm thinking too. I forgot to cover one bed the other day and lost my string beans and Hungarian wax hot peppers I'm excited about my potatoes, I built a potato box and all 3 that I planted in there are happening so I built 2 more and will be filling them with soil today. We should end up with more potatoes than we can eat if all goes right. Heh, now I know right where you're at. Was that big storm Floyd in 1999? Most spots east of the river got over 10" and along the higher terrain was 13+. Fahnestock recorded 14.5 and a reliable station that used to be on Quaker Hill in Patterson/ Pawling showed just under 17.

Well almost... The last of the snowshowers moved through around 8pm last night so no 5/10 snowfall record set Hopefully this morning was the last freeze, I really want to get the tomatoes outside, the cold hardy stuff that's out there seems to have come through just fine. My wife's new flowers not so much

That radar looks like it belongs in December not May. It has been popcorn snow showers up here all day, at least it's not so cold anymore that you don't want to be outside but it sure doesn't feel like springtime.

Other than the greens and flowers... I want it to happen after midnight. Today tied the late snowfall record, after midnight would set a new record. I'm all about new records

1/2" of frozen whitestuff this morning looked great as the sun came up. The deep blue sky against the greens and white was pretty cool to see. The snowball fight my daughter and I had a little while ago was too much fun.

My daughter and I went out and had a Mayuary snowball fight a little while ago. History made . #Coronacationentertainment

Alright forky we need some flamethrower pics.

So nice to wake up to snow on the ground. It really highlights the soft greens and the colors of the flowers around my garden. In the shade on elevated surfaces I have over .5".

Snowing pretty hard here. Sticking to the regular colder surfaces and even on the lawn and bushes now.

It's snowing pretty hard and sticking to cars, railings and even some on bushes and on the grass now.

I don't know is 34 degree white rain any better than 35 degree regular rain? I want to see the snow just to tie the record and I'm going to hope there's still enough moisture around as the whole thing pulls out Saturday night that it flakes after midnight and sets a new record as the temp drops and I "find" a trace on the grill top.

I think HM and Jerry were there too.

This time it's actually important as it will tie a record if it does snow.

LALALALALA I don't see this lalalalala

^ ? It's got that raw mid March feeling out there today. It's kind of like deja vu... Is it over yet?