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We really need the trees to leaf out and suck some of this water up. The forests are soggy right now and mostly not pleasant places to be. My yard is a disaster with two trees down and dozens of big branches and hundreds of twigs and small branches and it's so soft that I can only access some parts of it without sinking in an inch or more.

I tried to clean out my planter boxes yesterday to get things started but they're still half frozen. Someone needs to start a garden/gardening thread.

My most likely faulty memory from growing up on LI was that spring kicked sometime in late March or early April at the latest, at least north of Merrick Rd, and you could pretty much count on good weather for Easter/Passover almost every year. Even at my parents house ~1 mile south of Merrick Rd we could usually count on the forsythia and willow bushes blooming for Passover. Here in south central Putnam County I usually figure it's about 4/15 before it gets decently reliable but this decade it really has been a roller coaster for April. 2012 we had a wonderful 5 week stretch from then end of March into the beginning of May with temps in the 70's every day and not a drop of rain. Things dried out quickly as the trees leafed out and sucked the ground dry, unfortunately that also left us thirsty by early July. Last year it was May before it dried out and warmed up.

D-. Too much wasted cold, too much ice and sleet, too much rain, rotten "snowcover" days and only 30" of total frozen precip. I'd give it an F but it was certainly more wintry than 11/12 which was the recent benchmark for dud winters.

I wonder what's left up there after the r**n and mixed temps recently.

The pics I saw from Smuggs this morning were pretty inspiring.

How does the Crosstrek do in that stuff?

A 4-5 foot thump in an hour would be insane. I've seen 12"/hr for 3 hours and that was something I don't expect to ever see again, I'd like to but I don't think I will. When you're in the house and it goes from daylight to darkness as the snow goes over the top of the window...

Yep The wind was pretty serious too and I lost a few of the branches that were damaged, between those and the two trees down that I haven't cut up yet because I'm not supposed to strain myself too much since the December heart attack the backyard looks like a war zone. I had to pull my car out of the driveway yesterday afternoon and I put it on the parking area at the front of my lawn, between the last of the snowbank melting out during the day, the ground thawing and the rain it sunk 4" in and I had to pull it out with my Durango this morning. What a pita that was. Gonna have to go get a new chainsaw and get busy on the trees this week as it dries out then fix the 4 new holes out front. Not going to need the gym this week

2.4" here and no the wet pattern has not ended.

Yeah that was the real deal last night. I had all of the gutters overflowing for a while there. Now the yard is a muck pit. I had to move my car out of the driveway yesterday afternoon and put it out by the street on the front of the lawn where i carved out a parking area a few years ago. As the ground finished thawing during the day and the snowbank melted out it sunk a little bit, with all of that rain it sunk in about 4" and I'm going to have to tow it out this morning. It is completely high centered from one end to the other as it only has 4.5" of clearance. Maybe after another cup of coffee

I saw 70 on the dashboard this afternoon, actually I saw 68-69 it was my wife that saw it hit 70, in Danbury. It's awfully nice out there right now, too bad the woods are a total mudpit.

#firstworldproblems

I saw 63 in Wappingers and 65 by KPOU on 376. Yeah the spray from melting snow was pretty significant, used a bunch of wiper fluid today. Heh, brand new tires on warm pavement on some of your local twisties was a bunch of fun today

What a nice day up here in Julian land. Not much snow left here, pretty surprising considering how much there us in CT. Yup the moths came out at my place a few days ago, so did the spider crickets

When I was in HS only the football field had lights and up here pretty much none of the fields other than football do. I know that minenfeld said they have them there but it's not common here on the NY side. HS golf practice starts in February usually in the southern conferences. I think girls field hockey is also a spring sport and that would likely be affected and track might be too. I don't need to argue about this it was just my thought.

Only works if there are lights and outside of LI and Westchester very few school fields are lit, football maybe but baseball fields and tennis courts rarely are and golf courses certainly aren't. While it may not be a thing for a lot of people it is for more than you think and for those people it's critical that those sports can be maintained.

It looks like tomorrow may get into the mid 50's and so will Friday. As long as it stays dry tomorrow, and it looks like it will, that will feel pretty good. Friday looks like a washout.

There are a few, boys tennis, golf and baseball. Very few schools, at least around here, have lit facilities for these and there are lots of kids depending on those scholarships to go to college.

Heckuva way to run a warmup eh

I was born in September 1966 and my mom used to tell me how unpleasant it was to be pregnant and living in an apartment building in Brooklyn with no AC that summer.

That would eliminate most scholastic sports so while you might be ok with it many people wouldn't.

There's just no good way to give a reasonable reading for NY, the differences around such a tight metro area are too significant. EWR, TEB, JFK, LGA, HPN and Central Park are nearly sight distance from each other if you're up on a hill or big bridge but have such different storm results and temperatures it really is amazing. Microclimates at work...

Warm but wet or cold and likely with an offshore storm track due to the depth of the cold. The scratched record repeating pattern continues