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I had pellets for a while this morning. A couple of inches would probably be ok but any more and we'll have branches and weak trees down. It's budding heavily and leafing out for some species here and the ground is loose.

Around 7:30, maybe a little later, I had windblown frozen pellets falling. That was nice to see.

51/51/S5/Fog. .5" for the day so far.

Heavy enough rain that some of the gutters are overflowing. Nice day... That storm for midweek sounds an awful lot like the April Fools storm in 97. Warm the day before, trees were leafing out quickly, some rain and rind then snow overnight as the storm moves through. Hopefully it's not 17" like that was because the trees are leafing out again.

Well, yeah. That too I guess I'll get a few new beds together and get the soil mix in. Couldn't get good garden soil easily so I got organic potting soil and organic compost that I'll mix 75/25 and add a layer of native brown material on the bottom.

Man, it's been so hard refraining from planting the garden this week. The garlic I planted in November all came up and is looking great and the herbs that I leave in are coming back strong. If we don't see a real cold snap in the next 2-3 weeks I think it's time to get some early crops in so what's the consensus on that? I know it's never smart to think it's going to stay this warm this early in the year and our last freeze is still 3-5 weeks away but...

This is some seriously dense fog. A couple of hundred feet visibility tops, I haven't been out but I can't see the end of the neighbors yards across the street and that's about 300 feet away.

^^Eek. .47 for the event here. Between that and this mornings fog things are wet but thankfully not soggy like last week.

I saw 68 on the dashboard while driving. It's amazing how quickly it went from a solid snowpack to mud to dry. I dug down a foot or so to pull an old root ball and it's dry(ish) 4" down and not muddy at a foot. I've got buds trying to open on some bushes and the trees are looking ready to pop. The garlic I planted last November is coming up already! Yay I hate getting these really nice stretches too early, it makes me want to start planting but I know it's really too early. I think the time is right so I did a fair bit of soil amendments today with organic compost and fresh soil. Hopefully after next weeks little cool snap it warms up for good.

Only if you promise to keep it south of I80. I'll even give you up to the NY/NJ/PA border if it makes you happy.

Nah I'm good with ~60* every day for a month or two. I mean, I won't complain if it gets up to 70 Maybe some rain a day or two a week. Ya know kinda like an old school spring.

KDXR 13 miles away and most locations in towns and along the lakes dropped into the high 20's early this morning but up here on the hill it stayed in the mid 30's. It's already 45 and climbing rapidly while it's still near freezing in town.

I don't think the last little pile will hold out until tomorrow so I threw a few snowballs today just because. What can I plant that's cold hardy enough to withstand another month of cold nights? Cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli...?

Well, with .9-1" around the hill yesterday that does away with that deficit. The big thing is how much water the melting snow put into the ground compounded with that inch of rain. The precip numbers alone can't tell the story accurately. What do the numbers look like since the fall, so the last 6 months?

I was hoping that the couple of days between melt off and the rain was enough but no, the basement is flooding I think it's either coming up through the old floor drain or through the wall at the northeast corner where the snow held on for the longest.

We'll be calling him Scatman... He's gonna have to change his avatar pic.

I think I saw 7 flakes this afternoon. Woot

That's a scary read. Batten down folks.

The neighbor across the street blew all of the snow off the driveway into one spot and that's what I see from my desk so that's nice but even my 6 foot high shovel piles are nearly gone and black on top so they don't look like snow anymore. Oh well, so it goes. @CPcantmeasuresnow yeah maybe but that was a pretty intense couple of weeks with a boatload of snow and 50 something days of snowcover hits my long duration snowpack requirement. We also had a multi day storm, a few times where it snowed a couple of days in a row and a good December storm. January and now March killed it though so yeah it's quickly falling through the B's.

That A- grade is slipping away. 3 weeks with no wintry precip of note and barely a prospect of any more before the end of the month will kill the enthusiasm from the near record preceding 3 weeks. The convective graupel day last week helped but not enough. I need at least a 6+ with snow on the ground for a few days to keep it there. That said, I'm fine with it going straight to the 60's and staying there when this cold(ish) airmass moves out, in fact I'm pretty sure it's what I want to happen.

Too few words for that many syllables.

The upside to all the wind is how quickly the ground surface is drying up, my yard has gone from a quagmire to reasonable in 3 days rather than the typical 2 weeks.

We got lucky and it was only out for about 45 minutes. A huge pine tree took out a pole 100 feet from the corner and they were able to reroute it and get my street back up. If it had been one pole down the line we would have been out for 8 or 9 hours while they repaired the damage like the houses further up the hill.

This wind is the real deal. Power was out for a while, it's back up now but keeps flickering. I was out and coming home was going over some big branches, one was big enough I needed to raise the (air) suspension on my Range Rover to get over it without high centering.

And the power is out