BrianW

69 and beautiful out on Pt Judith with just a light breeze. I set up a station here at my sister's rental house a few years back. https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KRINARRA66

Pretty meh at BDR

Don't forgot to try some New Haven Apizza. I like Bar and Modern Archie Moore's has the best wings in New Haven as well. Please don't go to Wingstop. Also, long wharf across from IKEA has dozens of really good food trucks along the water.

Yeah. I think we talked about it before but my wife and I also thought the insecticide long term wasn't a good plan as Imodclprod is terrible for pollentors. I could see all the dead green EAB adults all over my driveway and it was killing a ton of other probably beneficial insects. I could actually gauge how bad the infestation was over the years based on how many dead adults I saw. Early on my driveway was littered with them but only saw a few dead ones the last few years. Every Ash has been dead for around 10 years here.

It's interesting that you can see from the rings even with treatment the tree pretty much stopped growing around the same time EAB hit.

For you tree guys. @kdxken @tamarack Been keeping this monster green Ash alive with a soil drench of Imodclprod since EAB first hit in 2012. Had to take it down as we are getting a new driveway/drainage and the roots were so shallow. My wife and I counted the rings and got around 130 years old. Was almost 4 feet across the base.

I don't even bother with seed. It's expensive but I just buy a strip of sod at my local garden center from Kingston Turf in RI. Just keep it watered and you get beautiful KBG with zero weeds as they are chocked out. https://www.kingstonturf.com/

BDL like temps in Tolland today.

I've heard it'simiiar to a yellow Jacket sting.. Dolomedes tenebrosus, commonly known as the dark fishing spider, is venomous, but its venom is not medically significant to humans. While they can bite, they are not aggressive and usually bite only when mishandled. The bite is typically no more severe than a bee sting, and most people do not experience serious effects.

AI image search results... What a beautiful spider..

Purely Organics and yeah it's local as the bag says it's made in Portsmouth NH. I get it at my local garden center but I've seen it in some Home Depot's. The grains are probably from some brewery in the Portsmouth area as the bags say it's made from waste distillery grains. Even gives your lawn a hint of beer smell when you put it down. Haha https://www.simplygro.com/products/purely-organic-products-lawn-food-25-lb

Lawn looks great. Hydrangeas and peonies about to bloom here already. Everything probably about a week or two early here. And before anyone comments about fertilizer and pesticides my lawn is 100% organic. I use organic fertilizer made from waste distillery grains. Beer...

New Haven's like a month ahead of that. From my dash cam on Friday.

BDR was 47 for the low. When we the last time you had a hard frost there? Been frost free here since like the first week of March in Branford.

BDL going for the 90.. and thats with the "updated" sensor.

Some 80's showing up in SW CT.

Special day on tap. 850 mb temps have trended a degree or so slightly warmer than 24 hrs ago. With WSW flow and mixing towards 850mb away from southern and eastern coasts, and l unseasonably warm temps aloft (+1-2 STD 850mb temps), have continued to lean to NBM 50-75th percentile and HRRR. With temps already starting near seasonable highs this morning, widespread high temps in the upper 70s to mid 80s are expected away from southern and eastern coastal areas (greater maritime influence). This will result in temps approaching records for the date for a few spots. NBM deterministic is still generally running in the lower 25th quartile of guidance for max temps today, which appears to be low based on the anomalously warm airmass.

A large section of the shoreline was reclassified to Zone 7 in 2023. New Haven and West along the shoreline has always been the warmest part of the state but it's expanding east. Our state no longer has Zone 5B, which was in the northwest corner of the state and accounted for the coldest temperatures of -15 to -10°f. Most of Connecticut is now in Zone 6 with a large area along the shoreline in Zone 7. Zone 7 extends all the way south to parts of Virginia.

Haha. I remember posting one year with him when we were both mowing well into December.

Did my 3rd cut of the season yesterday. I mow every 5 days.

Good timing.

+6.0 here at HVN. Haven't been below 32 here since March 10th.

Just realized the Purely Organics is manufactured and is based in Portsmouth NH. Nice to know I'm supporting a local New England company. Wonder who's beer grains they are using?

Beautiful day here on the shoreline. Even GON putting up a 70.