BrianW

You must feel so relieved now that the pressure has eased for watering up that way..

Isn't that common on Ice Planet Hoth?

This is how you dew it. My rescue Chihuahua/Dachshund from Mississippi was in his glory yesterday. Specifically picks the hottest black part of the patio to embrace his dews.

Suns out here and the dews here are spectacular. I think everyone is in for a special treat soon when all of New England is under full sun.

Well said. At what age do you think you embrace the dews. Late 30's or early 40's?

What a bust on shoreline temps here. Every day has been close to +10 above Upton's forecast.

Those Midea units have absolutely stunning efficiency. Variable capacity inverter compressors are the future of heating and cooling. America is stupidly slow to adapt to the technology. 90% of Asia and Europe have been using inverter driven compressors for the last decade. My mini split is rated at an insane 38 seer. Nearly 4 times the efficiency of a whole house ac or window unit. It can move heat in the summer at a COP (coefficient of performance) of 8.79. Thats an effective thermodynamic efficiency 879%. In the winter I can heat my house when its 5 degrees out at twice the efficiency of any fossil fuel source of heat. Add in some solar and your fuel is essentially free.

So I won't have to turn on my irrigation?

Those Midea units have absolutely stunning efficiency. Variable capacity inverter DC driven compressors in a window unit. Its basically a mini split in a window unit.

What a jump on soil temps up there.

I work in a skilled trade. These units are expensive because skilled state licensed hvac techs and electricians are installing them that are being paid around $50+ hr. The companies need to pull permits and do everything to the T in order for the homeowners to get the generous state rebates. You can't cut any corners when the state rebate is looking everything over. Despite the high install cost these units will save an incredible amount of money in energy costs.

Congrats Caribou. One of the hottest spots in New England right now on WU.

He has irrigation. You can see the hose in a tweet from today. It looks he is well off as he has 2 nice houses in Massachusetts and Maine. I bet he hypes his drought and everything gets watered automatically every night with his 20k irrigation system.

HVN 77. Nice increase in the dews here compared to yesterday. Feels like summer out there today with full leaf out.

I opened my pool yesterday. My neighbors just built that pool and pergola and its open and heated.

Your really close actually. Looks like Shelton/Derby is in plant hardiness zone 7a.

Every plant and tree is pretty much fully leafed out down here. The last real cold/freeze here was March 11-14. Its been 56 days here since my last below 32 temp.

Pretty big bust on Upton's 1-1.5 here. BDR with only .08 today.

Do you know what their profit margin is on a can of beer? I just looked at their prices and every can is like $5-6 each. They have zero distribution costs where they just brew/can and sell it on the spot. They have no trucking costs and no liquor/beer wholesaler involvement. Their profits must be enormous compared to how conventional breweries operate using mainly wholesale distributors.

Great weekend to install.

Its host specific. See the Uconn link in my first post. Particular strains of Bt proteins are host-specific, binding to certain receptors in the insect's gut wall like a lock and key. It is important to use the strain of Bt that targets a certain pest. New to the home market in 2015 was the strain Bacillus thuringiensis galleriae (Btg) which is reportedly effective against both the adult and grub forms of Japanese, Asian, and Oriental beetles, all of which cause large amounts of damage to turf. The following are some of the most commonly used Bt strains:

Look into this newer product grubgone that contains a soil borne bacteria. Its not cheap but way better for the environment and pollinators. I read a few studies done on it from Uconn and UMass and it's appears to be extremely effective on grubs. In some tests it performed better on grubs than the popular Merit insecticide. Also works on gypsy moths and other pests. https://growitnaturally.com/products/grubgone http://www.ladybug.uconn.edu/FactSheets/bacillus-thuringiensis.php

Cool article where they used NOAA nexrad radar to pinpoint where a meteorite broke up over Mississippi last week. Apparently meteorite hunters have flooded the area and they have recovered a few pieces so far. Using the time and location for the event provided by the AMS, amateur fireball researcher Eric Rasmussen looked over NOAA’s Doppler NEXRAD weather radar and saw something suspicious near the time and place of the fireball. A large cloud appeared and then disappeared near the end of the fireball’s path right after the event occurred. This cloud was found in data from three different NEXRAD radar stations. https://www.amsmeteors.org/2022/05/meteorites-recovered-in-mississippi-from-april-27th-2022-morning-fireball/

I use to work in a lot commercial buildings and you would be amazed on how many fire systems are completely neglected and not working. Sprinkler rooms that look like they have been leaking for a decade with the last service tag from 12 years ago. I have seen tons of building fire panels just dead and not even have power. So many companies skimp on maintaining their fire systems and most towns and cities have no annual inspections on that stuff so places get away with neglecting it. I bet sadly that's exactly what happened here. Most of the sprinkler systems that far up north are filled with compressed air due to the freeze risk. There is a valve that is supposed to activate when a sprinkler head or two activates and it senses the air pressure drop and sends water to the pipes. They are very complicated systems compared to ones that are just pressurized with water. The air pumps that keep the system pressurized are known to have issues and if the pump is dead the sprinklers won't work at all.