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Tamarack,   The pure American Chestnut was given to me when it was about 10" tall.  So I think this is the third summer for it.  I planted it in my lower pasture about 50 feet from the dirt road.  The deer usually stay away from the road and the tree was mostly buried in snow.  Now it is really growing so I will put deer fencing around it.  It does have a main stem but as you can see the lower branches are pretty low.  Should I do anything or just let it grow as is?

I am not really a tree person and thought the Chestnut blight had passed now that the Chestnuts are gone, guess not.  I was down at Wellesley college last week for my nieces graduation.  Beautiful campus with huge old trees.  I spotted an American Chestnut.  Walked over and there was a stone saying 1899.  Cool to see such an old tree.

Here is my American Chestnut. This thread reminds me to go down and water it.  Soil is bone dry.  I had a second and idiot me ran it over when it was tiny.  Argghh...

So many Ash trees around here.  I have one in my backyard that is the centerpiece of my flower beds. Also one next to the road in my front yard. I didn't realize that the  Asian longhorned beetle kills  about all of the ash trees.  Really sad.  

About the Chestnut trees.  I knew they were wiped out.  25 years ago a nursery was trying to grow a hybrid Asia/American chestnut tree.  I bought one.  It is doing great, about 20 feet tall.  Then 2 years ago a neighbor had a friend that was having success in growing 100% baby American Chestnut trees.  He gave me a 12" sapling.  It is also doing great and is about 3 feet tall. Here is a picture of my frontyard with the hybrid chestnut and ash tree behind it.

Alex at the base of Bretton Woods along the river recorded a low of 30.2F.  About 3 hours at 32F or lower.  Very impressive for June 10th!

Here is his graph, time sensitive   https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=KNHCARRO4#history

Ouch,   Alex in the Valley at Bretton Woods,  30.2F.  I've been to his weather station and it seemed very accurate.  Looking at his graph on WxUnderground he was below freezing from 345am to about 640am.   I'll have to text him to see how much damage was done to his garden....

I don't usually look at this thread but saw the tree post.  I am trying to repopulate American Chestnuts on my property.  I have a 20-year-old Chinese American hybrid growing and it's doing well.  A friend of mine knows someone who is growing 100% American Chestnuts and he gave us 2.   Planted  last year, so far so good.  I was down in Wellesley Mass at my niece's graduation and noticed they had a very old American Chestnut.  Placard said planted 1899.  Very cool to see...

From my DD run this morning.   Lots of brown lawns developing around the hood!  Really unusual for early June

.63" yesterday and .08" today.  Finally some rain after .77" for all of May.   Looks like this will be about it for this event.  Another long wait for more moisture.... Just looked at the GFS, really nothing for the next 10 days...

.55"  very happy!   Perhaps another .25" over the next day or two..

Cold front through and change of airmass is noticable.  74/64F.   Last  week a 64F dew would have felt humid,  now it feels refreshing.  It's coming down there...

2 hours ago, tamarack said:

Direct hit here, 1st time that's happened in 4 weeks - 0.92" from 2 showers 5-6:1 PM.  2nd had some weak thunder, and was much the heavier.  Nearly as much RA in 75 minutes as in all of May.  Now to feed mosquitos n the garden.

Tamarack,  stop!  Ha, you were my drought buddy and you have abandoned me!.  Not a drop here yesterday.  Still 1.3" since April 25th!  Looking forward to Monday-Wednesday...

1 hour ago, powderfreak said:

Wow it's crazy how dry you and Tamarack have been.

The two local cocorahs here are Stowe 0.2sw with 3.26" and Stowe 3.7n with 4.03"....so 3-4" locally here though to be honest I didn't get the stratus out early in the month so couldn't give you my backyard total.

Dirt roads are very dusty here as well as my garden top soil.  April 25th I got an inch.   Then all these nickels and dimes that never soak in.  This should change over the Friday-Sunday period and put a stop to my whining.  

Im sure its too early to tell but wonder if the water crest in Ellicott City was higher this time than 2016.  Awful situation to happen 2 years apart.  People are going to be gun shy to rebuild again especially at the lower end of the street.

Getting drier and drier.  Got .08" late afternoon.   That may be it for this month.  Grand total should be .77".   Most of that was nickels and dimes that never did more than wet the surface.  Hopefully something late week will deliver have been watering the gardens.

Lots of showers just missed yesterday and last night.  Brian, you must have gotten something decent??

12 hours ago, alex said:

We've had Moose sightings every day or two in the past several weeks, way more than I remember last year. I wonder if it has anything to do with the late leaf-out we are still just bidding at my elevation and the higher terrain is bare trees, so they may be hanging out to enjoy the new growth. Unfortunately I've also seen 5 road-killed so far this year 

Hi Alex,

Maybe you are seeing more moose since the nice leafy greens are down at lowest elevations,  less to eat above until leaf out occurs at elevations.  Hate to hear about moose kills on roads.  That is so sad.  Happens down here too but much fewer moose to hit. 

Could definitely use some rain for the garden and lawn.  April 25th was the last good rain.    Our pond was in spring overflow mode 2 weeks ago but has fallen about 3 feet since then.  

Kind of interesting with the placement of this new tornado watch relative to the risk zones.  Tornado Watch is a bit north of where I thought it would be.  Even into S VT in areas SW of me that are were marginal.  Makes sense with the solar insulation blasting away up here.  Didn't think I would break out into the mostly sunny skies.

3 minutes ago, Yester said:

Question to you folks: I am a bit of a weather-phobe. Sitting here in the middle of RI. Changes that any of this craziness really moves east? Mostly the tornado stuff, I mean.

The line of thunderstorms would be coming through the RI around 6pm.   They should start to weaken as they move SE through the state.  Best chance of severe would be in Connecticut and Mass. 

Clearing out nicely in the Southern half of VT and NH now.  If I were the SPC perhaps I would have bumped this afternoon threat a bit more north as it is now clearing off nicely even up here.

I'm going to guess they will issue a tornado watch for areas east of the new Severe Thunderstorm Watch.

Severe Thunderstorm Watch or a Tornado Watch?   Meso discussion mentioned both..

I consider mid-spring to be the time when most of the forest canopy is at 50% leaf growth.  Rapidly approaching that time but not quite there yet.  Maybe 3 more days...

Leaf out is in full force up to about 1250 feet.  Ridges above that are bare.  Forsythia have now bloomed and the first dandelions appeared today.  Lawn mowing will begin by this weekend.  

Update on the fropa squall line that moved through last night at 10pm.   Lost 4 trees within 1000 feet of the house.  One apple tree and 3 white pines in the woods.  2 got snapped half way up and 2 uprooted.  Most of the damage seems to be right within half mile of my house.  So maybe some freak microburst,  I have no idea.  I just know my Davis always seems low during wind events so my 54mph may have been over 60mph.  In any event a great 5 minutes.  Very lucky the trees are still bare up here on would have been more tree damage for sure.  Wish it had been light outside..

Another comment.  After the fropa with the 54mph gust we had a 90 minute period of very high winds.  Many gusts in the 40-45mph range.  Here is Davis from last night.  Impressive.

Wow,  what a great squall line this evening.  I wasn't expecting too much as it looked on radar as though it was weakening.  Not one flash of lightning.  Then around 10pm we heard a roar in the woods.  Heavy rain came in like a wall and then about 3 or 4 minutes of huge wind.  I have never felt the house literally shake.  The cats were going nuts.  I was running around and trying to watch my old Davis station and running from window to window.  True weenie behavior!  Winds were sustained in the 30's and 40's for that time period.  As attached the peak gust was 54mph. Rainfall during that 5 minutes about .25".

Power flickered but stayed on.  Lots of branches down around the house.

Just took a look at our power company (NH Electric Coop) outage map.  Of 80,000 customers about 11% do not have power.

Storm grade  B +

Wow.   Extreme rain and wind.  House shaking.  Lights flickering.  Davis just gusted to 54mph and that always is low. 

Edit.  Rain let up, winds died down.  Very intense 5 minutes.  One of the most intense winds I have ever seen.

33 minutes ago, BillHarding said:

 

How'd you get those to stream online? I want to setup a cam or two at my place that has good views but I have crappy DSL internet and don't want the stream taking up half of the bandwidth.

I use the Nestcam.  Just have standard cable connection.

Finally bright sun coming out with that muggy feel.  75/62 and should rise now even though its late in the day

HRRR has that severe cell going right over me in C NH.