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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. 27-Apr 0.18 28-Apr 0.25 30-Apr 0.1 6-May 0.1 20-May 0.43 22-May 0.16 27-May 0.08

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??

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.

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.

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.

Hey, For anyone interested here is my weather site with my 2 webcams. Nice 40 mile view to my SW from my hilltop location. Davis weather info also on the page http://www.metrocast.net/~wxeye/

Wow, I'm on the line between slight and enhanced with SPC. Im not good at record keeping but can't remember the last time. Does anyone keep records of enhanced or moderate for C/NNE? Still cloudy and cool but looks like we are about to break out into brighter skies. Living on an exposed hilltop always makes me nervous. Wonder if we will get a tornado watch out of this setup?

Just this afternoon that the grass is starting to show signs of awakening. When I lived down in Metro Boston and certainly growing up in Baltimore, springs and falls lasted longer. It seems as you move towards the poles the in-between seasons are shorter. Up here spring is a 4 or perhaps 6 weeks deal, the same for fall. Is it my imagination? Probably not as climatologically our weekly temperatures rise or fall very quickly with the sun angle and length of daylight.

April 22nd and really no signs of spring up here. Grass is brown. Red maples are not even swelling yet. Forsythia look like they did in January. A few blades of green grass showing up on south facing lawns. Really only loss our snowcover 2 days ago so I suspect things will move into high gear over the next couple of days. Still waiting for ice out on Newfound Lake.

Mark, can you believe it. Some mood flakes falling right now. 4.5" on the day!

GOES 16 has the center moving NNE at the moment

2.5" never got below 1 mile vis today. Mostly very small flakage. Finally in past 15 minutes a few bonafide medium flakes mixed in. Sky very bright. Peak wind gust 14mph. Town plow still has not bothered to go by. Kids could easily had school. Total disasta...unless something backs in from the east.

1pm. Very light snow and snow grains. Snow started at 8am and after 5 hours 2". Intense band to my east wants to come west but falls apart. Big bust incoming? Starting to look like that.

Watching WMUR news at noon here in NH. Reporting 14 people without power in the state. I thought it might be an error but just checked the Eversource map. 2 customers without power in their service region

27.4F Light snow, light winds. Vis 1.25 miles. Poor snow growth 1.5" new (Been snowing for 4 hours now)