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Wheee. 
 

No leaves here.  I’m thinking some leaf out at work. 

1 minute ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Get em in 

https://x.com/growingwisdom/status/1781991380945883639?s=46&t=dhcbvkjmRcyBVQtDxJ3lRg

Did you read the article?

”There are a few things to keep in mind if you want to start planting this time of year. Even if we don’t see another frost until autumn, chilly and damp weather is not good for your warm-weather plants. Putting in tomatoes, peppers, basil or anything in that group of vegetables is asking for trouble and disease, so hold off.”

I guess we got to 27F this morning.   Pool weather 

1 hour ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

Nice day on tap but we started in the 30s this morning.k

Yep. 32.0 was my morning low.  But it has recovered decently. 

1 hour ago, Ginx snewx said:

Pray for those who planted Tomatoes and Peppers. Huge cold outbreak possible next week.

Why would anyone do that before Memorial Day?

12 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

I was not living here . But I’d bet there was at least 8-10” based on reports at lower els. ORH had over 12

I had 8-12” in Foxboro (I was pretty young ).  Lots of damage 

Will’s map. Still the best one 

4 minutes ago, Torch Tiger said:

Earliest leaf-out ever? wowzers

Yeah. Things are definitely ahead 

1 hour ago, Damage In Tolland said:

The usual valleys and elevated valleys and swamps for sure will. Generally most folks are done with 32

Yeah. I think almost all are done south of the MA/NH border except in places like Pete’s. 

3 hours ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Even here in the high hills 32 is long gone and has been. Early May looks hot 

We hit below 30F this morning. 

7 hours ago, Typhoon Tip said:

That's a local yokel favorite "hang out" for suicide ..there, and testing gravity through the 70 foot of draft under the university ave bridge.  The bladed rocks at the bottom make "absolution" a certainty.

I think it was a murder victim but not sure. I also seem to recall a woman jumped from the bridge onto the rocks…and lived.   Yuck

2 hours ago, Typhoon Tip said:

Floods are interesting to observe first hand. 

Objects et al sticking out of water like they have no business being where they are. 

It's not unusual as your driving by, you look over your shoulder to see a playground swing set and its attached slide jutting out mid way up. A repurposed oil-drum painted green being used as a garbage can nearby. What is it about playgrounds and ball parks - they always seem to be laid out right next to some innocuous slow moving stream on the other side of a brambled row of shrubbery, just beyond the outfield's chain-link fence.  It's like the settlers might have surveyed the land back whence and realized a flood control issue and thought, 'Well, what the hell else are we gonna to do with the land?'   Typical white man ... instead of just leaving it be, they create a rec center out of the natural setting - 'cept... said Nature didn't get that memo during wet springs.

Scale that up and obviously we're talking about a whole different dimension of gawk affect. 

Like... the Merrimack River in May, 2006. Mother's Day weekend, in short order a stalled cut-off low pumped some 3 or 4 month's worth of rain into the head region up in the Whites after a respectably hefty snow year was still trying to unburden itself down the water shed.   Wow... arresting.  

The overflow at the Tyngsborough dam just up the way from UML has about a 20 ft draft over the crest to the crag rock below, that latter more typically dried out and exposed on a typical August afternoon.  It also demarcates the beginning of the aqueduct that runs immediately parallel to the original river basin from that point about a mile to a main gate that rejoins the river just east of the University Ave bridge - it's nearly 50 feet deep at that point.  It was originally used to power the Mill industry during the latter gilded era and early industrialization's invasion of the Merrimack Valley known as Lowell's Boote Cotton Mills.  

There was flood in ( I think 1937 ) ... The 2005 event may have come close to 90th percentile of that. I'm not sure... but both overwhelmed that control system.  The water in 2005 flowed over top the dam to such an astonishing altitude that it became nearly laminar over the top.   20 foot draft below that crest and the water above and below the dam became nearly not above nor below the dam.   After having been on or around the campus for 4 or 5 years through the late 1990s ... to then go back and see that sight was ... you just stood there wide eyed. 

I saw a body swirling around behind the hydro dam back in the early 1990s.  Maybe late 1980s. I forget. 

11 hours ago, ineedsnow said:

nothing here yet but went to Agawam today and saw a bunch blooming

We have some blooming in my neighborhood. Not full though. 

15 minutes ago, ChangeofSeasonsWX said:

I mean I am still debating whether southern Spain or Egypt is a better option. I haven't calculated the expense difference but both Spain and Egypt will be expensive. 4 minutes 30 seconds of totality in Southern Spain versus 6 minutes 22 seconds in Egypt. In your opinion do you think that it would be worth going to Egypt for those extra two minutes of totality? I've never experienced 100% totality so I dont know if its worth it? Plus I'm not really familiar with either country but I'm assuming that Spain is more modernized than Egypt.

I guess it depends on what else you want to do. Spain is supposedly incredibly beautiful. But Egypt looks amazing. I’ve never been to either 

2 hours ago, ChangeofSeasonsWX said:

I was thinking about going to Luxor, Egypt for the 2027 eclipse but I'm nervous about my safety there.

If you go with a group you will probably be ok.  Stay in a nicer hotel.   

5 hours ago, NoCORH4L said:

Agree. I went to Westfjords in 2016, most beautiful part of Iceland I thought. Lots of nice hot springs as well. We stayed over in a couple different places though. Lots of 1 lane tunnels and bridges lol.

We went in 2021 and were lucky enough to hike the active volcano.  But we didn't get to the Westfjords.  Next trip for sure.   

We had a family of deer in our yard last night at dinner time.  It had been years since I had seen deer on my property.  Bears, moose, bobcats, foxes, owls, fishers, coyotes... but deer had been absent.  I see them in the neighborhood but not in the yard

39 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Get out there after it 

Hopefully doing some clean up and fert next week. Throw down some seed etc.

1 hour ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Lawns and gardens going in regionwide!

My terrible yard is greening up.  The remaining snow piles look interesting against the green grass. Daffodils finally starting to bloom here

5 hours ago, Typhoon Tip said:

Oh. 

Indirectly related ...that maps seems a bit positive biased for around here.  There's no snow on any yard or field. There's just these smaller piles skirting parking lots and what-not.  I don't think those entrails are what this chart above is graphically presenting.   Despite looking and sensibly appealing cold and gloomy that last 2 days since that event, we've very proficiently eradicated the 3 1/2 of dense sleet/snow mixture. 

Our son is moving to Ayer. We helped him and his girlfriend move stuff today. No snow in a lot of the towns around there.  Seems very limited to over 700’ or so in el

1 hour ago, Ginx snewx said:

Most are now wilted and peepers covered by a thin layer of ice in the swamp this morning. Another miserable cold windy day. Congrats on UCONN.  Women got hosed by the Caitlin Clark phenomenon 

That was a moving pick.   Should they have called them earlier? Sure.  But it was the right call. 

1 hour ago, kdxken said:

Flurries again. Car top coated. Kind of weird you have to wait till April to have it snow three days in a row.

Faintest of a coating here on top of cars and trash barrels.  Bring on spring. 

One of my coworkers told us she was living in San Fran during the Loma Prieta quake (the World Series one)

Some coworkers felt it here in Central Mass.... I was oblivious to it as usual