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  1. 22 minutes ago, csnavywx said:

    Sorry, but a low that has a genesis off of FL is not a Miller B. Not in any book I've ever read or studied. Wish we'd stop with that.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_Classification

    Miller A - from the Gulf or Florida - Sandy 1993

    Miller B - from the Ohio Valley, jumping the mountains to the Gulf Stream off NC - Snowmageddon 2010

    If you have better references, please list them.

  2. No, that was from April 29. My azaleas usually peak around the last week of April, first week of May. My definition of "peak" is that the most plants are in bloom at the same time.

    The first azalea flower appeared this year March 24, later to be wiped out by the frost. My last "spring" flower will probably be in mid-June. Starting in August, some of the plants will put out a scattering of flowers until the first frost in mid-November.

    I measure the first flower on each of my 300 plants and, while the bloom times vary from year to year, they vary around a pretty consistent mean. Many plants have been measured for 26 years.

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  3. East Coast NPZ said: " Looking at the 500 chart, what feature illustrates the diffluent signature?  I dont really see the height lines diverging. "

    That was my question, too. However, I can see that the boxed area has an increase of wind speed over the upstream flows, so that would tend to pull in air from below to replace it, but I'd like to hear someone discuss those dynamics further.

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  4. Ah, cicadas!

    I'm an old man, and I can remember when I was a kid (1953??) Northern VA was almost all rural, unlike the present when almost everything has been paved over with houses, roads and parking lots. There are a lot fewer now than then.

    My main memory from that time was visiting an old man (my current age?) who would sit on his patio and just pluck them out of the air, dropping them into a large glass jar. They were dense! Now, there's just a lot of them around, but you can still see the sun!

     

  5. I'm an outlier, as I have no interest in vegetable gardening, but plant for flowers.

    Crocus shoots, daffodils and paperwhites have been up since December. Snowdrop shoots this month, though they always flower first.

    The warm winter has led to good budgrowth on the azaleas, but the same happened last year and the nasty cold at the end of February killed a lot of them and I had a poor azalea display later.

    Looking forward, also, to a lot of butterflies on the flowers on the sunny side of the house.

    10 miles south of DC in Fairfax County.

  6. Visited friends in West Springfield yesterday with a full bloom of early hellebores.

    Here, 10 mi south of National Airport, my hellebores come out in March. Now I have some shoots of something (Paperwhites?) that are 5" tall, a lot of daffodil and crocus shoots, toad lily leaves, strong sedum pips, and some small fall crocus shoots. No snow drops yet.

    History says that the very cold weather to come will kill all the above-ground vegetation, but maybe we'll be lucky this year.

     

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