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Ditty purposely breeding gypsies and lantern flies in Tolland. We need to get him some of those hammerhead worms for his lawn.

They’re in S NH now. Not sure why there’s such a push to have the public kill them. It’s like gypsies, japanese beetles, EAB, etc…once they arrive they’re there for good. A lot of reports from further south are that they go wild for a few years and then the numbers drop off quite a bit. Not sure if that’s a case of other insects and animals learning that they’re tasty or if there’s some other factor at play. The continents will all be back together again in 250M years so we may as well mix all of the insects around the planet together now.

At least they had Lake Ontario then

Lots of witches back then…can’t trust the data.

Imagine 850 temps like this the morning of 8/30. 0C ALB, -3C PWM, -4C CAR

61 years ago right now we were advecting in, arguably, our coldest August airmass in recorded history.

Is that your version of Live Laugh Love?

A is colder than B. So that would be 7a creeping in down there. (0 to +5) Still a 5b here which makes sense. My average extreme min is probably around -11 or -12 here…cooler in the valley. But growing zones are kinda dumb because it only takes one cold shot to go well below your zone and kill plants that you’re potentially zone pushing with. Feb 2023 is a good example with -10 and wind at BOS.

Because SC. j/k I lived in SW FL for a year. It was nice, but I missed it up here. This is home. And a lot of the fruit I like to grow doesn’t do well in the deep south. I love the seasons, but as I get older winter just feels longer and more grueling. It’s different up here than a lot of SNE too. The CAD foils a lot of the warmups and often keeps snowpack in place for months without much of a break. That may sound like a winter weather humble brag, but it isn’t. When I need a weather mental health break and it’s 33F and fog here for 48hrs while it’s 55-60° from BOS to BDL I want to break things and ban people near the Pike.

Yeah...like I said this morning, we get a little wedgie up here. 9 months of CAD hell incoming.

Da da da da da It's the motherfuckin Weather W-I-Z

Yeah you live in the tropics

Fastest summer of my life. I’m sure it doesn’t get any better.

Yeah we’re AN this August and yet the back was broken in July?

“Not happening but omg here it is”

We’re just going in circles. Your area has been pretty wet the last couple months. July was bone dry in this region. I did get lucky with a 3” event to start August, but it was a narrow stripe and most of it ran down the hill into the river valley. We just need one of those 2 week stretches where we rack up 3-5 days with at least a half inch.

Past 120 days % of normal. This area needs some large scale water

SLK is another site that didn’t have official early 90s obs pre-96 (ASOS era) so like MHT, I’m not sure what they’re doing statistically to derive the normals. edit…looks like SLK ASOS went online summer of 1998.

Yeah. Very wet here the last 60 days. Have another mimosa.

Kidding aside, there’s a shallow CAD look here at times next week so we’re probably primed for some synoptic shat on the temp gradient. ‘Tis the season.

Looking epic here through Tue morning

I will say, even with not much of a change in airmasses you can just feel the weight of the changing season each day…that sun taking longer to climb the horizon, not feeling as intense midday, getting dark earlier, foggy mornings, etc.

35° at SLK this morning