Hailstoned

First warned central MA cell dousing the north end of Quabbin

Don't want to go cold on a hottie.

Don't know if my Davis is out to lunch, but it says .80 from that little training episode, here. Still hearing rumbles of thunder off to the S.E.

Scoured: Brimfield State Forest where the tornado was at its greatest strength and breadth.

Shrapnel from the Monson Library's slate roof embedded in the porch of a residence across Main Street.

This peculiar person belongs in North Dakota where he could unleash his caterpillar friends on the state tree-- the telephone pole.

7" should be it in Monson, MA despite still steady snow-- but what's fallen is slumping like a weakling in a Charles Atlas ad, not to mention the very indignant April sun behind that overcast.

Floating snowballs- S+

5" snow, Monson, MA; elevation, 400 feet.

"I'm Not Throwing Away My Shot!" (Adapted from Hamilton) https://www.theolympian.com/news/coronavirus/article249981859.html As for side effects, 8 hours of fatigue, nausea and a 100.3 fever after the second Moderna jab, were more than worth it!

I'm old enough to remember dystopia. Dystopia is being a kid with polio trapped in an iron lung for the rest of his life. All the so called libertarians of today (living in Mama's basement) would be first in line for the Salk vaccine back in the day-- and probably be pushing and shoving for first dibs at mumps and measles vaccines, too. Our relatively disease free lives, up until covid, have loosed a lot of brave poseurs with contempt for masks and other measures that, inconvenient as they are, do promote the common good. But common sense has gone the way of the passenger pigeon.

The summer of 1957 was very dry, too. From the "feast" of summer, 55 (Connie and Diane) to the severe drought famine in the summer of 57.

You sound a bit like the patent office commissioner, in 1899 who was reportedly prepared to shut it down because "everything that can be invented has been invented."

As a seeker of damage, damage you shall find.

I continue to receive the same $120/month through SREC trades as I have from the start. Perhaps those new to solar credits are getting a less advantageous deal?

Q told me you shouldn't downplay the possibility of cannibalism either.

Still SREC on my account

I get $120/month in SREC credits through National Grid and have for the past 3 years since going solar. Helps offset the price of the system.

Probably wood frogs-- sound like quacking ducks.

1977 also featured a notorious equinox storm with feet of snow well inland, a rain swept gale elsewhere.

perhaps "Dawn Awakening-- Snooze Delay" to mitigate the alarming Jekyll-Hyde behavior.

I'll bet if certain "prognosticators" on here were to add up their predicted snow totals over the course of a mere two winter seasons, it would translate to a thousand feet of glacier over our heads (even more over the Cape).

I'm guessing because the wind has had a more northerly component allowing for better snow dynamics than the long easterly subsistence fetch that had been forecasted.

Hark! The Harold Hurricane sings-- Glory be the new born thing!

The Bigly-Weiners on here did their best to harass him out of it, but he was right. Big lesson in the importance of objectivity ruling over hype.