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That front meant business, for about 10mins. Lost a fairly large maple tree, split about 30’ up

yeah lava you need water, and plenty of it. new grass will die off quickly with lack of water. you didn't have a wet fall, and spring has been quite dry since mid-April. can you install irrigation off of your existing well? 

informative? hardly. i couldnt get past this (bolded emphasis mine):

Americans devote 70 hours, annually, to pushing petrol-powered spinning death blades over aggressively pointless green carpets to meet an embarrassingly destructive beauty standard based on specious homogeneity. We marvel at how verdant we manage to make our overwatered, chemical-soaked, ecologically-sterile backyards. That’s just biblically, nay, God-of-War-ishly violent. 

59 minutes ago, Hoth said:

Sam L is apparently not happy with SPC's choice of the "d" word.

what's the big deal (assuming it is a big deal to the severe weenies). 90+% of the general public has no clue what a derecho even is, including myself.

agree with Bob, aerating this time of year is just an invitation for the weeds, especially crab grass. you could at least spread some fertilizer, not a big investment and the right stuff will work well. Also, may not be the best time, but lime pellets are pretty cheap so it's not like you would be throwing your money away.

18 minutes ago, Baroclinic Zone said:

Agreed

plus, what you said about the timing is important. it is hard to get a new lawn established this time of year. the sun is brutal, and the new grass has to compete with weeds, which have already seeded. last year i put some loam down and seeded an area where i can't get any water to. this was mid-September. granted it is a mostly shady area, but that grass came in better than a lot of areas i have done, mostly because of the time of year. the only water it was getting was from morning dew. 

Lava, I strongly recommend that you rototill that area. it has dried out so much it is probably wicked compacted. Putting new loam on top will be nice, but the roots will have a hard time penetrating that cement.

1 hour ago, Typhoon Tip said:

This could presage a micro-burst potential if we get evap ...but I don't know/am not aware of any studies that especially outline the sigma level correlations for mixing ?  

you just gave WWiz a microburst in his Wranglers

why don't you just use Roundup?

7 minutes ago, Lava Rock said:

Soil temps up here may not be ideal for fert this weekend, but I don't want to miss the window and wait another week. With some mild temps coming next week, would next weekend be too late?

when your forsythia bloom you are good to go. based on your location, i am assuming that has not happened yet

2 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

That blows.  Do you have an electric start option?

technically it doesn’t blow

5 minutes ago, henry1978 said:

If you live in New Bedford or Hyannis, this is going to go down as a huge bust if you paid attention to ANY of the forecasts last night. EVERY forecast, every tv outlet, every website is going to bust. If you live in Cape Cod, MA and you were reading this site last night and saw a forecast of 40 inches, it's safe to say it's a bust.  This is a lesson for all professional forecasters who forecast for extreme southeast New England: be judicious when forecasting big snow amounts in March in these areas with marginal temps. Of course these areas have smaller populations relative to the urban centers farther north and west in southern new England, but still.....if you're a little weenie in Hyannis right now you're hurtin big time. My advice, check out some real Busts!! 

we get it. stop posting the same crap over and over and over

2 minutes ago, LoveSN+ said:

I simply cannot fathom being disappointed by 2 ft of snow. 

well to be fair, the forecasts leading up to the event were in feet, not inches. the TV mets were going bananas.

Our new Dover, NH posters would have loved March 5-6 2001. not sure how much the Dover area got, but not too far west/southwest of them got crushed. the route 101 corridor and south, I think some parts had up to 30". i remember being disappointed that i only got around 2', but I am not exactly sure what i ended up with. i was a younger weenie with no record keeping abilities. that was in the CON area.

13 hours ago, Go Kart Mozart said:

Is there any chance that as we get closer to the event and the models ingest better data, we could see a "north trend" for the eclipse?

6-10 moon shadows, with lollis to 16

you know, even though we have been trapped under the wheel of ‘rhea, I don’t think it really has been that bad. A week ago it looked like we were going to have off and on rain, with cooler temps. Yes, the temps have been pretty chilly for this time of year, but aside from last weekend, i haven’t seen much rain.

*yes, I also realize that this weekend is going to suck.

1 hour ago, Typhoon Tip said:

Yeah the idea of coastal system affecting the weekend is gathering confidence... Multiple operational and ensemble member therein are supportive with the western end of the negative height anomaly first bifurcating to the N of the GL, then descending toward upper M/A..  classic multi-day behavior under westerly NAO blocking actually ...

That Euro is certainly the most entertaining ...being unwilling to completely shut the book on winter suggestion (again..) - seemed to get away from that (at last) for a couple days, now comes back with it.  Possible - can we get a synoptic snow later than 1977. Stay tuned!

Otherwise, the theme for the week has changed imo... Thursday and Friday (light winds away from the coast + low deep layer RH + 850 mb temperatures above 0 C) = 65 to 72 F regardless of machine numbers - which tend to come in dimmed over reality in that sort of synoptic set up...  Pretty clear difference compared to the 10 day stint scenario that was feared.

Then the coastal ...after which ..I could see things going warmer, but I don't know where "massive" came in... plus, the subjectivity of that term is useless, too.  Firstly, the idea of the pattern changing ~ the 20th is still in tact.  The impetus there is "approximately" ...  This 'art' of distant forecasting has never been about sticking with an exact dates anyway - that's always been, going back years of social weather-related media, an utter base-less invention/requirement by those looking from the outside, into the realm of what it takes to construct these outlooks, who don't have a f'n clue and therefore shouldn't even be around the establishment of standards   ... Secondly, it's plausible it's all moot anyway...?   If Friday gets to 72, what's left in that discussion anyway? 

on the bolded, i'll give you a hint. the user names begins with "damage", and ends with "tolland"

46 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

 

That' still okay but, meteorology doesn't just cover what people want... ?  That's what makes the contribution in here dubious to the extend of egregious to be involved in at time - it's just a special interest group that happens to be fixated (regardless of psycho-babble cause) on a narrow aspect that happens to be proximal to weather. 

That's the annoying rub for objective unbiased weather enthusiast. 

To each is own I suppose but even our 92 heat waves and CB formations and so forth is fine for entertaining value to me as a Met that appreciates "weather"

welcome to the forum.

37 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

It's not just that Summer is boring?  I find that to be edging on the side of disingenuous, really. It's that Summer does little to satisfy the above preference spectrum of users who don't give a schit about the transient impact of weak sauce thunderstorms, or the occasional dimmed heat wave because BDs pressed historic heat down to DC... 

the second bolded part is exactly what makes the first bolded part true.

Tough but not unbearable is what I remember most. No wind made a huge difference, because I've been at games where it was 20 with a 20 mph wind, and that feels like 4 degrees felt much worse that just being 4 degrees.

i was dressed in full snowmobile clothes (minus the helmet) and was fairly comfy. i chuckled when the beer guy asked me for my ID when buying beer-I was in a full ski mask. I could have been a 12 year old girl for all he knew

I think it officially kicked off at 4^oF, and all beer was poured from bottles as the tap lines were frozen. You had to poke a hole through the head of your beer to take a sip.

 

And you're right, assuming the volume of the footballs didn't change much if they started the game at 12.5 PSI they would have dropped to 9.6 or so in that temperature range. I still think Vinatieri was kicking a rock around that night.

i was at that game, it was pretty brutal. tailgating was just silly, beers froze as soon as you opened them, used coolers to keep the beer "warm", salsa froze too

Yeah I don't think this will beat Feb 2013 for the widespread 24"+ totals. This feels a bit more like January 2011...maybe slightly better.

1/12/11? we don't toss