CoastalWx

Stone can be a good alternative in some spots, but need to be careful. Otherwise your yard will look like something from El Paso.

I do mulch every other year. Second year looks fine still. 

18 hours ago, backedgeapproaching said:

You may be right and as Julian said in NY he was having trouble. Seems some states have the ban. Most Starter Fertilizers have a pretty high phosphorus count as its important in establishing a new lawn. They are normally like 18-24-12 or something in that range. The middle number(phosphorous) is normally 24 or 25 or so. 

I havent used phosphorous since 2009 when I redid my while lawn from scratch so I haven't really had the need for phosphorus in fert, so guess things have gotten strict since then. I do mostly organic now if I can, but will do some synthetic Nitrogen drops in the fall.

 

I just saw it today. I skipped that and just doing a preemergent with fert. 

I’m getting the itch to seed some areas but I know it will torch. I just don’t want it to look bad all summer, but I may not have a choice. 

2 hours ago, backedgeapproaching said:

Lesco makes ferts with phosphorous. They also make them without too.

I didn't think they could anymore, I guess so?

I'm getting 6 yds of dark brown mulch delivered tomorrow. Got to edge first though.

Lesco does not have Phosphorous.

26 minutes ago, Baroclinic Zone said:

I asked him the same question.  I don't think he knows specifically.  I can't imagine seeing surface fertilizer impacting a subsurface well.  If I had to guess it's over 100' down.  He's surrounded by about 20 houses and he's in a rural area.  Just to his west is the vast expanse of the Hockomock Swamp.

Bigfoot.

7 hours ago, TauntonBlizzard2013 said:

Just bought a house as many of you know. Yard is an absolute disaster. It’s a new build, and the sellers wanted nothing to do with landscape.

Will do before and after pictures. Phase 1 this weekend is putting stone down behind the house and under the deck 

Many times new home lawns are terrible and take years to establish. Just be patient. 

2 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

It's also a weak Nino (and actually using 3.4 criteria we have officially met the criteria) and I'm sure there are other factors which can certainly outweigh this.

Anyways with climate change and all I don't think the whole ENSO correlation to tropical activity has as much merit as it used to have. I may be wrong since I'm going off memory, but haven't the past few Nino's actually had above-average activity in the Atlantic? With the AMO looking like it is transitioning towards the negative phase I wonder if this starts to take dominance. I haven't looked at the AMM but will have to see how that transitions moving through the spring. 

Nino's typically have shear. But yeah I would guess east based has more of an effect vs central or west. And yes, whether it's AGW or not...a general warmer PAC probably throws off ENSO correlations a tad. As usual, so many things need to get factored in. It's never as simple as saying "well nino or nina mean this or that.."

Nino. May lower overall activity, but as usual, it's the pattern that matters most for us. 

Just now, backedgeapproaching said:

Snow pack finally retreating since Nov and looks like some heavy heavy vole damage.  Looks like a while colony was thriving under that glacier for 5 months.

We had that 4 years ago. Lil bastards.

We had virtually none last year. 

I did notice these black beetles on some of my oaks. I think they’re borers? I killed what I could. 

7 hours ago, OceanStWx said:

Drop it under 2 m too so you can grab the near surface moisture. 

Best of both worlds. Become like the guy in Bakersville CT that has those cold temps and get dews as high as possible.

And so it begins. I think my attention is to house related items this year vs lawn.

6 hours ago, OceanStWx said:

Actually Joe D rows a dinghy out into the harbor with a portable snow board and 8" gauge during every snow storm now. 

I really wouldn't waste too much time worrying about whether you're in the PNS or not, especially the final PNS. We use those to generate our observed snowfall maps. And outliers make the map look like shit, even if you're an outlier because of elevation. We remove reports all the time to smooth the map out. It's not an indictment of your measuring technique (except when it is *cough* Lunenburg *cough*). 

Is there a way to keep them if they do make sense? If the data is viable...I would think just to leave it in. I know it would help with those maps...but for scientific purposes you could just keep it in. 

The euro also was a driving rainstorm a few days before and then jumped SE. it was pretty bad even a few days out. But over last 48 hours it did better. It was a hair too warm though. 

Ha,  not sure why that posted, but I’m leaving that right there.

This storm will bring out low amounts if you did not do it right. We were 31.5-31.8 and accumulated just fine. Even blowing off roof. I didn’t lose much to road cave, but measured in a shady spot on north side of house where snow stuck immediately. I was highly confident in the amount. The lowest I found was just over 14.5”  where the snow was last to accumulate on part of my torch driveway. So I believe Cory. 

Love the slide and car pics. You can see the depth. Even up to the swings. Plow pikes were like 3-4'. 

Just now, powderfreak said:

Congrat's man.... really mean that.  Been a tough winter down there of dark days and winter rain.  Really nice to win one I'm sure.

Need some pics later!

Weymouth 1, Stake 0 in March .

Thanks dude. I know it was childish, but I needed this lol. Just so busy with things personally. I just wish I was more bullish, but I’ll take it.

2 minutes ago, wxsniss said:

Shit obs. And by the book, they do not wipe before each measurement.

Technically not even the "airport"... that poster earlier said ground crews at Logan were reported foot+

Airport is a disaster from what I hear. 

1 minute ago, wxsniss said:

I guess our KBOS measurement woes have not resolved...?

...Suffolk County...
   South Boston          15.5   918 AM  3/04  Trained Spotter
   Dorchester            15.5   720 AM  3/04  Ham Radio
   Chelsea               14.0   815 AM  3/04  Ham Radio
   Jamacia Plain         13.2   800 AM  3/04  Co-Op Observer
   Boston                13.0   925 AM  3/04  General Public
   East Boston           12.1   705 AM  3/04  General Public
   Logan AP               9.8   708 AM  3/04  Airport

What do you expect taking obs from shit island?

Will post some pics when I free up space. Similar to will, about 17” and piled up. This was not easy to snow blow. Just a ton of snow.

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