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I'm always just missing momma nature's wrath. I flew down to Sicily for 4 days while in Italy and hiked Mt Etna on June 26th. Early yesterday, she blew her top with an outstanding display. Here's a pic taken of that event.

Got home two days ago. Lost two trees, a glass top on an old table near the barn, and 6 spindles on railing when deck furniture got violently tossed around and blasted into them. Two outside metal chairs blew into the cornfield, but the farmer pulled them out for me.

Yeah, that's heading right for us, maybe a bit south into Woodbury. Got 3.41 last night in two hours, and .14 so far today.

Such a devastating landscape in Woodbury & Bethlehem. I go to Tuscany for June & July, and my brother called me to say that trees are down all over my property, part of the barn roof blew off, and 40 year old wisteria vines were uprooted. I am afraid to encounter the damage from this when I return.

Awesome project. I have a Shagbark Hickory that has a 154" circumference. That one is about 360 years old. A friend from Cornell came to look at it and he said it is one of the oldest in the area. I'll email him and see what he suggests for a Black Locust for calculation.

No such thing as a government rebate. We all pay for it. Like any other type of public sector spending. Inflation, for sure, is the great equalizer...slapping us silly with a banner reading, "No free lunch!"

Greenwich/Stamford already under full sun. Looks like it's gonna break fast when rain pulls away.

.93. Will top 1" based on radar. Then 5 days of sun. Been delaying, but really have to get the tomatoes in.

heavy rain here and some cloud to ground, but the bulk of it is over you.

Looking SSW towards Southbury/Roxbury from Bethlehem. Incoming. Brother on 84 in Brookfield had to pull over it was so severe.

Massive destructive cell over Danbury/Brookfield.

Gonna graze me to the south in about 30 mins if it holds together. Torrential rain now in Brewster/Danbury.

77.7F, dew 67.4.

Temperature 82.9 °F 53.4 °F 66.2 °F Dew Point 73.2 °F 53.1 °F 61.9 °F Hit dew high of 73.2 today at 4:05, same time my high of 82.9 came in. Pretty steamy.

Low of 53.4, at 62.1 now. Low stratus dissipated about 10 minutes ago. Sun bursting through.

And Sartrean shame. Cats express something similar when they goof up one of their acrobatic endeavors, and they know you saw it.

https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/sector_band.php?sat=G16&sector=ne&band=GEOCOLOR&length=24 Yeah, a little stubborn, but making progress.

They're eroding just to my west in western CT. Should have full sun within the hour.

They are far superior in my mind. The best ones come from the Indian/Atlantic ocean confluence, in waters about 400-500 feet, at temps around 45F. My GF is Dutch South African, and we go back every Feb/March for a few weeks. This year we spent a week with her family in Rustenburg, then drove for 2 days down to Cape Town- Camps Bay. Just down from our apartment is the Codfather restaurant. You pick the fresh seafood, and they prepare in front of you. I got 6 SA lobster tails, as usual. You can order them for delivery here, but it's almost less money to fly to SA to enjoy them.

Just an outstanding day. The perfect % of cloud and blue sky, and temps, breeze, and dews. 74.7 62.2 8mph

If you have central air, get your Merv-13 or higher HVAC filters, if your system can handle air flow through them. They saved me last year from eye-stinging and choking polluted Canadian air last summer.

Yes, many areas have seen a bit more sun than forecast over the last two weeks, but the overall pattern is wetter, cooler, cloudier. The fact we are getting excited over it implicitly suggests we are not seeing "enough" of it. 1 or 2 days of sun every week- or 4-6 hours/day- is not cutting it for me. To be sure, central CT looks pretty good on water vapor right now- we enjoy it for as long as it lasts.

We'll still be taking our vitamin D supplements right into June.

Wood stove going here.

Unsettled unsettled unsettled.. Next 12 days.