Juliancolton

Nice. Best of both worlds.

I still have hopes of making my move to NS within the next few years. Somewhere near the shore in Lunenburg County would be ideal.

People make such an occasion out of the first flakes at their location. Hear ye, hear ye! Whereas, upon this day the sixteenth of December in the year of our Lord two thousand and nineteen, a tempest is inaugurated at this location; and, whereas, the elements being of such temper as to render water vapours coalesced into fine crystals; therefore, let it be known...

Sure, but the sun angle at solar noon only drops another 0.2° between now and the solstice. Do you really think that 0.2° of sun elevation outweighs all the other signals telling us it's winter? That going skating beneath the Rockefeller tree is an autumn pastime?

I will not abide the use of astronomical seasons on this forum.

It's a way of life, man.

It's been a while since I've seen so many different agencies submit their model runs to the CME scoreboard. The average arrival time prediction is early afternoon, because of course. https://kauai.ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov/CMEscoreboard/

Up to Kp 5 tonight on what I think is the anniversary of that pretty good March 2015 solar storm. Nothing on the Sebec starcam and bright moon for the rest of the night means it's probably a snoozer.

Won't all the rain just wash away the dust? Think of all the effort that could be saved

This one has legs I think.

Probably a 175 kt super typhoon in the PHP.

It sounds like you have your bases pretty well covered! Yeah, handling the plants is a big contributor to spreading the fungus higher, especially if there's a lot of moisture around. At some point you just have to do what ya can and hope for the best. I neglected to get the first Sevin application out early enough this year, and lost a number of cucurbits to the beetles almost overnight. They seem especially bad in my area this year.

Early blight is pretty much impossible to completely stave off, but you can certainly delay the onset and slow spreading. The most important preventative measure you can take is to prune all leaves, branches, and suckers within about a foot of the ground. The disease starts when dirt containing the fungus splashes up on foliage, so if you can avoid that, it'll go a long way toward keeping the plant healthy longer. Combine that with a normal Daconil type fungicide, and fertilize with Neptune's Harvest or some other slow-release form of nitrogen to ensure that new growth keeps pace with the dying lower vegetation.

I took a weenie drive down to New Milford, expecting them to have gotten crushed under that western band. Actually got more snow back at home... seems like just a few inches of paste here. Still beautiful, got some nice photos at Lover's Leap https://i.imgur.com/yzCbnoI.jpg

Depends where you are in Arizona. There's a reservation that doesn't observe DST, within the Navajo nation that does, within the state that doesn't... https://www.cntraveler.com/stories/2012-11-12/daylight-saving-donut-arizona-ken-jennings-maphead

Hey @IrishRob17, it's almost time to start our annual initiative educating people about the earliest sunsets being in early Dec.

You know, the oceans and the sun cycle. It's caused by... the oceans and the sun. Q.E.D.

Tickling 60 for a couple days in the typical warm areas doesn't really feel like it should count as a torch these days. It's all relative of course and I'm sure the departures are deep enough to qualify, but eh... November is a transition month and we're capable of much warmer, much later.

If you move beyond the local FM station playing Mariah Carey on repeat for two months, there's a wealth of pretty good Christmas music to be found with a little digging. The problem is that it takes some effort to find stuff that isn't just the 100,000th cover of O Holy Night so sometimes it's easier to just turn on the Warren Zevon or ELO and pretend like you're Jewish.

That's not a huge difference... they're both up around .9. A verification edge like that probably isn't even discernible without the numerical scores.

Well, a bit over two weeks, anyway.

Speak for yourself!

That would be a terrible bet regardless of the month. I'd feel good about a sig snowfall though. Make it 4" and I'm in.

Glad we don't live there – LI or SNE.