Juliancolton

Anyone heading down to watch them blow up the TZB tomorrow am? I'm torn between it being a cool thing to see and it not being cool enough to justify driving all morning to see a 30 second show.

Feet and feet. You know this is gonna verify because I want to watch the eclipse, and @gravitylover wants to not have 3 feet of snow on his driveway.

Agreed, but even if sensible weather stays roughly the same, you'll still see folks spiking the ball. The old familiar routine of "the pattern panned out exactly like I expected, we just got (un)lucky."

Someone on twitter said the GEFS look good if you extrapolate the last frame and then replace that with a reanalysis of Boxing Day. It's coming!

We punt. Months and months of perpetual early April minus 10 degees, put it out of our misery.

Nope, just rain for a change...

Everyone marveling in wonderment at a dusting is how you know it's one of "those" winters, lol. Kids on delayed start, facebook feeds brimming with patio shots, the whole shebang

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.

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