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Sat behind 12 yesterday. I think we saw maybe 2 birdies through JT's group (he actually had the best shot of the day into the green but 3 putt for bogey). Most shots came up short (downhill and downwind plus a pretty severe back to front slope scared them from going long), but we also saw lots of chunked chips and head shaking.

That's a new one for me. If I had to guess it has something to do with significant severe, since hatching is black to begin with.

Me and Joe tossing buns back and forth on the collaboration chat this morning.

Are we? We should have data flowing although it does need some maintenance tomorrow (or whenever we get a dry few hours).

Oh man, I've had some delicious jalapeño margaritas before. Never with watermelon, but the spice is nice.

That line that developed was moving about 350 mph if you track it. My guess is chaff, but it's the weirdest looking chaff I've seen (usually it strings out along the flow). And I can't ever recall seeing a track of the aircraft that dropped it either.

My solar panels are down 6% from peak power and at times ASOS/AWOS are observing drops in visibility or a ceiling thanks to the pollen.

I had the basic size battery run out after 3/4 of the lawn last mow, but it was long and thick. I could easily charge and trim/edge and be ready to finish when that's done. The kids could even play outside while I mowed without worrying about the noise.

Not dumb at all, the drought index is pretty opaque unless you dig into the components. So the overall outlook is based on a number of inputs, including Palmer index, soil moisture, streamflow, and standardized precip index. The SPI works based on the history of observed rainfall amounts, so that will be dynamic to changing climate conditions (i.e. if dry years become more common the index value will add less to the overall drought classification). Soil moisture is tied to the new climate normals as well (1991-2020). And Palmer index is more or less water in minus water out, so it doesn't really matter whether the climate is changing for that. They all have their strengths and weaknesses. Like the Palmer operates on a 9 month timescale, so rapidly evolving droughts are late to show up in its index value.

Never trust a warm front.

Blew away the cap while increasing lapse rates aloft. That hodograph is pretty tasty too. Sickle under 1 km, large/looping. Kind of a classic significant tornado look.

https://twitter.com/growingwisdom/status/1527222628972482560

I'm feeling like Sunday might be the hottest day in the Merrimack Valley. Front inching closer and southwest flow gives the compressional warming/downslope combo. I feel pretty good about upper 90s.

We effed around with the ring of fire all summer and found out.

This or bust.

powderfreak might still be rolling in it.

Monday really needs to pan out for Wiz with the Bs getting dumped out of the playoffs.

Looks like Wolfeboro scored a nice little banger. Small hail/gusty winds for sure. Could see the outflow even from our radar.

I could've gotten away with no mow May in the backyard, but the front (that gets the sun) was too much. Plus I need the new seed to take around the new walkway and can't have it shaded out by a pasture.

I did 4 wall mounted with potential to hook up a 5th in the basement when we finished it. One 55,000 btu condenser. I ended up just under 15k. Did the entire winter on those units alone, but we also have solar so the electricity we used is a wash for us. Kevin, you'll appreciate that we flipped them over to cooling today. Install complete.

I'm not sleeping on tomorrow either. Looks more like a straight up and down pulse type event, but I'm interested.

Not a bad place to stop and let the kids stretch their legs on the trips to RI.

I finally got on a calendar for planting so I know roughly when to harvest. Last year I just eyeballed it and didn't have time for a second crop.

Worms where the kids play definitely got my attention too, but from what I've read this type doesn't survive above 30C, so they die if ingested.