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The bolded is what I'm most hoping for. Early Dec snow threat tracking is fun and while reading the daily ups/downs in here, I'm always keeping one eye on that Christmas -New Year timeframe. This despite the evil grinch poking a sharp stick in that watchful eye most years, but every year I fall for it again like Charlie Brown and the football. "Maybe this year"...

Choose and cut Christmas tree farm

Hope so! Festive mood flakes are great for business

This is amazing. Even putting the titles on each storm reference represents a lot of work, and is super helpful. High regards to all involved - great job!

Music to the ears, that was a good look and result, pic was 12/22/2007:

I have a c1795 house, replaced shingled roof with all metal in fall of 2021. and I'm having gutters installed all around. With the right (strong) debris filter included and stout anchors, the better installers can mitigate risk of sliding snow or ice even with metal roofing. It's not just about driplines, I've replaced half a dozen sills on windows, two doors needed new thresholds and trim, and multiple clapboards - all due to water damage from years of 'splash-up' water coming off the roof. In a strong downpour there's no way to avoid this damage without gutters catching the water up high. It WILL rot any wood that it contacts, and it doesn't take long. If you value your sills, including sill plates of your foundation, unless they're pressure treated or vinyl/plastic - get gutters. If you don't, your doors, trim, and sills will eventually fall prey to water splashing up from a dripline - even mulch or crushed stone won't eliminate it in a heavy downpour.

Very light dusting in the pre-dawn hours, gave a comical look to all the oak leaves in the yard as they were the only things holding snow. Flurries now, 31.3F wind ramping up.

0.13" overnight, up to 48.5F and still cloudy. Pond is still down about 4ft, lowest water level yet for this time of year, even drier than 2016 summer/autumn, it's always been full by the time it freezes up in late Nov. Oak, beech, apple and birch leaves still hanging tough despite the many strong gusts over the past week.

1.87" final, very happy for it too. 2hr power outage after a strong gust at 7:50am but nice 57° temps out there now.

Nice synopsis and discerning too (well, notwithstanding the HAARP's accord...) What always strikes me hereabouts is the transition to 'stick season'. Early in the month, most deciduous leaves are down but there's still enough oak, beech, birch, apple, and mulberry leaves tenaciously hanging on as a last gasp of the growing season left behind; by the end of the month, its down to just a few stubborn trees while the landscape takes on a brown and gray skeleton. The inverse of May. The other striking difference to me is, the first flakes are met with welcome anticipation, again inverse of how the last flakes in April, or sometimes May, are received.

@dendrite Yep, you're right you could provided there's enough healthy branches left on the stump for the photosynthesis needs when spring arrives. Haven't tried grafting but for the root system reasons you noted, occasionally if we come across a cut stump with a whirl or two of healthy branches left, we'll leave them intact in the field and will see a few branches turn upwards the following season, attempting to become a leader and if that happens, after a few months we'll pick the best looking leader and snip back the other wannabe leaders but not the horizontal branches. (Learned the hard way that cutting those support branches off too soon kills the stump due to losing too much photosynthesis). If all goes well, after the growing season there's a new 'tree' 1 - 1.5 ft long growing off the old stump. And as you thought, those 'turnups' have the benefit of a mature root system and can get to market size sooner than a planted seedling, perhaps more importantly they withstand the droughts better than planted seedlings. Stumps left without healthy branches intact wouldn't support a grafted scion from what I've seen - and even stumps left with just one or two healthy branches generally die back quickly. I haven't tried grafting because grafting skills aren't in my toolbox, but the 'turnup' results I've seen indicate to me it's a viable alternative.

Yes though might rename it Steindance after the last 4 months...

Yup yet another benefit of growing fir trees... haha

IOW, "persistence forecasting"?