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More reliable than the buds swelling on the maples

It's gone from the open fields here but still dense in the woods, I thought the 55° dews and steady wind last night would take more, guess the temp crashing fast after 1am kept it intact

Lol haven't heard that one in a while

...and a pic

Had a cool visitor today, a "Leucistic" red-tail hawk. When I first saw it at a distance, I thought it was a snowy owl, but then he perched right behind the sugarhouse and saw it was a raptor. Supposedly they're pretty rare. short vid here:

2.5" and wishcasting for sun and quick warm-up to melt it off the driveway... Instead, snow showers and gray cold skies ftl

6" new, 18" OTG. Sun and mild air, beautiful day

100° at any time of the year is NBD in far south Texas. Don't ask me how I know, I'm suppressing those bad memories...

ugh that would be no bueno for maple producers, glad it's op runs 10+ days away but not glad it's showing that.

Well, yeah... that was pretty damn anomalous. But, I'm always thinking there's that potential lurking out there, the 1-in-1000 year storm... esp in this water vapor saturated global climate system...

I hear ya. You recognized it earlier than most. The GFS ticking east after being so steady, started the red flag waving. Just wasn't 'that storm'. 'That much' in this case, was a mere 75 miles open ocean...

19° and "windy" with a few inches and this is the light stuff, impressive storm reach

Doesn't look like the center moved much in that interval either

Yeah it has but no good runs yet, that'll change fast by this time next week I think. I've got about 75 trees to tap and it's all buckets, so won't take me long to get 'em in when it looks like they're ready to run good...

Squeeky wheel gets the grease! Soak it in and enjoy!