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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"?

Fall color and Concolor

1.62" and one more batch to get through. Near perfect with the .25" via heavy drizzle Tues night and Wed to soften the hard dry ground and break the surface tension so the goodies could soak in. Better than a 2" burst from a tstorm on baked ground that mostly runs off the hills.

Wow. Is the black line 2021?

Yikes that just pains me to look at

37.4F RN with MAYngled flakes mixed in and breezy. 1.12" since yesterday. Even the wild turkeys look angry this am

The transition of scenery between mid April and mid May is the inverse of mid-October to mid-November. Sticks / brown to leaves and green grass, and vice versa. Won't mind the snowy scenery going on hiatus until late Nov or early Dec

32.2F with mod occasionally hvy snow, close to 4" grassy areas, 1.5" on pavement. At least it's good for a little nitrogen fix for the soils.

Would be more excited if this were late September or early October but at this time of year I just find myself thinking of that meme, "It's time to go home, April - you're drunk."

Hasn't been big accums like some other April snows recently but it's been persistent day after day so far. Just another way for me to dread this cruel month Cold 23.5 and windy this morning but at least the sun's out for a change and getting stronger - time to start the tomato seeds indoors.

Had a light coating on grassy areas early this am with on/off -sn. Melted off as precip got more spotty but coating up again now with steadier snow falling. Temp back down to 33.4 April is the cruelest month

Even a casual reader knows the context whenever warming is discussed, relates to AGW. Unless I missed all the posts (wolf notwithstanding) attributing warming to non-human factors, in which case I'll stand corrected

This isn't a serious post, is it?

Perfect maple sugaring weather

Big winds, peak gust 34mph but the mount pole wobbles so actual likely over 40. Power out and multiple trees across wires around town, went by a pine snapped 2/3 of way up and hanging over the travel lane on Spaulding. Windiest 6 months I can remember, just relentless. Pack down from 16" to 6".

Haha Sounds like it but I redid the windows in summer of 2023, they used to pass wind like a grandpa after a bean supper... the sound on the video was coming from the door just off-camera, which is on the list of fixes. No end to the fun with a c1790 farmhouse! The wind raked us all day, easily 50+ at times. Another angle shows the speed pretty well:

It's been a 'wintry' day with these winds, to say the least. Relentless... even got photobombed by a renegade plastic bag tumbleweed from somewhere upwind... <with sound>

Legit CAA winds here, blowing snow & cold. Deep deep winter

Had about 3" in that last pulse of heavy snow after I cleaned up last night. Another cleanout today, including pushing back the banks which are now super-sized. Gray forecast was a good one after all, ended up with 8.5" total in three separate phases: 3" overnight saturday; 2.5" from light snow and occasional heavier sleet showers during the day Sunday; and 3" from the "backlash" band between 9-midnite (thanks Schwoegler...) 20" OTG. Too bad the coastal is a whiff later this week, would have been fun to get a foot+ to top off the deep winter vibes...

LOL no sooner finished cleanup, put tractor in the barn, and it started snowing again. 3/4" new and heaviest snow of the day right now