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And besides losing the joy of a happy hour NAMing, the NAM is/was the best for mixing lines as we saw last winter. We’re gonna get surprised by pingers.

Wish they would keep running them all, or let some university take the code and run them? Computer time is cheap now.

@high risk NAM retirement is official now?? August 31?

Normies (and JB) insisting it’s been a cold May and cold spring because of recency bias plus frog in the slowly heating pot syndrome (and psychosis). Second half probably ends up AN and more than wipes out the BN anomaly to date for the month to give us 3 AN to MAN spring months. But brrrr!! It was chilly a couple times!!! So much for global warming amirite!?!

Oh I’m very aware lol

Would be fitting that we finally get our rainy pattern to start on Memorial Day weekend. But overnight euro sorta followed the pattern of the gfs and a Bermuda high combined with a stalled front could be a winning combo.

0.02” today for a 0.11” two day total lol

.05? .06?

Not sure I can recall a drought like this in spring. Every other season, yes. But such a dry spring seems really odd.

They’re simply not good. They should be good, or at least better, but they’re not.

Waiting for those storms the NAM has been promising me for (checks time), right now

Euro caves to the gfs and turns Wednesday/thursday into a weak frontal passage.

Missed by a couple miles with the first round

Pennsylvania!

Giga-Nino is going to eventually crush the drought and wash away the barren ground of our yards after all the grass dies, dries up, and blows away in the next 3 months before the Nino kicks in.

But what to THE VIBEZ say about the rain??

O’s are demoralizing to watch

The typically drier spots on my lawn are already shockingly dry. I'm going to start watering tonight.

I count spring as March 1.

But we can actually measure and quantify this and see that’s not true?

My in-laws yesterday: “this has been one of the coldest springs!” Me: “actually it’s been one of the warmest springs so far, but yes, the last week has been cool.” Them: “I can’t remember wearing a sweater so much in spring though!” Me: “…” Frogs in the slowly heating pot…

Midweek rain fell apart overnight. Can’t break the drought. Yet…

Need all the help you can get watching the o’s… Moon is really beautiful rising right now. Full moon and looks sorta Halloween spooky.

I have a few mayapples! I have an area under some trees that I’m mostly leaving alone and intermittently planting some shade and dry soil tolerant natives. After 3-4 years, my Christmas ferns have started to spread. Dwarf crested iris has really spread and some asters have also spread into the shade a bit. There’s a lot of tree saplings and one sweetgum that volunteered is now like 6-7 feet tall. All that to say it can happen quicker than you might think if you don’t mow. I pull out any invasives that try to grow and any poison ivy (native but not welcome in my yard!).

It’s crazy how companies strip mine the topsoil of new developments to sell it off and leave the new homeowners with fill dirt and rocks. I’ll just generally encourage you to plant natives, and I’d be happy to offer suggestions if you want them! I was planting bushy St. John’s wort when I made that post. Have also added a new arrowwood, bluebells, blue mistflower, yarrow, and a “micropond” this year. HoCo and Columbia do lots of native plant giveaways every year so all of those were free.