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Planting my tomatoes today, got some heirlooms this year too, those are my favorite. 
 

EDIT: it’s crazy how fast summer sneaks up on you this time of year, last year by the end of May we were in the low to mid 90s, a mere 35 days from today. 

Looks like one more frost/freeze potential Wednesday-Thursday, then it should be all systems go for planting season. Active pattern looks to be shaping up as well. 
 

ready for consistent warm weather, my son has grown an interest in hiking and camping, so lots of that on the agenda this summer.

Today was the nicest day of this young spring 2024. 73 degrees with a gentle breeze, spent the day prepping the patio, cleaning up the smoker and blackstone and enjoying the eclipse of course. Lawn mowing has commenced here as well. 

2 hours ago, King James said:

Can’t even hit the bowl outside nowadays 

Salad bowl or medical bowl 

8 hours ago, A-L-E-K said:

champaign felt like the windiest place on the planet when i lived there, trees and buildings make big difference 

u are in the wind belt

 

You lived in Champaign? Yes, it’s a notoriously windy place. Coworker is from Louisville and was just complaining how windy it is here all the time. 

6 minutes ago, Jonger said:

Flint running +15 on the month.

Will we beat 2012?

No. Cooldown incoming. Duration remains to be seen. 

74 in the paign, had pea sized hail this morning, feeling I’m just a nudge too north for the action this evening. 

Maybe a quality hailer or two this afternoon, we shall see. Otherwise, things look to cool down, for how long remains to be seen. 

Lawns are abnormally green for March 12th lol, I don’t remember this even during morch. 

51 minutes ago, Spartman said:

Suicide weather today. It's looking wet Friday into Saturday. Either way, we're in for quite a prolonged overcast stretch into the weekend. Dreading this month will be dealing with a hangover from the very cloudy January many of us had earlier this year.

You must be miserable company, I never see anything even remotely positive spew from your posts. 

73 with 45mph wind gusts here in the Paign. 

Typically March is mud season, this year naso much. Looks like a drought developing right down the spine of the lower 48, genuinely curious how warm this spring/summer gets. 

8 hours ago, A-L-E-K said:

it's probably for the best to swing more seasonal, cool and damp before any non hardy/fruiting trees get any ideas

hardyfruitguy

Post record after record of rocking February’s has come to a crashing halt, two absolute stinkers in a row. Mother Nature will always remain undefeated. This decade of 2020’s has had some absolute atrocious winters thus far. 

If we get any beneficial rains in the coming weeks I am very curious to see just how fast things green up. We had a two week winter, and without that we likely had the most mild winter on record. 
 

1 hour ago, BuffaloWeather said:

The string for Cleveland, Erie and Syracuse is unlike anything since recording history began.

Syracuse averages 127.8" of snow per year. Here are the snow totals the last 5 yrs.

2019-2020: 87.6"

2020-2021: 73.3"

2021-2022: 76"

2022-2023: 65.6"

2023-2024: 34.5" (so far)

Syracuse has never gone more than 3 yrs without getting to 100" of snowfall, this year will be their 5th consecutive year.

Glad to see you pop in again. 34.5” for Syracuse is absolute bananas. 

A string of clunkers has happened in virtually every decade since records began, it’s nothing new, for every string of clunkers comes a string of harsh winters. 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 were disasters, although 2012-2013 redeemed itself in February/March but December and January were torch, as well as the first half of February. 
 

2013-2014 brought what many of us describe as a legendary winter, one I’ll tell my grandkids about. 2014-2015 brought an extremely harsh second half of winter. It’s all cyclical.

68 in the paign today, record of 67 set way back in 1930 fell. 

44 minutes ago, Powerball said:

 

Some folks may come along and talk about how there's still March to go through which averages a fair bit of snow or how we always see a cold snap in March/April, but you can't fight the overall trends/signals. The odds of locking in another sustained/long-lasting winter pattern for the remainder of this season are progressively diminishing by the day.

Good. No reason to try and put lipstick on a pig or polish a turd with useless March/April snow. 

1 hour ago, Stebo said:

Boy toward the end of the 12z GFS run would be one for the ages with respect to warmth and potential severe weather. That is also in the period where the GEFS is hinting at a significant trough out west ridge in the east.

Do you foresee a very warm spring like a 2012 lite? The lakes are virtually ice less, no snowcover in the upper MW for cold shots to penetrate and a collapsing Nino. 

Without the two weeks of nickle and dimes and cold in January, this winter would rival 2011-2012 as an all time stinker. Extended looks mild and pretty dry. 

Where’s the February will be rockin’ crowd? 

First tray of bacon wrapped brats for the smoker are done for the SB, with my homemade rub. Onto the smoker slow and  low at 225 and then brushed in my homemade bbq sauce, back on the smoker for 30 minutes, and the sauce creates a glaze/crust. Next up, wings and poppers!

With 0% chance now of sustaining a snowpack and the extended looking seasonable and dry, give me an early spring. This two week winter was not one to remember. 

54 in the paign. Buffalo blue cheese smash burgers on the blackstone. Don’t hate it.