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0.69 Thursday/Friday. 2.93 for the week. Grass looking much better.

Got down to 37.4. I wonder why the underperformance. I noticed some clouds int he sky this morning. Did some unexpected cloud cover develop?

What's the over/under on the RDU offset tonight? Will they get below 37?

2.24" here. Much needed.

The line split right over my house Got .09 from this mornings crumbs Better than nothing.

Ended up with 1.72 for the event

Best rain of the day here so far. 1.11" in the bucket

Got 0.92 in a short period.

Nasty looking squall line on the way

Aren't you going to be enjoying the frozen tundra of Northern Vermont during some of that time?

His assertion is that there comes point where the "situation" becomes bad enough such that a desire get away from the real world is not ethically valid. Obviously whether or not a situation has reached that point is a subjective judgment. He judged that it had and acted accordingly. You can disagree with the premises but the logic itself seems valid. In any event he made his choice and i respect it.

I like every season in its time. I feel very fortunate to have had a real winter this year (by SE standards) and I'll enjoy spring.

I'm actually impressed at how hard the snow has been hanging on in the shady spots. That was a genuine winter interlude. Would love to see the same precip and temps happen in late December next year!!

Jesus would make a mean Mimosa out of a glass of water.

At that point I'm fine with it.

Meh that's stock Nino spring.

Wait a minute, that's always true in the SE. A great pattern just means our chance to fail goes from 99% to 90%

With the latitudinal temperature gradient shrinking as the poles warm how are the jets getting stronger? That is what I can't understand.

Ah, I guess cold in the east of NA, but warm in the west I guess. I'm really sorry to hear that; that sucks. No way you could predict that the one week you spend in Canada NC would get a snow.

Light, beautiful snow in Wilson.

And yes I know Canada is a big country.

Where are you in Canada that is raining? I saw Montreal just had two huge snow storms and bitter cold temps.

Perhaps, like snow below 40 ° latitude (and that goes 10x for me), the postwar consensus is an anomaly, dependent on a momentary collocation in time of multiple factors that all had to come together in just the right way to achieve the observed condition. Perhaps brutality and hierarchical domination are the "climo" of our species (at least when population sizes are such that he more egalitarian band structure is no longer feasible).

"Becoming"? Strength has been highly valued through pretty much all of human history. The extent of the exaltation has varied from time to time and place to place, but I ask you, how much did the Vikings value kindness or empathy? Or the Huns? Or the conquistadors and other European adventurers? Or the Aztecs, or the Atlantic slave traders, or the Comanches...and I could go on and on The truth of course is that none of those groups were monolithic, and they were all made up of varying individuals, some were probably wonderful people, some were assholes, just like today. But the idea that all of a sudden people are obsessed with strength, as if they weren't before, is completely ahistorical.

The sleet killed me . I will enjoy what I got though.