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    2021 Drought Thread

    in Lakes/Ohio Valley

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    Starting to see some brown grass in sun exposed areas.  Pretty minor overall at this point though I imagine it may be more noticeable up in the city/north where the deficits are larger.
    Anything mowed outside of shaded/irrigated areas is pretty well browned out at this point. Looks like an August dry spell at minimum.

    Corn and beans are pitiful - furling up and looking thin. The fields are still green overall but not a deep green and instead starting to get a bit of a yellowish tint.

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    Spring/Summer 2021 Banter/Complaint Thread

    in Lakes/Ohio Valley

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    Our IT infrastructure is an embarrassing disgrace. It's to the point where it's getting dangerous considering we're in severe weather season. The fact that Rick Smith the OUN WCM had to tweet on his personal Twitter for people outside the affected offices in the High Risk in the south to stay out of those NWSChat rooms because the server is so unstable highlights how bad it is. Several offices had to go into service backup overnight because their comms went completely down. The Rapid City office has ongoing wildfires in their CWA and they couldn't get forecasts out to their fire weather users. We're lucky there was literally no thunderstorms forecast across the CONUS, let alone any severe weather early this morning.     
     
    And then you have our wonderful new radar page. Yesterday someone called on our public phone line about the functionality (lack thereof) on the page vs the legacy page and I recommended downloading GR2 for laptop and Radarscope for his phone and tablet. No use in shying away from those recommendations when the NWS page is essentially useless.
     
     
    /endrant
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    Are the broader IT issues due to funding cuts?

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    2020-2021 LES Thread

    in Lakes/Ohio Valley

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    Just got back from my snowmobiling trip up in the UP. Was up in Munising/Grand Marais. I know it’s been a poor winter there but conditions were still good
    Same. Thursday ride from Wetmore to Paradise yielded 250 miles. Rode on pavement and gravel for blocks in Newberry to fuel up. Returned further north via Grand Marqis. Other than Newberry, 80% of that ride was just fine for what they were dealing with.

    Rode through Marquette on Saturday. Group was laughing as we did a few football fields worth of grass and cooked the hyfax right along the lakefront.

    Had some overheating issues too - will need to add ice scratchers next time if conditions are ever the same. Still had some beautiful scenery.




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    Feb 21-23 Why Not

    in Lakes/Ohio Valley

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    Sounds good over there! Looking for that here as well. Either way it is shaping up to be another great day on the sleds.

    What a hell of a stretch. Other than the brutal cold, I have no reason to complain. In some ways we probably needed that to avoid any true threats to the snow pack. I'd be just fine to keep it going.

    I ran about 85 miles outside in January. Mostly out on local park trails in/on the snow. February started a bit slower/more indoors, but man what a great run it has been.

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