HIPPYVALLEY

Dec 30 was epic!

Nice hailer!

No doubt. First and last t-storm of 2020 for Wiz?

Torrential downpours with pea sized hail now!

Pretty good light show here right now, lots of thunder and lightning.

It's a big place, people can keep their distance.

This is the time of year that WNE gets those dsd shorts days while the CP wears sweatshirts and windbreakers.

There is literally nothing blooming here except for some crocus and maybe a few bulbs coming up. Fields are all still a brownish tan with a few patches of green scattered about. I can post some pics tomorrow.

But the scenery!

I usually do that in the reverse order.

I like that period around April 4th or so for a last hurrah.

Slide that 100 mi or so SW and give NYC a change of scenery.

If it’s above 35F or so they are out.

Lame. I totally understand though, insurance liability. I guarantee some people are still going to ski it though.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.timescall.com/2020/03/24/officials-unsure-of-coronavirus-sheltering-effects-on-boulder-county-wildlife/amp/

Interior folks hitting their season averages.

Yeah, Lyme is bad but Babeseosis kill yo’ ass.

A few years ago when my dad turned 80 he got seriously ill and had to be hospitalized. He tested positive for Lyme but it was not responding to treatment and was showing symptoms like high fever and chills that we’re not necessarily consistent with Lyme diagnosis. He had a great Doctor who did a huge blood screening and they found he had Babeseosis which is essentially like the American version of malaria. They had never seen it in New England before but he told him he had not left Massachusetts in several months. They ended up flying a specialist up from the CDC in Atlanta and determined he most likely got it from a tick bite on Cape Cod. He said the doctor that came up was freaking out about how bad it was if that disease had spread so quickly up the Eastern seaboard since they have not really ever seen it north of South Carolina. Anyway dad was in the hospital almost 10 days and took him almost a month to fully recover but he’s going strong at 85!

A few years ago it was discovered that ticks produce an anti-freeze like proteins in their blood when it gets cold which prevents ice crystals from forming in their blood. I can’t remember the exact temperature but it protects them somewhere down into the upper 20s. if daytime temperatures get into the mid 30s you should assume that ticks t could be active, even in the winter.

55.75” I’m pretty confident that I won’t be this far ahead of you again for a long time. Strange winter. 7.5” last night.

Crappy winter begets crappy spring?

I’ll check in later on the table but I think today puts me at least 52”.

Depending on how next week plays out, I could actually hit seasonal snowfall average.

Had .5" overnight before turned to drizzle. Two day total of 1.0" yay

Never had a no snow March in Greenfield since we moved here in 2007.