KamuSnow

No cicadas yet but I am pleased to report that we saw our first lightning bug tonight. Yay!

That makes more sense, lol. Too dry!

I've been watering here for the last week and still no sightings yet. Maybe we'll get dry slotted cicada wise. Now that I said that, probably not.

I was able to get by without it although I thought about it for a minute. When it's hot and humid out, I like the inside like a walk in refrigerator, so the electric bill gets a little steep during the summer.

Just did a little research and learned a little more. I don't have any recollection of anything out of the ordinary in 2004 either, so it's a bit of I'll believe it when I see it. Having said that, these guys apparently are busy from mid-May to the end of June, which is earlier than what they call "annual cicadas", who are around from the end of June through August, and what we are more familiar with. They emerge, they say, when soil temperatures reach 64F, 8" below the surface. I'm not digging a hole to check the temp. here. Apparently there are sightings from DC up through Maryland and out towards Harrisburg. Guess all those cool northeasterly breezes we had didn't make it that far west. Also, that map you gave a link to has us under a hatched area representing multiple broods, so it doesn't show brood X very well around here. I'll attach another map I found in a minute. Here it is, although it seems the density of coverage may vary from one area to the next.

Haven't heard any here yet, seems a bit early, especially with the coolness lately.

Lol, thanks. For the mowing or the dirt/reseeding? It's free, except for the materials, sweat, and stiffandsoreness. We've put a lot of topsoil down back there over the years, mostly in 2016 and 2018, I've gotten good at raking dirt. We've had problems with fungus and have wound up reseeding portions of it just about every year. So this year I decided to go organic and got a boatload of cornmeal (3500 lbs so far) which supposedly helps the bacteria in the dirt that like to eat certain types of fungus. We shall see!

That would be correct, lol. I have cut it by hand a few times over the years, usually in the fall when we reseeded it. The back shown here takes about 3 hours by hand. Try to not do that these days, the knees complain a bit.

This is probably the nicest it will look this year, but that's what I'm talkin about:

Talk about a gorgeous day, wow. Mowed yesterday, started watering today. An inch per week is ideal for grass, and we had about 1/4" here the latter part of last week. Almost seems counterintuitive to water when it looks good, but once it starts to turn brown it's a bit late.

I'll take 4 months if the offer is still there!

Awesome looking forecast for the next week or so, a little dry so I'll probably water the lawn in a couple of days to keep it nice and green. That's the plan anyway.

I remember that, I was out here at 12:30 am watching it turn from rain to snow. I think you were up for the festivities as well, and Birds~69 among others. This feels like a longer stretch of cool weather though, and I'm pretty sure we'll pay for it with endless days of humidity like we usually do, lol.

In the forecast discussion by the NWS for later tomorrow, they mention some impressive tropopause folding around 500 MB. Had to look that one up, lol.

Had a warning here, but it was in and out in about 10 minutes. Not too windy, one flash of lightning before it got here, and 0.25" of rain. It did come down pretty hard, I got soaked, lol. I see our high wind watch for later tomorrow has been upgraded to a warning. Hold on to your hats!

Made it to 34F here early this morning. I mowed Tuesday afternoon, shorts and tee shirt. Today is borderline for that attire, especially this morning at 43F currently, lol.

You're probably right but it wasn't too bad to set up, and just in case. Looking forward to 63F tomorrow!

Well we did a light version of last year's tents. Only 2 spots, hoping it's not necessary, but it should help if it gets down to 32F.

Last year was the same date, I posted pics of a wisteria tree covered with frost blankets on April 22nd. Debating if I should do it again, it's just starting to flower. What the heck, lol.

Lol, getting a few snow flakes here. 46F.

Likewise here, the rain came down hard for 5 or 10 minutes, accompanied by the hail for the duration. Had a warning but it wasn't too bad, which I'm okay with.

Getting some thunder and lightning here with a steady rain, 52F. Breeze picked up earlier out of the ENE, and temps dropped a good bit in the last 3 hours.

Just heard a rumble of thunder off to the WSW. And a second one just now.

You'll need to get a tanning bed or something, lol. Getting a little shower here.

Congrats on the trout - grass fed? (reference to Redsky's post).