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19 minutes ago, dendrite said:

When you chop it you can always use it as a rhubarb substitute in recipes. 

My wife and I joke that the risk of famine is widely overstated in light of this fact

1 hour ago, Ginx snewx said:

10 year anniversary 

Remember it like yesterday.  18-24" up high at KMart and tickets were free for all.

On 5/23/2023 at 10:48 PM, WxWatcher007 said:

Somehow Japanese knotweed has shown up in force along my fence line. 

Whatever you do don't mow it.  The rhizomes will just get dispersed and it'll make it worse.

IMO the best thing to do is just pull it out of the ground every time it comes up.  Be careful how you dispose of it.  The energy it uses to grow is not recovered and over the course of 5-10 years it looks worse and worse til it eventually gives up. 

After the caterpillars killed off several oaks woodpeckers of all variety have taken up residence here.  It sounds like a construction site after 5 AM.  

2 hours ago, PowderBeard said:

It's been too good in Maine. So many big fish this year. Won a tournament on Sebago at the end of April with 5 for 22+ lbs. I had a 6.2, a 5.5, some 4+, and then one damn 2 pound fish I could not cull out. I lost two over 4 lbs that day too. A co-angler actually took big fish that day with a 6.70 largie. There were many smallies over 4 lbs weighed in too. I stuck to targeting shallow largemouth because it was my first time there and didn't have time to go looking for the off-shore smallies prior to the tournament.

Starting to see beds everywhere though. Next tourney is not until June on Moose Pond. 

Nice work.   Per a friend Quabbin has been really good for smallies and they're just getting on the beds now.  Salmon apparently have been tough, but the word is that there is a ridiculous amount of baitfish out there showing up on fishfinders... so maybe that bodes well for some big fish of all varieties down the road.    At any rate, if you're pulling in 6lb'ers at Sebago you're probably not missing much.

42 minutes ago, CT Rain said:

Booked a place in Whistler again for a week next January. Hope El Nino doesn't screw it up!

Nothing personal but here's to a nice big ridge over your head

We water and cover and hope for the best.  Point and click has 27 here, which would be less than ideal but we may be able to withstand it.  Much lower and we'll be starting over.

Lets hope that freeze watch is a bust thx.

I know... should not have planted sensitive stuff this early.  

8 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

Black flies are brutal here this year. 

Nice well mixed breezy afternoon keeps them at bay.

Will this be 18 straight days of BN highs for many?

Good day to have a brush fire before the burn bans start.  Otherwise fairly unpleasant.

That cell SW of the metroplex headed generally toward Stephenville is a beast.  

1 hour ago, WhirlingWx said:

The storms near and south of Wichita Falls look like they're building south, they might impact northern DFW in a few hours at that rate. Might temper the threat for areas north of Dallas - Fort Worth later on, but still unsure.

Agree.

Very overcast and showery right now.  SPC meso discussion mentioned that gravity waves may help disturb the stratus, but not before the incoming stuff from the NW arrives.

I guess if there is a window for strong surface based convection you'd have to hope for the MCS to continue to deflect NE and maybe leave an OFB somewhere near I20, then clear out later on for a couple hours.  I dunno though.

Miller B right on time?

2 minutes ago, Cold Miser said:

That was pretty awesome.  I love how everyone hung out at the top, waiting for last chair.

Where was he goin in the gondola at the end?  One more private run?

Stowe has a gondola that crosses the parking lot between Spruce and Mansfield base lodges

Got more from that event than any event this year

15 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

Wild. Full summer up here.  66F picnic tables and 80F valley under full sun.

At Killington Bear and Needles eye were overcast, Superstar socked in at the top, while Ramshead and Snowden baked in the sun.  This lasted the entire day.

34 minutes ago, Brewbeer said:

about 3 inches of rain from those storms in my hood, driving back from Enfield was sketchy, I've not see that many flooded streets in years

Dang you got 3" of rain from that?  Wow

One pretty good rumble just now.  Garden variety stuff but the breeze feels nice.  

1 hour ago, BRSno said:

By far my biggest rainfall to date. Since I've moved down here (2019) not even a tropical system has dropped so much. 

This radar loop is impressive.

 

That radar loop is nuts especially at the end

3 hours ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

Impressive, seven brushfires in Franklin County today.

 

Good sized fire in BTown also

8 minutes ago, eekuasepinniW said:

I could never live in a spot with such terrible radar coverage.

Fixable problems

1 hour ago, powderfreak said:

That's gotta be one of the more extreme examples we see around these parts.  Higher summits blasting off in warmth while mid-slopes and SFC freeze?  That's like 50F at 875mb.

summit chair laps on Mt Ellen

CONCERNING...SEVERE POTENTIAL...WATCH LIKELY 
VALID 021822Z - 022015Z
PROBABILITY OF WATCH ISSUANCE...95 PERCENT

SUMMARY...SUPERCELLS WITH A RISK FOR ALL HAZARDS MAY DEVELOP AS
EARLY AS MID AFTERNOON ACROSS PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND NORTH TX, INTO
SOUTHERN OK. A TORNADO WATCH WILL BE ISSUED SOON TO COVER THE
THREAT.

DISCUSSION...ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PLAINS, AFTERNOON WV IMAGERY SHOWED
A WELL-DEVELOPED, COMPACT VORT MAX TRANSITING ACROSS FAR WEST TX AND
EASTERN NM. AHEAD OF THE VORT MAX, RAPID LOW-LEVEL SURFACE MOISTURE
RETURN WAS EVIDENT ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTH TX WITH DEWPOINTS
SURGING FROM THE LOW TO MID 50S TO MID 60S F OVER THE LAST 1-2
HOURS. WITH RAPID MOISTENING AND PARTIAL CLOUD BREAKS ONGOING,
CONTINUED DESTABILIZATION (1500-2000 J/KG MLCAPE) IS EXPECTED
THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. VERY STEEP MID-LEVEL LAPSE RATES (8.5-9 C/KM)
FROM THE 12Z RAOBS WILL SUPPORT RAPID AND ROBUST UPDRAFT
DEVELOPMENT, POTENTIALLY AS EARLY AS 19-20Z. STRONG VERTICAL SHEAR
AHEAD OF THE VORT MAX ( 45-60 KT 0-6KM SHEAR) WILL ALLOW FOR STORM
ORGANIZATION WITH A PREDOMINATELY SUPERCELLULAR MODE.

A SOMEWHAT COMPLEX CONVECTIVE SCENARIO MAY EVOLVE THIS AFTERNOON
WITH MULTIPLE AREAS OF NEAR SIMULTANEOUS INITIATION POSSIBLE. CELLS
MAY INITIATE WITHIN THE MODIFYING WARM SECTOR NEAR AND TO THE
WEST/NORTHWEST OF THE METROPLEX AND FAR SOUTHWEST OK. AT THE SAME
TIME, THE DRYLINE IN WEST-CENTRAL TX WILL LIKELY INITIATE A FEW
SUPERCELLS AS IT MIXES EASTWARD. HODOGRAPHS, WHILE CURVED IN THE
LOWEST 1-2 KM, ARE EXTENDED AND MOSTLY STRAIGHT LINE ALOFT. THIS,
ALONG WITH THE FAVORABLE BUOYANCY AND LAPSE RATES STRONGLY SUGGESTS
LARGE AND WIND-DRIVEN DAMAGING HAIL WILL BE LIKELY WITH ANY
SUSTAINED STORMS. A TORNADO RISK (SOME SIGNIFICANT) MAY ALSO EVOLVE
GIVEN THE POTENTIAL FOR DISCRETE CELLS AND 0-1KM SRH OF 150-200
M2/S2. A LOCALLY GREATER TORNADO RISK MAY ALSO EVOLVE FARTHER EAST
WHERE LOW-LEVEL SHEAR IS EXPECTED TO INCREASE LATER THIS EVENING.

GIVEN THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERAL SUPERCELLS WITHIN A RAPIDLY
MODIFYING AND FAVORABLE THERMODYNAMIC/KINEMATIC ENVIRONMENT, A
TORNADO WATCH WILL LIKELY BE ISSUED THIS AFTERNOON.

..LYONS/HART.. 04/02/2023

latest HRRR is eye opening... 3km nam not quite as bullish.  Really the only question mark is the strength of the LLJ.

April 2nd is a notorious day for severe weather in Dallas.