Fear and loathing April, 2020 discussion, obs, and the occasional derailment

[Sugarloaf1989]

Precipitation is moving in so slowly that it's still clear skies here and cooling off nicely. Currently 35/25 Radar for this looks kind of meh to the West around here.

[HIPPYVALLEY]

30/19.   Crisp night.

[Sugarloaf1989]

31F here waiting for the snow.

[PowderBeard]

Nice fat flakes falling.

[SlantStickers Anonymous]

Ayyyy it’s snowin’ here!

big ole flakes, coating on grass/cars. 

[STILL N OF PIKE]

Nashua is white ,wow

[BrianW]

17 hours ago, dendrite said:

Willow, thornless honeylocust (sunburst), and bald cypress will suck up the water too. I just don't want to grow any of those IMBY.

My uncle had some trees cut down and one of them was a huge honey locust. I took all the wood for my wood stove. The grain was beautiful when I split it. Stuff burned so hot I could only really burn it in subzero temps. I later found out people sell slabs of it on etsy's for  hundreds of dollars...

 

[kdxken]

We flake.

[wx2fish]

Pretty good burst here, pushing 3/4" on the colder surfaces 

[HoarfrostHubb]

3.0” here.  I was a bit surprised. I thought maybe an inch was possible 

[CoastalWx]

Wow! That’s sweet.

[dendrite]

Coating in CON. Cleared out at home and hit 29.9F but no precip. Sunny now.

[CoastalWx]

Flurries here 

[Whineminster]

Big hit here! Nice surprise.

[Spanks45]

Flakes have been flying for the past 30 minutes, a good coating on elevated surfaces..nice surprise here 34.0 degrees atm

[NorEastermass128]

Flurries here.  Sun poking out now though.  

[Ginx snewx]

18 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

3.0” here.  I was a bit surprised. I thought maybe an inch was possible 

Holy crap not even a drop of rain here

[40/70 Benchmark]

1" total

 

[Ginx snewx]

14 hours ago, kdxken said:

Perfect weather for working outside. Anything but rain is fine with me .

You want to come take some wood? My woods disaster from the microburst and a quick shot at what my neighbors cleaned up 

 

[40/70 Benchmark]

Just now, 40/70 Benchmark said:

1" total

 

 

[NorEastermass128]

Ginxy…it looks like those gypsy moths did a number on your trees.  Unfortunately, our trees are starting to look the same sickly way. I hope we can avoid the gypsies this year like last.  

[40/70 Benchmark]

It sucks that this pattern wasn't 3-4 weeks faster in materializing....we could have made a mini March 2018 run.

[Lava Rock]

3.0” here.  I was a bit surprised. I thought maybe an inch was possible 

That's awesome. I just got up and was surprised to see all the sn shwrs on the map down in sne

[Ginx snewx]

5 minutes ago, NorEastermass128 said:

Ginxy…it looks like those gypsy moths did a number on your trees.  Unfortunately, our trees are starting to look the same sickly way. I hope we can avoid the gypsies this year like last.  

Epic tree loss and what I am seeing I think Ash Borer and ants have attacked the rest. I fear the wind every time its mentioned.  I talked to the fire department yesterday after Eversource finally put out the pole on fire after 2 days, they said across the valley from me there is another path of damage. Straight line winds. 

[tamarack]

6 minutes ago, Lava Rock said:

That's awesome. I just got up and was surprised to see all the sn shwrs on the map down in sne

Surprised here, too, as there's not a cloud in the sky and temp may have dipped under 20, which couldn't have happened if we'd had much cloud.

[Ginx snewx]

Squall incoming?

[kdxken]

38 minutes ago, NorEastermass128 said:

Ginxy…it looks like those gypsy moths did a number on your trees.  Unfortunately, our trees are starting to look the same sickly way. I hope we can avoid the gypsies this year like last.  

If they look sickly they are dead. Folks are going to be surprised at how many more gypsy moth dead trees they have when Leaf out comes.

[Damage In Tolland]

There won’t be any Gypsies this year. They would have already hatched with the warm spring and leaves out. The fungus got all of them last summer unfortunately 

[kdxken]

45 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

You want to come take some wood? My woods disaster from the microburst and a quick shot at what my neighbors cleaned up 

 

Thanks for the offer but I have plenty. If you're going to be felling stuff yourself do it soon. What's standing is starting to get sketchy.

[backedgeapproaching]

About 3" of fluff here. Now time for some sun to melt it.