HIPPYVALLEY Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 1 hour ago, Torch Tiger said: Meh' New England droughts are fake dry. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STILL N OF PIKE Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 7 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said: Meh' New England droughts are fake dry. They are one of the most boring things highlighted on this board that I could imagine . Low ratings . I realize Late spring is beyond boring 90% of the time weather wise. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torch Tiger Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 36 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said: Meh' New England droughts are fake dry. Meh for now but if we run the next few weeks dry, we're in trouble 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 6 hours ago, kdxken said: Welcome to beech leaf disease, and a world where one of the most important trees in our forests may go the way of the American chestnut — lost in a decade or two. https://www.ctinsider.com/columnist/article/Robert-Miller-Across-CT-formerly-lush-beech-17187205.php Hasn’t made it here yet. My american chestnut trees are thriving this year too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 8 hours ago, SouthCoastMA said: on average it's been a cool and dry spring - and maybe a handful of summer like days so far? I can't imagine it has been THAT much better elsewhere. I do hope we can get a consistent string of 70's and 80's going forward. Morch, Napril, and now Mayorch have all been AN. Dry yes.. not cool 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdxken Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 7 hours ago, dendrite said: Hasn’t made it here yet. My american chestnut trees are thriving this year too. Is that some special variety that can beat the blight? The chestnuts I have all die once they get a couple inches in diameter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdxken Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 1 hour ago, Damage In Tolland said: Morch, Napril, and now Mayorch have all been AN. Dry yes.. not cool Beautiful spring weather! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 14 hours ago, kdxken said: Welcome to beech leaf disease, and a world where one of the most important trees in our forests may go the way of the American chestnut — lost in a decade or two. https://www.ctinsider.com/columnist/article/Robert-Miller-Across-CT-formerly-lush-beech-17187205.php Substitute "beech bark disease" and that could be the headline in 1922, but the species hangs on. Comparing it to chestnut blight is probably (hopefully) not valid, for 2 reasons. First, as important as beech is in the Eastern hardwood forests, chestnut was likely the single most abundant tree species in that forest pre-blight. Some accounts state it was one in every four trees. Second, the blight killed trees quickly, and to date we haven't seen that kind of quick death in beech. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 9 hours ago, HIPPYVALLEY said: Meh' New England droughts are fake dry. You're too young to have experienced the 1960s. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radarman Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 10 minutes ago, tamarack said: You're too young to have experienced the 1960s. The drought in 65-66 was no joke in these parts. Quabbin set the low bar for water levels way beyond anything we've seen. A couple years ago it got to the lowest level since 66, but wasn't close to that. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJonesWX Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 8 hours ago, Torch Tiger said: Meh for now but if we run the next few weeks dry, we're in trouble what kind of trouble do you think? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Miser Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 8 minutes ago, radarman said: The drought in 65-66 was no joke in these parts. Quabbin set the low bar for water levels way beyond anything we've seen. A couple years ago it got to the lowest level since 66, but wasn't close to that. That is crazy. If water can't enter that sluice gate, then there's no water to be distributed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torch Tiger Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 29 minutes ago, SJonesWX said: what kind of trouble do you think? big trouble 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 Cocadoodledewlessness 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 57 minutes ago, radarman said: The drought in 65-66 was no joke in these parts. Quabbin set the low bar for water levels way beyond anything we've seen. A couple years ago it got to the lowest level since 66, but wasn't close to that. One can only imagine the dire tweets that would be firing if that happened again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthCoastMA Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 28 minutes ago, powderfreak said: One can only imagine the dire tweets that would be firing if that happened again. A video tweet showing his trembling hands sifting through the dusty soil, then panning to the sun, then back to his face as he says: 'not good'. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 Crisp morning with a low of 47 earlier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhoon Tip Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 Just a comment on the Euro: That is a climate event on the 00z cycle. The hyperbole in that bold is to connote, it has more significance in the total circulation mode than a run-of-the-mill heat wave That represents 3 consecutive runs from this model source showing this - and all three worked dangerously elevated HI values throughout the Corn Belt/Lakes region. Yesterday's subtly less 12z complexion, comparing to the prior 00z run, I believe pretty strongly was just the diurnal respiration of the troposphere, where at the dawn end of the cycle deflates compared to the ballooning at the other end. In other words, ...accounting for that 'diurnal tide' all three of these runs, back-to-back, appear to be quite similar, thus demonstrating high continuity. It's op-ed on the Euro in a vacuum; verbatim, that's a nasty nasty rip-and-read - and again. Only this time, the suggestion yesterday that the Corn Belt/Lakes heat might destine into NE ...is outright depicted to do so. ...now, there's other guidance. 06z cycle, notwithstanding too. It even goes out with a whimper at the end of that run. An aspect about these bigger climate buster events, they tend to 'fade away' - perhaps at the rate of the planetary wave function(s) that foot them. ..etc. the a speed of R-wave migration. They don't end with the big Hollywood idea or visualization. Not always true though...I think 2012 had a heat wave like this that ended in a derecho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhoon Tip Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 Yup... exactly what I imagined would be the case... the GFS is petty in fabricating any possible physical reason to not bring heat east of the Hudson permissible by its electron consumption. At least nowhere near the proficiency of the Euro. I don't care about getting the heat here so much, but ...I just hate the GFS and feel it's fraudulent as a guidance some times - like some percentage of it ( frustration hyperbole) is 'faked' with params that get exposed at times. But looking at the ens means of those respective camps ... looks like the operational GFS might be too sensitive in those idiosyncrasies it's doing. Like, hold onto a single contoured closed 500 mb, and then moving it so rapidly around a clockwise rotation into the SE U.S.. It made sense with the bigger version of this that happened a couple weeks ago, but this thing is tiny by mass field comparison, and moving clockwise is reverse angular torsional and should cause it to spin down/be less able to offset that NVA influence from that movement through the medium. It's just hanging onto it too long - K.I.S.S. In the foreground... it would also be nice if the Euro is more correct because it saves Sunday and Monday. The GFS spent one run looking more Euro like...and we had agreement with those two guidance. But summarily overnight, it tries to go half way back ...which is just enough to ruin the holiday. It's almost comical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Miser Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 2 hours ago, Torch Tiger said: big trouble ...In Little China. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUNNAWAYICEBERG Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 1 hour ago, CoastalWx said: Crisp morning with a low of 47 earlier. What a summeh. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 4 hours ago, kdxken said: Is that some special variety that can beat the blight? The chestnuts I have all die once they get a couple inches in diameter. Mine haven't reached that caliper yet although I do have a wild one in the back woods that's a good 2-3" diameter now and beginning to fissure on the bark...so we'll see how it does. Most of mine are from here: https://www.gonativetrees.com/american-chestnut/ Quote We have concluded that we prefer accelerated natural selection (the ACCF approach) in the near term, since it is unclear how to remove the Asian genome from the forest once it is introduced. The weakened blight genome is likely already out in the environment, and already it may be becoming helpful. The outlook has definitely improved in recent years, due to a combination of the above research work. It is now possible to plant this species with reasonable hope for survival. About twenty years ago, we obtained fifty manually cross-pollinated seedlings from old survivors (Tactic 2) and planted them as a recovery grove. The plants came from nuts that were collected in the year 2000. Voles ate one-third of the seedlings over the first winter, after which we surrounded each plant with 1/4 “- mesh steel screen tubes. After seven to ten years, the remaining plants had grown to nearly thirty feet in height and began to produce nuts. Now, twenty years later, about six trees still survive. They are forty to fifty feet tall and over one foot DBH. Two of them exhibit the best resistance features, i.e. minimal sprouts at the trunk base, a nicely formed crown, and no branch or crown die-off. They all have swollen burls on their trunks, but seem to be growing through it. In other words, the blight is present but the trees still survive and produce nuts each year. So if the geneticist calculations are correct, then we are most of the way through the winnowing process. We have collected up to 2000 seeds per year from the two best trees in the grove. We now collect seed from the two best plants (pictured below), so the blight resistance may be improved by as much as a factor of 2.5 billion [(40/4 billion) X (2/50)]. We offer our seedlings to recovery projects, and we can offer advice to planters to prevent animal damage and related infant mortality issues. Based on the above information, we can estimate that at least two out of three seedlings should exhibit favorable blight resistance, at least sufficient to allow plants to live for twenty years or longer. The plants are 100% American genome. Starting three to get two survivors is a big improvement from a few decades ago, when it was nearly impossible to do so. Please contact us if you have questions or wish to obtain seedlings for a recovery project. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJO812 Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 I'm in Provincetown now Really nice area Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 9 minutes ago, MJO812 said: I'm in Provincetown now Really nice area Dinkies? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJO812 Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 1 minute ago, Damage In Tolland said: Dinkies? Weenie out 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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MJO812 Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 I thought I was driving in a desert coming up here on the roads. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 1 minute ago, MJO812 said: I thought I was driving in a desert coming up here on the roads. I love that end of the Cape. Did you go to race point Beach? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 The GFS lost the Tuesday torch. It's been really overaggressive with some of these backdoors in the extended. It used to be that if a global picked up on a hint of one you could almost guarantee it'd come to fruition. Now the GFS tries to accelerate any westward trending seagull fart back to ALB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJO812 Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 18 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said: I love that end of the Cape. Did you go to race point Beach? No Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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