Napril 2026 Discussion/Obs

[Baroclinic Zone]

Nice rains today. Peepers are still lit in force. Been going off every night now for a month.

Im done with these 40s and 50s. Want more consistent 60s with some 70s thrown in the mix now.

[mreaves]

1 hour ago, dendrite said:

Rained all day and only 0.27” to show for it. 

 

48 minutes ago, Lava Rock said:

Bummer. Managed 1.18"

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.56 here

[kdxken]

41 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Based on what besides automated CPC and poorly performing AIFS?

What are you basing Stein on? The back of an IPA label?

[kdxken]

We take. Weekend looks iffy but otherwise...

 

[NoCORH4L]

Back in the freezer later in the week potentially. Poop. 

[dendrite]

33 minutes ago, Baroclinic Zone said:

Nice rains today. Peepers are still lit in force. Been going off every night now for a month.

Im done with these 40s and 50s. Want more consistent 60s with some 70s thrown in the mix now.

Had a chicken snag a peeper tonight. Stuff like that is always tough to watch.  

[kdxken]

3 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Had a chicken snag a peeper tonight. Stuff like that is always tough to watch.  

Happens when folks bring in invasive species from foreign lands. Lucky we have any frogs left. Damn jungle foul. 

 

 

[kdxken]

7 minutes ago, NoCORH4L said:

Back in the freezer later in the week potentially. Poop. 

At least it looks like we're done with the 30s.

[dendrite]

5 minutes ago, kdxken said:

At least it looks like we're done with the 30s.

For highs?

[dendrite]

6 minutes ago, kdxken said:

Happens when folks bring in invasive species from foreign lands. Lucky we have any frogs left. Damn jungle foul. 

 

 

We’re all invasive 

[kdxken]

11 minutes ago, dendrite said:

We’re all invasive 

Cougars are native and are expanding their range. Wolfie is right. Wait long enough and everything will come back.

 

[dendrite]

Pickles has been hunting cougars for years. One finally got him last year.

[kdxken]

5 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Pickles has been hunting cougars for years. One finally got him last year.

He done. Cougars survived the Pleistocene extinctions.

[dendrite]

2 minutes ago, kdxken said:

He done. Cougars survived the Pleistocene extinctions.

[powderfreak]

1 hour ago, mreaves said:

 

.56 here

0.33" here.

[rimetree]

April ends about avg. temp wise here but definitely pretty dry. Picked up 0.39 today, which is the most daily precip we've had all month. Looking forward to some active weather coming up.

[WinterWolf]

5 hours ago, dendrite said:

Had a chicken snag a peeper tonight. Stuff like that is always tough to watch.  

Wow…didn’t know a chicken would eat a little frog like that. Did the chicken eat it?  Or just kill it?  Interesting. 

[WinterWolf]

5 hours ago, kdxken said:

Cougars are native and are expanding their range. Wolfie is right. Wait long enough and everything will come back.

 

Yup.  Folks like Greta, Al Gore and the like…all silly morons.  Al Gore now saying an ice age coming in 25 yrs. 20 yrs ago he said no more snow.  WTTTE. 

[jbenedet]

You can see the the coastal SNE depression 

 

GWDLT

NNE ftw

 

[jbenedet]

Another 10/10 early spring day 

[MJO812]

May 1

Countdown to winter begins 

[dendrite]

5 hours ago, WinterWolf said:

Wow…didn’t know a chicken would eat a little frog like that. Did the chicken eat it?  Or just kill it?  Interesting. 

Ate it. They are voracious mini t-rexes if they get a chance.

I’ve seen them eat frogs, salamanders, newborn chipmunks, and even a hummingbird…lol. The hummer hit the window and was either stunned or near death and the chicken found it. I chased after it, but it ran to the other side of the yard with it and after a certain point you just let them do what they want with it to take it out of its misery faster.

[WinterWolf]

6 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Ate it. They are voracious mini t-rexes if they get a chance.

I’ve seen them eat frogs, salamanders, newborn chipmunks, and even a hummingbird…lol. The hummer hit the window and was either stunned or near death and the chicken found it. I chased after it, but it ran to the other side of the yard with it and after a certain point you just let them do what they want with it to take it out of its misery faster.

Dam…never realized that. Birds can be ferocious.  Animal world is certainly no joke. Chicken be like, No offense…but I need to eat, so it’s game on. 
 

Great information.

[rclab]

49 minutes ago, MJO812 said:

May 1

Countdown to winter begins 

At least by that time the Mets attempted replay of their 1962 inaugural season will be over.
Stay hopeful, as always ……

[tunafish]

31 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Ate it. They are voracious mini t-rexes if they get a chance.

I’ve seen them eat frogs, salamanders, newborn chipmunks, and even a hummingbird…lol. The hummer hit the window and was either stunned or near death and the chicken found it. I chased after it, but it ran to the other side of the yard with it and after a certain point you just let them do what they want with it to take it out of its misery faster.

 

24 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

Dam…never realized that. Birds can be ferocious.  Animal world is certainly no joke. Chicken be like, No offense…but I need to eat, so it’s game on. 
 

Great information.

They'll even eat each other. 

Morbidly - if one dies and isn't removed, they'll eat it.

Less morbidly - leftover cooked egg whites are a favorite treat.  You can also feed them crushed eggshells (I bake mine quickly first) as a calcium source.

[jbenedet]

36 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Ate it. They are voracious mini t-rexes if they get a chance.

I’ve seen them eat frogs, salamanders, newborn chipmunks, and even a hummingbird…lol. The hummer hit the window and was either stunned or near death and the chicken found it. I chased after it, but it ran to the other side of the yard with it and after a certain point you just let them do what they want with it to take it out of its misery faster.

Nature gonna do its thing but that hummingbird bit would have ruined my next three hours.

Cost of eggs doesn’t sound so bad anymore…

[tunafish]

On 4/29/2026 at 6:04 PM, Typhoon Tip said:

  ...no one person in particular mind you ... lol

I just have a cataclysmic sense, like it is pending, global in scale - there are ...unnerving things going on that interestingly enough, no one in here talks about.   interesting.   closed circuit for a social media depot, I'll tell you that.  

Never a doomer myself and always laughed at them. Especially the bunker-type (although I still laugh at them - first was on the premise of end-times being near, but now for thinking their efforts will matter (they won't)).  Thought it was just mankind being mankind, thinking the end is near.  

My tune has changed since the Epstein files were released.  I always sort of knew capitalism ruled, and 99.9% of people are just a means to the elites end, but never realized the span and depth of their control.  People can shout conspiracy, but it's pretty much validated now - democracy isn't real, you are merely a dollar sign, nothing you do or say matters (beyond hyper-locally), and it's top vs. bottom, not left vs. right.  

But the SS change has sailed.  Unless it's a full-scale revolution of the 99% stomping out the 1% - but we're too fat/happy/distracted to pull that off now.  The total control/surveillance state is actually here (hi!) after 2+ decades of slowly normalizing it.

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One of the silent issues nobody is talking about is the exponential proliferation of data centers and the economic and environmental impact they'll continue to have.

We're rapidly being pushed towards a economic and natural resource crisis that'll result in the total takeover of the 99% - and it'll be done without a single bullet, quite easily.  And by the time it happens there will still be people shouting about climate change, and gender identity, and human life being a bad use of tax dollars (while not mentioning the tax dollars that are used to line pockets), and whether or not their favorite public figure is a pedophile.

[dendrite]

19 minutes ago, jbenedet said:

Nature gonna do its thing but that hummingbird bit would have ruined my next three hours.

Cost of eggs doesn’t sound so bad anymore…

Omega 3 time is fun

[tunafish]

15 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Omega 3 time is fun

Haven't gone this route yet.  I did go soy-free a year or two ago on your rec, and I think it's made a big flock-health difference, so I'm willing to try this.