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Post by Speagles84 on May 12, 2020 18:47:05 GMT -5
Speagles84's Hike up Blue Knob in Central PA 5/2/2020 View of the mountain from the Bedford Valley - Peak is 3,174ft above sea level valley is about 1,200 ft for a vertical of near 2,000ft  Hiked to the summit, ski resort is up there in the middle of the state park, hiked out to the southeastern face and found a rock with a great view of the Bedford Valley. Everett's Ridge in the distance (approx 10 miles away)  Nice landscapes! I can't help but notice that parts of PA and KY (and probably parts of neighboring states as well) look very "European" with the interspersed woods and crops, as well as the erratic road pattern. Southeast PA is primarily farmland and development, Western PA is a better mix, and central PA (this picture) the Mountains are forested and the valleys are farmland. Northern PA is primarily forested Mountains. |
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Post by Babu on May 12, 2020 19:16:48 GMT -5
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Post by nei on May 14, 2020 8:56:03 GMT -5
bike ride Sunday evening, near the river, even less leaves up in the hills  see the cat?  all the cats  bushes and smaller trees nearly leafed out, higher story almost bare  Connecticut River    sunset from the same bridge I took the first photo at the start of the ride  |
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Post by nei on May 14, 2020 9:00:15 GMT -5
Garden photos this morning and just the trees walking around  |
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Post by Babu on May 14, 2020 10:15:50 GMT -5
Over two weeks have passed since we got our first leaves, and still the only trees that are properly green are bird cherries. Willows have started getting tiny leaves, and some rowans have leaves, as well as tiny leaves on some alders. The only birches with leaves are planted birches along roads and in the city center, and even their leaves are tiny. Green grass is starting to become more prevalent.  It was pretty warm, and sunny, when I left work at 12.30 today, so I decided to walk home.  Then it started getting cloudier and cloudier and windier and windier, and there were a ton of graupel showers all over the place.  It's weird, because while the bird cherries have but steadily gotten larger and larger leaves since the start of May during the consistently cold weather, all other trees have completely halted in their advancement.  So some areas look almost like they should look in mid-May  Whereas others look like April  And it causes weird contrasts like in this area where the undergrowth of bird cherries is pretty much completely green, whereas the taller goat willows and alder trees are pretty much completely bare.  Creek  Another creek  Same creek on the 5th. The bird cherries have changed, but all the other kinds of trees are identical despite over a week having passed. Normally rowans for example get their leaves just a day or two after the bird cherries, yet that rowan in the top left has barely changed at all in over a week, despite those bird cherries in the background having had leaves for two weeks.  Normally, when I walk through forests that look like this, I get completely ecstatic and feel like it's summer. I couldn't today though because I was fucking shuddering from the cold ass april weather.   50m away from where the previous picture was taken:  This maple had its first flower bud burst open on the 9th of May. 5 days later and it's still barely even flowering.  |
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Post by Babu on May 14, 2020 10:27:18 GMT -5
This spring is the complete opposite of 2018. 2018 saw a super frigid March, with snow left until the end of April, with april having lots of sunshine and above average highs but cold lows. Then May was close record breaking in terms of warmth and sunshine. Whereas this year was above average in March and April, but with an extremely cold start to May. Comparison shots: This was the 29th of April this year  Which had larger buds on this bird cherry than on the 6th of May 2018 (and there were many other bird cherries on the 29th of April this year that were much greener)  And this is the 5th of May this year. Obviously way ahead of 2018  But then one week after that second picture was taken, UmeΓ₯ was almost fully green. And look at this picture taken in TavelsjΓΆ (much later leaf out than UmeΓ₯) on the 14th of May 2018 and compare it to the pictures I took today.  |
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Post by Babu on May 14, 2020 10:45:04 GMT -5
2019's leaf out started very similarly to 2020. Maybe a couple of days ahead or something like that. Comparison shots: This was the 27th of April 2019  VS the same exact shot (but different lighting) on the 27th of April this year.  But despite May 2019 being way below average too, with many of the first days of May being close to break daily records, the birches looked like this already on the 10th of May 2019  Same shot but today:  |
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Post by Beercules on May 14, 2020 23:25:32 GMT -5
First negative temp of the winter, -1.2C This pic brought to you by Coopers Stout, GayJay Headaches, and Gatorade in an attempt to demolish GayJay Headache. The Irish Creme did it in the end.   |
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Post by Babu on May 15, 2020 4:44:36 GMT -5
I went on instagram to check the spring progress in Trondheim. I didn't expect this: Allegedly taken this morning:  And this was two days ago |
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Post by Speagles84 on May 15, 2020 13:08:09 GMT -5
Progress as of 5/15/2020 Dumb fucking trees, become green already alex992 What stage would you call this?  |
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Post by Strewthless on May 15, 2020 19:56:19 GMT -5
Daytime moon.  |
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Post by Wildcat on May 16, 2020 19:52:18 GMT -5
Pop-up storms with a somewhat unusual NW movement today. Drove up to Frankfort and saw a few good lightning strikes.  |
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Post by Nidaros on May 17, 2020 12:13:02 GMT -5
Today. Very slow spring greening this extremely cold & shitty May so far
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Post by nei on May 17, 2020 19:40:37 GMT -5
Bike ride photo Thursday evening Bike ride photos Friday  |
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Post by rozenn on May 17, 2020 19:48:51 GMT -5
^^^ Noice! Today. Very slow spring greening this extremely cold & shitty May so far
I find Paris' bare season too short, but this little progress by mid-May would drive me crazy. |
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Post by nei on May 17, 2020 19:53:16 GMT -5
Bike ride yesterday to Northampton. Smith College garden  |
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Post by urania93 on May 18, 2020 3:52:44 GMT -5
Yesterday was the less rainy day since the beginning of the deconfinement in France, so I tried to do a walk around the place. This means, great surprise, that finally I have some pictures which are not taken from my window. Outside it's completely green now, and even cherries start to turn red. I basically completely missed the trees transition this year :/
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Post by Wildcat on May 18, 2020 16:03:00 GMT -5
Pano I took in between rounds of thunderstorms this afternoon  |
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Post by Morningrise on May 18, 2020 22:58:04 GMT -5
Not from this spring, but rather a flashback to 21 years ago... On May 18th, 1999 three tornadoes touched down near the western outskirts of Saskatoon, and the storm cell that spawned them also featured wind gusts of over 100km/h, quarter-sized hail, and dumped 51mm of rain in half an hour (59mm total through the day, which made it the wettest May day ever recorded). Thankfully there were no injuries or serious damage reported. It was the last time I can recall a tornado getting that close to the city and was definitely the most intense storm I can remember rolling through town. I was just a kid at the time and didn't appreciate weather the way I do today but even then the seriousness of the storm was obvious as it approached. This is the view of the ominous clouds at the start of the storm...  |
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Post by ππΏMΓΆrΓΆnππΏ on May 18, 2020 23:33:22 GMT -5
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^ no idea about the name of these plants, but their flowers/fruits (?) are quite funny, because they stick to clothes. When we were kids we were picking those all the time and then throw them one to each other, until we were covered in those.
