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BeaverhausenA OP t1_j9pck06 wrote

Reply to comment by Jimmy_kong253 in Are we getting snow this year? by BeaverhausenA

We need the water to counter drought. Our landscape needs both the cold and the added water. Lack of hard freeze means more weeds and mosquitoes/bugs.

The places we are in are shaped by the climate patterns. We have crops that are popular here because of that pattern. We have plants and animals that depend on it.

Too many humans forget we are part of the environment, not just the concrete and steel.

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Jimmy_kong253 t1_j9pgznc wrote

It's been raining alot this season if it doesn't rain or snow where our water reservoir are then you can't do much about that. But it has been raining

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BeaverhausenA OP t1_j9rdgzb wrote

We won't have the droughts that the West have, but we're the garden state and are supposed to get water from rain, water from snow, benefit of the cold with the snow. We benefit from the snow melt process.

Certain crops are chosen by our climate pattern, the timing of our seasons, the cycle of cold, damp, moist, snow, warming. We really didn't get much water necessarily, difference between deep watering and sprinkling. Have you gardened? Grown plants? The difference is start.

Hopefully this aberration makes more people think about the environment and learn to favor concern for it.

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nabs212 t1_j9pxsku wrote

idk where in Jersey you are from but im in Monmouth County and it has rained at least 2 days every single week this winter... thats a ton of moisture LOL

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BeaverhausenA OP t1_j9rbywu wrote

Moisture is swampy. I'm in Union County/Somerset border. That bitty rain just nurtured the weeds and gave the mosquito broods little pools.

We also need the cold. Plants sort of hibernate too. I need to get outside to trim plants, still fearing they will try to bloom, and plod through mushy grass.

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