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Smoke coming north now

The sky would be lighting up with the northern lights like last October right now but alas it's daytime no way of knowing we get these parameters at night.

60, with a chilly breeze. Garbage for June 1

This is not nice for June 1, sorry. It’s windy and barely touching 60

I was at the wharf in falmouth on the water for a surprise engagement party and the wind was crazy

Because New England sucks

GSO was super wet in May, with over 7.53“ of rain. It was only .6” below normal in temperature, despite many of us using the fireplace or furnace as late as this morning. The highest temperature was 85, the lowest 47.

It is ongoing now at G4 but the Bz is north. We will see how much it holds through tonight and if that number shifts.

https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/?parms=regional-northeast-02-24-1-100-1&checked=map&colorbar=undefined smokey

Looks like the peak for us is 11 pm to 2 am based on this table We're UT-4 (because of DST).

The new ones have failsafes that work no matter what the circumstances are. No human intervention needed. Esp. The micro plants that Amazon and Google are using soon.

Once we have fully safe nuclear power plants with safeguards in place to prevent a meltdown even during a natural disasters will solve a lot of our problems.

Not sure if the ones that ran the place shut it down? Government pressure shut it down, I think? Nobody wants a nuclear power plant in their backyard. Some say it is not wise to have such plants near extremely densely populated areas. That is a point to consider. Remember, nuclear power plants are run by people. All you have to do is drive, or just interact with people on a daily basis and you realize that the unthinkable can happen. In general, I think we are getting sloppier. In theory, nuclear energy sounds great, but between regulations and government intervention, the price to produce electricity tends to be higher. Plus the endpoint storage has still not been settled. In my naive mind, I would think that each nuclear facility would be a target, just for the nuclear waste alone. Yucca Mountain sounded like a good idea, but even the 7 people who live in Nevada do not want the national nuclear waste depository there. To me, there is no negative side to storing it there. Naysayers will point to fault lines and earthquakes, but wouldn't the waste still be contained?

Nothing is locked in for winter on June 1st

Yes I see that... I'll recheck their numbers at 6PM when the new issuance arrives. AND... hoping middle deck WAA clouds ahead of a weak boundary does not complicate things after 9PM. Better chance of clear skies south and west of us.

not in France. Its the cheapest energy source in Europe by a wide margin. The operation and cost of fuel per kilowatt hour is cheap even compared to many fossil fuels. Its the regulation that is costly. This is changing in many states however. As far as waste, France uses about 20% of its nuclear waste to produce more electricity! They lead the world and show us how it's done. As an approved wingnut, don’t get me started. Lol. We gave up on science decades ago. Technical schools have been disappearing since the 70s. College has become more about social status than anything. Marketing and money. Oberlin isn’t teaching anyone how to split the atom safely. Sure is hard to get into though! What does that 300k get you? You can say you went to Oberlin! And the rest of us get high electric bills. Thanks Oberlin!

sounds like our healthcare issues with PBMs being the middlemen that are responsible for the increased costs.

Frosty start here this morning at 35°. Coldest I remember for the start of met summer. Also see the high temps backed down several degrees for this week. One 80° day looks likely Tuesday now. Should stay pretty comfortable for the first week of June.

Point and click shows Mechanicsburg at close to 90 this week, Tamaqua in the high 80s, and State College in the mid to high 80s. It does look like summer may be back-loaded, but it's hard to complain about the forecasted temps.

Utility recovery fee. They have an infrastructure in place, and the cost must be recovered, whether we use it or not. Power lines to carry the electricity. Of course now, many of the electrical utilities have sold off parts of their system, so one produces the electricity, while another transmits it, perhaps yet another maintains the lines...

wait, we were close to having a vaccine for aids? when was this project shut down?

NYC already had a nuclear plant that provided 20% of its electricity needs, free of global price shocks and instability, and a clean source of 24/7 baseload power. Then the geniuses that run this place decided that it needed to be shut down. And guess what? Now we use far more fossil fuels to make up the loss on supply and my bills are approaching DOUBLE what I paid in 2020, and I even installed efficient heat pumps. The only wingnuts are the pretend environmentalists that have an irrational hate for nuclear.

Electrical generating companies are considered essential. Therefore, they are guaranteed to make a profit, no matter how much electricity is used.

May 2020 34 degrees and snow on May 9th in NYC and June 2023 with a low in the 40s on June 4th are two more examples of it. The climate is of course warming but there is not this steep climb that is being talked about. NYC's longest heatwave was in 1953, its most number of 95 degree days was in 1955, its longest streak of 95+ days was in 1944, its most number of 99+ days was in 1949.