CAPE

49 here this morning. A tad chilly in the house.

A classic omega block is setting up this week with a high amplitude ridge to the west and the northeast under an upper low that looks to close off. Models vary on exact location and strength as the week progresses. Overall looks like NE flow regime with cool temps from Wed onward, with a mixture of sunny and cloudy periods, and maybe some shower chances, but most of the precip appears to stay offshore. Latest GFS brings some decent showers through late Tuesday with a shortwave as the trough over the NE digs southward. Who knows how things evolve towards next weekend with any tropical influence from the Atlantic- doesn't look like much at this juncture.

Picked up a 4 pack of KBS Espresso yesterday. Really looking forward the the Utopias barrel-aged WWS, due out next month. Hopefully in a week or 2. I missed the initial release of it last year.

Should be. Everything is all overgrown lol. I will get to work tomorrow. Need to get the rest of the re-seeding done pretty quickly. Leaves will be coming down soon.

1.4" here yesterday, although it was over by the time I got home. 5.63" for the month, most of which fell while I was away.

54 here this morning. Nice to come home to weather that is similar to what I had gotten used to, although it looks like we creep back towards 80 early next week.

The pilot took a circuitous route to avoid the storms on the flight back from London yesterday- turned south just north of NYC and came straight south just off the Atlantic coast, then turned west south of SBY, then north to IAD. Was hard to get a focused shot but took this looking west from the southern NJ coast. Pretty decent towers in the distance. You can see the immediate coast in the cloud break near the bottom.

Shocked to wake up from across the big pond to see the Ravens won. Got my coffee. Time to watch some highlights.

Lookin' good for my return next Thursday. I have gotten used to actual early Fall weather.

69/53 here at 345 PM under full sun. Beautiful.

Maybe, but not sure how much difference it would make at this point. Hard to imagine them beating KC unless they just come out flat or turn the ball over 4 times. At this point a reasonable goal is probably to be a around 500 at the halfway point and hope to get some players back- and not lose more.

What once looked like a promising season for the Ravens continues to go down the toilet thanks to an incredible run of injuries. LG Tyre Philips is now on IR, and Stanley, who didn't look right against the Raiders coming off the broken ankle of last season, appears to be out for awhile. Lost all our RBs, and the OL is now a mess. Poor Lamar. Word is Chris Westry may be out with a serious knee injury, and he figured to be a big part of the secondary especially after the loss of Peters. Looks like the IR list will grow to 16 and maybe 17 if Stanley is out for an extended period.

Hung out in Manchester City Centre last night and went to this place. 20 taps and about half the beers were brewed there, including the two I drank, #9 and #11. Both the stout and the DIPA were outstanding. The IPA was one of the best NE Hazy styles I have ever had.

Luckily I was unable to watch that mess over here. A lot of work to do, and the Chiefs are up next. 0-2 start looking likely.

It is for the best.

Cool looking place but with a long and creepy ass history. http://www.lancastercastle.com/history-heritage/a-dark-history/

https://cumbriacrack.com/2021/09/10/more-pictures-tom-cruise-tells-fan-he-loves-the-lake-district/ Didn't know this was going on when I was there. Saw a black helicopter doing maneuvers and caught it in one or two of my mountain photos.

Mid 60s here for highs over the next 7 days with low 50s for lows, and showery early to mid week. Pretty typical, and very happy to miss the upcoming disgusting extended tropical mid Atlantic summer weather.

Last day in Cumbria. Went to the area with the highest peaks, with the highest being Scafell Pike at 3200 feet. Unfortunately there were a lot of low clouds and drizzle so the dramatic rocky peak was not visible. Still got some decent shots.

Latavius Murray time? Barry Sanders? Jim Brown maybe?

Christ Gus Edwards too. What a disaster. Thought the Ravens figured out how to not do this after all the lower leg injuries of a few years ago.

Staying in a place called Cockermouth, which is a lovely town, but the name can compete with some of the funniest you will find in the state of PA.

A couple more...

Currently in Cumbria, in the Lake district. Just gorgeous here. Did some hiking today and took a bunch of photos. I could totally live here, and this area gets some decent snow most winters.