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My nephew found a Merlin falcon on the side of the road. I wish I had known before he let it go. I guess they can be pretty good hunters.

16 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

84/64 with a decent breeze. Solid warmth.

Feels heavenly.

1 hour ago, DavisStraight said:

I think Kens drooling over that great firewood you have

I still have plenty. And my beeches are dying as well. Like somebody else posted The copper beach still looks great. Weird that just a little different DNA wards off The disease.

Hopefully we get lucky during the upcoming unsettled period. Always a crap shoot this time of year.

12 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

Getting increasingly concerned for significant heat mid month. 

Wholesale telecon collapse in all major ensemble systems wrt +PNA ….possible even a mode reversal.  Mode flipping PNA to negative PNA is the eastern North America loading pattern for big heat.  Meanwhile the distant “probability Horizon” of the operational runs are starting to pick up on the scaffolding for southwest heat release timing well with that numerical suggestion above.  

A week of +PNA first though… Which I’m not even sure how much it’s gonna cool off because it looks like the vortex stretches and elongates north of us really and that’s going to block the cold from actually getting around and underneath. Maybe more seasonal with thunderstorm risks
 

I think folks will be ready for it. After tomorrow it looks pretty crappy for a while. 

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Our weather pattern then changes to a cloudy
and more unsettled outlook by Thursday and continuing into
early next week. Widespread rain showers and embedded
thunderstorms are expected on Thursday. Shower and thunderstorm
coverage for Friday into Monday then becomes more scattered with
some dry periods at times. Temperatures trend slightly cooler
than normal.

1 hour ago, Ginx snewx said:

Was in SWRI today Holy heck on the white winter moth Damage to Beeches 

It's likely this. If it was winter moths they would have eaten the maples as well. 

"Beech leaf disease (BLD) affects and kills both native and ornamental beech tree species"

1 hour ago, tamarack said:

Might be white pine blister rust, though the lower pic looks odd, with browning branches all around below a green top.

With the rust does the whole tree discolor at the same time usually? And thanks

5 hours ago, tamarack said:

We bought ours specifically for cooling.  In its 3 years, we've never used it for heat.  Of course, the only wall big enough to mount the critter is about 10 feet from the Jotul.  

Backup is oil-fired hot water baseboard, also our domestic hot water, but wood is the main fuel.  Typical winter we burn about 5 cords; probably a bit more this coming winter as we'll run a cord-plus of basswood thru the stove, from the big tree we paid to have dropped, since it had internal defect and a strong lean toward the house.

Seeing this quite a bit on smallish pines ( 5 to 10 in in diameter) . Any thoughts? Thanks in advance.

On 6/2/2024 at 9:31 PM, Froude said:

What an incredible stretch of early summer weather. Really good for anything you want to do outside. Hot enough to swim, dry enough to hike or bike without a sweat, warm patio temps till sunset, and cool nights with the windows open. We welcome the rain later this week but then let's re rack this all summer please.

 

That just looks so summer. Thanks for posting.

Next stop Connecticut. Poor wiz. 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/joro-spiders-new-york-giant-venomous-spiders-spread-east-coast/

77/57 . A keeper...

1 hour ago, Allsnow said:

 

They likely breed in Tolland where it is hot all the time.

29 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

The newest Camry is something I would actually consider after having SUVs for a while. AWD, amazing mileage (45mph), roomy, tons of tech. Bullet proof drivetrain.  
I’m still a few years away but seriously considering one. 

A good choice. I've never owned one but a good friend has had two. Both of them breezed to 200,000 mi. 

28 minutes ago, Chrisrotary12 said:

Weekends before 7a. 

Tough to come by.

Golf outing season has started. Can't find a tee time till late in the afternoon.

2 minutes ago, BrianW said:

68 already at BDL. First 90 of the season today?

 

Yuck, showers from Thursday to Tuesday. Hopefully that doesn't come about.

8 hours ago, mreaves said:

Had to have been quite a while ago too. Who the hell uses the term 1 wood anymore?

Tippy speaks of different language you know that.

1 hour ago, Typhoon Tip said:

I'd agree with you but yesterday unfortunately bumps this one to #4 ... maybe #3 if we can all concede yesterday was a 1 or 2er

Did 18 holes at Stow "Achers"   ( Stow Acres).    The sky was incredibly, like peering into an infinity under which the air was packed with sunshine in every direction.  It was 79 over the open fairways with just enough breeze to not affect flight paths of strokes, but enough to wick the sweat away in cooling reprieves. 

Not impressed with the course though.  They jacked the prices quite a bit while the quality of the fairways was not very good.  Greens were only so so and wouldn't play the reads because they weren't cut well - certainly not the for dollars spent. 

Had a very embarrassing day though.   I usually end with a 12 or 15 handicap by the end of the year - it's not a game I'm naturally gifted. Still, it was first out of the season and I ...eh hm, ran into an equipment failure of a most unlikely kind - bizarre.  

The parking lot was filled with convertible Corvettes to BMW SUVs, of course your pet Merc's and Lexi's, too. I think I might have seen something that looked a bit like an Aston Martin   ....  and my Toyota Corolla.  Hey, it's a "Sport" class so I had that goin' for my image.  Which was clad in just an Izod cotton collard shirt over Kaki shorts, and pair of retired running shoes.  Just squeaked into the dress code.  But in all fairness, it was a 28 year old aristocratic larvae walking around in the 1200 dollar Rory McIlroy wannabe golf attire being the society types they have in mind.  

And as it were, I was teeing off on whole one.  11:15, ahead of several groups of 3 or 4 of the high cheek-boned privileged, all their eyes ogled upon me in their collective silence so loud I was nerved up like meth head when I swung my 1-wood.  Only it would not be my ball that would make it over the immediate water hazard in the foreground, but the actual heal of the club! i It snapped right at the bottom of the shaft...somewhere between the Ferrule and Hosel, sending it over the water.  The ball "blooped" in...   All Golf nightmares coming to a sudden parallax right there and then upon that fateful moment ... 

A horror story of humility only made incaculably worse when after reassurance by my buddy, and a moment to gather my composure...  I set back up with my 3-wood.  

It happen again  ... I shit you not.  Both clubs, in successive order.     

"Not impressed with the course though.  They jacked the prices quite a bit while the quality of the fairways was not very good.  Greens were only so so and wouldn't play the reads because they weren't cut well - certainly not the for dollars spent"

The place is a dog track now. You played the South course since you had to go over ( or in) the little pond on your first shot. I think it's going to become a solar farm pretty soon.

6 hours ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

Surreal amount of COC. Enjoy it folks. 

Pretty sweet.

9 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

I’d expect the heat and dews to arrive in earnest July/August. Not only is that the climatological peak (duh) but I’d expect we see the continental pattern response from the building Nina then.

It obviously won’t be the blowtorch I’d expect to see in the Midwest, but warm to hot and especially humid in its own right. Talking about CT I don’t care about anywhere else lol. 

And we don't care about you. So there...

8 hours ago, Torch Tiger said:

maybe not "much" heat, but we'll definitely have some hot days week 2.  Won't go into weaklies deets as it's a fools errand, but they don't look cool and wet

They don't look hot and dry. 

Gee it's cool and comfortable. Wish it was hot and uncomfortable. 

32 minutes ago, tamarack said:

Another morning near 40.  While we were in SNJ celebrating the HS graduation of our oldest granddaughter, it rained one night (7th) plus a shower on the 29th.  Back here, the max-min showed a high of 75, low of 38 (prob. 30th) during May 25-31.  Had 1.76" during the period, with other sites indicating it came all/most on the 27th into early 28th.

Had a great trip, including a journey to Lancaster PA on the 30th to pick up rustic furniture for the family's new enclosed porch.  Coming home yesterday, hit a real mess on I-495; shortly after we came onto it from I-290, the update sign said 26 miles to I-93, estimated 62 minutes - not good.  And we didn't get clear of the stop-n-go until Haverhill.  No cause seen, just too many cars.

That section of 495 is brutal.

1 hour ago, dendrite said:

No choice once he realizes he installed it backwards.

As one of our fine posters once remarked, "a literal monkey could install an air conditioner"

57 minutes ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

Doesn’t get any better. San Diego weather. 

Solo stove says, what humidity?