Supernovice

Interesting paper on the impacts of the Australian Wildfires in 2019-2020.  Interesting how the smoke doesn't get into the stratosphere but still impacts sensible weather. good read.

TLDR- Contributed to the 3 yr long (unprecedented) La Nina.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01588-8

Pool heater engaged for the first time this yr. enjoy these next 2 days

1 hour ago, Damage In Tolland said:

None knows you.. cares about what you post . Let’s keep it that way by having you make more posts like this . Keep wearing your mask outdoors alone, while driving in your car alone , and getting your boosters . 

Oh no- that does it. I’ll be at the next gtg. Book it.

37 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

With snow still otg in areas and a cold time of year there and no lightning ..I mean sure. That sounds like burn season in the high Canadian Rockies 

If I were you and thank god I’m not, I’d sit out any fire/ smoke conversations for awhile.

Anyways it took me 0.01 seconds and Google to find out how unusual wildfires during May in Alberta are and the answer is….not at all unusual. Shocker.

1 hour ago, Damage In Tolland said:

One of the biggest dicks on the board = you bro 

Thank you- I think?

Ya I’m pretty sure the correct response is ‘thank you’.

47 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Not many better songs than this . Absolute classic. Crank and rip it.

 

When I think of you, I think of this:

Aurora’s to Boston tonight??
 

Too bad it’s cloudy. Pretty significant solar storm ongoing 

56 minutes ago, Chrisrotary12 said:

Seed in the spring or fall? Spend spring removing anything unwanted and levelling the ground then seed in fall?

I mean you can seed in either. The issue w/ the spring is your grass seed is competing w/ weeds so it's less effective and also you can't apply herbicides to control crabgrass etc- because that stops all germination.

When I "started over" I seeded both (spring/fall) for like 2 yrs...but shifted to a late summer/ fall de-thatching and seeding followed by spring crabgrass, grub control application cycle. Which is effective.

Pretty cool:

I know @Typhoon Tiphas posted it before but anyone got a link to a good Mesonet? pls and Ty.

8 hours ago, TalcottWx said:

I am in an inverse bear ETF for Tesla called TSLQ. I am up 10% since Tuesday. And those are shares, not options.

Those levered etf’s reset their NAV’s daily- you’re going to get chewed up by fees if you hold that- designed for a day or less holding period.

Also- what do you think the underlying is of that etf?( hint: rhymes with whaptions)

anyways back to your regularly scheduled programming.

edit: as of this moment 1:30pm, ~$3.5mm gone lolz. see ya SVB

Looks like some on this board may have a week of their dreams next week: a HECS and a potentially devastating credit/ liquidity US banking crisis to watch unfold while snowed in.

As someone who has significant funds at SVB obviously hope that’s not the case but getting skittish and might pull everything at open tomm. Which is what a good ole fashioned bank run is… so?

9 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Username checks out

He literally ranted for days that his rain was contaminated with chlorine and chemicals from the fire in Northeast Ohio which had occurred like 8 days earlier. 

It was a joke- I’ll do better explaining next time. Or you could trust his forecasting and weather understanding- up to you all.

15 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Looks on track to me for snow next weekend 

So 6-7 days away…that means if I look downstream the system should be about here today, right? How come I don’t see anything- please advise.

1 minute ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

I mean the surface.

doesn't it translate tho- Like more air aloft would have led to the Merrimack Valley being more sleet- no? regardless of surface temps, or is that an over simplification?

16 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

22.1

Euro nailed the low level cold...NAM sucked.

When I saw the below last night i was like ehhhh... Delete Delete!

Maybe High Res was better down south, but certainly not Pike North

50 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

Lowell must be getting the goods

Not as good as it looked on radar but it did improve…eyeballing maybe 2 on non-pavement surfaces 

Light snow, rates meh, pavement wet: Winter 2022-2023

17 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

The guy asking about 1/2" of ice in a modest overrunning ordeal dishing out buns...its raining pots and kettles.

The fact that he thinks it takes 6 days for clouds to move from Ohio to SNE really does go a long way in explaining his abysmal weather understanding and forecasting.

1 hour ago, Spanks45 said:

Which was made worse when the group promoting the "fake news" concept promoted their spokesperson to President. They already had their alternative media in place for that group of many people to flock to when they needed someplace else to go. Amazing how much money was made in the past 7 years on the idea of "Fake News". Slowly the Alex Jones of the conspiracy theory world are starting to be exposed for who they really are, fake news and lies for profit. Most of the media out there has some level of bias, but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see through that. Hopefully we can get back to a world where facts can be facts again and not labeled "fake news" because some guy on YouTube said so(especially when they made a bunch of money because it was shared and clicked on so many times). 

Frustrating times for scientists around the world.....

The Venn Diagram of people who believe a chlorine cloud descended on their house 7 days after said fire in Ohio, that the covid vaccines are causing mass deaths and that the 2020 election was stolen is just 1 perfect circle. 

Conspiracy theorists going to conspiracy theory I guess… classic 

If someone runs a marathon, but doesn't tell anyone- did they even run it?

Not sure if you guys heard, but it seems we solved global warming without really even trying.

Big if true. (It’s not)

So I get a txt from my mom last night- “hey our electric bill is like $600 what yours- something must be wrong”.

So I look and she’s getting charged like 3x per kw than I am- and we both have national grid. So she calls and they say that yes- national grid uses different suppliers and each supplier can charge a ‘Market rate’ so there are differences. Finally, you can request a change if you want to- which she obviously is going to do. 

This sounds absolutely absurd- anyone work in the industry?

In Aruba 21-28th- bank on the best stretch of the winter occurring then.