Supernovice

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.

rain/ sleet here- def not snow. ground isn't white at all. roads wet.  I'm at 210' at the Lowell/ Tewksbury/ Andover line.

Mowed yesterday after raking all the pine needles from my arborvitae’s that fell during the storm. 3 bags later…

Anyone else seeing their arborvitae’s shed internal needles at a ridiculous rate this yr? Read up a bit and it’s either the spring/ summer drought or they are all doing a periodic shedding at the same time. Weird 

I dunno if anyone else saw this but pretty cool move by The Godfather.

https://universalhub.com/2022/mensch-does-mitzvah-channel-5

Update: power back and potential white Christmas if this band doesn’t die. Talk about a range of emotions.

Hosting brunch and Christmas dinner tomm. No power. Can’t get the generator to turn over even a bit. I can feel wifeys icey stares as we listen to the wind howl…if you listen closely you can hear the food going bad. Thoughts and prayers pls.

1 hour ago, Typhoon Tip said:

Britney Griner was released from Russian prison !

Prisoner swap between her and some Russian arms dealer known as the 'the merchant of death' apparently. Reminds me of that awesome Spielberg movie, 'Bridge of spies'

2 things:

1) awful trade we all know about Griner's height and athleticism by Viktor has that killer instinct you just can't teach- boom.

2) I believe @Chrisrotary12 among others are interested in the below topic. When you have the best podcast on the planet covering this issue- like I had to link it.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-08/odd-lots-podcast-how-climate-change-impacts-reinsurance-catastrophe-bonds?srnd=oddlots-podcast

May I suggest you all put on ESPNU for some MACtion ( c. Mich vs w mich) in an absolute blizzard.

Nothing better than football in the snow.

This is pretty interesting… also with respect to analogs.

Edit: 1975 anyone? What’d that winter do?

With the forecast- thinking I might take the opp and drop some more milorganite before the eventual cool down. Any thoughts?

You have my attention 

Headlines of this ilk are something else … twisting and turning to avoid saying the words ‘climate change’.

Anyways this is all very normal and nothing to worry about.

https://news.yahoo.com/why-did-one-billion-alaskan-162814859.html

3 minutes ago, bristolri_wx said:

Besides, their uptime minus scheduled maintenance numbers are quite good considering the radar system was installed in the late 80's and early 90's, and are operational 24/7.  Some parts of the 88D radar system are still from the original installs and only get replaced when they fail (from what I've read).

Ok ok I’m being too tough. Just seems whenever I look at the radar which admittedly isn’t as much as I used to- it’s down.

Why is the BOS radar down for days at a time at least once every 2 months? What a joke

say, do you remember?
dancin' in September
golden dreams were shiny days

 say, do you remember?
dancin' in September
never was a cloudy day

4 hours ago, TauntonBlizzard2013 said:

Thatching and over-seeding time?

Was just going to ask this…ideally need 45 days between seeding and first frost… something to think about at least 

RIP Bruce S. What a legend