Buckeyes_Suck

I'd be happy with that as long as we dont have 35 thaws like we did last year...

I'm in the same boat as I also prefer the look and feel of wood more.

I had cedar at my last house and the only maintenance that was required was fixing wind and tree damage. It will grey with time if its not sealed which was fine. My neighbor had vinyl and was constantly losing entire sections to wind damage. If you're in an open area be careful of vinyl with wind. If you go with the pine or cherry get a sprayer, it'll take you only a couple hours to treat.

i'm surprised that what happened during the indy game hasnt happened more often, or that snow games don't happen more often in general. Then again, maybe i've just stopped watching after thanksgiving for most of the past 20 years...

nope...falling apart, you can literally see the lake breeze blowing a hole in it.

pretty impressive line on its way over the eastern end of lake erie now, lets see if it holds together.

I'm going out on a limb here but it might have to do with lake Erie being more effective in transferring heat(cooling) to the air moving across it. Number one its orientation leads well to funneling air over its entire length, its south shore having elevation immediately inland. Two, how shallow it is allows it to become very choppy quickly. Id imagine this increases friction and mixing as air flows over it. I wonder if there isn't a safer place to live in the country than buffalo from a dangerous weather/natural disaster stance...

ya i watched the lightning count explode over the ontario peninsula and then fall flat on its face as it crossed the lake. just a little bit of rain here in west falls.

anybody under this line yet?

To my untrained eye it would seem that the are of thunderstorms entering the ontario peninsula should make to wny. Tons of lightning in those storms right now.

Looks like the bulk of the rain has been filling lake ontario.

I would argue that the data doesn't go back hundreds of years, and that only remotely solid data only goes back 40 years. Automated systems for data gathering have really only widely been available for the past 20 years and economically feasible for mass distribution for the past 10 years. That said i'm not arguing at all against human caused global warming, just posting data that screams the sky is falling. My stance is that doing anything to try to affect the rate of warming at this point is a drop in the pond. All the green initiative here in the states is just nothing to what china and india are doing to the climate, and as Africa experiences a rapid and explosive industrialization over the next 50 years we will be even more negligible. Money better spent would be on relocating people from areas that will either be flooded or protecting low lying areas as water levels rise. Additionally, what if we are wrong and there is some other forcing that is driving climate change? Then all of this time and money that could have been spent on preparing for the worst would have been wasted on trying to prevent it.

I believe in science and I believe that the climate is warming as a result of human influence and that ice coverage will continue to go down because of it. That doesn't change that showing data for only the last 40 years only is misleading, especially as the 70's were notoriously cold.

I hate charts with an agenda.

FWIW i have a picture of snow still on the ground in shaded spots at the bottom of the Niagara gorge from May 20th. With how much snow they probably had as a base plus altitude I could see them still having snow in protected spots.

And I thought this was the dumbest thing I've ever read. https://leftfootbraking.org/index.cfm

My take is that all of the subsidy money spent on going "green" would be better spent on infrastructure projects to better protect/and or relocate people. If the entire world were to go green and try to reduce emissions there would at least be a chance, but the actions of the US are just a drop in the pond compared to what china and india are doing to the planet. Over the next 50 years the population in asia and africa will continue to explode and further industrialization of these areas is inevitable. We're well past the tipping point.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen returns that strong over wny.

So I'm not a meteorologist but an Engineer by trade. A lot of my time is devoted to solving odd problems and in my experience the simplest answer is usually the most likely root cause. In your case I think the damage was cause by a straight line gust of wind while one side of the tent was open. Three sided structures are against code in a lot of areas because of how prone they are to wind damage. It wouldn't take much for your tent to be picked up by the wind if one side was open and basically turned into a large sail, taking the picnic table with it and causing the destruction you see. as far as the canoes go I'm not surprised they stayed put. Even though they are light there's nothing there to really generate lift. Just my two cents.

I want to live somewhere that I can drive on hardpack all winter. I hate driving through rutty slush.

Snow is picking up here in west falls. Nothing major but enough to slowly add up.

If i remember correctly the late season storm we got last year was too heavy for my tractor. Like 12" of 10:1. I had to get out the snowblower.

And because my plow on the tractor broke during the last decent snowfall we got...

I want that for us someday, area wide 6' drifts lol.

I lost three trees (all across my driveway) in the 17 event. I’ll be making a fresh batch of two cycle mix today. On the plus side I’m just starting to get low on firewood