CapturedNature

Since when does population density rule over weather?

A lot of people have back issues. I never had issues until one day in my 20s my back decided to spasm on me. Worst pain I had ever had until that point. I slowly figured out what happened. Over the years it's repeated itself with varying degrees of severity. The one thing that has consistently kept them at bay is stretching. At least three days a week I do stretches and as long as I keep them up and go no more than three weeks without doing them, I'm good. Just know that it's part of aging...

That's interesting. That happens here sometimes, particularly with the maples, birch, etc. and then the oaks. The maples have some good color now and I plan on doing a photo tour tomorrow.

I would also look for secondary roads and get off the beaten path. Just about any state highway can take you through some scenic areas. Pick up a state map at the welcome center. In a couple of weeks you should explore northern Rhode Island and northeastern CT. There's a reason why it's called the Quiet Corner and "The Last Green Mile". It's right in your new backyard which is a bonus...

Why not the opposite? A tax credit for limiting carbon use. It would provide added incentive beyond the expense of using carbon.

Like Dendrite said, we kid around but it is a sad and tragic event and hope for minimal loss of life.

The flames could help with the one day torch.

I'm waiting a couple of weeks to pass judgement. There's certainly some maples/trees that aren't great but there's certainly a lot of others that are bright and colorful. Just this morning I noted several on my drive into work. Right in my yard I have maple with nice red leaves. It's half bare now but still nice color. I hope to go out this weekend and try and do some photography for my YouTube channel and I'll share some here.

I like how your math works. 1 hour with a Dp over 70 equal 24 hours over 70 and 1 tree equal all trees in the region.

It's because of the JPG algorithm. Your camera has to make a decision on which colors to keep or discard to compress the image. Your Canon is capable of capturing a "raw" image which has all of the colors but you need an editor to adjust them. Alternatively, if you phone can do HDR images, the result would be similar without the editing. See if you have that setting and then try taking some pictures and if that improves the color saturation that you're looking for. FWIW, You'll get better pictures from your Canon because it has a larger sensor and better lens.

I've had that same thought with my son going out into the woods. I usually put on bug spray anyway because I find the buggers annoying, especially three cornered (deer) flies. Growing up I never wore a seat belt but when I was 16 or 18 I was required to do so. Now I don't even think about it. I've never gotten in an accident and statistically most people would be fine without one. However, I do like the extra insurance. I kind of view bug spray the same way. It's almost useless but then there's that .0000001% chance. Do I want to take that chance when I have something that takes a couple of seconds that mitigates it? It also helps against ticks and our woods are crawling with them so it's an added policy.

I posted a link a while back but the city was looking for comments on how to improve the common. I took the survey as an outsider and made a suggestion that they add a weather station like central park. My suggestion here was that if enough of us made that comment it might get added to the list of discussion points. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/BostonCommonMasterPlan

When I was in my teens I wanted to move to that part of Montana for some reason. I remember having a discussion about places and my friend was insistent that I move east of the divide. We looked at a map together and Babb was the place we picked. Years later I visited that small town but obviously never moved there. I should've listened to my younger self...

The enemy is not capitalism. In fact, that's where the money is that is needed to address climate change. Climate change shouldn't be a political pawn to achieve ones political goals. You're going to need the capital that capitalism generates to invest in sequestration or nuclear power. Provide enough incentive and the market will provide everything in a rapid time frame. Politicize it and you have what we currently have.

There will be/is color this year. I agree that it's muted but there are certainly some bright colors in places and there are several weeks to go.

I agree about calling a season before it's over. Last year was strange if you recall. August ended cool and September started cool which kicked off an early change in some species. Others didn't respond and when the warmer weather came they just hung on so there were almost like two "peaks". One for the early turners and then for the late turners.

I have to post some pictures but I was up in northern Maine and Quebec and drove south from there. It was interesting to see the color change and was surprised and how underwhelming the Kanc was too after having driving down from central Quebec and Rte 3 from the tip of NH. It was as if everything north of there had good bright colors but south of there it was more muted for the most part. There's still some pockets of decent bright colors but lots of muted colors. There's decent pockets off the Interstate but like I said in my comment above it's interesting how I encountered that same effect all the way from the White Mountains south earlier in the week.

My 20 year average is peak is 10/14 here. We do tend to run about 7-10 days ahead of the valley.

I think the warmer weather paused things. I'll be going up to northern New England and Quebec next week. I'm not expecting much but it should pretty interesting.

Just in time for the peak of hurricane season.

I guess the top 5 impactful events that I have witnessed would be (in no particular order): December 1992 Storm (got to see deep snow to crashing waves after years no big storms) December 1989 Cold (coldest weather I've ever seen) January 1998 Ice Storm (Most devastation and longevity I've ever witnessed) June 1, 2011 Tornado (Got to witness the aftermath first hand) January 2011 Snow (multiple storms dropped a seasons worth of snow on my house in less than a month) Honorable mentions would be the October 2011 Storm, the 1972 Ice Storm (I think that help shape my interest in weather events) and the cold months of January 1994 & February 2015. I gave the nod to December 1989 because I was at Lyndon and the elevation and northern latitude enhanced the cold for me. I don't know that I'll experience a month like that again. Lots of good memories here by all!

I was noticing that myself looking at some hillsides even in SNE. You can spot a green hue difference between trees. It was more noticeable above 1500' in the Berkshires on I-90 but definitely there. Maybe we're in for a long foliage season...

I respectfully disagree about people taking extremes on climate change. There's the bury your head types and then there's the water world/Massachusetts will be like the tropics in a 100 years if we don't do anything types. I see these extremes almost every day on other forums and I think it's why nothing gets done anymore. Everyone takes an extreme perspective.

I agree with the language comment. I've never understood the need for people to have to interject "colorful adjectives" in normal speech. It's a free world though...

Not for me. Gloria was way more impactful in Connecticut than Bob was. I only mentioned Bob because it is the last hurricane to make landfall in New England. There was a lot more damage here from Gloria than Bob but I did have way more rain from Bob. The thing I've never understood is the dismissive attitude people give to category 1 hurricanes or even tropical storms. I stood atop Mount Washington in 75MPH winds and the one thing I remember thinking was "So this is a category 1 hurricane?" and thinking I would never think the lessor of one again. It seems like everyone just likes to focus on the extremes whether it's weather, climate change or politics. All extreme, all the time.