CapturedNature

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!

We have a couple of hillsides around here that are filled with dead oaks. There's a scattering of them at my parents place. That's the worst I've seen in this area from the gypsies in my life. Speaking of dying trees, I have an apple tree that I planted about 12 years ago. It's never flowered and last month the leaves just started to fall off of it and it's just about nude now. Any thoughts on what's happened to this tree? It's always looked healthy, just never flowered and now this. Not sure if it's a gonner or not but I'll wait for spring. As if I don't have enough dying trees in my yard, I have a Western Hemlock that I planted over 20 years ago to hedge off the Wolly Adelgid is also showing issues. The top portion has lost its needles..the bottom looks OK so I'll see what that does too.

lol...how about a maple leaf for Stafford?

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.

Yeah, I was just thinking about that. We had 6 in the 22 years between 1938 and 1960 and a scattering until Bob in 1991 but nothing since then. It's interesting that just as the frequency of snow storms increased in 1992 we haven't had a landfalling hurricane. Is there a correlation?

Sounds like a prediction like calling for HHH from a certain date "and beyond" as if we know exactly what will happen between now and December and then call for something exciting to track in December. Who knows? Perhaps December will be boring..

Because he has a well? What makes Kentucky backwards? Sounds like you've never been there.

Saw that too...knowing the area I should have said that the Crystal Lake report is right next to Tolland and were probably the same cell.

I saw that report. It mentioned the Crystal Lake area and I think that's that cell that went just south of Kevin.

It looked like the main action went to just to his south from what I saw.

I can't imagine what people would do/say if we went through another 1938-1960 stretch. There's still visible scars to trees from that storm. Walk through a mature forest and look for trees that are at least 100 years old and you'll notice a lot of them have Y's in them about half way up. A forester friend told me that was a remnant of the 38 hurricane because it snapped off the tops of so many trees. Growing up and still to this day there are old logging paths in the woods around here that were used to remove so much of the fallen timber.

I used to be one of those people that chased storms but I stopped about 20 years ago after I became a victim and a drain on local resources. I felt like crap being able to leave people behind to live through the aftermath misery. For several days while I was there and unable to leave I felt like an unnecessary drain on limited resources. I believe in personal freedom and he's welcome to do what he chooses but I couldn't live with myself just showing up and leaving. I'm glad he was able to help some folks while he was there.

Tell him that the farmers almanac is calling for a "polar coaster".

I'm glad that breweries that make a maple beer actually use maple syrup. It's become one of my specialties...

Met friend of mine that I interned with lived in Delanson in the 90s and always seemed to do well. Your bare spots comment reminds me of places around here only it's exposed areas after cutters. With nothing to stop warm air it flows right up the Willimantic River Valley but other places retain snow better. It's why I think elevated valleys are the best of both worlds.

You can see a lot of different ones showing some color here - mostly trees that aren't healthy but considering the changes coming to the landscape in the next 8 weeks I fired up the annual foliage thread:

Yesterday while I was stopped in construction I grabbed this lousy pic of one of the maples in our area that is showing some color on its tips. There's others and considering the changes coming to the New England landscape over the next 8 weeks or so I thought I would start the thread for this years foliage season.

Don't worry...some day 6-10 days away and beyond will be a torch. The hammers coming down. 50° here this morning. Heck of a way to run a torch.

It's on the list but it shows the expected signal strength at over -21dB and the path is Tropo. That means conditions would have to be perfect and you'd need some special equipment and even then it might only come in for a little while and not strong enough to be watchable. I think it lists any signal that reaches your destination. You need about a -10dB signal at your tuner to be usable. An antenna will have gain which is why you can pick up a signal that has a strength around 0dB. Like I mentioned, you can also get signals around -17dB with an amplified antenna because it will boost the antenna's gain making it around 8-10dB at the tuner and usable.