CapturedNature

Doesn't look ever lasting, at least at this point but I'm sure you'll say otherwise.

7 more...who will post the 1,000,000th?

lol...if you listen to some it's supposed to 80/70 from now on. Seriously though, warm sectoring is the only aspect I don't like about living here. There's good elevation and valley's here but while the longitude certainly helps in some cases, it hurts in others.

Yeah I remember when DT first started posting. Crazy that you'd remember all those names...but then again why do I remember some of them?

Another 70° morning here too. Next week looks a return to mild weather but dare I hope this is the last morning for a while at that level?

ne.weather was probably the first forum type service where people could interact and it was specific to New England. I know Compuserve and a few other dial-up services had weather services/forums but it was for people all over so it was hard getting specific data or analysis specific to New England so it was nice when ne.weather came about. I was apart of that "scene" before I stopped working in the field professionally so I never moved over to the Wright Weather Board when it came about so I missed connecting with a lot of you then. While you can get so much data now just about anywhere, it's really nice have the collective memories and analysis you get here.

Get studded tires. Not only will you be able to get through just about any conditions but having winter and summer tires essentially doubles the time between needing them. Instead of having to buy tires every 2-3 years I can go 4-5 years between buying tires.

Yeah, I'm looking forward to it too. I have big maple sugar order and the process isn't conducive with humidity. The drier air will do me good!

It's always "and beyond" or "never ending"..lol. Some how I think we'll manage to get some breaks and a pattern change at some point.

I couldn't agree more. While July 2013 would take the cake for continuous high dp's, it was "only" a month whereas this year it's been 2+ months with week long bouts of high dp's. We've had some hot weather but overall it has not been that hot, save for the minimum temps cause by the high dp's.

How can something be of yore if it's record breaking? Doesn't that fact mean that it's exceptional rather than was normal? It can't be both - LOL

Unfortunately I think there are whole patches of forest which are gone here. It's not just roadside trees. There are a couple of areas where when you look at the hillside either see brown leaves or bare trees. It really stands out this time of year while most trees are green. Speaking of foliage, I had to do a bunch of driving around today and there's clearly early changers out there along with some trees having that "leathery" look. Yes most are green but you're not very observant if you don't see the others.

FWIW, I started a fall banter thread since we are in met fall now:

It's met fall even if it doesn't feel like it but I thought I would start a new banter thread as we march through autumn towards winter.

First of all, I'm not saying this summer was normal. In Fact I've pointed out several times how exceptional having back to back months with high Dp's is. In terms of hours at or above a 70° Dp this summer takes the cake (I even said that in a previous post). However, it's not like those hours were consecutive. Second, I'm just showing different data in a different way because there are different factors that go into the equation. Take it for what you want.

Eh...that's just speculation. I'll bet if you dug into that that's not always the case. Not every day that starts out with a 70° Dp becomes a CoC afternoon. Like I said, just another way to look at it. I'm not knocking the hours approach just showing different data.

I was taking a look at that Iowa State site to look at other parameters instead of just hours spent at at or above the 70° Dp look at the number of days that level was achieved because the hours are not consecutive. Looking at it that way you can see how this summer compares to others particularly since there are so many variables. This also shows more summers going back to the 50s. Take a look at these graphs for August, July and then the summer as a whole. You can clearly see how this August stands out both in terms of hours spent above a 70° Dp but also number of days. I'm using BDL for argument sake but you can use any other site by changing the parameters: https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/plotting/auto/?_wait=no&q=161&network=CT_ASOS&zstation=BDL&var=max_dwpf&dir=aoa&thres=70&month=summer&year=2018&dpi=100&_fmt=js You can also see how this August compares to July 2013 and how the summer as a whole compares to past ones. 1994 seems to take the cake with nearly half of the days registering a 70° Dp but this summer is not that far behind. You can also see that this kind of summer is far from being the "summer of yore".

I was in Rocky Mountain National Park in mid-September a couple years ago and it was peak foliage there at the time. Alaska does have deciduous trees like Aspens and Birches among others so there should be some foliage to see. It's like 98% yellow but I guess it qualifies as foliage, just nothing like New England.

lol..we're talking about BDL. Besides, I don't live in a valley. How many times do I have to tell you that? I live on a hillside. The valley is below me and the hills are above me.

I will say that that if you look at the number of hours of 70+ dp's at BDL for JJA this year blows past years away. Then again, the data set only goes back to 1973. August at BDL beats July 2013 by a little bit. I think therein lies why this year would be special - having back to back months under the same regime. Thankfully we got some breaks but I do think that stretch in July 2013 is impressive in it's own right.

Where are you looking that you can see hours spent at or above a certain level? I'd like to compare that to July 2013. If the data is there I have no problem admitting that but when I look at 30 straight days where the temperature never went below 68° and with many of those days only bottoming out in the low 70s and then I look at this year and see breaks in the high humidity, I think arguments could be made either way.

Even if I look at first order stations, I still see July 2013 as having a longer more sustained period of higher dp's. That was like an entire month without a break so the recent bouts with higher dp's as impressive as they are for repeated bouts over the past couple of months has happened before. I don't how anyone can just brush off that 30 day period of constant humidity and dp's in the upper 60s and low 70s and say that the past couple of months blows that out of the water. If we didn't have the week long breaks I'd say sure but the data is what the data is.

lol...just last year the leaves were changing well ahead of schedule because of the cool weather and then paused as it got warmer. Besides, you need to get out more. There's plenty of those early changing trees showing some color. Not a lot, but they are there.

Not ignoring it here...8th hottest, despite the 20th-27th being below normal. That's a break in the "constant" heat and high dp's in my book. I guess if you want to ignore those stretches, it has been constant. Even worse than the 30 day stretch in 2013.

In 2013 I had over 30 straight days of high dews...this summer I've managed several stretches of 7 or 8 days. It has not been constant though. 24 out of the past 62 days averaged BN...how can that be if it's been brutal except for several days in July? I'm not pretending that I haven't put up two top 10 warmest months or had constant stretches of high dp's but I'm not going to ignore the empirical data that I've had breaks for several days or even a week at a time.