A Moonlit Sky

The most important asset of the upper middle class pretender.

Such a narrow band north to south.

Despite it being a tad chilly, the low dew and wind has been nice.

Some passing showers this morning. Looks like you guys got something better.

See that's the trough. My Saturday high still says 66.

How's the weekend looking? Still temp crashing?

I had to altavista tiddly winks.

6 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

Lets just get a degree and post about weather on a forum instead of working

What the Christ, dude?

11 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Earliest sunrise here is actually tomorrow.

Hey so it is. You're right.

Just over a week until the days start getting shorter.

1 hour ago, ORH_wxman said:

Pattern looks like dogshit for the rest of the month. 

Is dogshit "it won't snow", "it won't be warm", or "it won't be sunny"?

57 minutes ago, PhineasC said:

Hmm, didn't directly answer... Native language is possibly Klingon? LOL  

I'd think Klingons would be more direct than anything.

5 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

I knew her personally ...though we hadn't spoken in years - life distancing... But I interned with Harvey Leonard back in the autumn of 1996 into the winter of 1997, a time when she was still on the noon desk working as a colleague to him, and Todd Gross ..et al.  

We shared many chats.  The night crew typically showed between 4 and 4:30.... I was there by 3:30, hanging charts and queueing digitals such as MOS and NWS texts/alerts as part of the gig.  But she often hung around for awhile and we talked about aspects that ranged, some personal ... and of course, much about the weather.  She was just like us in so many ways, for the passion of weather phenomenon.   Her big core was convection, which mine was at the time - we regaled stories of our youth.   I witness an F3 tornado carve a canyon straight though the business district of Kalamazoo Michigan, when I was boy .. 1980, May 13th.    She, the same...as a similar destructive vortex stung through her neighborhood.  She was somewhat younger then I, when witnessing her encounter.  We were in our 20s back in those WHDH days. But we felt there was similarities in our backgrounds like that...

The reason I'm revealing this is to let you all know, that I can assure you, she was not a climate denier.  What she was concerned over, back then, was the absolute attribution of human activities as being the only cause.  She also was miss-construed and framed improperly for her views on Vaccines.  But vaccines have now taken on the same knee jerk trial and conviction --> career assassination shit as WOKE and 'Me Too' - where people are willing ruin lives based upon precise accuracy of "public impression of what facts are".   

I had not spoken with her beyond an email exchanges since ... 2007 I want to say - I had not realized it was that long ago, until this horrible news struck like a sniper bullet. I have been forced to ponder matters.   It's very very sad to me, because we were on the friend side of acquainted, sharing space and colloquy on so many occasions. 

I can assure you, knowing who she was, as I did back then, she was fully capable and willing, if confronted with science and empirically based causality, of amending her perspectives on matters.  Those climate views being bandied about, were from 25 years ago people.  Her most recent gig was in fact going to be a climate specialist/journalist - it would not shock me, knowing who she was, that it would be where she would atone if need be.  

Hey tip, I appreciate the effort you put into your posts. If you don't mind me asking though, what's your native language?

48 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

Not to prolong the discussion but curiosity gets the best of me... is it the daylight change or is it the lack of sleep one night?  Like how do you deal with time zone changes or say traveling to Europe or something?  If you have something come up and get one less hour of sleep a night, does that linger for a month?  Or is it purely that the body is fooled into thinking its a different time with the daylight?

For folks who struggle with this I can't imagine jet lag or even changing a time zone.

It's a combination of the above, I suspect. I'm naturally a night person as-is, so I end up being sensitive to any changes in that schedule. Pushing my internal clock later while still having to get up at the same time messes with me for a while.

2 hours ago, Cold Miser said:

I agree.

Unfortunately  I am one of those people who never truly adjusts to DST.  My body feels like it's living on jetlag for months.  Strange, but there are others like me, rare, but we aliens do exist.  I haven't had a decent night sleep since last Friday.

People moaning about losing an hour of daylight in the summer and/ or too much darkness in the a.m. really have only a partial grip on what matters in life.  Life could be way worse than not begin able to change the clocks.

Same for me. I can't shake it until like May.

8 hours ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

Yea, Definitely. I’m not claiming human actions are equally proportional throughout time though. Maybe I did make the claim, reading back, mistakenly so. My attempt was to conclude, for example, a random crime in Arkansas 50yrs ago probably never made its way to the NewEng public whereas today, it would. Multiply such info delivered to us X amount of times per day…and we perceive the world has gone mad. 

We have an asymmetric information environment enabled by the proliferation of communication technologies. A large issue that I see is the leveling of traditional gatekeeping of knowledge. Where once the few had expertise and were respected as such, now, with the proliferation of communication technology, the gates have been broken apart. It's difficult to parse information and our dystopia of bullshit corporate-driven engagement-hungry products help to push this. People haven't fundamentally changed--as you pointed out, there's more connectivity.

I personally only like artisanal October light myself.

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The groundhog said winter continues into March though. Are we all saying the groundhog is wrong?

Honestly, I only remember March 2018 of recent Marches being good.

4 hours ago, MJO812 said:

lol Albany. I'm surprised we've managed even that much.

Why don't we have a thread to track the wind event?

Wind is great.

3 hours ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

The people wasting bandwidth to complain about complaining are just as silly IMO. It's never bothered me in the slightest, but I understand why it irks people. That is what the ignore feature is for...take a break from the posters you know are doing it. 

I agree with this, however, there is a tipping point where even with ignore, others are engaging which you can't ignore. It's a problem common to all web forums. Ideally, one could set to ignore a user and any posts that were replying to that user.

Forsythia blooming here.