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It’s snowing heavily here in Trumbull!?!? Had no idea this was a possibility 

9 minutes ago, dryslot said:

My concerns is my old girl too, 33 yrs old and every time i start it i have to wonder if its the last.

I have a toro from around 1988 - starts with a single pill.

14 minutes ago, tunafish said:

Feb '13 I had 8" of it before the main event, on the way to 32".

Same - on the way to 33!!!! Oh man that was pure magic.

3 minutes ago, Cold Miser said:

What episode is that from?.I don't remember her.

"they're real ... and they're fantastic"

4 hours ago, WinterWolf said:

In northern Maine, places will rent em to you by the day.  A couple hundred bucks a day on average… give or take.  But you gotta have your own gear, or it’s extra if you don’t.  As has been mentioned, it’s pricey, but if you’ve never done it, it’s a relatively cheap way(compared to purchasing your own sled), to see if you like it.  As others have said, the new modern sleds are amazing, and have come so far. It’s a great winter sport/hobby. 

I did a day while in Banff decades ago. All day above tree line in feet and feet of snow, it was way over our heads so we had to be careful not to fall off our sleds.

1 hour ago, dendrite said:

Same here.

My reading. I saw that this actually orbited the globe twice and they may upgrade VEI to 5Tonga.pdf

7 hours ago, Typhoon Tip said:

Seems like the whole world is still in gawk mode over it but I’d like to know some of the geological statistics. Like how does it rank on the scale? Etc. What was the aerosol/plume concentration / assuming … what altitude was it shot to - judging by the satellite pictures it looks like it went all the way to the stratosphere. 

I saw a VEI of 4 and 60,000 feet

2 hours ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

They measured it in friggin Iceland.   That’s nuts

You see the satellite view? You can see the massive shock wave - it visibly almost gets to New Zealand. The power required for that is insane. I think I saw a VEI of 4 but I wouldn’t be surprised if they move that up.

1 hour ago, Typhoon Tip said:

... mm, it's an early visualization and I am not sure what/whom other sources Mets really agree with this, but ... I see this storm as giant compared to the last .. A  much much larger spatial layout/multi-regional impactor, which would probably be a more whole-scale east of the Appalachian cordillera contender.    Just so folks are aware. It's a higher density theta-e loaded type of transport, bringing heavy rain where rains, and heavy sagging weighty snow where snows, with coastal wind/tide - pending how fast it rides up...  

That's really the "type" of low... 

How do you think blocking will play a role? I watched a couple of my go to Youtube guys (Hall and POW) and they talked up the blocking.

24 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Meniere’s disease? My wife’s grandfather has that and has occasional symptoms similar to what you had last night. Great news that it was nothing major. 

I have that. Very similar but with a sound of wind. My wife has a friend that gets very bad attacks and has to lay down on the floor when they happen.

1 hour ago, weathafella said:

Hi everyone!  Thanks so much for the multitude of good wishes-it means a lot and touches my heart!  We were watching a movie around 12:30AM when out of nowhere I got lightheaded and experienced severe vertigo.   I also got nauseous and thought I was having a heart attack even though I didn’t have much chest pain.  On the way to the emergency room my wife had to pull over twice for me to vomit.  Got to the emergency department and kept barfing.  EKG, cardiac enzymes, brain ct and mri were normal, stress test normal-still occupying the barfarama.   Neurologist wanted to ensure it was not a stroke that occurred.  The strange thing is I did the stress test around 2 and wondered for the life of me how I was going to do it with nausea but as I worked out the nausea disappeared-no idea why!  Neurologist thinks it may be inner ear problem but honestly once the big stuff is ruled out it’s an educated guess.

Waiting to be discharged and wondering what caused the symptoms-even got a Covid test which was negative.  I’m tired-slept maybe 1 hour last night and dozed a bit today.

I am so touched by the outpouring here-I love our wx community!

One more thing-this threat isn’t dead!  I’m not scoring the models until verification time.  Hopefully it happens!  I like how cold Canada is-we’ll get ours soon!

 

Inner ear - I have this thing called Miniers (not sure of spelling but pronounced min-years). It was the same symptoms along with a sound of rushing wind and whistling in my ears. It came on like someone hit me over the head with a board and then went away over the course of about 20 minutes.

11 hours ago, Typhoon Tip said:

Thing is … 1986 had two Novie events?

I’m certain the storm I’m thinking of was the first snow of the season that year. 

That kinda matches the ‘87 -

either way it sneaks its way into my personal top 10 among more obvious ones. 

I remember a Novy storm with thunder snow in Easton CT. I remember looking out my window as the lightening lit up the heavy snow. A bunch of white pines lost limbs on the Merritt also. I think that was 86 because I remember driving to a dead end street to drink beer with my buddies and I graduated high school in 87. I think we go nearly a foot of thick, heavy cement that froze for the next few days.

Do we know of any chasers going in to this beast?

22 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Won’t be miserable at all . Couple days will feature some sunny periods and 70+. Most likely Monday or Tuesday .Especially inland . Couple of showers on 1-2 days , but not much rain . Coastal is way offshore on EPS, GGEM etc. So late week cooler 60’s but likely mainly dry 

I truly hope you're right as I am scheduling 36 holes of golf on the cape for the weekend.

1 minute ago, Typhoon Tip said:

I write science fiction and have been published and I can tell you ... it is actually difficult to premise a sci-fi tech that out gawks the actual shit we are seeing these days - so... that 'fail' is not hard to do.  ahahaha

But yeah... how about, "Cryoapocalypse" lol

But I like 'sanitizing theater'   ....  Phin and I were musing a couple weeks ago about this "virtue signaling" which is probably a sub-class of the same affectation of concern more so than believing it is really necessary.  OH yeah ...a great deal of hygienic awareness and sanitation is necessary - I'm not saying people should eat an Italian sub with black cake under their fingernails or anything ... but the 'obsessive compulsive' nature of it is a distinction that ... actually science is beginning to materialize, may cause more harm then good.

I will say that I have had the 'healthiest' (in quotes due to the fact that I am referring strictly to physical - mental health is a different story due to isolation) years of my life. Not one cold or sinus infection. I'll take the chance of colds and what night to have the social fabric of my life back though!!!!!

5 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

Personal conjecture .. so tfwiw:    A slow death ... in fact, it may not entirely go away. There is likely ( imho) to be residual, elevated readiness that to some appears to teeter with compulsion ... - it won't be a perspective and practice shared by everyone or their affiliations, evenly, either.  So there's that joyous vitriol to look forward too.  

So it's a bit of hypothesis but there seems to be a smoldering aspect of "social distrust" about this whole thing, as well. 

Most that possess a modicum of realism are well passed the lunacy of whether this thing was real or not.  But ... they don't trust the media, and by media that includes all.  The "Industrial Media Complex" ( I euphemistically refer..), to social medias like, well, this one and et al... Nor do they really trust the urban rumor mills, either.  How can we? 

That probably doesn't lend to believing the risk is ultimately ever going to return to any pre- C-19' perception and practice, no.

That's one factor among many...

The other aspect is being warned by environmental science that we are probably passing over a threshold.  Over-population, and Climate Change forced biota drift... combined, or loading unfamiliar infectious agencies at a faster adaptation rate than the new environment is capable of responding.  Those lend to new pathogenic scares, in the least ... if not unleashing new pathogenicity.  And frankly.. that's not scare tactics - that's real.  So some readiness and preparedness has to be remain in vigil -

That probably doesn't mean fastidiously running around after everyone and lowering fertility with weird chemicals and causing tumors as germaphobic dim wits, no.  That level of extremeness may ease off -

I saw a story "Stop the Sanitizing Theater" a few weeks back - it got into how ineffective all these spray down approaches are, and into how C - 19 doesn't really last on most surfaces and even the ones that it 'lasts' on it is way shorter then originally feared.

I also saw a story last year, just prior to CoVid being a thing, in that there are new viruses that are becoming exposed as the ice sheets retreat. Cue James Cameron and Sigourney Weaver - 'Aliens - Freezofftheus' - in theaters Christmas 2022. (I tried to come up with a cheeky title - fail)

2 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

In southern New England ? 

 

Yes. I am in SW CT and my folks are on Cape Cod near Nauset Beach.

2 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

Lol... I almost want to split my residency between ...  any-f'um-where-else but here from mid April until late October, then return for winter. 

I bet if you took our specific location and compared it to every other point around the hemisphere at this latitude, we would find that this shit only happens here

Where are you located?

Just now, CoastalWx said:

That one always goes off. I don’t recall it even though  track them for aviation. Probably did a brief shot to FL400.

This is a cool chart.

https://volcano.si.edu/faq/index.cfm?question=eruptionsbyyear

1 minute ago, cut said:

I mean the one from last week - Synabong or something like that. I don't have the active volcano page open.

Sinabung in Sumatra.

Just now, CoastalWx said:

Pinatubo was a VEI 6. It’s a logarithmic scale, so Pinatubo was much more intense. 

I mean the one from last week - Synabong or something like that. I don't have the active volcano page open.

11 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Soufriere was VEI 4. Meh. Better chance getting a climo reaction from methane above Moosup, CT. 

I thought it was stronger than that. How about the one in the Phillippines?

2 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

Hmm

The one at 2:38 - that's the type. I think that's in the Philippines. Singigong or something like that.

Just now, cut said:

Now wait. LAST YEAR. I follow the volcano thing and there are by far more volcanoes going currently - Sufrierre, Etna, Several in Central America and Africa. The ones near the equator are the ones that will effect climate/weather.

And you need the ash cloud to get up above 40,000 to really do anything as well so eruptions like that unpronounceable one in Iceland don't do anything, nor the new one in Africa that started today (I forget the name but the lave can flow as fast as 40 MPH).

36 minutes ago, George001 said:

I agree with him on that. Latest enso forecast has the enso moving up to neutral before La Niña re emerges and peaks at roughly -.9 to -1.1 degrees Celsius (borderline weak/mod Nina). I have also read that there was severe volcanic activity last year, which often will have a lag effect where 2+ years out it will lead to extreme winter weather with severe cold and blizzard conditions. In 1816, the year without a summer it supposedly snowed in June in SNE, which is almost unheard of. Due to climate change, it is highly unlikely we will every see anything like that again, but it is very possible that due to the extreme volcanic activity last year the massive amounts of volcanic gases released into the atmosphere acting as a shield against solar radiation, allowing for cooler temps with an extended winter season and several severe blizzards. This extreme volcanic activity+ favorable Enso state has me leaning big as well, but things can change.

Now wait. LAST YEAR. I follow the volcano thing and there are by far more volcanoes going currently - Sufrierre, Etna, Several in Central America and Africa. The ones near the equator are the ones that will effect climate/weather.