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  1. 43 minutes ago, Kmlwx said:

    I was able to see sunspots using my S23 Ultra's camera. I can DEFINITELY "feel" the poor AQI now. Noticeable cough this morning. The odor isn't really like that nice bonfire odor either - it almost smells like fabric burning. 

    It's scary when we can use the lower levels as a multistop filter! ;)

    PM 2.5 readings here have been dropping thank goodness after being in the 'hazardous' category earlier.  We really need this weather pattern to switch gears NOW and get this toxic soup out of here!

    Has there been a study on how smoke particles traveling for 100s/1000s of miles can become more hazardous from exposure to other pollutants?

    This has an acrid odor similar to burning polyethylene.  It definitely cannot be good to be exposed to.  At least we do have cabin filters in cars now that will significantly reduce it when driving.

  2. 6 hours ago, yoda said:

    Why has the LWX radar been breaking so much this week?  They've had 3 or 4 mechanical failures 

     

    I guess all this boring weather is hard on the bull gear! ;)

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  3. 13 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

    It’s been incredibly hazy up here too. To me it’s almost a cloudy day. I miss blue sky.

    I've been losing about 20-25kWh/day of production due to it!

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  4. 9 hours ago, Paleocene said:

    Smoke plume is very visible on GOES: https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/?parms=nrnmidat-02-24-1

     


    Agreed. I vividly remember an extremely dark brown smoke haze in either the summer of 2002 or 2003 in Central PA when I was a teenager.  Fires in Canada, I think. It was so bad it made the news.

    2002.  I was in exhibition hall, Timonium Fairgrounds and there was smoke around the overhead lights and thought there was a fire nearby.  Went outside and the sun had that "ultem" yellow tinge.  And it was on the news along with the satellite pix showing the journey practically reaching Bermuda!

    This AM definitely noticed the smoke/haze obscuring the sun.  Reminded me of fall of 2020.

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  5. 3 hours ago, dailylurker said:

    Bro? You finally got struck? Awesome lol

    I've come within 100' of a strike about 5 times in my life. I've witnessed 3 stress being hit. I was skateboarding on a golf course path when I was 17 and the tree next to it was struck and the power knocked me off my skateboard. I've always been into weather so every strike I've witnessed was awesome lol. I even saw a lightning bolt during a snowstorm. I saw a house in Cape May NJ get hit and catch fire right in front of me. I've been nearly hit by trees blowing down. I have lots of experiences. 

    Countless times.  Shocked from sideflashes.  My ECG shows irregularities from the damages.

    I'd take it to the banter thread though as I don't want to clog this up.

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  6. We have a mating pair nearby and the "laughing" call drives my dog nuts.

    They do like the tree stumps though and get fairly close but are about as skittish as a fox when it comes to human noise!

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  7. 4 hours ago, frd said:

    Northern Lights tonight possibly. Space Weather just updated the Geo storm to severe status. Best viewing time 10 PM to 2 AM tonight.   

    Wow 212GW is absolutely crazy!  This is big.

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  8. Update!

    As of now, I cannot recommend this system to anyone that mounts the unit in a place that is difficult to access.

    My FIFTH unit has had its pressure sensor fail.  This is the SECOND one in a row with an IDENTICAL failure of its pressure sensor.  Not sure why the (pressure sensor) is not in the hub (indoor unit) but that's another discussion altogether.

    As you can see from the link in my sig, the pressure has dropped a full FIVE inches of mercury instantly during yesterday's storms.  Nothing severe.  Matter of fact, when unit 4 failed in this manner in Feb we were having similar weather conditions.

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  9. Just now, Rhino16 said:

    Does this actually happen occasionally or are you using it as a comparison of sorts?

    Yes it has happened before!

    In 2014 we took a direct hit to both towers.  Lots of damage even with very good lightning mitigation (rods, buried pipe, et al).  Neighbor across the street had direct hit to chimney in 1998. We had bricks near our mailbox 100' away!  Crazy what power a direct strike has.

    The one in 2014 was not a typical instant flash but a flickery type where the bolts appear to be connecting over and over again.  In the basement it sounded like someone dropped a pack of firecrackers down the ash chute on the chimney.  The well casing had Lichtenberg patterns where the grass was killed.  Well pump motor pierced and feed lines (three wire deep submersible) torched with melted nylon jacket.  Poly pipe holed and leaking.

    Charred wires in walls, smoke in attic.  If we weren't well grounded who knows, we could have died or the house burned to the ground!

    It's no joke I'll tell you that!

  10. All bark, no bite.
    Severe warned, but no severe which is nearly always the case here.
    It did rain pretty hard, matter of fact it's raining hard right now.
    Thunder was magnificent, just right intensity and rolled on forever
    I'd take that over the instant boom like a rifle shot with instantaneous blinding flash coming through every window setting the cats off in every direction but down!  When the knives on the wall snap from sparks jumping between them and/or I get shocked if I'm touching something metal in the house, yes that is TOO CLOSE! ;)

    It did look nice before the rain (and half a minute of pea sized hail) came!

    p.s. the 15 degree temp drop feels nice too!

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  11. 1 hour ago, Paleocene said:

    Anyone want to recommend a decent weather station in the $100-$300 range?  Looking for rain gauge, wind, UV, the basics.

    Ambient Weather WS-2000.

    https://www.amazon.com/Ambient-Weather-WS-2000-Station-Monitoring/dp/B07GRBY9NP/ref=sr_1_5?crid=2646YYTZTN6KA&keywords=ambient+weather+ws-2000&qid=1681749734&sprefix=ambient+wea%2Caps%2C78&sr=8-5&ufe=app_do%3Aamzn1.fos.c3015c4a-46bb-44b9-81a4-dc28e6d374b3

    I have both Tempest and WS-2000 stations (link in sig).

    Biggest disappointment in Tempest is rainfall "accuracy".  The ultrasonic wind can also give false reports from honeybees and saturated surfaces from long periods of rain.  Cup/blade rotating anemometers don't have this problem.

    The instrument is not really designed to be professionally mounted on a tower.  I've been through 4 of them (currently on number 5).  Good news is their support is first class.  (never paid a dime for shipping either way and the last replacement was outside of the full two year warranty and was replaced free of charge.)

    Ambient Weather has a nice console that can be mounted on a wall.  It should be plugged into a UPS or its power supply cord modified to work with a 5V USB battery bank.  A power outage will clear reported max daily wind gust, for example.

    Its accuracy including rain is excellent.  Also all parameters can be tuned via gain settings which may be useful.  Soil moisture, lightning, air quality sensors can be added too.  For non professional grade (PWS), it's quite decent.

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