ORH_wxman

Local PWS is 77F with a dew of 45F. Hard to get much nicer than that.

The sightings in the northeast are mostly mistaken identity, but there's a few legit sightings from wandering male mountain lions that made the trip from their range out in the plain states. I remember one was actually killed in CT a few years back....on one of the parkways. But there aren't any breeding populations in the northeast. Almost all the confirmed sightings have either been escaped captives or wandering nomadic males.

X-files was a great show. Even the reboot a few years back was decent, but didn't quite stack up to the original. I did like how Agent Mulder was now a paranoid recluse in the woods with tape over his laptop camera.

Despite high resolution cameras everywhere the past decade-plus, I'm sure none of them happened to catch them on video. It was just the still-frame cam with grainy resolution from 1955 that happens to be positioned correctly.

Not holding my breath considering it's New England, but I'd bet the CAPE would look better as we get closer on that synoptic look. It would be useful if the flow at sfc was a little more southerly.

Euro has a NW flow severe threat on later Sunday....we actually tend to do better on those.

That's been a bad look for Brookline....for no reason whatsoever.

FL and TX were the two main test cases this winter/spring and numbers never got that bad there. Made sense to start loosening the restrictions

I feel like nobody has followed the travel guidance that closely since the first wave back in spring (at least land travel....air travel has been different). Summer wasn't that weird around New England with people still doing most of their mountain/lake/beach vacations like normal. Only the restaurant industry was really different since many of them couldn't be open except for take out or outdoor seating.

Indoor mask requirement is going to drop I bet...or at least he will announce a date in a very near future where it drops. MA is dropping below 1% positivity rate and deaths are single digits.

I cannot stand the sound of crotch rockets

I think it just empirically demonstrates what an unsanitary and disgusting organization the Yankees are.

I have mine on my dresser but it’s collecting dust. Haven’t done anything with it since getting vaxxed back in March. I meet up with college buddies every year for a Bills game so I may need it for that unless they remove that restriction before the season starts (which they might since very few other teams seem to have it in place, but we’ll see)

Well that's your first problem. Learn how to count cards and ply a little blackjack. Foxwoods still has a decent game to beat. They deal pretty deep into the shoes there.

New Hampshire and Maine nobody gave a shit last summer when we were up there. Didn't make it up there this winter unfortunately, but last year was pretty much business as usual except wearing a mask inside stores. Almost nobody wore them outside.

Not sure, Baker has had some weird hills to die on during this. MA was pretty lenient about travel early on and gave a lot of leniency to stores being open, but then he had this weird battle with golf course owners that basically made no sense last spring. The outdoor mask mandate was really bizarre too this past winter after not having one at all last year except in cases where you were unable to stay 6 feet away from people for more than 5 minutes or something. But then changing it to all the time made no sense. Either way, glad it's all coming to end soon.

I'm more interested to see when the "removing all restrictions" happens in MA. Right now, the date is 8/1 but I bet it gets moved up at some point.

2010 was pretty good for summer....we had a warm March, pretty warm April, and then were popping 90s in May on the way to a torrid summer. Agree that it's easier to pull off a front-loaded winter though. Our geography just sucks for trying to get a front-loaded summer.

Definitely a spring "cool" airmass when you have these dews.

Only 39 days until the sun angle starts decreasing again.

Black bears will def go down to near Taunton. SE MA is actually pretty woodsy. We get black bear sightings around here all the time in Holliston (one destroyed my bird feeders two years in a row too). But like powderfreak said, they will wonder wherever they find food. Easy garbage to access or bird feeders, doesn’t matter to them. Lots of woods helps obviously since it keeps them stealthy. If they try and wonder around Brighton MA they’ll get animal control called on them pretty fast.

Back then you could deduct things like country club memberships and luxury items. Rich people had pretty similar effective tax rates as today because of that. The only exception is like the extreme super rich...we’re talking like top 0.01 to 0.10%...billionaires with the stock options. They could do something about that for sure...but it would not generate much extra tax income simply because there just aren’t enough of them. It would be a fraction of a drop in the bucket. It doesn’t mean that’s a reason to not do it though. There were some good things going on in middle 20th century policy-wise (we actually still enforced antitrust still back then), but the United States was also uniquely lucky. The rest of the developed world had temporarily been bombed back to the Stone Age in WWII so it was basically the Americans providing goods to the rest of the world for a solid decade or two with little competition from overseas. Once competition started to stiffen, we couldn’t keep paying Bethlehem steel workers the same raises every few years.

I felt like public pressure was going to be very strong going into the summer. There’s also the empirical aspect of it that was going to have to be reconciled...states that lifted all restrictions a couple months ago never saw a big resurgence. That empirical reality can’t be ignored...especially as vaccinated percentages are only increasing with time. If lifting restrictions two months ago wasn’t a big problem, lifting them in May and June would be even less of a problem.

There's always been "get rich quick" schemes....we just see every story now with social media. Before, you'd have to wait until some newspaper ran a story about how some college kids played arbitrage in the currency markets in Asia because of computer programs they wrote or some schmuck made a fortune turning POGs into a multi-million dollar industry.