ORH_wxman

Those are just ridiculous numbers. And it isn’t one coop. You already posted ORH further south. 1911 is the gold standard for at least northern SNE and into NNE...it’s just too bad we don’t have hourly obs to weenie-out over to look for wind direction and dews.

Most of those are “legit”. But keep in mind those were the old Stevenson screen liquid MMTs...they read about 1F higher at max temp than digital ones nowadays.

1911 was so high end everywhere it seems. I bet the current site could’ve popped 98-99 based on the comparison to the airport during their overlap years.

It’s too bad we couldn’t have the wind be a little more westerly. ORH might have had a shot at 95 or 96. 96 seems to be the cap for modern times. The airport hasn’t hit 97 since 1953...but I always wonder about the land use around there back then or siting. They hit 97+ several times in the first 5 years from 1948-1953 and hasn’t hit it since. They’ve only hit 96 four times since then.

I know Ray and I had our tub turn into a beer tub at least 2 or 3 of the conferences.

Oh wow. I was assuming they were like 102. Maybe they hit that in a different day during the ‘91 heat wave.

Yeah ORH at 94 is the most impressive out of those. Almost tied the record of 95F in 1991.

Big 4 highs: BOS 95 ORH 94 PVD 94 BDL 99

I’d like to see at least a couple daily records fall. That said, we got somewhat close at a few spots.

Yeah I’m not sure what the max temp at ORH is based on wind direction. I did check 29 years ago (1991) and they had a SW wind when they hit 95F but they had been WNW all morning leading up to it. This morning was obviously not like that. Looks like they are done though for today. Another 93F at 4pm. That’s about what I figured they’d max out at with the wind today. It’s possible they snuck in a 94 briefly between about 3-330pm as that was their only consistent string of 34C obs on the 5 min transcript. Not sure there’s enough left today to make another run. Regardless, they needed 95 to tie the record.

Yeah 6 hr max at BDL is 98F. Same at BAF.

A lot of places in CNE and SNE are getting first 90F today. Definitely been a weird first half of summer.

They are def the best spots in SNE for this wind direction. BDL can prob pop 100 as long as the dews don’t come back up.

ORH actually dropped to 90F on their next 5 min ob after the 1654z reading. They’ve since recovered back to 91F but have rotted there for about 25 min. I’d like to see 93 at 2pm for them to have a shot at 95+. This wind direction isn’t great though. It’s trying to go more WSW but I’d really like to see a period of almost due W. Their bread and butter though is WNW and NW.

Yeah for SNE you want it more westerly. 210 is actually coming off LI sound for most of CT and RI/E MA in addition to less downsloping...BDL/BAF are far enough northwest to be ok though. You can prob throw places like FIT in there too tucked up right against WaWa to the SW. NH is definitely better off. You get that good compression off Monads/ORH hills/Wapack range.

This 210 wind direction isn’t gonna get it done for daily record stuff. Even like 250-260 would be a lot better.

Point and click is 95F for ORH. That would tie the record from the beastly July ‘91 heatwave. I’m a bit skeptical though. I’d like to see the wind be more WNW at least in the morning. SW wind all day is tough to go really high there.

Yeah ORH spiking to 102 would be pretty typical of an overnight heat burst. Some of the coastal plain may breach 110.

I still think you fail to realize that dewpoint scales for sensible wx feeling we’re created off of airport obs. So when they said a dew of 63 feels muggy at an airport, that was like 68 at a PWS....once an airport reaches 68, its starting to feel oppressive because PWS would read like 73-74.

Yeah GIR is tough to achieve on a very consistent basis. Even in my really good rounds, I’d prob get like 11 or 12 out of 18...unless I was playing a cow pasture with a 68 rating. The pitching game and scrambling was the easiest way to take several strokes off my game and then on those days where I was feeling it with my driver/irons, I could score really low. If you can get some consistent coaching/lessons, then you can probably get the iron game to a very high/consistent level where your “floor” is like 80-82...but most people don’t have that kind of financial/time commitment combo available to them. Golf is a tough game, lol.

Yeah that course had like a 73.5 rating or something back then. It was frickin’ hard. I assume it’s still similar as it would be foolish to alter a RTJ course very much. Those rounds I had there were just a combo of playing almost every day and running into some flukes as well. I remember on one of the 76 rounds I holed out a bunker shot that was easily going to roll off the the green to the other bunker but it hit the pin and went in. That kind of stuff happens when you are going good. And RE: your game....sounds like you were pretty close to getting into that 6-7 handicap zone where I peaked back in by age 18-20 years. Almost all the difference is the play inside of 100 yards at that point. The pitching game and scrambling around the green is probably where almost all my improvement came from going from scores in the 82-85 range down to 76-80 range. Theres some smaller improvement in the irons and such, but so much of the scoring came from consistently getting up and down around the greens and giving yourself legit makable putts from 50-100 yards out....frequently your birdies on short par 4s and par 5s.

Chris, my official peak I think was junior year. August/September 2001. Jeff Smith and I played like 3-4 times per week at Robert Trent Jones golf course...started before classes began in August and then we played into September before the weather turned uglier. For some reason, it just all came together in a 4-5 round period (that can happen when you’re playing so much). Smith was like, “dude you need to go out for the Cornell team again...”. You know that course isn’t easy...esp from the blues which we played all the time. I did this in a 4 round stretch....79-76-77-76. And I think each round adjacent to those 4 was like an 80 or 81. I couldn’t miss. The first 76 happened kind of by accident...I had played fairly well on the front but nothing crazy...shot 41. Then on the back like 5-6 holes in, he goes “dude you’re 1 under on the back”. Ended up parring in from that point for a 41-35. I’ll prob never reach that peak again. All downhill after age 20.

Yeah I’ve played about 2 times per year since I had my first kid. Second one was born last year and only got 1 round in. To be fair, I wasn’t playing much even before that from my peak days 15-20 years ago. I was maybe getting out 3-5 times per year...except 2014 and 2015 I managed to get out a little more and my game was coming back at that point. Had several rounds in the 80-82 range. Then the first one was born in 2016.... Suffice to say, my days of a 6 handicap aren’t coming back any time soon.

Playing on Tuesday for the first time this year. Only played once last year too. Either playing Juniper Hills (Northborough) or Shining Rock (Northbridge)

You got destroyed by Scooter. Just own it man. Even if he didn’t explicitly say Friday would be below 80F, he was very skeptical of your call for 80s all week. The BDF hung on an extra 18-24 hours...you never forecasted it at all. Own the wins....but own the losses too.