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-11.9

-14 for LCI

Coldest for here in several years.

-2.5

Lake is steaming nicely.

4 minutes ago, dendrite said:

weather.gov...NOWdata. Calendar day summaries.

Not sure how I never noticed that option there before. I'm evidently more blind than I thought. Thanks. 

6.8

40 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Yeah probably. Here's the HIE daily records since the ASOS began in 7/96.

Where did you get this nice table from?

-4.4

I wonder if I'll ever see -20 here again.

I've got some serious derecho envy.

Signs out for another 3 years.

Skip to 17:44 if the video doesn't start there automatically. This is some of the best thunder I've ever heard.  It sounds incredibly similar to the Chelyabinsk meteor from 2013.

8.5" waterlogged inches.

Power went out for a few minutes.

Heavy rain to help make cleanup as difficult as possible. 

Loud sleet on the windows.

Looks like a little stationary zone of sleet downwind of the ossipees?

6 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Tranquil here. IMG_8266.MOV 7.52 MB · 0 downloads

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The wind is so damaging it evidently destroyed LCI's anemometer in the last hour. 

Not sure I've ever seen LCI report .15m visibility before?  

Last time it looked this intense outside, Moultonborough enjoyed numerous blowdowns.  

Traffic is moving along at maybe 10-15mph.

24.3

Pretty wild out there. Wind is howling and I can't even see the lake.

22.8

yoda stfu

Temp bottomed out about an hour ago at -3.6 and is ticking up now.

Some pretty loud and clear star wars sound effects coming from the ice tonight.

-6.7 for the low

-1.5 now

-3.3 for the low.

Currently -1.1

My newer VP2 console is reporting a temp of 164 and is scrolling a warning for a dangerously high heat index. Usually it's the older console that does intermittent stuff like this, but it still shows the temp. Also lost wind speed but not direction, and 1 of my extra temp stations. Not a clue what would cause stuff like this... maybe some outside source of radio interference? 

39 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

I notice it most in the younger demographic.  High schoolers, college kids, second job folks.  One of my employees put it perfectly the other day… literally two years ago you couldn’t find a job even at very entry level service positions.  It was “we’ll call you if something opens up” even at a gas station or Dunkin Donuts.  He said it felt like a privilege to have a job. Now in just two years every single business you drive by will hire you on the spot in the service industry for 30% to even 40% more money.

I still haven’t figured it out…what exactly happened.

For my area, it's because the J1 visa students are largely gone. There were hundreds of them here in 2019, and many worked 2-3 jobs. Because of covid, businesses can't pack 20 of them into a house anymore. They are required to have individual private bedrooms, which is impossible for most employers.

Last year was the first time in 18 years that I had to hire local people and it was ungodly stressful and ended in disaster. No good options. High schoolers can't start work until June 20-25ish. College students start leaving August 10-15ish. Adults have basically no interest in a job for only 16 weeks. 

7 hours ago, dendrite said:

Did you have the Davis in Jan 04? That’s the one that would’ve scared me.

Also, good use of bullet points. 

Didn't get the Davis until July 05.  Just looked up that month... I don't remember it but it looks pretty brutal.

36 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Who are you?

Low of 5.0°. Tue-Wed will be rough for the boo, and a little unpleasant for the chooks. The phyllostachys nigra henon I planted a couple of years ago is only rated down to 0° so we’ll see what a bit below 0° does to it.

If I can't have extreme heat and dews, I'll settle for extreme cold. I'm just glad we got enough fluffy snow so that I can fully bury my more sensitive plants.

I was looking at Feb 2015. What a ridiculously cold month. Imagine if you had just started your bamboo the previous summer? 

• Went above freezing on only 2 days.
• Only 2 nights had lows above the single digits.
• 16 nights with lows below zero.
• Hit -15.3 on 2/24, the second lowest temp in my stations history.

Coldest morning so far @ 7.5 

Kind of love the days when the temp keeps dropping until nearly 9am.

Recent timeline of snowblower related events:

• My dads truck got stuck at the bottom of the driveway while plowing after the 12/17/21 superblizzard.
• I fired up the snowblower and went down to rescue.
• Snowblower promptly stalled when pushed into the snow too fast.
• Angrily used pull cord to restart. Cord broke.
• Angrily pulled every muscle in my body trying to drag it back up the hill.
• Used the electric start for the rest of the winter.
• Discovered when pulling the snowblower out of storage last October for a test run that the electric start stopped working.
• Spent days trying to fix it and failed, so I
• Angrily replaced the pull cord.
• Tried to use the pull cord today but it's almost impossible to pull. Cold and stiff. I'm screwed.
• Angrily tried the electric start in a fit of desperation and it worked as if nothing was ever wrong.
• Cheerfully snowblowed todays 4 inches.
• Suggestions on battery powered snowblowers please.