eekuasepinniW

The Lahaina fire is still slowly ongoing.  The first two nights ended up being a pretty cool/scary experience. 

Came creeping down the mountain:

It grew into a 1-2 mile wide inferno that came ridiculously close to the edge of town. 

There was so much smoke in the hotel that I was afraid the fire alarms would go off. Ash was raining down.  Pretty surreal to see the restaurants packed with people happily dining outside by the bright orange glow and live music. Between songs you could hear plenty of coughing and hear distant smoke alarms. It was really hard to sleep... the smell of smoke just does not let your brain relax.

The fire slowed down overnight, but sprouted again the following afternoon in random spots all over a 2 square mile area.  Made for a pretty intense scene from my evening cruise.  The smoke was a lot worse that night.

7 hours ago, dendrite said:

FYI…we lost Pige yesterday. This one really hurts. RIP to my best friend.

Ugh, that's awful man. Sorry to hear.  

28.2 makes for the first sub-freezing temp of the season.

*chuckles*

I’m in danger.

Torch. 

35

My bananas ain't even mad.

28 minutes ago, OceanStWx said:

LCI took a quick dip down to 44 this evening, but a northeast wind kicked up last hour and Winni bumped them back to 50. I love the local effects but they're a bitch to put into the grids.

The air feels terrible.

.97" for the day 

2.08 through the tipper

2.12 in the stratus

I want the flood.

I'll never get tired of watching the oranges and reds wash out over me.

.19" 

1 minute ago, dendrite said:

Congrats Eek. 

Quite a bit more lightning out there than the single strike shown would indicate. 

Someone just let 6 Chinese lanterns loose down at the beach. Evidently the air is quite calm because they went up in an almost perfect straight line until they burned out.

48

So angry.

Regretting spreading fertilizer today.

crickets in progress

nocturnal back sweat

oh yes this is nice

No idea how I only got 0.16"

Satisfactory gust front at the beginning though.

I was way more satisfied with today until I read this thread and saw what I missed.

Got clipped pretty good. A few minutes of the biggest hail since 2011.... some slightly bigger than a quarter but mostly nickels.  Wasn't very "dense" so no real garden damage except to the elephant ears.

Nice weird gust from behind as the storm pulled away.

Tonight receives eekuasepinniW's gold star of approval. 

A nice steamy 75 off a high of 90.8

I don't think I've had 20 thunderstorms in the last 5 years combined.

Finally. Some warm steamy nights.

What a wild storm. Pretty lame on the approach, very little rumbling and the sky never got impressive or dark.

Wind was extreme. It was mostly in line with the channel so my gardens were unscathed, but the big shorefront white pines flexed in a way I haven't seen in probably 5+ years. A+ roaring. Sky filled with flying branches and that nice pine smell. Power went on/off several times. Fantastic rain rates followed by a nice barrage of very close lightning strikes.

My dad says the cottage colony 1/4 mile up the road at the bend of the Weirs channel (Proctors) took one hell of a beating. Big white pine came down and a massive old oak split. 

Measured a gust to 46, I feel 100% confident that if my anemometer were on the other side of the channel that I would have got 55+.

.67"

Nice day. Feels like eternity since weather last excited me. Hopefully it's just a warmup for the derecho that's going to push my house off the foundation next month.

yoda stfu

LCI is still 80 

Sad we don't live there.

72.7 

High was 90.1