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    Tropical Storm Henri

    in New England

    Posted

    28 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

    This red annotated region in that track wedge may as well mail in the insurance forms now ...cuz that's liable to be one contiguous tornado vortex if this ens mean works out...

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    Any reason to expect more than EF1 with this?

    Tropical Storm Henri

    in New England

    Posted

    24 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

    I remember it well...completely unremarkable NW of Boston. Gloria was much more noteworthy.

    Dang, Gloria...had a suspended ceiling fall in on us during that one.  Think we got part of the eye too.

    Tropical Storm Henri

    in New England

    Posted

    16 minutes ago, LovewellHemp said:

    I have a hemp farm in Hope Valley, RI and I'm trying to gauge if it's worth $1000 in materials and the next 48 hours of my life staking up an acre of plants. Are we looking at guaranteed 50+ mph winds 10 miles inland? I appreciate any and all input 

    By the time you have a guarantee it will be too late.  IMO, the real questions to ask yourself are: what is your crop worth, how much of your crop could potentially be saved by doing this, and how much up the shitter you are if you lose it all.  

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    April 15 16 Obs Thread

    in New England

    Posted

    Central MA, North Worcester:  Had just over 3" here at 7:15 am.  I shook off some bushes at that time and they are already bending again with new snowfall.  My footprints from then are half filled in, so thinking close to 5" total now.  Really heavy stuff though--it's compacting a lot.  Main roads are melting, but side streets were snow covered this am.

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    Feb 11th Lt snow ,snowstorm 14th??

    in New England

    Posted

    Sleet may be gross, but after 2008 I'm soooo all set with icing!  Not long after it gets pretty to look at it gets destructive.  I'll never forget the sound of trees snapping in half all night long.  

    2' of snow is nothing compared to 1" of ice, from that standpoint.  

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    Winter Banter and General Disco 2

    in New England

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Typhoon Tip said:

    10 years ago I knew some who live(d) in that area down there and were warning to bar- the windows of your car - not just alarm the vehicle... heh.   Crime and recidivism therein was running amok ...don't walk alone late at night either.

    is that still like that?

     I think that the Main South area is still pretty rough..and some areas in Lincoln St / Lower Burncoat / Vernon Hill.  

    1 hour ago, Typhoon Tip said:

    this house is next to a main rail for both freight and commuter... I mean, it's right there out the window across the street.   Can do without the coupling 100,000 tons of steal thunder and the bed rocking at 3am...

    Kind of sounds like a good incentive for moving!  I remember having a train yard behind my apartment in Framingham years ago, and the vibrations from the trains felt like heart palpitations.  That being said, it was pretty wild to watch them use something that looked like a jet engine to clear snow from the tracks.  But yeah, there are a lot of sharky real estate investors, and all it takes is a few other neighbors to sell to them to really change a neighborhood, for better or worse.  Being right near the commuter rail, probably a larger residential or mixed use building.

    Winter Banter and General Disco 2

    in New England

    Posted

    23 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

    ORH is eventually going to explode in value. They've "skillfully" managed to keep themselves a low-cost dump through the years, but it's becoming hard for even them to stop the tide coming in from the east. It's already getting really expensive in places just east of them like Shrewsbury, Boylston, etc. If they could ever fix the downtown area of ORH, the city real estate is primed to like double or triple in value over the next 2 decades. Biggest problem right now with the city is that the downtown area is still a dump and the places anyone wants to visit with bars/restaurants are usually east of downtown on Shrewsbury street....though it will be interesting to see how the new ballpark for the AAA team changes things.

     

    Agreed--what you see when you drive through downtown on the highway is a combination of heavy industrial uses, and dense multi family properties that have generally been poorly maintained.

    It's too bad though.  The city has several noteworthy universities, good highway access, and a growing medical and technology presence. Shrewsbury St seems to have pulled off a fairly cohesive uplift, and there are still some nicer residential areas on the periphery of the city.  I've seen quite a bit of investment in renovating homes in these neighborhoods, but the residential areas downtown are so hard to resolve without dealing with genuine issues of poverty there.  Hopefully they will incorporate meaningful neighborhood improvements when building the ballpark.

    Wonder what happens with real estate if enough people from Boston / Metrowest shift to remote working long term...

    Winter Banter and General Disco 2

    in New England

    Posted

    It looks like I-190 / I-395 beltway is heading in the direction of what I-495 beltway used to be, and worth looking at in terms of investment over time.  Worcester has been trying to revamp itself as far as an urban area, and the nearby towns are worth looking into.  Even in this area, a 1000 SF home in good condition can be priced close to $300K right now.

    You can so quickly get into a world of hurt if you buy a home near the top of what the bank is willing to lend you.  S&**T happens, life happens, and real life is way more expensive than the formula the bank uses.  I'm thankful I was so conservative, and I sleep much better at night. :D  

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    February the climo snow month

    in New England

    Posted

    9 minutes ago, The 4 Seasons said:

    a solid swath of 6-10 is in the cards though for SNE, and another day-timed event for most i dont think anyone will be complaining with that

    Says someone who doesn't have kids that would have yet another "remote learning snow day" on Monday?  :blink:  Kiddo has only been in school about 20 days since last March, so fingers crossed for a Sunday event!

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    GIS Degree and Meteorology

    in Meteorology 101

    Posted

    The nice thing about GIS is that it is a cross-disciplinary skill set.  If it didn't work out in the meteorology, there are still numerous other fields that are making use of GIS technology.  Most BA programs allow you to tailor classes for a concentration or minor if you want to incorporate that as well.  Just pick a school with a good program for both fields.

    The updated NWS radar is terrible

    in Weather Forecasting and Discussion

    Posted

    On 12/24/2020 at 11:39 AM, Great Snow 1717 said:

    National Weather Service faces backlash after launching new radar website - The Washington Post

    Thanks for this post, and link to the WAPO article--guess I haven't been imagining this, then!  The tiled radar layer is just painful to watch load.

    The radar.weather.gov server may not be the issue since it loads the ArcGIS base maps fairly quickly.  But the radar layer is served up by the open data server at NOAA--so this is probably the bottleneck.  

    Regardless, the deprecation of Flash has been pretty obvious for years. There was more than enough time to budget for and develop a suitable replacement.

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