Layman

It was a beautiful November day coming up yesterday and it’s been fun seeing our first snow of the season this morning!

As the wind turned off, so did my power. Seems to be localized to 100 customers in my area. Just as it happened, my wife showed me some weird pictures people are posting from VT to ME asking what the bright squiggly light in the sky was. Someone suggested a solid rocket booster…? Curious if anyone here saw or heard anything.

We're heading up to your neck of the woods tomorrow for a few days to stay at the Omni. Looks like we'll get our first taste of some snow! And wind...lots of wind. The red squirrels were out in force during the spring and early summer here. Bold and trying to get into everything!

So the squirrels...absolutely huge around here this year! After such a dry summer/Fall I thought they'd be their typically ragged and ratty little selves but they're not by any stretch. More like Chihuahua-sized and furry as I've ever seen. A selective mating outcome? Genetic anomaly? Local aberration? Or...are we in for a season to remember?!

Interesting article about Vail Resorts and Epic Pass sales apparently being down YoY at this point: https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/vail-resorts-reports-drop-season-passes-sales-ski-season

Any guesses where Kilington is going to fall this year? It's been a warm one!

Saw the last remaining patches of snow at Cannon and Bretton Woods over the weekend as the wife and I went up to the Mt. Washington hotel for the Big Band Celebration, which was a ton of fun. Also grabbed season passes for Bretton Woods while there and are looking forward to another slope-side stay or two for the 2025-2026 season. Crazy how a couple hours drive north can look so different. Insanely lush and green at home with vibrant green popping everywhere while the mountains looked to be 2-3 weeks behind.

We've slowly crept through the 40's all day long up to 48 now. Would love to see 60 before too long!

Wish that breeze would subside a bit and the dews would come up to enjoy it before this weekend. Chilly out there!

Is there a simple explanation for someone like me to understand why the warmer temps can't move N/NE? My simplistic interpretation of what you posted is that the NErly wind speeds are greater than those flowing SErly onshore from the GOM. What is it about the cold to the NE that prevents the greater wind speeds from simply pushing past that? I'm guessing this is very remedial stuff, but hey, that's where I'm at

Yep, the original Gaspari Nutrition SuperPump 250, AKA "SuperDump 250". It worked. But like clockwork with that bathroom trip. Word was it was due to magnesium content. The Wild West of supplements back then!

Absolutely. Dan Duchaine FTW formulating the original. There were some exceptional pre-workouts in the early 2000's that HAD to have been spiked with Adderall. I remember feeling like a machine on some of them. 48 here at 10:45am. Definitely pulling for the NAM to be right this weekend. Even just a taste of 70's before crashing back to the high 30's will be fine.

Is it just me or is "young cougar" kind of an oxymoron?

Pre-workout of champions right there. Failure is reached when tendons detach from bones.

If that holds up, I'm leaving the low 30's at the house and heading south in the morning wearing some old jeans like this Then cutting off the legs to bask in the warmth like this