cleetussnow

12 minutes ago, Dan76 said:

 

Which means doesn't happen often.

7 minutes ago, forkyfork said:

 

that's from blocking patterns funnelling all the cold there while everywhere else is warm 

And that is how you spell an anomaly, which a top ten cold month is.  

1 hour ago, forkyfork said:

8 years ago. how many top ten warm months have we had in the same time period?

We haven’t, but places in the western US certainly have.  Our time will come

2 hours ago, Poker2015 said:

Is Saturday going to be storm after storm potential or hit or miss ones? I have about 70 people coming over. Sunday looks nice, but only low 80s and I hate changing it.

Kinda looks like a washout.  Sucks

My wife had a deer situation in Chappaqua NY last year.  A bunch of cars were stopped on a road and traffic was stopped.  My wife noticed a deer lying down in front of the first car, clearly hurt bad.  Everyone from the cars were looking at the deer and paralyzed with fear about what to do.  She asked someone if they had a knife, and some guy produced one, and she proceeded to cut the deer's throat and put it out of its misery on the spot.  The horror in the eyes of the Chappaqua-ites!  

For context, my wife is a school teacher, Bio, Chem, and Forensics, and her parents are both veterinariens.  

I also gave her her own deer-slaying knife.

1 hour ago, Dark Star said:

Something worth considering, but there is no moratorium on building new facilities.  They had become very expensive to operate and still no actual place for long tern storage of the spent fuel.  I think Yucca mountain is still not open?  Then how does one transport nuclear waste across the country?  Truck, rail, plane?  What about Right To Know when transporting it?  Seems like an easy target for demented terrorists...

Yucca was about to open in the mid 2000s then got spiked for environmental reasons.  I guess it was built on a fault line.

In the meantime, the waste material from Indian Point for example is stored at Indian Point, also on a fault line.  All nuclear power plants in the US store their waste on site which will be the case essentially for everyone's lifetime who are posting here now.  There is no solution for the waste.  

NYC traded Indian Point power for a damn project power plant in Canada and we are reliant ~20% on that now.  This is great, except the waste is still there on the fault.  Doesn't make a lot of sense to me.  Anyway, NYC is plugged in via extension cord under Lake George to our grid.  The Indians in the area of the damn claim the waters as some kind of ancestral lands, and there are already court cases about the project and water flow, and the native fish that the damn disturbs. Its just a matter of time before that gets shut down IMO and NY will not have a plan if the courts go against the project.  We have a lot of natural gas in this state, but we won't tap it.  Hell, it's illegal to add a natural gas line to a home that doesn't already have one in my county.  So I have to use electric for my stove and my furnace is oil.  I have few options.  I think this is a way to ensure the NY power projects get more business $$$ from electric heavy appliances as opposed to some environmental concern.  Otherwise oil furnaces would be banned.  Oil furnaces in new construction is a thing here.

My town is under a state of emergency due to flooding, north of HPN.  

9 minutes ago, Will - Rutgers said:

watching awesome lightning from the NNJ cell

We saw he show from the lower hudson valley.  We were hoping to see a sunset but got the lightening instead

The only reason I am optimistic for the upcoming winter is because its the only winter we are getting this year.

1 hour ago, MJO812 said:

Fall is alright 

Yes weatherwise, and also winter isn’t ruined yet.  There is still hope for snow unlike January when everyone has chucked in the towel at least once already.  

3 minutes ago, STILL N OF PIKE said:

No idea if there is any truth to that , and sadly I can’t just dismiss that Option , but really don’t care either way . 

The Nordstrom coverage was a masterclass in propaganda and one of the rare times the left and right clown news circuits Read from same script . I mean I get it ..Russia is no good and one of the more lousy, ruthless governments . But the idea they blew up their own pipeline was basically a litmus test to see if emotions >critical thinking ... they usually do when most folks aren’t feeling like doing the equivalent of a home assignment to figure something out . 

Should have stated it's a theory - I don't know either if it is true or not.  

On 6/24/2023 at 1:55 PM, cleetussnow said:

Nevermind the coup is over. 

The coup was a sham:

Wagner forces moved out of the lines in the south -> toward Moscow -> then WEST toward KYIV and are now located north of KYIV. This movement of a very large and dangerous force was done quickly, unmolested, and informationally safe under the cover the 'rebellion.' I'll note here that the Wagner forces were not obliterated in an airstrike while they were sitting ducks on a highway.  The movement was too easy.  

The idea that Putin is weak is propagated witlessly in the media and possibly within Western intelligence services (unless they are playing along to protect their own thinking).  

Rather Putin has moved a set piece in a masterstroke and is firmly in command of the situation.

Did Ukraine fall for it?  Are they prepared to defend KYIV?  Did they pull reserves from the south to cover the flank during this crisis?  Hmmm....time will tell.     

22 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

You wonder what's going on in the think tanks/Pentagon -

I was entertaining the notion that Yevgeny might be sort of secretly a Ukrain sympathizer or even switched sides.  But my buddy brings up the obviously over-arcing oligarchy role in probably not agreeing with Putin's tact at this point - that's sort of been there all along... forgot about that. 

But suppose for a second the oligarchy got to the Wagner chief ... this could still be a preamble?  testing Moscow's flinch response.

That doesn't work either.  The problem I'm having with any of this is that the element of surprise has been removed from any future attempt.  So I'm curious what the motivation was for "staging" a move on Moscow in the first place - and what changed to draw the Wagner forces to now stand down. 

What a f'n morass

Maybe no other army leaders went along (who said they would) with the rebellion and Wagner group was alone.  For self preservation, Prighozen backed down.  Happens in these putsch situations.  People talk tough then get cold feet.  Perhaps Prighozen will turn in the reluctant generals to Putin?  

6 minutes ago, cleetussnow said:

This is the third putsch in russia in my lifetime.  The record of success is ‘mixed’ 

If this one works out, I wonder if Putin heads to exile as a guest of Ji Jinping.  Maybe not. Ji would not want the hassle.  He will be hard at work trying to secure relations with whoever the new boss is.  

As a sidenote, Belarus just became a nuclear power.  This matters since I bet the brush fire spreads there and who knows what that asshole will do, especially if Putin exiles there.  

Lots off things to contemplate, including Putin holding on.  He will be vicious in his reprisal campaign.  If people take to the streets its ova for Putin.  I doubt a Tiananmen replay at red square.  

Nevermind the coup is over. 

13 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

Holy shitness Bat Man!

CNN's headline page banners, "Apparent Insurrection Underway In Russia"

uhh... Yeah, I guess it's a specter that's been looming.  This Wagner chief, ...railing on as a recent antagonist against his own government was a sort of wake up call. 

Why CNN also reports that U.S. officials were caught of guard might just be CNN invent-a-click news reporting but we'll see... 

And we'll see if any of the above is true.  But wow - historic if so...

This is the third putsch in russia in my lifetime.  The record of success is ‘mixed’ 

If this one works out, I wonder if Putin heads to exile as a guest of Ji Jinping.  Maybe not. Ji would not want the hassle.  He will be hard at work trying to secure relations with whoever the new boss is.  

As a sidenote, Belarus just became a nuclear power.  This matters since I bet the brush fire spreads there and who knows what that asshole will do, especially if Putin exiles there.  

Lots off things to contemplate, including Putin holding on.  He will be vicious in his reprisal campaign.  If people take to the streets its ova for Putin.  I doubt a Tiananmen replay at red square.  

11 hours ago, Typhoon Tip said:

Define the purpose of monitoring "just the arctic" when the "spirit" of doing so is for on-going climate monitoring. 

This is a Global problem - it should all be contained.

It is….in the climate forum.

Lightening struck my neighbors cherry tree 3 yrs ago.  It a barrel 6 feet in diameter. Split it to the roots.  I was in my home office and it sounded and felt like a bomb went off.  Shook my house.  I looked and saw  half of it falling to the ground. Tree was detonated.    

I have stacks of it still - we split it up and divided it among the helpers. I do not remember seeing anything blackened.  Could have  done, but I didnt see it.  

On 6/17/2023 at 12:25 PM, MJO812 said:

Anyone ever been to Camden yards ? I'm going with my family in August and we are not sure where to stay for the weekend.

Not baltimore

suns out

at least you can see the sun now. 

5 minutes ago, dWave said:

 

NYCs air is worse than the air in Toronto - which is in the country that is on fire.  Dang.

I keep thinking about like Chernobyl or something where there is a radiological disaster, and this is how the radiation would propagate, only you could not see it or smell it. 

6 minutes ago, Stormlover74 said:

Hail, tornado, smoke...locusts next?

It would never be snow next, I can assure you of that.  

10 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

Cell down near the SW CT border looks juicy

I got pea size hail from it.

I got hail.

pea size hail rn. 

Wind really whipped up here in Westchester.  I can see dark clouds to my northeast and have been hearing thunder from the same direction.  I probably just experienced about a 35 MPH gust.