DavisStraight

4 hours ago, powderfreak said:

lol.

It unloaded last night and is still dumping on the hill.  Nothing really in the backyard and a few miles away getting smoked.

What's the elevation at your house?

1 hour ago, dendrite said:

Hey Gene…can you vouch for a wildlife rehabilitator in our area? I found a squirrel in my road that was hit, but still alive. The only visible sign of injury is a little blood on a rear foot, but it isn’t really moving anything from the waist down except a slight movement of the other leg a few times. Upper half looks good. I have it in a box in the basement right now.

The closest one (Henniker) has some iffy reviews. 

There's one near me Brian in Cape Neddick, don't know much about it though.

2 hours ago, weatherwiz said:

There was a paper I read a few years ago about the use of the RONI and how it is a better indicator of the true state versus the traditional ONI. There were multiple examples used, but there was one that looked at the 2015/2016 event, which per ONI was super strong. Based on forecasts and guidance for a super strong EL Nino certain measures were taken (I want to say it was western Africa) in preparations for impacts to precipitation, etc and ultimately took too aggressive measures and it cost some industries alot of money. But per the RONI, the event was not nearly as strong and their weather for the winter season was more reflective of that of a moderate event. Essentially, the study indicated if they used the RONI they wouldn't have taken as aggressive measures. 

 

I prefer MACARONI

4 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

I said below 30

That's not 30 below

20 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

huh?   The temp was 29.  That’s below 30.   Who said -30?

Or who said 30 below?

1 hour ago, Lava Rock said:

yep. I'll usually use the mower deck to push them to the side, then finish it off with leaf blower than rake.  Still a pita. And there's other areas not seen around the house. 

Leaves are a PITA, I set up new house with as little maintenence as possible. When I was younger I loved working on the lawn all day, as I got older I hate it.

3 minutes ago, Lava Rock said:

31.5F. wish I got rid of the leaves last wknd. Eyesore.

Just blow them into the woods to the left.

First flakes of the year in the air

42 minutes ago, butterfish55 said:

Installing a 26kw Generac in Wrentham today. Windy and cold with some stray flakes. Lovely

Awesome, I'd like to get one for my new house in Maine. Mind telling us total cost?

1 hour ago, dendrite said:

BOX lighting up. Should pour even up here this evening. 

Pouring here now

2 hours ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

I’ve been on a cider kick the past few weeks.  Beer will be back soon

I get a cider craving this time of year too, had some last weekend.

36 minutes ago, tamarack said:

Just PC and breezy here, so far.   One of the passing clouds might yet toss a handful.
Forecast 1/4" to 1/2" came in at 0.14" (which included the <0.1" progged for the daytime.)

Breezy is a good way to describe it, it's nothing like the other day.

1 hour ago, dryslot said:

WCSH6 and WGME13?

WMTW8 and News Center Maine

11 minutes ago, DavisStraight said:

Local mets are saying same thing.

Not sure if we watch the same channels we get two news channels from Portland.

2 hours ago, dryslot said:

Looks like folks in the elevated areas of Western Maine are going to see there first snow overnight, Looks like 3-6" above 2,500' with C-2" possibly down to the valley floor.

Local mets are saying same thing.

2 minutes ago, jsw said:

I think this is it.

 

I saw several of those one day fishing on Lake Ontario, I have the pics somewhere.

18 minutes ago, Cold Miser said:

Getting a head start on tomorrow nights gusts?  Some practice power outages?

Got the 10,000 w generator on standby. 

Just lost power

1 hour ago, Layman said:

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?!  

Even with the lack of acorns here, the squirrels are very fat.

2 hours ago, weatherwiz said:

After a very long year and a half and just seeing if a full recovery would happen, the recommendation was finally made to go the route of a doggy wheel chair. Ordered last month and got it yesterday!

 

Dogs adapt, looks good Paulie.

8 hours ago, tamarack said:

Hophornbeam, hickory, white oak are up there with black locust, but Osage orange is tops, also the premier wood for bow construction and perhaps the weirdest fruit of any American tree.

Power blinked last evening, now gusting 30+ which is decent here in the woods.

October numbers:
Avg max:    58.8   +3.1     Highest:  82 on the 6th.  That eclipses the 80 on 10/9/11 for October's warmest.
Avg min:     35.4   +0.4    Lowest:  25 on the 10th.  The mildest min was 50 on the 20th.

Precip:     3.69"   -1.70"    Wettest:  1.16" on the 8th.  Also had 1.14" on the 31st.

No flakes were observed.

10 of the first 11 days were sunny and the average diurnal range was 31.4°.  The rest of the month had 4 sunny, 6 partly cloudy and 10 cloudy days, with the diurnal range 18.9°.

I forgot about hophorbeam, not a lot of it where I lived, would have loved to have a couple cords back in 2015

12 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

 

The benefits of being on hill tops. 

Plastic pumpkins filled with candy blowing down the street.

36 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

Classic Spine precipitation bomb.

At 1500ft we are seeing 40mph gusts and just pounding rain.

Looks like some snow in the batch looking at myradar.

3 hours ago, kdxken said:

Black locust

Ever hear od Osage Orange? I think that's the hardest wood in the US, for something harder you'd have to go to Africa.

26 minutes ago, SJonesWX said:

yup doing mine on Sunday. gonna be a disaster

that's a great plan, until the gusts blow them back out of the woods.

I had that problem at my last house, the windy days never blew towards the woods so I'd have to wait and have twice as much work when the wind calmed down.