BrianW

Another good drenching for the coast. 1.87 here and 5.46 mtd.

Eversource has a pretty crazy battery program available in CT and MA. They essentially pay you like 6x retail electricity rates when you discharge your battery to the grid during high demand. This is because New England still relies on tons of peak oil fired power plants. When those run electricity from them can be like 30x normal wholesale rates. These plants are crazy expensive because they idle 95% of the year and run off essentially diesel fuel. These oil plants are also used a lot in the winter when there are natural gas pipeline constraints in New England. ISO New England had an article a few years ago how New England burned something crazy like over $500 million in oil in 1 week during a prolonged cold snap. Here is some numbers from a powerwall in CT last year I saw online. The Eversource program is run through Tesla for payments. I think the math is these payments will pay for the battery in 5 years and they have a 10 year warranty. In 2025 there were 41 events during which my powerwall and solar setup sent energy back to the grid. • I received a check from Tesla for $1889.42 in February for these events. • On average, I sent 25.11kWh/event to the grid during each of these events. • I sent 1029kWh in total to the grid during these events. • For an average price of $1.84/kWh and average of $46.08/event. A kwh is currently around .30 in New England. Eversource bought the power from the battery at around 6x or $1.84 kwh during high demand. https://www.eversource.com/residential/save-money-energy/clean-energy-options/energy-storage-solutions

I lost around 50% production today on my solar panels compared to a clear sunny day. My system is only 5kw and maxed out around 2.75kw today. I usually produce around 30-35 kwh on a sunny day.

Pretty crazy how green it is around the New Haven area that got 3-5 inches back on the 6th/7th. Took like a week for lawns to really respond and green up to all that rain. Zero rain since and lawns are still going wild. Been having to mow like evey 3-4 days.

Its pretty bad up your way. People need to remember this stuff gets right into your house. My indoor pm 2.5 air sensor showed a huge spike inside. Maybe we need to start making box fan filters like they do in CA. Might be bad sensors but up by Thunderbay some sensors are at like 800-900 ppm when the chart only goes to 300. https://map.purpleair.com/

This one was pretty big as well. Still the 2nd deadliest New England Tornado after Worcester in 1953. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1878_Wallingford_tornado

I can smell it outside right now.

Noticed last week around Narragansett RI they had water ban signs up all over town. They also had all the beach showers and water turned off. I think Narragansett uses groundwater wells and they are exceptionally low. The Providence Journal just published an article yesterday but its paywalled. Here is the headline. To understand why Gov. Dan McKee, in June, declared a drought watch for only the second time in Rhode Island in 24 years, you need only look at the precipitation numbers over the last 12 months. In nearly every month since June 2025, the state has fallen short of the historical average, leading to a cumulative deficit of 13.4 inches for the year and a total that’s at only 80% of where it should be.

Just amazing out there this morning on my run.

4 inches here with more bands rolling in. Thinking I might top 6 here in Branford. Looks like HVN might be the jack with that firehouse coming in from the sound.

Nice band from HVN east along 95. That stuff over LI is slowing moving north towards BDR as well.

Man look at those training cells out west over NY. Someone is going to get absolutely crushed. Wonder if we see a repeat of 08/17/2024.