BrianW

My sister just bought an investment property in Narragansett and the previous owner left this Davis on a pole and an anemometer on the chimney. The wire looks cut coming out the bottom of the conduit on the chimney anemometer. Can that be repaired? What would be needed to test these? Just a display like this? 

https://www.scientificsales.com/6312-Additional-Console-Display-for-Vantage-Pro2-p/6312.htm

.19 here on Pt Judith in Narragansett. This area is completely torched and has had little to no rain this summer and there are water ban signs everywhere. They even turned off all the showers at the state beaches. 

7 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

Yikes 2 F15s and 2 helicopters screwing north over my head.

They just flew over Narragansett and circled out over the water a few times.  

You in Rhode Island? What an epic day. About to get some lunch at Georgies. 

32 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

Meanwhile what a day. Bottle it up for August dog days total winner. 

Beautiful day out here on Pt Judith. 

2 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

How much was your bill? Beautiful pups by the way.

I pay a $20 monthly connection charge and then $3 a ccf (748 gallons). I only heavily water my fenced in 4000 sqft yard mainly for the dogs.  Lawns need about an inch of water a week and that works out to about .6 gallons per sqft. So my 4000 sqft lawn needs about 2400 gallons to get 1 inch of water. That would be a little over 3 ccf or about $10 dollars. My winter bill averages $30-35 a month in the non summer months and around $80 watering in the summer. 

Despite the drought in CT not a single reservoir is in drought stage. The August 5th Surface Reservoir Capacity Measurements and Trends has the states reservoirs at 94.3% of normal. 

https://portal.ct.gov/DPH/Drinking-Water/DWS/Reservoir-Data

1 hour ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Yup. Death 

You need to get on city water. Just soft lush green lawns all summer.

Heads up to those using heating oil.  Lots of signs are showing heating oil potentially costing $8+ a gallon this winter.

A Storm Brews in Heating Oil: Elements by Javier Blas

The US and Europe are running out of time to refill storage tanks.

Today’s Take: The Storm Brewing in Heating Oil

Heating oil is not what naturally comes to mind in the middle of August — particularly during a heat wave in Europe. Moreover, the market appears calm on the surface, with prices down 30% since March.

Dig a bit deeper, though, and there’s a storm brewing.

America and Europe ordinarily use the low-demand seasons of spring and summer to rebuild their stocks of middle distillates — heating oil and diesel — for use during the winter. So far, they have largely failed to do so.

In the US, middle-distillate inventories typically increase by 20 million barrels from mid-April to mid-September. However, stocks are up by only 2 million barrels this time as refiners concentrate on making gasoline and overseas demand drains local stocks. In Europe, the situation is similar.

The US East Coast is of particular concern. The region is home to New York Harbor, the pricing point for US heating oil. It’s also where the demand is: of the roughly 5.3 million households that use heating oil in America, more than 80% are in the Northeast. On a seasonal level, East Coast middle-distillate inventories are the lowest since at least 1992.

Typically, stocks start falling there by mid-September, and soon after in the rest of America and Europe, suggesting the industry has all but run out of time to rebuild the buffer.

High prices will be needed to force demand down and avoid running out of supply. But even high prices may not dent consumption enough because German industrial companies are switching from gas to oil, using more heating oil and diesel for electricity and steam production.

Ironically, Europe is for now relying on Russian diesel to fill the gap, with imports in June and July rebounding to prewar levels. Starting in February, however, Europe won’t be allowed to import Russian diesel as sanctions over the Ukraine invasion take effect. By then, the heating oil market may feel as hot as the weather does now.

7 hours ago, TauntonBlizzard2013 said:

My car is in full sun all day, at work and at home, and it does get insanely hot. Wonder if that’s why it only became an issue as the weather got warmer.

I literally bought that today and cleaned them, it seemed to do a good job.

I checked the coolant and it is at normal levels. This has been going on for months, so even a small leak would likely have produced lower levels by now. Plus, not using the heat, so not sure how that would be causing the film to form.

Your idea is as good as any.

If you don't have a coolant or oil leak then its most likely the plastics, vinyl, rubber off gassing from the heat as Monadnocks said. My wife's Subaru with an all black interior did it when it was new the first year a few times in the heat. Opened the door and it was like new car smell times 100. Try cracking the windows or sunroof if you have one. It does help.

Pretty rare for Groton to have the highest max temperature in CT in August with an 86. 

1 hour ago, Baroclinic Zone said:

Sitting at a balmy +8.2F thru 9 days.

DXR +9.2

HVN +7.9

KGON +6.7

MMK +6.9

BDR +5.2

77 for the low.

What an impressive stretch of heat down here on the shoreline.

HVN is +7.9 for August 

July was +4.7

HFD's low was 81

HVN is 92/79. I think an 80 dew might happen. 

I planted a ton of milkweed this year and it's been crazy active with monarchs. 

I think these are eggs? 

13 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

Why bring it in was the question 

Heat stress. It's an autoflower strain that flowers/buds without changes in light in 90 days. The strain originated from northern Russia/Asia where they grow fast under the 24/7 sunlight there. So they don't tolerate heat well. 

Because C. ruderalis transitions from the vegetative stage to the flowering stage with age, as opposed to the light cycle required with photoperiod strains, it is bred with other household sativa and indica strains of cannabis to create "auto-flowering cannabis strains".[14] These strains are favorable for cultivars because they exhibit the hardiness of ruderalis plants while still maintaining the medicinal effects of sativa and indica strains.[15] Cultivators also favor ruderalis plants due to their reduced production time, typically finishing in 3-4 months rather than 6-8 months. The auto-flowering trait is extremely beneficial because it allows for multiple harvests in one outdoor growing season without the use of light deprivation techniques necessary for multiple harvest of photo-period strains. A

1 minute ago, Ginx snewx said:

Doesn't the best weed grow in the jungles of the tropics zone.

Yeah. The shoreline of CT is the new tropic zone. 

41 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

Apple, pear and peach harvests are not going to be great either. 

The cannabis harvest is going to be great this year. Had to bring this girl in to cool her off for a bit.. she couldn't handle the dews...

92/77. What an epic summer here on the shoreline. HVN was +4.3 for July and is +6 for August. The overnight lows have been running around 80 the last few nights and with the sound 80+ its like Miami down here.

2 hours ago, WxWatcher007 said:

Is there a place where I can get detailed historical SST plots for the region? This is OT from the heat/humidity/drought, but 26C seems much further north than usual, though there's no depth under that. 

Try this.

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/coastal-water-temperature-guide/natl.html

Most of Long Island Sound is 80 degrees which is way above normal. A friend on his boat said the water was 83 degrees in the harbor. 

 Normal temp for New London is 72 and they are currently at 80. 

1 hour ago, Damage In Tolland said:

 

What a special one.  80/76 

90/74. What a summer here on the CT shoreline. 

A thermometer on a friends dock on the sound has been at 82 all week. 

42 minutes ago, butterfish55 said:

Just noticed mine was a record for July too, but it was also the second highest month of production I've had in 11 years since the system went live.  Tells me 2 things....It was a dry and sunny month, and also my panels haven't really seen any reduction in efficiency after 10+ years

I am jealous. Congrats to sticking it to Eversource for 11 years!

Another record month for solar production.... 

5 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Pretty good model consistency for a big heat day this Thursday. I keep waiting for the 850s to lessen, and they have, but that plume is still exceptionally warm. GFS and EC are around 22-23C near peak heating. 

We used to use that “add 17C” rule for hot summer days with 12z 850s and they’re running around 21C at that time. So that puts the hot spots around 38C at the sfc…ie 100F. 

So we’ll see if the potency of that plume survives out of the northern plains. If it is overdone there it’ll be overdone 

Perfect timing for the Aug 1st rate increase.

The energy service rate for New Hampshire Electric Co-op will go up 77%, Liberty Utilities will jump 100% and Eversource's rate will rise by 112%.