BrianW

82/73 here.

@powderfreak Rubbermaid industrial and supposedly bear proof trash can was easily defeated. Its been a very active summer here in Northern NJ with bears at our lake cabin.

Sea breeze just kicked in here as well and it's setting up for a stunning evening.

@Damage In Tolland he knows how to rage it. Magic mushrooms with Stein...

Yep. Its set to cryogenic according to my wife at 65. I'm from Sweden and she's from VT so it balances out. Haha It's all powered from solar/heat pumps so the energy usage/cost fortunately isn't a issue.

I got a song proposition for you. I am going to title it blinded by the dews..

What a special one. 69/69 .NEAR TERM /THROUGH TONIGHT/... Forecast on track. Minor adjustments made to temp/dewpts to reflect current obs and trends. Mid-level ridge axis slides east of the region today, with surface high pressure centered offshore. The biggest difference from Saturday is a modest,synoptically- driven southerly flow that develops. This may help dew points climb slightly during the day, especially along eastern coastal sections.

Was hoping for a Sea breeze but that failed. Any mets want to chime in as why its not setting up on the south coast?

Still waiting for that sea breeze. The south coast is still roasting.

Some fantastic dews down here at the shore. 87/71.

Should be a nice sea breeze later. The high provides only a very light W/NW flow across the interior. A sea breeze develops and push north across Long Island and southern Connecticut through the afternoon, providing some relief from the heat as the onshore wind develops. Just waiting for this sea mist to clear here before heading out on the boat..

Launched high here and already at 82/66. What a fantastic summer day.

74 for the high temp and I had a record June day for solar production.

My wife is from Maplewood and has a lot of family in the Parissappny area. Our lake cabin is in Denville which is another town I have heard you mention before. If I recall correctly thats where your from?

Long Valley on 46 near Budd Lake.

@tamarack I bet this brings back some memories. It's an older picture from April but I'm up in NNJ at our lake cabin and the station was in a NJ town you have mentioned before. Take a guess on the location.

My hydrangeas look terrible this year. I think it's because they were showing leaves in like early March this year and then they got hit with some cold.

So you have that small electric utility Liberty? In a Monday filing with the Public Utilities Commission, Liberty Utilities proposed increasing the per kilowatt hour price of electricity from 11.11 cents, the rate in effect from February to July of this year, to 22.23 cents starting in July. That means a typical household would see a 47 percent increase in its electric bill, according to consumer advocate Don Kreis. (Other charges on the bill would remain unchanged.) A household currently paying $150 per month would see their electricity increase to $220 per month. https://newhampshirebulletin.com/briefs/electric-prices-set-to-double/

Another great month for those with solar. I have had record production the last 2 months. Only 4 low production days in June so far.

Here was the report from Blackstone labs for my wife's Subaru. The test cost $30 but the savings was huge with confirming to be able to extend the oil change interval nearly double the recommend Subaru 6k change.

Synthetic oil can last an extremely long time and most people change it when they could easily extend the oil change way longer. I have sent Mobil 1 synthetic oil samples out to Blackstone labs which tests your oil. The results on my wife's Subaru with Mobil 1 0w20 at 8k which was 2k over the recommend 6k change showed the oil was still perfectly fine. The lab said this oil would easily run to 10k. I think 10k is a good number to use with synthetic. Those oil life estimators are just guessing. A better name is oil life estimator. They do not monitor any direct physical or chemical property of oil; they only accumulate data from the vehicle’s computer and predict how your driving habits and operating conditions have affected the oil’s viscosity, total base number (a measure of remaining detergency), oxidation level and other factors. Since the OLM can’t measure these key properties like a chemist in a lab would measure them, how can it know when the oil has, for example, only 10 percent life remaining? It can’t – it simply estimates oil life based on an algorithm.

72 here for the overnight low. I think we see 75-77 here today. Upton has a high of 69 here that is busting hard.

NJ is such a special place for heat and dews. I'm down in the Newark area and it was 78 when I woke up and its currently 88/72 at Newark. The heat seems to be over performing down here with Uptons high of 90 already almost reached this morning.

Yeah. Looks like just one day of low 70s on Sat here.