BrianW

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.

Its been way above normal here on the shoreline. HVN is +3.8. At my location I have hit 80+ almost everyday this month. Only below 80 high days here are June 1,3,5,12. Cooling degree days are currently double the average as well. AC has been running hard this month.

Caught these last night on a private lake in NJ.

I saw a few laying eggs on the beach at our lake cabin in NJ this week when I was walking the dog. Someone saw a fox digging up the eggs last night.They must be a delicacy to a fox as he went crazy digging to get every egg. I was curious on the survival rate and found this on Google. Unfortunately, even under ideal circumstances, turtle nests don’t do very well. Only 5 percent of eggs laid survive to hatch; and of those only 1 percent may survive to reproductive age. So, take the snapping turtle for example. An average clutch size might be 30 eggs. So, out of three snapping turtle nests, maybe 5 eggs will hatch out baby snappers. Of those, maybe 1 or 2 will live to the age of 7 or 8 years, which is likely the minimum age for a female snapper to lay eggs. Those aren’t very good odds.

Beer.

Maybe we can rival July 2019. From Uptons AFD July 20th. Even overnight, the urban corridor and coastal sections will see dewpoints in the mid 80s to around 90.

60+ dews for all except BDL, DXR and GON.

Yeah. That area has been getting crushed.

Radar lines up perfectly with the CT drought map. DXR reporting 2.02 the last hour. Middletown and Bristol have been getting dumped on the last hour as well.

Yeah. I just drove down 91 from Hartford to New Haven and it was like 76-78 the whole ride with dews close to 70. Sun was popping out as well.

It was completely sunny and nice here until like 2 pm. Had a high of 68.

HVN 93 and even GON at 91.

Hawks Nest Beach in Old Lyme.

The fishing was incredible here yesterday after the storms moved out.

You must feel so relieved now that the pressure has eased for watering up that way..

Isn't that common on Ice Planet Hoth?

This is how you dew it. My rescue Chihuahua/Dachshund from Mississippi was in his glory yesterday. Specifically picks the hottest black part of the patio to embrace his dews.

Suns out here and the dews here are spectacular. I think everyone is in for a special treat soon when all of New England is under full sun.

Well said. At what age do you think you embrace the dews. Late 30's or early 40's?

What a bust on shoreline temps here. Every day has been close to +10 above Upton's forecast.