BrianW

Let's hope there is progress in this. I know a ton of people who's lives have been messed up from Lyme. Drug treatment for Lyme disease could lead to its eradication The discovery that a chemical is deadly to the bacterium that causes Lyme disease but harmless to animals might allow the disease to be eradicated in the wild. “Lyme disease is well-positioned to be eradicated,” says Kim Lewis at Northeastern University in Boston. “We are gearing up, the first field trial will be next summer.” https://www.newscientist.com/article/2292543-drug-treatment-for-lyme-disease-could-lead-to-its-eradication/#ixzz78yklk9vA

Welcome to the tropics. 77 here under full sun and 80 looks possible.

A billboard for heating oil that's been at $2.39 all summer just jumped 30 cents to $2.69 the last week or so. I'm sure it will be $3 once it gets cold. Natural gas prices are sky high as well and I think they are double from last year. I have been on solar and heat pumps for my heat for the last 3 winters. Best investment ever. The state and federal rebates for both paid for like half the cost. Electric bill is just the $9 connection charge every month.

Electricity is .05 a kwh in Quebec while those in Massachusetts are paying like 5 times that at .24 kwh. The New England states all have some of the most expensive electricity in the US. Hydro Quebec has an insane amount of excess hydroelectric capacity up north and bringing that cheap power in would certainly drive down prices.

You ready for your 80's today? Mostly sunny to start today, then should see partly to mostly cloudy skies this afternoon as a mid level cloud deck over wrn NY/PA advect eastward. Despite these clouds temps should be on the warm side, with highs reaching 80 in near the CT river valley which should be one of the last areas to cloud over.

Anyone know what weed this is? I'm having a hard time identifying it.

Didn't realize that same data was on that site when I was looking for average temps. Anyways thanks. That site has the CDD and HDD as well which I have been looking for.

Can you share the link for that data? Would love to see the data for New Haven.

52 for the low and already up to 66 here. Hoping we can pull an 80 here on Sunday and a few more this month. Neighbor just said her dock thermometer was at 73.

Home Depot and Lowes around here have big shortages of common plumbing parts. Had to drive all over looking for a sink basket strainer and some drain parts.

Was a really warm month here. Anyone know how I can get the monthly departures for HVN?

The supply chain issues are going to get much worse. The price of coal in China was $50 a ton a year ago and is now over $210. They are having severe electricity issues due to coal shortages that is reaking havoc on everything. Some areas are only allowing factories to run 2 or 3 days a week. I read 60 percent of their electricity comes from coal and with current prices plants are not profitable and taking huge losses.

September was a torch here with an average temp of 70.3. I'm hoping we get another winter like 2020 with monthly winter averages 36+. HVN's average monthly temp data.

Same here. The CT shoreline is now classified humid subtropical. I think parts of SE Mass are as well. I run my central air well into October. I have had endless 72+ dewy nights here this month and like 14 80+ days.

Yep. Don't understand how people live in 400k houses but won't spend the money for central air or mini splits. There are crazy state and federal rebates for splits and central ac in every New England state. My sister has a few rental houses in Narragansett RI and had to install ac in all of them a couple years ago. Its like the top question when people rent in the summer.

79 here and should hit 80 soon.

We bought my uncle's house and everything inside was original from 1958. We kept this hifi and all his records and listen to them all the time...

I use Wondercide cedarwood/lemongrass oil on my fenced backyard our puppy uses. I only use organic stuff in his area. I haven't found any grubs on the sections of lawn I have recently pulled up after having a patio put in. https://www.wondercide.com/

They got hit hard by the chip shortage and have had many shutdowns. My wife has a 2018 Crosstrek and it's insane how much used ones are going for. It's lost like no value since she bought it.

It only makes sense if you have cheap or free electricity from solar. New England has the highest electricity rates in the lower 48. It doubt the numbers would work out when electricity cost .23 kwh. States like Washington state have cheap hydro power that cost .08 kwh.

A friend in the HVAC industry said the shortages are nuts. Parts and new furnaces have insanely long wait times. Said its going to be an ugly winter

Had 3 nights of +20 departures. It was 77 here until 1 am.

It was 76/72 most of the night here but bottomed out at 75 for an hour. Normal low is 55 at HVN so a +20 departure. It's been full sun all morning and its up to 80/73 now.

Another night of +20 overnight lows. Was 75/72 all night.

Normal bee spray won't work on yellow jackets in nest like that. Your just going to get them angry. You need to use a professional spray or powder that you use on the entrance hole and they bring deep inside the nest. Do it yourself pest control online sells what you need.