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BrianW

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  1. Here comes the water issues. Unprecedented increase in water consumption around here. As a result of the protracted hot and dry weather conditions, and more residents being home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, over the past few days alone, the RWA has seen an unprecedented increase in water use and is urging its customers to use water wisely. This has caused some residents to experience intermittent discolored water. The RWA has also received reports of fire hydrants being opened illegally, we ask that people not open hydrants, as it can be dangerous and contribute to temporarily discolored water.
  2. Groton still hasn't hit 80 yet this year. 2009 was the last June with no 80's.
  3. Lol. Me too. I get all my seeds from North Atlantic Seed Co in Maine.
  4. Try some marijuana. They have specific strains that will put you right to sleep. I know tons of people that have gotten off all the synthetic sleep aids and use marijuana now. You're in Maine it's legal there.
  5. What a furnace up in Northern Canada. There are alot of 90s just south of James Bay.
  6. Awesome week for shoreline folks.
  7. 4 deaths from that derecho yeaterday in NJ. PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 409 PM EDT THU JUN 4 2020 ...ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON JUNE 3, 2020 DERECHO... A DERECHO, DEFINED AS A LONG-LIVED AND EXPANSIVE THUNDERSTORM WIND COMPLEX THAT PRODUCES WIDESPREAD SWATHS OF DAMAGING AND OFTEN SIGNIFICANT WIND GUSTS OVER A PATH GREATER THAN 240 MILES IN LENGTH, DEVELOPED JUST SOUTHEAST OF LAKE ERIE DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS OF JUNE 3, 2020. DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH WERE SPORADIC IN WESTERN AND CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA, BUT AS THE THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX MOVED INTO INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE AIR IN THE EASTERN PART OF THE STATE JUST BEFORE NOON, WIND DAMAGE REPORTS BECAME MORE NUMEROUS AND WIDESPREAD. BY THE TIME THE DERECHO MOVED OFF THE COAST AROUND 130 PM, OVER 250 WIND DAMAGE REPORTS WERE RECEIVED BY THIS OFFICE FROM EMERGENCY MANAGERS, TRAINED SKYWARN SPOTTERS, AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC. MOST OF THESE REPORTS WERE LOCATED WITHIN A 50-MILE WIDE SWATH EXTENDING FROM BERKS COUNTY EASTWARD TO THE PHILADELPHIA METRO AREA, THEN FURTHER EAST TO THE OCEAN COUNTY SHORELINE IN NEW JERSEY. WIND GUST REPORTS BETWEEN 60 AND 70 MPH WERE COMMON, WITH SOME OF THE HIGHEST GUSTS AS FOLLOWS: 93 MPH AT BEACH HAVEN, NJ (OCEAN COUNTY), 92 MPH AT SURF CITY, NJ (OCEAN COUNTY), 83 MPH AT READING REGIONAL AIRPORT, PA (BERKS COUNTY), 76 MPH IN POTTSTOWN, PA (MONTGOMERY COUNTY), AND 76 MPH IN BRIELLE, NJ (MONMOUTH COUNTY). IN ADDITION TO DESTRUCTIVE WIND GUSTS, FREQUENT TO CONTINUOUS LIGHTNING AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS WERE ALSO EXPERIENCED THROUGHOUT THE AREA. TRAGICALLY, FOUR DEATHS WERE REPORTED IN THE NWS MOUNT HOLLY AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY FROM THIS DERECHO. THREE FATALITIES IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY WERE DUE DIRECTLY TO FALLING TREES, WITH THE FOURTH FATALITY IN DELAWARE COUNTY DUE TO A HOUSE FIRE CAUSED BY AN ELECTRICAL MALFUNCTION FROM A FALLEN TREE. THIS IS THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF FATALITIES FROM A DERECHO EVENT IN THE AREA SINCE 1950. BECAUSE THIS DERECHO MOVED OFF THE COAST BY 200 PM, THE WARM AFTERNOON SUN WAS ABLE TO SUFFICIENTLY DESTABILIZE THE ATMOSPHERE FOR THE FORMATION OF ANOTHER ROUND OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOME OF THE SAME AREAS WHICH EXPERIENCED THEM EARLIER IN THE DAY. REPORTED WIND GUSTS ASSOCIATED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS GENERALLY RANGED BETWEEN 45 AND 65 MPH, WITH A 68 MPH WIND GUST MEASURED AT THE PHILADELPHIA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. THE REMAINING THUNDERSTORMS THEN MOVED OFFSHORE BY 1000 PM, WHICH BROUGHT AN END TO THE DAY’S SEVERE WEATHER.
  8. Midea now makes a $400 U shaped window ac with an inverter. Its basically a scaled down minisplit for your window but doesn't have heat. You can still open the window with it in. Its 9 times quieter and uses like half the electricity of a regular window unit. In New England with some of the highest electricity rates in the US it will pay for itself pretty quick. Your standard window unit runs on and off at full speed. The inverter units can regulate their capacity to exactly the load in the room. At low speed it might only be using 100 watts compared to 800+ watts of a regular window unit.
  9. Thats right I think I read that here. I have been tempted to plant a Tulip Poplar. They can get insanely big. I don't think they grow north of the CT coastline. This one is around the corner from me and there are a few saplings in the ground nearby. It has to be 150+ years old.
  10. Jealous. I have the ac on right now.
  11. My solar production is on course to set a monthly record. Had almost 10 straight days of sun here. Some people have noticed that the reduction of pollution is showing a significant increase of solar production as well. May compared to April.
  12. I have been using a bottle of Dominion 2l that cost like 25$. Depending on the tree size its really cheap to treat them. The other Ash tree was like 2500$ to cut down so it seems worth it. I read last year they genetically modified american chestnuts against the blight. I thought I read they were going to have them available soon. I am going to have the ash stump removed and plant another tree. Will have to look into doing a chestnut if they are available.
  13. I had 2 100+ year old green ash trees that I have been treating with a soil drench of insecticide against EAB for the last 5 years. One didn't make it and the canopy completely died so I had it cut down last fall and the other one trimmed. I counted the rings on the stump and it was over 100 years old. The arborist from the tree company said he has seen some older ash show some resistance to EAB. Every single Ash has been completely killed around here from the Emerald Ash Borer. Nice to see this one still hanging in there. It's such a cool looking tree. It was also cool to see the shoot from the old stump come up this spring.
  14. Totally agree. Having your entire home, especially the kitchen a nice even temperature is worth every penny. You also get air filtration. You can also get mini splits in different forms like concealed ceiling cassettes pretty cheap. My realtor friends in CT said many people won't event go look at a house unless it has central air.
  15. Can't wait for some sun here. Already 65 out...
  16. Another band about to roll through CT. I'm right on the sound in Branford. 36 and a nice squall just rolled through and coated everything. Impressive for this time of year.
  17. Even had snow showers here in Branford right on the water this afternoon. Had ice on the deck this morning and it looks like my hydrangeas and some other stuff got wiped out. Plants have been really early here this year.
  18. Even had snow showers here in Branford right on the water. Had ice on the deck last night and it looks like my hydrangeas and some other stuff got wiped out. Stuff has been blooming here crazy early this year.
  19. Impressive for Central Park. The month of April 2020 at Central Park was the first April since 1940, 80 years ago, where the temperature did not reach or exceed 70°. The highest temperature was 68° on April 7, 2020. 70° was reached or exceeded 3 times in March, with the highest of 77° on March 20, 2020.
  20. PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 549 PM EDT WED APR 22 2020 ...GUSTNADO CONFIRMED OVER THE HARLEM RIVER ON APRIL 21ST... VIDEO EVIDENCE INDICATES A GUSTNADO OCCURRED OVER THE HARLEM RIVER AROUND 230PM IN THE AFTERNOON ON TUESDAY APRIL 21ST, 2020. THE GUSTNADO WAS FILMED MOVING OVER THE HARLEM RIVER, SOUTH OF THE BROADWAY BRIDGE THAT CONNECTS NORTHERN MANHATTAN AND THE BRONX, BEFORE DISSIPATING OVER THE BRONX SHORELINE NORTH OF FORDHAM ROAD. RADAR VELOCITY ESTIMATES AND A MESONET OBSERVATION OF 71 MPH FROM FORDHAM IN THE BRONX INDICATES ESTIMATED STRAIGHT LINE WIND SPEEDS OF 70-75 MPH. A GUSTNADO IS A SMALL WHIRLWIND WHICH FORMS AS AN EDDY IN THUNDERSTORM OUTFLOWS. THEY DO NOT CONNECT WITH ANY CLOUD-BASE ROTATION AND ARE NOT TORNADOES. SINCE THEIR ORIGIN IS ASSOCIATED WITH CUMULIFORM CLOUDS, GUSTNADOES ARE OFFICIALLY CLASSIFIED AS THUNDERSTORM WIND EVENTS BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LIKE DUST DEVILS, SOME STRONGER GUSTNADOES CAN CAUSE DAMAGE. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WAS INITIALLY ISSUED BY NWS NEW YORK FOR THIS AREA AT 212PM TUESDAY AFTERNOON AS A SEVERE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHED, WITH A SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT INDICATING THE POSSIBILITY OF A TORNADO ISSUED AT 227PM. STRENGTHENING STORM RELATIVE VELOCITY ROTATION WAS DETECTED BY FORECASTERS ON BOTH THE NEWARK LIBERTY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AND JOHN F KENNEDY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT TERMINAL DOPPLER RADARS, PROMPTING THE UPGRADED ISSUANCE OF A TORNADO WARNING AT 233PM. AT THIS POINT THOUGH, OBSERVATIONAL EVIDENCE IS INCONCLUSIVE OF A TORNADO TOUCHDOWN. IF ANYONE HAS VIDEO OR PICTURES OF THIS STORM FROM THIS AREA BETWEEN 220PM AND 240PM ON TUESDAY APRIL 21ST, PLEASE SEND TO [email protected] TO AID OUR FURTHER EVALUATION OF THIS EVENT. THANK YOU TO ALL OF OUR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT, SPOTTERS, AND MEDIA PARTNERS FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE DURING AND AFTER THE SEVERE WEATHER EVENT OF APRIL 21ST, 2020.
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