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Looks like it was only in the air for 5 mins. Took off and then circled right back and crashed. RIP to the crew if they didn't make it. I think these are usually resotored and flown mostly by volunteers. https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N93012/history/20191002/1348Z/KBDL/KBDL

I also think all the manmade stuff that allows standing water has a huge impact. Think of all the flat commerical roofs with water on them, highway drainage ditches, all the stuff around homes, etc. I was at a friends house recently and there were mosquitos everywhere along with dozens of buckets, cups etc full of swimming larvae. This person's yard was a breeding ground for probably thousands of mosquitoes.

Looks like SE CT is the hotspot. Anyone have any thoughts why?

I have lived in many places including many years on the champlain islands in VT. I have been on the shoreline in Branford the last 6 years and love it. From an energy perspective the amount you save on heating and cooling is insane. I am heating and cooling my entire house with 1 or 2 solar powered 12k btu mini splits while those in NNE are sucking down heating oil with 100k+ btu oil furnaces.

Great article on the vaping issues. A friend who owns a dispensary in CO said this spot on. So now that MA stopped selling tested thc vape cartridges people will be buying black market from China’s Labs to Your Lungs. https://www.leafly.com/news/politics/vape-pen-injury-supply-chain-investigation-leafly

This also bans all recreational marijuana vape cartridges. People will now turn to the black market cartridges that are the root of the problem. If you dig deeper into who is getting sick its like 100 percent from black market weed cartridges that have unknown substances in them. Nobody is getting sick from juuls and legal rec thc cartridges that are tested by labs.

The business that chik fil a does in CT is insane. They are always packed. I heard from a friend that the new 2 floor one in Norwalk brings in 6 figures every week in sales. They absolutely destroy every other fast food place in service and I heard they pay employees way more money than other places. When Wallingford opened years ago they had cops directing traffic for months after they opened.

One of the reasons I am done with fossil fuels especially gas/propane. Soo many explosions seem to be happening these days. I converted my whole house to eveything electric and have solar panels so my electricity is free. Just installed another cold weather heat pump and plan on using no fossil fuels this winter for heating. I will be using thermodynamics pumping heat from outdoors into my house at 470% efficiency burning zero fossil fuels.

There was an aerial plane survey done after the 38 hurricane. Pages 12-14 have some of the RI coastline. That area got hit hard. http://cslib.cdmhost.com/digital/collection/p4005coll10/search/searchterm/Aerial survey!index sheet!1938/field/title!title!title/mode/exact!none!exact/conn/and!and!and/order/title/ad/asc

Some potential tonight for a possible viewing.

Its downright scary how many people I know that have gotten lyme in the last few years. The numbers are certainly rising rapidly.

There is no stopping it from what I have read. Billions of native ash will be wiped out. Only hope is to create new ash strains resistant to eab and introduce those into the wild. I believe they did something similar with elm trees where they created a Dutch elm disease resistant tree.

Is Emerald Ash Borer up there yet? I would start treating it if you intend to keep it. I have been keeping mine alive by soil drench with insecticide. Cost like 5 bucks to treat it yourself with the same stuff the pros use thats available online. The ash are pretty close to wiped out here in CT. Here was an ash stand I drove by today. There are whole tracts all over the state that look like this. It looks terrible.

Thanks. I dont think the dew lovers here have any idea... how terrible it is to work in that..

Can you please post a dew above chart for NOLA... I work outside in the telecom/cell phone industry and NOLA is where I am headed Sun night.

I would love to see all the dew lovers spend a week with this... I am getting sent out to this for work.. and its outside... But its New Orleans...

Thermodynamics... I am going all in on air source heat pumps for both heating and cooling. Combined with solar panels I am going to attempt to not burn any fossil fuels this winter... Under the principles of vapor compression refrigeration, an ASHP uses a refrigerant system involving a compressor and a condenser to absorb heat at one place and release it at another. Air at any temperature above absolute zero contains some energy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_source_heat_pumps

This has been an epic summer for solar production. My panels have been running close to peak efficiency almost every day this month so far. CT has good incentives but those in MA with good sun exposure should install them. MA is currently the #1 state with the best solar incentives and payback period.

Was just going to post that as well. Wonder if any planes went into it while landing. There have been many terrible large casualty accidents with planes landing and encountering microburst's. Though I think now they must have some sophisticated technology to avoid it. Like onboard radar or something.

Yep. Another perfect day here in Narragansett.

Mini split or central air?

Europe never understood America’s love of air conditioning — until now BERLIN — A second-sizzling heat wave that’s sweeping Europe this summer is fueling a shift in attitude across the continent to the once foreign concept of air conditioning. Until now, fewer than five percent of all European households have air-conditioning, compared with 90 percent in the United States. But Europe’s air-conditioner stock is estimated to roughly double within the next two decades, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA), as record heat becomes more frequent. https://www.google.com/amp/s/beta.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/06/28/europes-record-heatwave-is-changing-stubborn-minds-about-value-air-conditioning/%3foutputType=amp Wow. Never realized the less than 5 percent have AC in Europe.

Heading out to my families beach house in Narragansett and then off to Block Island for the weekend. Looks like an epic weekend weather wise!

3.21 here. Ton of 3+ reports along the CT shoreline.

2.46 here and over 1k lightning strikes.