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Some spots in CT have 600 percent of normal monthly rain. Impressive.

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Ryans Twitter has tons of pictures. Some serious flooding going on in southern CT.

Was just looking at the goes 16 loop. Man are the clouds moving fast and you can see the jet stream nicely. Was looking at the flightradar24 plane tracking website and jets are showing a 200kts tailwind heading to Europe. Many are flying at 700+ mph.

Pretty wild here in the New Haven area. Seems like it just stalled over New Haven.

So many trees in CT are getting devastated from diseases and insects. This article mentions your area and the gypsies. http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-news-dead-tree-costs-20180827-story.html

If your in Taunton it looks like you are on municipal power which costs a fraction of what you would pay through eversource. I had municipal power when I lived in a town in CT and it was literally half of what I was paying when I bought my house and had eversource. Power in New England is crazy expensive. CT has the most expensive power in the lower 48. We pay almost the same as they do in Alaska. This chart form the eia is a real eye opener. This is a average and includes lower cost municipal providers. I have solar panels but last time i crunched numbers a few years back after all the fees, delivery charges, etc I was paying almost .30 kwh! https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.php?t=epmt_5_6_a

.LONG TERM /MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY/... */ Highlights... - Heat and humidity Tuesday and Wednesday ... headlines likely - Sweeping cold front Wednesday night into Thursday - Relief possible Friday / Saturday - Potential for heat and humidity to return early next week */ Overview... End of August heat and humidity. Pattern amplification aided by up- stream tropical activity, subsequent SW-NE heat pump via SW CONUS out ahead of preferred, deep H5 W CONUS trof. Atlantic ridge builds. Surface temperatures back up into the 90s along with dewpoints in the 70s. Oppressive environment. Pattern breaks as upstream energy digs N?E, a trailing, sweeping cold front late week with potential relief into the weekend. However uncertain, pattern possibly reloads the following week with return of heat and humidity. Confidence and forecast thinking within the discussion below.

Propane has way less btus then oil and outside the midwest its crazy expensive in New England. Another issue with propane is if you dont own the tank they can charge you whatever they want to fill it. VT use to do a monthly fuel report but stopped doing it in 2016. Still shows a good comparison on numbers though.

Here is a drone shot of my panels. Screw oil and propane. I use my panels to power my heat pump forced air furnace for ac and heat. It has oil backup for those really cold days. But with my woodstove I rarely use oil unless im away. I also heat my water with a heat pump water heater. My hot water heater uses 8 times less power than a conventional electric tank. Compressor uses 500 watts vs 4500 electric elements and it dehumidifies my basement. I got the heater for basically free a couple years ago through a utility incentive.

I own my panels and they are on the back roof of my house. Total cost to install them was 8k. I got 5k from the feds and 3k from CT. Already saved roughly 2k in no power bill since I installed them over a year ago.

Nobody else on here has solar panels? Especially with all the generous state incentives in New England. My Eversource bill is $9.21 every month. My central air has been set to 68 nonstop all summer.

Courtesy NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory #MRMS, evaluating rotation tracks from earlier today which will help us in defining our damage survey; @NWSBoston meteorologists on-route to conduct damage surveys

5g data high speed cell service is very soon going to crush the monopoly on wire based isp's. Instead of having 1 or 2 choices of internet delivered by wires to your house you will have tons of other options by cellular modem at faster speeds. Think of the savings alone of companies maintaining 1 cell site over hundreds of miles of wires.

This stuff at Home Depot works great for me. Just mix it in a sprayer. Takes out tons of other weeds as well and doesn't seem to hurt the actual grass.

Out on Block Island for the weekend. Enjoying the bermuda blues...

What a tradegy out in Branson MO. Duck boat sank when a storm quickly blew in. The video is hard to watch. https://www.ktts.com/news/local-news/breaking-ride-the-ducks-capsized-on-table-rock-lake-with-several-people-on-board

Just heard some thunder in the distance.Nice line heading into CT. Hopefully get some well needed rain from this.

We left a party from the Hartford area last night around 11:30-12. Car thermometer was around 77-80...

Are these official high temps? Interesting that KBDR hit 90 and currently has the highest temp in CT with 78 at 9:52. http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/ASOS/current.phtml?sortcol=max_tmpf&network=CT_ASOS&metar=no&sorder=desc&format=html

95 in Norwalk was closed earlier. 3 inches of rain in 1 hour was reported. Video link here of all the idiots trying to drive through it. https://www.wtnh.com/news/connecticut/fairfield/stormy-weather-closes-portion-of-interstate-95-southbound-in-norwalk/1271710919#

Picked a great week to go to my sisters vacation house in Narragansett. A nice 75 here.

Interesting article on evasive insects. For Vermont, in particular, the prospect of an alien invasion by the Asian longhorned beetle has horror-movie undertones. It is not because the larvae eat trees from the inside out, or that they feed on 13 species of hardwoods — all of which can be found in state’s hardwood forests. It is that their preferred species are maple: Norway, red and sugar. Invasive Asian longhorned beetles on a maple tree. Photo courtesy of USDA. The scenario this conjures — the possible cost to the state’s economy, the mega-million dollar maple industry, tourism, the very image of Vermont — imagine an autumn color palette minus all the reds — is incalculable and unimaginable, so most people prefer not to. “The potential impact on Vermont — the loss of maple. It would be … ” Meredith Whitney, the UVM extension service’s forest pest education coordinator, pauses to search for the right word. “Horrible.” https://vtdigger.org/2018/04/01/emerald-ash-borer-broadens-base-vermont-alien-insects-lurk/

The damage from the emerald ash borer in CT is alarming. I drive all over the state for my job and just about every ash tree is pretty much completely dead. I didnt realize that billions of them are going to be wiped our. They are now listed 1 step above being extinct as critically endangered. I also read they are now detected in Northern VT so all of northern new englands ash trees are pretty much doomed. I have been treating my ash trees with insectside to some sucess. I only have about a 20 percent canopy loss but all the other ash in my area are completely bare. North America the emerald ash borer is an invasive species, highly destructive to ash trees in its introduced range. The damage of this insect rivals that of Chestnut blight and Dutch Elm Disease.[17] To put its damage in perspective, the number of chestnuts killed by the Chestnut blight was around 3.5 billion chestnut trees while there are 3.5 billion ash trees in Ohio alone. Dutch Elm Disease killed only 200 million elm trees while EAB threatens 7.5 billion ash trees in the United States. The insect threatens the entire North American genus Fraxinus, while past invasive tree pests have only threatened a single species within a genus.