BrianW

It might be the best lunch of my life.

A beautiful 62 out on Pt Judith as I enjoy my lobster roll from Iggys on my lunch break.

It's been a pretty epic stretch of weather though on the shoreline. Both GON and HVN are +3 for May. It's also been sunny here every pretty much day when I look at my solar production.

Been working on my sister house on Pt Judith. I forget how terrible it is here in the spring. Just lows 60s all week. High of only 64 here today. About to head north for some dinner and 80's.

BDL 78

I trust his forecast more than any computer model... The local land trust is basically a bunch of 80+ year old Yale Professors of archeology, forestry, history, etc. They have radiocarbon dated some of the locations he talks about to 12,500 years.

I volunteer with my local land trust and a Native American elder just told me to get ready for the hottest and driest summer on record...

Lot of blooms here already.

Today turned out to be a spectacular day for those on the coast. Wasn't a cloud in the sky all day here. You could see the clouds forming just inland.

61 and Its been full sun here all day. Absolutely gorgeous day to be working outside.

https://www.weather.gov/mfl/PalmBeachGardensTornado

What a great time here...

Head down. We had a pretty amazing stretch of weather here the last few days but it looks a bit stormy this week. Its the best time of the year to get out of New England... took the new Avelo flight out of HVN. Was only a 2:38 flight coming down. The sun angle warning is legit. Like 75% of our group got roasted with sunburn and are out for the count today...

Its been full sun here most of the day and it looks pretty active just west of here. We had a deluge earlier and then full sun and the dews were spectacular.

Pretty epic day for severe here... The atmosphere is primed for thunderstorm development today as a stationary front sits in south-central Florida and additional parameters point to the increased potential. This morning`s 12Z sounding highlighted PWATs of 1.57in which is near the 90th percentile for this time of year. In addition, low-level winds will begin to veer more westerly/southwesterly as a previously formed mesoscale convective system breaks up into multiple positive vorticity pulses that advect over the Florida Peninsula.

I didn't realize grubex is using a new chemical that appears to be relatively safe and effective. Chlorantraniliprole (AceleprynTM for commercial applicators, GrubExTM for homeowners) is a non-neonicotinoid insecticide that is extremely effective against all white grub species (as well as caterpillars) and has no activity against bees, ants, or wasps. The product also has a very low level of vertebrate toxicity, so much so that a signal word is not required on the label, not even ‘Caution’. An important aspect of using chlorantraniliprole is to account for the fact that it takes 60 to 90 days to fully dissipate in the soil for optimum effectiveness against grubs. Therefore, the preventive window is earlier than for the neonicotinoids, usually mid-April to early June in most years.

What a special day on tap for South Fl. Scattered/Numerous Thunderstorms Across South Florida Today... ...Severe Weather and Flooding Rainfall May Accompany Storms... Quasi-zonal upper level flow presides over much of the lower latitudes of CONUS. The exception here is a vigorous H500 short-wave trough and attendant mesoscale-convective system that is propagating eastward across the Gulf of Mexico. As this feature approaches South Florida, RAP/GFS guidance suggest that this wave will decouple into separate impulses, one of which will allow of differential cyclonic vorticity advection to encompass South Florida.This will be commensurate with divergent flow aloft, low-level convergence, and a general veering of winds within the troposphere favoring warm air advection from SFC-700 hPa. Sufficient instability on the order of 1500-2500 J/kg should allow for thunderstorms to develop as the aforementioned wave phases with peak heating this afternoon, though convective debris may limit surface heating and resultant thunderstorm coverage in some locations. Furthermore, effective bulk shear on the order of 30-40 kt and steepened mid-level lapse rates around 7/7.5 C/km may allow for a few severe thunderstorms to develop this afternoon - mainly over eastern portions of South Florida. Hail up to quarters in size and a brief tornado or two cannot be ruled out within the most robust thunderstorms that develop through the evening hours today.

Saw a bunch of sea turtles come up on the beach here in FL last night and lay eggs. Was an amazing thing to see.

Yes. Closer to $8500. Its a 5.4 kw system so not huge. When I installed 8 years ago CT had an 80 cent watt upfront incentive. So I got like almost 4k from the state of CT's energy efficiency program. I also got a 30% federal tax credit. Was literally the best investment I ever made. My panels will produce like $2500+ in free electricity this year.

Yeah. I would never live here. I just come for the heat and dews. I literally come to my wife's family beach condo and never leave. I avoid as much of FL as possible. This weekend has been absolutely stunning here. Its been like full sun in the upper 80s and just some great dews. There's been a line of stationary storms firing off the coast for the past few days as well. The lighting has been awesome at night.

I used a low interest home equity loan from my credit union to finance my panels. My monthly loan payment was $160 a month which was less than or equal to my average monthly electric bill. Instead of paying Eversource I paid off the loan. My panels took 5 years to be paid off and reach my return on investment. My electric bill is just the $9.62 service charge every month. My house is 100% electric including my heat pumps for heat.

It's a special place. Look at these 10 pm temps....

Just South of there. Highland Beach.