snowman21

Sell those triple digit temps. BDL has one day of 100+ this late in the season, and you have to go all the way back to the 101 on 9/2/53.

31 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

How do the Red Sox blow this tonight?  10-0 lead in the 4th inning so far against the Rays.  

Can Barnes go tonight?

98 at BDL on 8/13 or later would be a once a decade event. Pretty rare.

3 minutes ago, natedizel said:

Then lets open up the country. Its not a big deal if you vaccinated right. Due away with mask and all other BS.

What's not open?

Summer departures so far:

BOS +2.5

BDL +1.2

PVD +1.4

ORH +1.6

Do the trees have leathery leaves yet?

August 20th is about when it starts becoming harder to get to 90 and above, so the clock is ticking.

Let's pay the Yanks back for yesterday. They scored 4 in the 8th yesterday maybe we can do the same here.

3 hours ago, SnoSki14 said:

Our heatwave definitions need an update. Barely 90F for 3 days during peak summer climo is yawn worthy. 

Why? 90 isn't that common in this part of the country.

So dumb for them to delay the game tonight.

1 minute ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Temps regionwide have dropped all day. Watch them roar back this afternoon as sun comes out 

Probably. Look at ACY. 5 hours ago in the middle of the storm now mostly sunny and 80.

Sun has broken out here guess the storm is over.

Tropical Storm Watch up New Haven to Sagamore Beach. New NHC track appears to take it from about MTP to EWB to PYM.

2 hours ago, Supernovice said:

Am I late to the game on the NWS doing away with point and click forecasts? 

Now I get a forecast for "Central Middlesex County". Have I just not been paying attention, or is this new?

Looks like BOX is just doing ZFPs. OKX still has point and click. Guess it's on an office-by-office basis.

Most first world countries don't tie your health care to your job as one has nothing to do with the other. Might be something worth investigating.

5 hours ago, Typhoon Tip said:

As lengthening history eventually benefits from an indifferent lens ...

 ...this may go down as yet another shimmering example of how there is American Law, and then there is justice - and ne're the the twain shall meet for those victimized.  

 

On the flip side, the state should have to do everything perfectly by the book and letter of the law and procedure in order to take away someone's freedom.

36 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

What bout HFD and BAF  ...

heh.. I mean, the sensor could need a tuning - okay... But it's no one knows how 'badly' it is off, even if that can be proven.  It's likely decimals -

In fact, if it is 93 in Dorchester, I'd almost question that sensor more so given the total environment

But know what - who cares.  It's donkey ballz out there

They should have another temp/humidity sensor as a backup to cross check like they have with barometric pressure.

1 hour ago, powderfreak said:

Anyone paying attention to what Kyle Schwarber  is doing for the Nationals?  11 home runs in his past 9 games.  15 in his last 17 games.  Why would you even throw him anything near the zone right now.

Tatis Jr had 3 HRs by the 4th inning against the Diamondbacks the other day. Pitchers should just walk them and Ohtani at this point. Give 'em the Bonds with the bases loaded treatment.

7 hours ago, DavisStraight said:

There was one guy who had a 3800 spin rate, something ridiculous, his slider would start out on the outer part of the plate and almost hit the batter in the shin.

Kyle Crick of the Pirates. 3500 RPM on his slider. A few years ago the average spin rate was 2300 RPM and guys like Verlander in their prime would have elite spin rates of 2600-2700 RPM.

13 hours ago, Brian5671 said:

CT went to online for some things-I renewed my driver's license online-it's the prior picture that they took in their office 6 yrs ago, but everything else I did online-took 5 minutes-was glorious.

I haven't set foot in the DMV in over a decade now that most of the common stuff can be done online. Finally the system they've been promising for years is coming to fruition. Doing the license renewal online was great. Five minutes on the web site and $72 later, and you don't have to think about it again for six years. Your brand new license comes in the mail and surprisingly fast - mine took only five days even though they said allow a few weeks or something like that.

Low of 60 here. Guess I'll have to wait until September to see the 50s again.

1 hour ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

I still think the spike in pitching and decrease in hitting this season is not a direct result of pitchers suddenly and collectively using sticky stuff to increase spin rates. Before this season, offense/home runs was surging so pitchers had to find ways to negate the ‘juiced ball’. MLB made changes to the baseball in the offseason to help pitching so with record breaking no hitters to date, suddenly the sticky substance becomes a talking point...I’m not completely sold on it. The spin rate sample size is way to small for me to declare that this is the case.

Go look at Kyle Crick's slider. It's ridiculous trying to even hit a pitch with nearly 2 feet of horizontal movement - it doesn't even look real. He spins up to 3500 RPM which is crazy because I think high 2000s used to be the god benchmark that few could reach.

What do UFOs have to do with religion? Obama mentioned something like that too, and I don't get it.

1 hour ago, DavisStraight said:

We should come up with an AMXCoin, we'd all be rich.

It's easy. Look at the dude that created SCAM coin as a joke and suddenly found himself a multimillionaire.

Samsung Galaxy phone can record in 8K and capture 1 billion pixels of image data per second and costs $1000 and can fit in your pocket, but the military which blows $715 billion every year still only has cameras as good as your local gas station security system.