snowman21

Just now, The 4 Seasons said:

Were obv at the point where you just go chance pops. But at least BOX has the right idea with snow in the zones as the main ptype. It's not like i use it for anything i just had some spare time and figure id read the AFDs. BOX AFD 10/10, OKX AFD /10

Virtually everyone is saying rain/snow coast right now. OKX seems in line with that thinking at this time range. You're splitting hairs on a D6 forecast that they may have just kept the default grids without wasting any time tweaking something that's going to change a bunch of times anyway.

Just now, WxWatcher007 said:

Ryan just said that Greenwich had a gust to 76. Wow. 

I believe it. Stronger winds than Isaias for about 5 minutes.

S45G60 at Norwalk Harbor

2 hours ago, Heat Miser said:

There haven't been that many new additions to this community since the EasternWX days... is it possible some of us are aging out of winter?

I think so. They should just get it over with and move to Florida. CoC, outdoor dining, and t-shirts year round!

3 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

Yeah it’s more seasonable but I didn’t have the normals readily available to say one way or another.  And maybe I’m looking at it as we already had highs in the 20s which is skewing my sense of normal... but I would assume those lows shown there would result in any daily as being above normal.

Its closer to normal though for sure.

Looks like last year on this date the max/min was 28/23, lol.  I think recent cold November’s are skewing my view too.

Yeah last year at this time was cold. 30s for highs even in CT. Nice little 40 degree difference from a year ago. Normals at MVL are 43-46/26-28 during that period. The chart would yield 4 warm days, 3 cool ones with a +1 departure from the week beginning Thursday.

23 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

Never ending warmth in NNE, you are right

Those are still above normal temps for MVL even if you take it from Thursday onwards.

We'll never forget Derek Lowe's no-hitter against the Rays.

1 minute ago, PhineasC said:

In PA, this was the first election that mail-in ballots were opened to every single voter as an option. It is disingenuous to say that this has always been standard practice for a wide variety of voters. The number of people in these states who voted by mail has historically been a tiny fraction who were mostly military.

But the fact of the matter is you still have to go through the application process. The only thing that has changed this year is some states mailed applications to every registered voter and/or made Covid-19 a valid reason to request an absentee ballot in states that require an excuse (Connecticut is one such state). There's no issue with mail ballots or voter fraud in general. This has been studied to death. You will consume more parts per million of cockroach in your food today than there are fraudulent ballots being cast.

1 hour ago, PhineasC said:

There are enormously more of them now, and they are not the same thing as absentee ballots, which you need to request. Many people get this mixed up. 

You're talking about universal mail in ballots where they send every registered voter a ballot automatically. There are only a handful of states, mainly out west where population is sparse, that have the ability to conduct their elections entirely by mail ballot. Absentee ballots, which you must request, are mailed in as well. They are both mail ballots in that they need to be mailed back. 80% of states have a mail (absentee) ballot system that works the same way as Florida's which Trump promoted as a safe and secure way to vote as he did. The insecurity of mail ballots is a fiction ginned up for this election. The states that have been doing universal mail ballots have done so with no problem for decades, and the rest of the states have done it the absentee way since the Civil War.

2 minutes ago, Chrisrotary12 said:

Can you imagine being that guys lawyer......"uh sir. no you can't do "X" just because you want to."

Why would you even bother? Seems like his lawyers either don't get paid or end up in jail.

22 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

There is not two parties, there is one party,  the fundraising party. 

There is only one real party - the republican party. Then there's this other group of disorganized feckless politicians who call themselves democrats who literally don't know what day of the week it is much less formulate coherent political strategy.

34 minutes ago, WhitinsvilleWX said:

Still baffles me we sent a men to the moon with the equivalent of a wire wrapped 4 k Commodore computer over 50 years ago and we cant keep track of voters and tally an election in 2020. 

Because like pandemic response, we have 50 different governments, all doing their own thing. If we had one uniform system across the country, like every other country in the world, this wouldn't be such a mess every other November.

I must be in the only part of Connecticut still raining. Booooo.

52 minutes ago, The 4 Seasons said:

From May 9th to October 30th. Pretty short season it's been for some.

Was thinking about that yesterday when it became apparent this was a real possibility for a lot of people, even on the shoreline.

13 minutes ago, The 4 Seasons said:

Watches up by PM for all of CT. Warnings tomorrow. I can hear the salting trucks already prepping.

It's not real until Ryan throws up the first alert icon on his extended forecast.

15 hours ago, Brian5671 said:

only thing worse than last year is the twin duds of 01-02 and 11-12.    The Bar is set pretty low for this coming winter.

What about 2006-07 and 2007-08?

Are there places that are still closed? Everything in Connecticut seems like it has been open for months now. Where is it that people can't go? I know bars are the one thing that we're keeping closed until there's a vaccine, but those places started dying out when swipe right became a thing.

6 minutes ago, alex said:

We heat 

Nice cat

Climate sites about +2 for the month right now. After this weekend though will likely be normal or slightly below. Just being normal that late into September is a feat unto itself.

Down to 50 here. Doesn't look like we'll be able to sneak into the 40s this time around, but this weekend should take care of that.

October snow isn't exactly unheard of even in SNE. In the last 30 Octobers, PVD has seen snow 4 times, BDR 6 times, BDL 7 times, BOS 8 times, and ORH 10 times.

2 hours ago, CoastalWx said:

I just think people are straight up assholes in this country. Nobody gives a **** about anyone else, and we are completely selfish. 

It's a country founded on individualism. Selfishness is literally baked into the American DNA.

35 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

We want

 The state collects no personal or corporate income tax, and it has one of the nation's lowest sales tax rates 

it also takes in far more in federal dollars per capita than places like CT (which is dead last), MA, NY, and NJ. Pretty easy to have low/no taxes in some states when a big chunk of your budget is paid for by federal dollars. While good and efficient governance is important, it is also important to consider the full accounting as every state has to pay for stuff. In CT, on a per capita basis, we pay $4k more per year in federal taxes than we get back. The average person in CT pays about $3-4k per year in state income taxes, so imagine if we were able to keep some of our tax dollars home instead of sending them off to DC to be redistributed to places like Wyoming?

59 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

Ha it’s true... I also have these memories as a kid of apple picking in legit fall weather and I’m sure it’s selective memory but the past decade it seems like you have the A/C on in the car when you go to get cider donuts and apples .

No, it's true. Look at some northeastern cities' October mean temperatures by decade. October means are up an average of 3 degrees since the '80s. These things likely run in cycles though. For example, a similar pattern existed in the BDL data from the 1910s through 1930s.

     BDL                    BOS                   BTV                    CAR                   NYC                   ORH
-------------          -------------         -------------          -------------         -------------         -------------
2010s    54.5          2010s    56.6         2010s    51.4          2010s    45.7         2010s    59.2         2010s    51.8
2000s    52.3          2000s    54.3         2000s    48.5          2000s    43.8         2000s    57.0         2000s    50.4
1990s    52.5          1990s    54.7         1990s    48.5          1990s    43.1         1990s    57.7         1990s    50.1
1980s    51.2          1980s    53.6         1980s    47.5          1980s    42.8         1980s    57.0         1980s    49.5
1970s    52.1          1970s    54.2         1970s    47.4          1970s    42.7         1970s    56.9         1970s    49.4

5 minutes ago, moneypitmike said:

Since no one cares about the faux-drought, maybe this can get the CT folks something to talk about. 

 

https://www.boston25news.com/news/trending/police-search-alligator-loose-connecticut/SDX3RCHNVJATRNWSRNP2O6T4WY/?fbclid=IwAR3E21CXlEqx2rUW1lVPBgUqkPHscuH68Q6FU1FyW7n6B5elvsI6c7q9UCo

 

So in addition to the beefalo that's been on the loose for the last couple of weeks, now there is an alligator to worry about?

5 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

That’s a lot of shift for only one decade added on those dates...

Wait until next July when the 1991-2020 normals are released and the blow torch 2010s replace the '80s. Could see those dates move another 5 days later.