snowman21

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.

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

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?

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

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?

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.

They are later. Here are the Connecticut average first frost dates based on the 1971-2000 and 1981-2010 normals to give you an idea of how much they've moved. ID Station 1971-2000 1981-2010 Change(days) ------ ------------------------ --------- --------- ------------ BDR BRIDGEPORT SIKORSKY AP 10/18 10/21 3 BRLC3 BURLINGTON 9/28 10/03 5 DANC3 DANBURY 9/26 10/04 8 FVLC3 FALLS VILLAGE 9/16 9/23 7 GTNC3 GROTON 10/08 10/17 9 BDL HARTFORD 9/30 10/04 4 MHLC3 MANSFIELD HOLLOW LAKE 9/20 9/24 4 NFKC3 NORFOLK 2 SW 9/22 9/29 7 NRWC3 NORWICH PUB UTIL PLT 9/29 10/04 5 NWPC3 SHEPAUG DAM 9/28 9/26 -2 STFC3 STAMFORD 5 N 10/01 10/06 5 STRC3 STORRS 10/02 10/06 4 WTPC3 WEST THOMPSON LAKE 9/19 9/26 7

it's crazy how warm September has been the last couple of decades. You can see it in longer growing seasons and peak foliage being pushed later and later into the fall.

That's nothing. Pete's trees are already bare. You're just now hitting the leathery stage that he reaches in late July.

Pikes Peak is 14kft and has a road to the top. I-70 climbs up over 11kft through mountains. Hawaii has one that goes up 13kft. Just googling around seems like there are tons of roads that go up or through mountains in the U.S., some much higher in elevation.

This board talk about Mt. Washington like it's Everest. It's 6,000 feet. That's barely a hill out west. Practically the elevation of Denver.

Mean temp this month is 73.1 so far which looks like it would beat out 1906's 72.9 for the top spot if it holds.

Yeah I would never go on it unless I was desperate to bypass 95 and the post rd. If there's even the slightest bit of inclement weather trees come crashing down. The interesting part of that is when it was built there weren't all those trees around. I've seen pictures of what it looked like when it first opened and it didn't look like a highway jammed through a forest as it does today.

That's called Thursday on the parkway. That highway is a death trap from falling trees, curves and hills, 100 ft exit ramps, and on ramps with stop signs at the end.

The models use AMDAR data already, so I don't now how much more useful data you'd get from a dedicated balloon launching site at BDL.

There's also the old Taunton co-op (TAUM3) that pre-dated the ASOS (TAN). Not sure how far back that one goes it looks like it stopped reporting when the ASOS went live, so maybe the airfield had a co-op before automation took over.

An ASOS costs more than most people's house, so it's a pretty solid system when properly maintained. I guess people have a beef with the siting of meteorological instruments in places that measure the free atmosphere, and other than airports or a farm where else can you do that?

Here is the same table in a standardized scale. Standard deviations taken from NCDC's 1981-2010 climate normals. Bottom grid (z-scores) is just the top grid divided by the middle grid.

Here are the departure splits between the highs and lows. This summer's departures were not driven by warm nights. In 9 of the 12 station-months, the high temperature departure was greater than the low temperature departure, and the number of days where the high was warmer relative to average compared to the low was also greater.

Without A/C units, how do you plan on surviving Torchtember?

That's the gift that keeps on giving the whole year.

Wow that forecast really going out on a limb there. 75% of falls going back 20 years are above normal.

Hard to cool off at night anymore.

Might have. At the SNE climate sites there were upper-90s in September in 2018, also in 2015, and 2013.

Nice early fall feel out there today. Cool this morning, and now sunny with temps slowly climbing through the 70s at midday.