snowman21

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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. 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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Seems redundant to me if there's no flooding/surge component to the warning. It's like a blizzard warning without the visibility requirement. Why have a separate warning just because the high winds are from a tropical system versus a nor'easter? The public doesn't care, and the result is the same, other than when you say tropical storm it makes for a bigger headline.

What's the difference between Tropical Storm Warning and High Wind Warning?

Sun is coming out here in far SW CT. What a gradient this thing is gonna have.

Why? TAN is generally a good spot to be in these types of storms. Did you think Cape Cod, MA, USA, North America, Earth was gonna have its own private storm?

I think the biggest problem is getting it to accumulate. Hours and hours of snow and wet roads and frosted tips of grass are all we have to show for it. Upton says take 'em down, only has 1-3 here now with any meaningful snow moving out by late morning/midday.

Interesting seeing the school buses driving around in what is like a snow globe with big flakes falling at a moderate clip. Poor kids are probably the only ones in the state having to go.

Light rain here to start off nor'easter #3.