snowman21

6 hours ago, Whineminster said:

Climate Change isn't our problem, it's the next generations. Let them figure it out. We had to figure out all the mistakes from our forefathers.....dumping chemicals and heavy metals in waterways, smog, CFCs, colonialism, the terrible treatment of Indians that we're still trying to correct.   

At some point the free market will dictate that alternative energy will take over. 

What free market?

Are they ever going to fix the thermometer at Logan or are we stuck with it this way forever?

2 hours ago, West Mtn NY said:

Don't bring up factual history. Greta psychosis needs to rule the day. 

You can make your point without taking cheap shots at a kid.

Wow I didn't even think the scale went higher than that 36.0-48.0 color. I guess I know where I'm retiring to. I always figured it was gonna be on some mountaintop out west just for this reason.

29 minutes ago, KoalaBeer said:

WTF is Columbia gas doing!? Another gas leak in the exact same area of Lawrence on the new lines they put in...been news choppers flying around all morning here in North Andover.

https://www.wcvb.com/article/major-gas-leak-prompts-evacuations-in-lawrence/29260322

Maybe Mass. isn't such a great state to live in after all. They may have legal weed, but they also have an exploding house problem.

54 minutes ago, BrianW said:

Great article on the vaping issues. A friend who owns a dispensary in CO said this spot on. So now that MA stopped selling tested thc vape cartridges people will be buying black market from China’s Labs to Your Lungs. 

https://www.leafly.com/news/politics/vape-pen-injury-supply-chain-investigation-leafly

 

Why not just wait a few months until everything is cleared up?

29 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

Major props goes out to the NWS (well anyone who forecasts) forecasters out west (like CO, WY, MT, ID) when it comes to forecasting snow totals...like HTF do they do it? Especially with regards to the sharp elevation changes and just knowing terrain and its influences. 

It can't be easy to derive a map like this. It would be awesome to learn how to forecast snowfall across these places. 

Mostly automated the same way point and click is. NWS can obviously tweak specific grid points, but a computer does most of the work.

4 hours ago, powderfreak said:

When did protecting the environment become so political?  This is basic kindergarten level stuff.  Help preserve what we have so further generations can enjoy it as well.  Even if the world doesn’t end in 10 years, what’s the harm in doing a bit more to preserve or protect it?   

I feel like you walk into a Pre-School and there’s a list of like 4 things on the wall they want you to learn or do:  Share with others, be nice to your neighbors, help people who are less fortunate than you, do your part to protect the natural world.

This isn’t radical stuff.  If a child can grasp how to share, take care of others, not be selfish, etc, the adults should be able to too.

Never understood why there are people who do not see the value in this. We're literally shitting where we eat by continuing to ruin the planet.

42 minutes ago, Brian5671 said:

That's what keeps NJ and NY folks moving to Fairfield Cty.  Cheaper taxes.    Westchester NY and parts of NJ are just ridiculous

Yep. Lower taxes, very safe well maintained and clean communities, some of the best public schools around, full services, and a relatively quick 40-60 minute train ride into Grand Central. Also a good job market if you don't feel like commuting.

22 minutes ago, Dr. Dews said:

It's pretty high. But like most places you are playing with property taxes (town/city) vs income tax vs etc. Close to NYC in an upper burb, they are very high all around.

Property tax here is about $11 per $1000 of value and I'm right on the CT-NY state line about 12 miles from NYC as the crow flies. This NYC 'burb may have the lowest property tax in the state. Not as cheap as some Mass. towns like out on the Cape or Nantucket, but lower than most places in Mass., and way cheaper than the other side of the border in Westchester County.

Just now, Minenfeld! said:

I can't find a by-town breakdown of HDI in CT sadly.

CT as a whole is near the top in not just the U.S., but the whole world. People that complain about it don't realize how good they have it.

13 hours ago, wxmanmitch said:

What's happened to this forum? I remember it having a cold, snow bias pretty much all the time. I guess I'm still one of the hardcore old school cold and snow lovers on here. I'd slam the button for a -12 anomaly every month of the year without hesitation and for >200" snow each winter.
 

The main participants are getting older and will eventually retire to Florida for the CoC weather so they can enjoy sunshine and 70s/80s beach weather year round. I'm with you though and have no use for temperatures above 50, and would take 12 Januarys a year if it were possible.

 Mugs and jugs, margs and oyster shucking on the beach this weekend. 

Hoping to crack 50 tonight. OKX has 51 here on the pnc, but they've been takin' em up all week it seems.

10 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

Montpelier ASOS down to a dew of 30F.  

Dry air mass and not a cloud in the sky...

Radiators mount up tonight. 

Depends on the winds. Still a pretty good breeze blowing out there, so we're already wasting prime time which is usually from just before sunset to about 9 when you expect the quickest drop off.

1 hour ago, Brian5671 said:

Sonic in in CT now-Milford and Wallingford, Chickfilet is also here, Norwalk and Wallingford...it's coming.

Yeah those are the only ones in the state, but it always infuriated me that when watching college football all the commercials were for Sonic and Chik-Fil-A, and we couldn't partake in it because the nearest ones were always in Elkins WV or some place like that.

3 minutes ago, tamarack said:

Works just fine for Chick-Fil-A.  
And "Christmas Creep" (term is not my invention) continues to progress.  Not that many years ago the Christmas displays went up for Black Friday.  Then it was post-Halloween, which has been called the 2nd biggest holiday for consumer spending.  Now it's leapfrogged past that day?   Maybe by September 2030 we'll be seeing displays for Christmas 2031. 

Christmas creep has actually reversed. It's not as early as it was 10-15 years ago. I always wondered if the big financial crisis of '08 played a role in that.

Chik-Fil-A is quite popular across the south and Midwest. They have all kinds of chains that are nearly non-existent elsewhere from Cracker Barrel to Waffle House and Sonic to name a few. I wonder why these sorts of restaurants aren't around in the big population centers of the east coast? Just like it felt like we were last to finally get Walmart, maybe it just takes a little more time and we'll eventually have these other restaurants too.

BDL has reached 90 from Sep 22 and later 16 times in its history, while BOS has done it 16 times also (6 of those occurrences were before BDL's existence).

Since 1980, 6 times at BDL and once at BOS.

The back to back 90s (bolded for dates where both stations did it simultaneously):

BDL 9/22-23/1914

BDL 9/22-23/1970

BDL 9/25-26/2007

BDL 9/24-25/2017

BOS 9/22-23/1895

BOS 9/22-23/1914

BOS 9/22-23/1970

Single dates where both reached 90 (excluding the above):

9/22/1931

10/7/1963

9/22/1980

9/26/2007

7 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

Dumb question.   But is there a statistical reason for the 30 year rolling averages?

 

Couple of reasons. There's a WMO standard which began with the 1901-30 normals, so it's been convention for over a century. Also the general statistics rule that you need at least 30 data points to accurately estimate the mean. NCDC does calculate supplemental normals based on other time periods, but the official ones are done over 30 year periods worldwide. Edit: to add to this a quick google search pops up this page from NCDC which basically says the same thing: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/news/defining-climate-normals-new-ways

17 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

A lot of the rural areas like CON and BDL are getting more and more developments. You can argue the CC side of it, but development is part of it.

I don't think it's more and more developments, at least at first glance. For example, Falls Village which is in the far NW corner of CT by the NY/MA line where it's about as middle of nowhere as you can get in CT, used to have an average first frost of 9/16, and now a decade later it's up to 9/23. I don't think there's too much developing going on in a place with a population just over 1,000 people. Some of it is likely methodology in calculating the average, so it's important to note that the way normals are calculated does change over time, but that likely does not explain all of the moves. We've also seen reduction in snow cover days at some of these middle of nowhere in the woods stations as well like Norfolk at 1400 ft elevation. The Falls Village average last frost moved up from 5/30 to 5/24, so the growing season there has increased by two weeks in the last ten years (officially 50% probability of frost free period was 108 days and now it's 120).

15 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

I’m actually a bit surprised by that. I figured October first-ish for that area.  

In falls of yore even BDL averaged a first frost in September. They've gone from 9/30 in the 1961-90 normals to 10/4 in the 1981-2010 normals, and you can probably add a few more days on to that for the 1990-2020 normals coming in a little under two years.

1 hour ago, Hoth said:

That map really rubs it in lol. In all seriousness, it was the bane of my childhood growing up in the New Haven area. It seemed like every storm jacked Litchfield to Albany and east to Bradley, while we rotted under snizzle on the coastal plain. There's much I miss about living in the Boston area, but being on the receiving end of more Miller Bs tops the list for sure. Just so much easier to sneak a big event out that way. 

I'd rather HVN than GON.

Wow strongest storm is an 826 mb 245 mph behemoth named Mu. Presumably with 53 storms we'll make a couple of passes through the list of names, though looks like they stole some Pacific names since the Atlantic list stops with W.

55 here in SW CT