snowman21

Some of you guys should be photographers. My pics never come out that nice.

Did anyone find the meteor? Wonder if it landed in someone's yard.

Glad we don't live there.

Don't the towns just come by and suck the leaves up? A lot of towns in Connecticut have curbside leaf pickup. You just pile them up along the side of the road and a truck with a big hose comes along and sucks them up and takes them to where ever they take them to be disposed.

7 minutes ago, STILL N OF PIKE said:

Sale is back to being a non contributing player . As we enter playoffs . Sox r Done

I'd try to unload him in the off-season. He's 32 (a few years past prime for a pitcher), thrown all of 43 innings in the past two years, and despite being 18 months removed from TJ still looks nothing like the pitcher he was before. Going forward he'll be Pedro post-rotator cuff - some flashes of the pitcher he used to be, generally serviceable, but never in that top shelf elite category. Unfortunately the deal the Sox signed is Bonilla-esque.

15 minutes ago, MJO812 said:

I'm going apple picking Monday 

Hopefully it is dry

If you want apples just go to the grocery store they have tons of apples there. Weather problem solved.

8 minutes ago, A Moonlit Sky said:

National day of mourning declared for Cole's career post-Spider Tack.

Hey we have a Garrett who can't pitch without the spider tack too, but fortunately the Sox aren't paying theirs $325 million over the next decade.

I did the HFD to DXR drive down 84 on Sunday afternoon and there was zero color in that corridor.

Rays were 11-8 against the Sox, but hopefully we can get a couple of starts of yore out of Sale in the ALDS, and the bullpen which melted down so many times against Tampa Bay this year should be better.

14 minutes ago, PhineasC said:

A least someone in New England does. Seems many up here should just move south and get it over with.

You don't even need to go to FL. At my place in MD it will be 50-60 degrees and sunny most of December and then again by mid-February onwards most years.

It's an older crowd in here, probably a lot of folks in their 50s/60s. Eat dinner at 4:45. In bed by 8. And like it sunny and 70 (a.k.a. CoC weather). The cold makes their joints ache, and snow is just a pain in the ass for them now. Classic snowbirds.

The quickest drop this time of year usually happens between 6 and 9 PM with clear skies and calm winds. It'll slow down after that.

1 hour ago, tamarack said:

Yesterday's 34 will be September's coldest, for our 2nd fall with 1st frost in October.  7 miles NNW in West Farmington close to the Sandy River, my wife had to scrape ice off the windshield.  (She was staying overnight with a 93 y.o lady with health issues.)

Color here is in the 30-50% range but leaf drop is way ahead of average as related to color.

if you hit 34 wouldn't that be considered your first frost?

29 minutes ago, Supernovice said:

At the risk of beating a dead horse....this is the 1st year that unsubsidized flood insurance takes effect.  Increases are limited to like I dunno $1,300 a year or something....but in 30 yrs there are going to be places that become unaffordable to many (assuming no further legislation).... So at least before it becomes uninhabitable my bet is that coastal areas gentrify at an exceptional rate. There is a certain segment of the population that has no problem paying $30k cash a yr for flood insurance... while the less fortunate get pushed inland.

What does this mean for places like Florida and Louisiana which have lots of people living in low lying areas? The Florida coast is densely populated, so do millions of people suddenly see their flood insurance premiums spike?

I'm not an expert on hydrology, but Oct 1st may start the year because that's when you start getting storms again that will increase water in rivers and snow in mountains which means September is the lowest point in that cycle since you've just gone through the summer and any snow from last winter/spring has melted and run off by that point.

15 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

WTF is a water year anyways? 

It's a USGS hydrology thing that CoCoRAHS keeps track of as well.

28 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

Man you guys all hate being able to open your windows, have it quiet and see outside don’t you? .

I think this sub skews towards an older demographic, so it's not surprising how many prefer hot over cold.

57 minutes ago, BrianW said:

It was 76/72 most of the night here but bottomed out at 75 for an hour. Normal low is 55 at HVN so a +20 departure.

It's been full sun all morning and its up to 80/73 now.

As warm as it has seemed, we're still only looking at departures of a degree or two above for the month. Also only one day of double digit departures. The month has been a very even keeled steady step down for a transition month that can have highs in the 90s followed by a morning in the 30s just a couple of weeks later. Probably thanks to lots of humidity which helps keep the range of highs and lows compressed.

Heavy rain here under that little cell along the CT-NY border.

15 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Actually I looked at OKX. It’s up there,  it probably under 90th percentile. 

At noon for the 18th of September at BDL the 1981-2010 normal dew point is 53.6. 90th percentile is 66.0 and 10th percentile is 41.0. At BDR it's 55.4/68.0/42.1 respectively. For BOS it's 54.3/66.0/41.0. ORH is 51.8/64.0/37.9.

Dews in the mid-60s this time of year is 90th percentile level humidity. Average at BDL for noon on 9/18 is 54.

Wonder how many sites in NNE have had their first frost. Of the 107 sites with published frost/freeze probabilities, 33 of them have passed their average first frost date based on the 1981-2010 normals.

1 hour ago, Ginx snewx said:

No they included data from the great 2020 migration with occurred after the census.

That's not what they did. They used estimates like it says "according to annual Census Bureau estimates that are not related to the official 2020 census counts. The annual estimates are based on births, deaths, construction permits and other records" and "according to new Census Bureau estimates, which do not reflect the 2020 census counts. The agency will release the final 2020 census tally in March." The article also has some incorrect information like claiming Rhode Island and Connecticut continue "longer-term [population] losses" when neither state has lost population in any census going back at least a century (https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/dec/popchange-data-text.html), so who knows what they mean by longer-term (2 years? 5? 10? 25?) or "losses". Anyway there's no point in using an article when you can go straight to the source and look at the data yourself. Furthermore it's kind of dumb to look at year over year change in a population estimate to infer some kind of trend. It would be like climate scientists using a single year of estimated temperature data to show how quickly the climate is warming.

51 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

Must be the showers

https://www.pewtrusts.org/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2021/01/21/census-estimates-show-population-decline-in-16-states

California, Massachusetts and Ohio had been growing throughout the past decade until last year.

Only one blue state lost population (Illinois at -0.1%) based on last year's census. The other two that lost population were Mississippi (-0.2%) and West Virginia (-3.2%). This is the raw data directly from the Census Bureau: https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial/2020/data/apportionment/apportionment-2020-tableE.xlsx. Your source is likely using intradecadal estimates and not decennial census numbers.

10 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

Chris is right  plumbing unions bought that law. Lol like anyone who owns a home. follows the States rules. Can't use soap in an outside shower, what are they doing flying drones overhead as my grandkids wash the chlorine out of their hair. Some states man. No wonder so many people are fleeing south.

Massachusetts is gaining population state outdoor shower laws be damned, so apparently people aren't fleeing.

27 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

Even the penguins hate winter...that's why they're dying. they offing themselves 

Most penguins live in warm climates, including near the equator.