Hailstoned

Scientist tackles James Joyceian stream of consciousness. Fascinating!

When we moved into our current home, I vowed to go electric as much as possible: 1. Removed the basement furnace (A pellet one that took up a lot of room) and replaced with a mini-split system. 2. Installed solar, about 36 panels (we're fortunate to have good solar exposure here.) 3. Bought an excellent high capacity wood stove with a calalytic converter, that heats our spacious main room. You Know Who's beloved gypsy moths took out enough oaks here that am still processing the wood and waiting patiently for the rest to fall. 4. Bought an electric truck and installed my personal "gas" station in the barn to fuel it. Results: 1. The solar panels are paid off, and we sell enough energy back to the grid that from May to October, have no fuel or AC bills. (We use the mini-splits for de-humidifiers to cool our main room but only in extreme heat such as we're now experiencing.) 2. We're in a program with the state of Massachusetts where in turn for selling excess generation back to the grid, we're paid $120 a month 3. My "gas" free holiday extends from May to October where I charge at home for free. Downside: Just one, though pretty significant. Even with the wood stove we pay a lot over the low sun months for the mini-splits to heat the rest of the home, though the $120/month takes a nice dent out of that. Future plans: We live on an active year around stream and would like to put in some kind of small, hydro-electric system. Anyone have any info on how to go about that?

So far, they seem sparser than in previous Junes here; hopefully, just not out in force yet.

Wow-- even denser than usual! My thesaurus just spontaneously ignited.

That's unherd of.

Toilet training in the outside two-seater?

But not referring to stasis/stagnation which results in drought conditions, but rather to frequent changes of air mass (frontal passages).

We're not getting the refreshing cold frontal passages, as used to be summer breaks from heat/humidity for a few days. And with fewer of these frontal refreshers seems also fewer thunderstorms/severe weather episodes punctuating their passage.

Formed right over my head in Monson-- nice brief downpour.

I don't think he got it...

8.5"-- Monson, MA

Just as I read this, perhaps the strongest gust of the storm swirled through here in Monson.

Seems a closer to home expedition into the legendary sewers of NYC could result in sightings, or worse, of similar sorts of exotic creatures.

On scales of one to ten, this certainly ranks up there. Maybe book a flight. Then it could be snakes on a plane.

It does seem in general that organized, coherent coastal lows as opposed to strung out disorganized synoptic situations, such as the present, have been lacking in recent years. (Due to the preponderance of fast flows Typhoon Tip often references?) We got away with a biggie this past weekend because it was less a storm and more a situation of exceptional overrunning.