Hailstoned

23 hours ago, Ginx snewx said:

I have a Bob Copeland post from old Ne.weather. He and Mark were on it

So was Walt Drag who was all over it. (He then worked for Accu Wx). The set-up was so prominent that even the relatively primitive models of the day we’re all lit up with anticipation. Walt always gave me early alerts of impending anything and at least by the Friday before he was telling me of prospects for something historic. And Copeland is right on with his measurements of 34” in Needham— I measured same next door in Wellesley.

Upper tier lightning from storm passing well north of Palmer, MA, this evening.

5 minutes ago, radarman said:

Did not know that about the worst winds... Wonder if maybe it could be partially related to the density of reliable observations? The tree damage was absolutely catastrophic here east of the river.

I wonder if the depiction of worst winds well to the east of the 38 center passage are based on the absurd, terrain enhanced gust to 186 on top of Blue Hill. From copious historical evidence and reports, 38's most extreme winds (and coastal storm surges) were in a swath from about the CT River to the ORH area and northward into central New Hampshire where entire pine forests were flattened. Not to say it didn't blow hard in eastern MA, but accounts, including personal ones from my relatives, do not paint nearly as an extreme picture as those in the aforementioned areas.

1 hour ago, Ginx snewx said:

1815 says wtf are you talking about.  Been since 1985 since Ct had a hurricane 

With 1938 conspicuously absent, don't quite catch your drift here. In August, maybe September, tropical systems affecting us may meander relatively harmlessly like Henri, but in a warming world with increased baroclinic instability as the fall season progresses, it's reasonable to surmise that an accelerating major hurricane affecting us is becoming more likely  than but once every century or so.

9 hours ago, Great Snow 1717 said:

Correct and the same people who want a cat 2/3 to hit the area will be the same people complaining the most when the power isn't back on within 2 days. 

In general, New England is in a fortunate position in relation to the ravages of climate change, but our big vulnerability is the increased prospect of an accelerting category 2 or 3 hurricane. That in two or three hours will be one hard knock that will take months/years to recover from. Henri and his trajectory were a warning shot across the bow-- something many times more merciless comes this way...

35 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

Interesting...

so they must of just had doubts about a "storm" at all then.   Like, they couldn't get that previous one right so the big dawg'll miss - ha. 

but that's weird psychology when you think about it.. .because not getting rain right in lieu of snow, wouldn't lend one to think that when they predict snow ..it should necessarily be rain - unless they thought the storm would miss altogether.

wow...what a delicious morass of distrust -

I don't recall the January snowstorm as a bust. There were the usual rain/snowline questions, but the Bob Copelands/Harvey Leonards were on it. Days later, the Cleveland bomb manifested here as a very windy rainy southeaster that melted much of the accumulated snow.. (And as a side cap, my good friend, Walt Drag, was all over the Feb 6 blizzard warning me days in advance of something big, and extolling the accuracy of the then rather new and advanced LFM model.)

1 hour ago, Hoth said:

Man, what a classic hurricane sky. Deep blues with crisp-edged cumulus and wisps of cirrus above.

If the puffy cumulus haven't completely expanded the sky later today, could be some neat visuals of the encroaching high cloud canopy of Henri, and possibly some vivid sunsets of the sort that would scare the barnacles off grizzled seafarers. Pretty rare to have an oceanic tropical disturbance approaching from a seaward angle, and, minus the grey rainy clutter of antecedent tropical rains. Today is the sort of puffy cloud, dew point obsessed day you see in FLA as people in the path frantically board their windows-- now here in New England! The best  previous example I remember of a non-pre contaminated hurricane was Esther in 1961 which before it performed a slow dying pirouette off the southern New England coast was a category 3 or 4 storm. In the Boston area where I lived at the time there was a neat high cloud shield  from Esther punctuated by bands of darker cirrostratus, though aside from a few antecedent squalls bands that night, the net results of Esther in the Boston area were disappointingly underwhelming.

Zeus has been very active from Ludlow to Monson with cloud to ground bangers, and he's taking a massive leak too.

Looking south to towering CU's associated with rapid build-up of early evening storms along the MA/CT border

First warned central MA cell dousing the north end of Quabbin

1 hour ago, Ginx snewx said:

76 April I experienced the worst ice cream headache of my life. After laying on the beach in 90 plus heat I thought it was a good idea to run and dive into a wave in Weekapaug Beach. Basically paralyzed me. Remember we were coming off the coldest winter in decades in 76. Stupid kid. But have to say the hottie I was with and the aftermath in the cabana was more memorable 

Don't want to go cold on a hottie.

Don't know if my Davis is out to lunch, but it says .80 from that little training episode, here. Still hearing rumbles of thunder off to the S.E.

Scoured: Brimfield State Forest where the tornado was at its greatest strength and breadth.

Shrapnel from the Monson Library's slate roof embedded in the porch of a residence across Main Street.

8 hours ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Saw the first gypsy today! Thought for sure they’d all been killed last summer. Where there’s one there’s hopefully many more!

This peculiar person belongs in North Dakota where he could unleash his caterpillar friends on the state tree-- the telephone pole.

7" should be it in Monson, MA despite still steady snow-- but what's fallen is slumping like a weakling in a Charles Atlas ad, not to mention the very indignant April sun behind that overcast.

Floating snowballs-  S+

5" snow, Monson, MA; elevation, 400 feet.

"I'm Not Throwing Away My Shot!" (Adapted from Hamilton) https://www.theolympian.com/news/coronavirus/article249981859.html

As for side effects, 8 hours of fatigue, nausea and a 100.3 fever after the second Moderna jab, were more than worth it!

1 hour ago, PhineasC said:

Many things out there don't make sense to me anymore. I think more and more people are looking around at all the weird, inconsistent rules and tweaked-out people scurrying about and coming to the same conclusion. Definitely some surreal moments to be had, like watching a group of depressed-looking people in masks shuffle forward in a queue between x marks on the carpet as a booming voice on the intercom tells them to ensure their masks are on properly at all times or they will be "removed from the premises for their own safety and the safety of others."

It's kinda dystopian out there, TBH. I think a subset of the population is actually really enjoying this in a twisted way. They sure seem to get upset at anyone questioning it.

I'm old enough to remember dystopia. Dystopia is being a kid with polio trapped in an iron lung for the rest of his life. All the so called libertarians of today (living in Mama's basement) would be first in line for the Salk vaccine back in the day-- and probably be pushing and shoving for first dibs at mumps and measles vaccines, too. Our relatively disease free lives, up until covid, have loosed a lot of brave poseurs with contempt for masks and other measures that, inconvenient as they are, do promote the common good. But common sense has gone the way of the passenger pigeon.

2 hours ago, powderfreak said:

Lowest recorded snowpack at the Picnic Tables for April 11 since observations began in 1954. 

19" today and old record was 20" in 1957.  The long term average would be over 4 feet more snow on the mountain!

Today was the 3rd straight day of setting both the daily record max and the record high minimum.  Even the night's up there have been 10 degrees above the normal high temp.

What an absolute torch.  Third week of June climo for 4 four days now.  Last time the summit sniffed freezing was 6 days ago, despite an average low of 21F.

The summer of 1957 was very dry, too. From the "feast" of summer, 55 (Connie and Diane) to the severe drought famine in the summer of 57.

57 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

Are you talking about me ... or the previous poster -

I'm not making any sort of distinction predicated upon any bias or 'cynicism' with what I posted - I'm merely stating an observation ... The science and discovery are leaving creative writers behind. That's just one example.  

For muse: Robots ...like "Gort" from the classic, "The Day The Earth Stood Still" ... were very primitive, but paved where the next 20 ...30 years of fiction would emerge. By the 1980s the Cyberpunk sub genre of SciFi was born ...Writers got free reign, honing the 'visionary science space' right down to the sophistication of cyborgs - seemingly to the point of real theory and not just the fiction of "Robocop" - big budget obsurdity, but plausible enough to suspend disbelief to the target bourgeoisie.  Soon after, "Data," depicted by the uncannily on-point performances of Brent Spiner, seemed to reign it in with a statement, 'That's pretty fun, but this is 'who' the idealized model would likely  become.' 

Now ..out here in the real world, M.I.T. engineers in robotics have recently demoed dancing 'bots to actual syncopated rhythm, ...inexorably leading to Neurolink or those like it.   Which intuitively, if one wants to make an artificial human brain utilizing the human brain as the natural model ... they are going to have to successfully engineer something like those  "neurologically linked interface-able" systems at some point or another along the inCREdibly sagacious forethought in whether we we truly want or need our species taken over by self-aware A.I.  What if that spontaneously manifested 'self preservation' as an unintended, emerged consequence of complex synergistic operating system...?  That is the key - consciousness is created 'synergistically' as a result, a gestalt, of quantum scaled interacting wave dynamics (energy); and so nested intrinsically in there is thus, the "uncertainty principle" - ... So ... hate to say the trope but it is unfortunately, apropos - we are fiddling with aspects that took a billion years of evolution to create, and it is a realm where the more of it that gets exposed, only engenders more questions of its ultimate power -  

So, for someone that is a sci fi writer ... what can one contrive that isn't already been done?  Lol..  interesting - but the purpose of sci fi is to extrapolate plausibility based upon actual science - usually the application of the latter.  Well it challenges the imagination if science fact is winning the race to those destinations.

You sound a bit like the patent office commissioner, in 1899 who was reportedly prepared to shut it down because "everything that can be invented has been invented."

6 hours ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Jerry.. try Google. There’s a plethora of articles and research on possible side effects. I’m not trying to start trouble. To each their own. Hope things work out for everyone 

As a seeker of damage, damage you shall find.

2 hours ago, TwoDogNight said:

As I understand it, that program was replaced by SMART... Which isn't as advantageous.

I continue to receive the same $120/month through SREC trades as I have from the start. Perhaps those new to solar credits are getting a less advantageous deal?

1 hour ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Hmmmm.. how about Alzheimer’s, dimentia or the myriad of other possible side effects studies are showing? 

Q told me you shouldn't downplay the possibility of cannibalism either.