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On 3/29/2021 at 7:10 AM, TwoDogNight said:

SREC is replaced by SMART, right?

Still SREC on my account

33 minutes ago, OceanStWx said:

 

Not just the excess. RECs are used as a way to offset fossil fuel use (think people, companies, places with commitments to green energy). There is a market for each MWh of energy produced. So if you produce 10 MWh of electricity, even if you use some of that yourself, you can sell the REC for cash. 

Now if you're solely into solar for the green aspect, you can't then say your energy usage is green because you traded it to someone else and the electricity they traded you would be "dirty."

I'm adding a ~15 KW array to the house this summer. More or less the loan is a wash with our electric bill (which we're going to pay regardless), so it's a net zero for 12 years, and the back half of the panel warrantied lifespan is all gravy. After paying off the solar loan, in the end the net should be around 35k that we don't have to spend on electricity.

I get $120/month in SREC credits through National Grid and have for the past 3 years since going solar. Helps offset the price of the system.

19 minutes ago, HimoorWx said:

We heard some sort of frogs today in the Blue Hills. Must have been hundreds of them in a wet area or vernal pond. Much deeper sound than peepers. Also saw first snake of the season. Wonder if the rattlers have been out sunning themselves in the parking lots on Wood Road?

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Probably wood frogs-- sound like quacking ducks.

22 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

Old record at ORH was 66F in 1977. Smoked that one pretty good. 3/11 was vulnerable for a lot of stations, so plenty of records today.

1977 also featured a notorious equinox storm with feet of snow well inland, a rain swept gale elsewhere.

1 hour ago, Hoth said:

I think James had a cathartic crisis of sorts the last time he expected 2 feet in Harwich and got white rain. To protect himself, his psyche split off this George fellow, a sort of Tyler Durden-esque projection who is the unrestrained alpha weenie version of James. Gradually, James will slowly become George. Then "Project Mayhem", or rather "Dawn Awakening", can commence.

perhaps "Dawn Awakening-- Snooze Delay" to mitigate the alarming Jekyll-Hyde behavior.

53 minutes ago, George001 said:

I’m not expecting a blizzard, more sustained mod snow for 30 hours or so. However the latest run of the navy was more south though so I have to admit that is a red flag. I’m still waiting to see if it was just an off run or a trend before I get too concerned though, that is a fair point though about the navy not looking great. As a forecaster I want to try to be more accurate and avoid those crazy 3-4 feet snow calls that amount to nothing, so even if the models aren’t showing what I want to see I’m not just going to discount them. Blending the navy euro and Canadian still looks good for my idea of a 16-20 jackpot with most areas getting 12-15 when taking ratios into account so I’m going to stick with it, but I would like to see the navy come back north next run.

I'll bet if certain "prognosticators" on here were to add up their predicted snow totals over the course of a mere two winter seasons, it would translate to a thousand feet of glacier over our heads (even more over the Cape).

20 minutes ago, met_fan said:

The snow has been great here the last few hours and we’re going to go well over every forecast I saw for the Pioneer Valley...what happened that prevented the extreme shadowing that was showing up in every model and forecast?

I'm guessing because the wind has had a more northerly component allowing for better snow dynamics than the long easterly subsistence fetch that had been forecasted.

On 12/31/2020 at 11:36 PM, USCAPEWEATHERAF said:

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Hark! The Harold Hurricane sings-- Glory be the new born thing!

2 hours ago, Hoth said:

Kudos to Wiz for doggedly pointing out the red flags for the wind forecast.

The Bigly-Weiners on here did their best to harass him out of it, but he was right. Big lesson in the importance of objectivity ruling over hype.

23 minutes ago, klw said:

Very little happened to people but what happened was instead of 3 TV stations clamoring for attention there are now hundreds plus the net.  TV wants you to tune in and thus hypes this stuff like crazy.  People now also share Kuchera clown maps on Facebook and that is how news is spread to many without explanation.  People are the same, media is different.  If anything snowstorms have less of an impact than they used to because up until the 1/96 storm, AWD and 4WD with the exception whereas now most everyone has an SUV or Crossover with AWD or at least knows someone with one.  In the 96 storm, NJ hospitals asked for volunteers with AWD to help patients get to treatment.  That would likely not happen today.

Media sucks the sap out of the sap-sucker public because it works. Mark Twain had it right-- people are endlessly gullible. That gullibility is easier to manipulate than ever due to crowded 24/7 content from endless outlets of sensationalism (equals revenue streams).  So we have the magic of Kuchie-Kuchie in all its eye candy forms-- in the blink of an eye a pizza palace turns into a place of child abduction. Of course it's just a pizza place... However, do not discount the specialness 12-18+ inch storm apparently on our doorsteps. Having lived through many a snow drought in a long lifetime of weeniedom, these are rather rare and splendid creatures and should be savored. As for media, there are plenty of responsible outlets, sources of reliable information. People simply have to take the time and trouble to seek them out-- also to sift content from a variety of sources/perspectives. Few are willing.

52 minutes ago, dryslot said:

Its another bumper crop year on acorns too up here.

White pines bent down with their cone crops.

22 hours ago, skierinvermont said:

So are you going to stop telling your lies about wind and solar or just ignore this blizzard? Again evidence you are not here in good faith to learn but just spout off your opinions and ignore fact based correction of your mistakes.

He demonstrates all  the signposts of a MAGA troll, or perhaps a creepy-crawly comrade based in St. Petersburg.

21 hours ago, Great Snow 1717 said:

I'd love to have a time machine to transport me back in time to experience that storm. And The Hessian Storm,

Saxby’s

31 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

I could see that evolving into a Bahama blue pattern ... 

It's another personal-ism so bite me -

Basically, it's when the WAR doesn't edge - enough so - over eastern continent, and a weakness forms between it and the semi-permanent western N/A heat dome... The flow becomes S/SSW from the surface to 200 mb level east of the cordillera ( that's App. mountains axis) ...

I "think" ( though am not certain ) that the huge PWAT laminar transport that occurs from the deeper subtropics all the way up ... provides so much condensation potential on the atmospheric particulates,...that together they rain/settle out impurities, rendering the sky so deeply blue it's like some fantasy world Korean pop video where rain drops are violet pieces of candy...  Whatever microphysical and or other cause, you get some extraordinary visibilities with DPs of 76 ...all the way to Maine when that sets up.  the impetus in awe being...it's hard to get vast visibility in high water content... but that sort of scenario achieves that somehow. I haven't seen this in the last couple of years tho... 

actually going back five or more ...I don't recall.. It used to happen almost dependably once or twice per summer, that set up ... in the 1980s through the 1990s, but since 2000...seems increasingly a rarefied synoptic ordeal.  I think that is because the flow is being sped up - yup...yet again, because of the dreaded HC expansion. I've noticed even in summers we have velocity anomalies.  I mean, yesterday, nearing Augie 1, ...we had CU turrets ripping so violently NE away from the buoyancy parcels that it was probably even inhibiting complete rain out of the convective cycle beneath them... I saw vil plumes go from eastern CT to S of NS in like an hour... what is that... 300 mb 200 mph geostrophic wind speed - jesus christ. Slow the f* down already... 

Anyway, if the total atmospheric maelstrom ...like everywhere, is having to balance that kind of momentum distribution, it's just mathematically/geo-physically ( probably demonstrable) that the wave structure/R-numbers would make scenarios less capable of N-S orientation in lieu of conserving all that rage pointing W-E.  Just a supposition...but I think a good one. 

A poem that in another way expresses Tip's sentiments here:

The Predestination of Clouds

to this northern domain of Calvin

and rain, shook loose from grey tarpaulin sky,

fell all at once on pudding stone and white pine.

Then like a laugh in the midst of a good cry

the sun would steam, and turn off again.

At times there'd be breaks where

suspended in Barbados blue, pillars billowed;

rose in white flight from dusky hue,

as if Calvin's elect on the high road to heaven.

Erect and proud in their pews in the sky

they stood pearly,

assured of no dross of common sin.

But the higher they rose

the harder their wet hearts

beat back to earth

as the grey ranks closed again.

56 minutes ago, radarman said:

Maybe some hail in Monson

None where I was in downtown Monson at Memorial Field. But a wind-whipped washing machine of a storm with some small branches down. Unfortunately, nada on the other side of town where I live-- less than an inch here after all these days of opportunity.

22 hours ago, Angus said:

Has anyone ever used a dowser to find water? My grandfather was big believer.

Yes-- hired one and she flagged a number of spots as choices to dig a well. Picked one and the well digger dug-- great water and abundant too.. Which is not to say that random digging would not have produced same. (She also told us the water would be found a lot deeper than it was-- a pleasant surprise.)

Sky spitting pale peas, Monson, MA. No thunder, though.

4 minutes ago, Hailstoned said:

Give nature a break: Time to do away with the toxic green fake: https://www.cnn.com/style/article/lawns-american-yard-us/index.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab

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Over to drizzly pablum here, Monson, MA. Perhaps and inch and a half before it started to slump

Peepers in full throat tonight, a good 2-3 weeks early.

1 hour ago, mahk_webstah said:

I like Tips posts, especially in the context of today’s text and abbreviate culture.  We have collective cultural ADHD.  The thought of having to actually sit and think and read and think more to make sense of something seems to be a shrinking skill. Damn I sound old.  But weather patterns are complicated and can’t always be reduced to a tweet.  We Should be greatful for the skilled posters who are willing to take the time to really dissect something, and Tip is not the only one.

Totally agree, though like the great "stream of consciousness" author, Thomas Wolfe, Tip could use a good editor!

Right around the time of the new moon-- a favorable omen.

4 hours ago, Damage In Tolland said:

But it’s not one is the thing. Davis straight says no chance New England 

Confused. Heard rumors Davis is gay. (Or, he don't no how too spell)

18.5" total, Monson, MA

1) Blizzard of 78

2) Monson, etc. tornado, 2011

3) Hurricane Carol

4) February 9, 1969-- the so called "Lindsey Storm" Boston style with 2 feet of wet snow/thunder snow on 50 mph gust gales

5) January 8, 1968; Living atop a high hill in S.W. N.H.: A high temperature of -8 with 60 MPH wind gusts. Plumes of snow flying from exposed places on Mount Monadnock, 8 miles to the south. Walked out into a field just to feel what -70 wind chill feels like. Not recommended.

6) December 12, 1960 blizzard, early start to a story book winter; the storm that sparked a life long wiener roast.