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We ran a very similar study back in 2004 in which participants were shown photos of people. Those with the 2nd longest stare rates were of people who satisfied the traditional 20th century/modern concepts of "beauty." (That has a higher degree of subjectivity, to be sure.) But the photos that were looked at longest were images of obviously grotesque, malformed, or extremely terrified people. The theory was that looking at something pleasing elicits less complex brain responses versus looking at something terrifying or morbid or in pain. Brain wave analysis seems to confirm that. Sorry, Boston. (just kidding.)

Forecast high today is 31 for this area. I hit 24 about an hour ago, and it's dropped to 22 now. Winds sustained at 15-18, gusts to 25. Gonna be a fun two nights.

Congrats. It requires some talent to speak on a cellphone whilst taking a leak.

And another 4 days later (missing to the south, but better than to the NW). Maybe this is the timeframe.

This event will put me at just over 11" for December so far. Not bad. The problem starts if this pattern continues into January and February when we need bigger amounts to keep the seasonal average (at least!) going. Cutters and clippers won't do it.

Yeah, I'm hoping to hit an inch from the last 24 hours. That would bring me to 11 for the season.

https://www.blitzortung.org/en/historical_maps.php?map=30 This goes back 2 hours. I don;t see anything popping up over the Cape.

My aunt is in Yarmouthport on the Cape. Almost 2 on the ground. She just told me it's supposed to turn back over to rain. Not sure where she's getting that from, but I doubt it.

Back is business here in W CT. Nice little band forming over us. Solid coating, approaching an inch. 28F. Been at 28 since 5:30 this AM.

Yeah, I ended up with a little more than a dusting, but not quite a coating.

Yeah, I've been watching that band develop and move up. Coating here on the Woodbury/Bethlehem line in last 5 minutes. Actually, according to my own definition, it's not yet a coating, just a dusting.

I found this for sale on Ebay. There are a few more, too.

Yeah, I see much less interest in snow (or anything weather/nature related) with the kids these days. For many of them, they wouldn't recognize a foot of snow if they were walking through it. There are some wonderful exceptions, however, and they stand out to me.

I wonder if it's as bad for heroin addicts when they don't get a fix.

I think there is a lot of that type of nostalgia for that. For me, it was getting a day off of school. Still today, that liberating and spirited feeling comes rushing back with an impending storm, even though I am beholden today to no one, and certainly not a boring public institution. As for "snow on the ground," I couldn't really care less. It's more annoying to me. But...give me an event to track 5 days out, dump it on me, & cause a huge distraction to the normal flow of prosaic life. Then get the snow the hell outta here a day later, and rinse and repeat.

You can always move to our little 20 sq mile zone in Western Central CT.

I had an undergrad seminar 1x/week on Wednesday evenings in 95-96. 12 for the entire semester. 5 of them were cancelled due to snow. Everyone (within reason) got an A. That's one of the reasons I'm here today.

Read my mind.

Lol. I started that post, and the four of us are very proud of our little zone of joy.

Much worse in the last 100 years, for sure. But you can also look at ancient Egypt, where grains/plants were 80-90% of the diet. Young men almost always developed gynecomastia and paunchy wheat bellies. This was also depicted in their little statues- not to be confused with their drawings, which incorporated human/lanky animal physiques. High animal fat/moderate protein OUTSIDE of the presence of carbs/(sugars/grains) is still the ideal diet for optimizing the homosapien. Down to 43F. 93% RH.

Insulin resistance is likely the culprit in everything metabolic, from erectile dysfunction (insulin resistant blood vessels) to high blood pressure, to dementia (Type 3 diabetes), cancer, and heart disease, thyroid, PCOS, etc. And insulin resistance comes almost exclusively from one thing: hyperinsulinemia due to carbohydrate consumption and low fat. 2 million years of high-fat carnivorous evolution can't be changed in a hundred years of grain and plant matter consumption. 43.9F.

That's a backpack full of your best seasoned hardwood. And a ray gun.

This morning at 6am I hit exactly 10" for the season (6" alone from that over-performing clipper 10 days ago). The long-term average for this area is 9.6 to 10.4" for December, depending on what data source you look at. Now I feel the essential numbness that arises with climate equilibrium.

Gonna be a shiity weather week.

I saw one last night about 10:10pm. Long red bar light on one side, green bar light on the other, and a white bar light in the center, all parallel to one another. No blinking. Hovered for about 30 seconds and then took off in a westerly direction. I have been tracking planes for 20 years, and this was not a plane, jet, helicopter, etc. Also did not appear on FlightRadar24. Hard to tell how high up it was, and I couldn't hear anything.