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  1. Juliancolton
    I mowed for the first time in a month yesterday (mostly to mulch leaves and even out the few patches that are still growing a bit) and it was intolerably dusty. We're parched. Some of the most reliably vibrant trees in my hood went straight from green to sickly brown this past week - never seen anything like it.
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    I like my hypothesis better.
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    I think everyone here knows I'm a winter boy through and through, but I do have to say the waning daylight is getting the best of me this year. Not even 8 pm and I'm soundly ready for bed...
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    Isn't that pretty much the way it always works?
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    Go away!
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    It's got to be a daily record for the territory. That total makes Maria the second wettest TC on record for Puerto Rico, behind only the October 1970 tropical depression which dropped a little over 40" over the course of many days.
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    Sickening. Reports of a kindergarten collapse from the quake while in session, with 100 children unaccounted for.
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    The NHC discussion pretty much corroborates the hivemind regarding ERC prospects. That ring is so large that it'll take quite a while for it to contract enough to hinder the inner core. At this point, I think it's still functioning effectively as a feeder band instead of an outer eyewall.
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    Really bad situation in Mexico City unfolding.
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    Watch out for that storm surge
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    Gusts to 25, hurricane season never fails to captivate in the HV.
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    I'm with ya on that. I guess we pay the piper for the cool, low-dew summer months. Better 70/65 now than on Christmas like in some recent years! The mugginess does make for some nice foggy atmospherics in the mornings, though.
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    It looked impressive on GOES-16 imagery this morning. Seems like it was mostly confined to valleys and river corridors.
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    I didn't set up my camera until after the substorm started fading, figured I had more time than I did. Unlike with most events, the photos I got are actually less impressive than what I saw with the naked eye just moments before. Plus, I think I had my camera shooting at the wrong bit depth so the sky is all posterized. Urgh...
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    Naked eye pink pillars down here for a few minutes. Beautiful.
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    I'm not convinced this was the shock from the X9.3 associated CME yet... IMF already trending weaker and north
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    Still much too bright here from twilight but at least it's clear for the time being.
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    Largest flare of the whole solar cycle. Still several hours before the next link with SOHO is established to determine the extent and direction of any potential CME, but it looks pretty textbook. A "glancing blow" scenario seems most likely with the position of the source region.
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    If you still have your eclipse glasses, definitely go check out the naked-eye sunspots currently near the middle of the sun's disc. Snapped this a few minutes ago... the bottom active region is rapidly evolving into a more magnetically complex configuration and could start producing some pretty sizable solar flares.
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    38 here as well. Normally you get the first few brisk nights and think about the inevitable heat still to come, but this year, who knows... might be a bona fide early cold season.
  21. Juliancolton
    That was the weenie run of the year for me. It's so outlandish that I don't even feel guilty about ogling.
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    My point forecast has a low of 41F on Saturday morning so normally I'd be on the lookout for for the season's first reading in the 30s, but things don't look ideal for maximum chill. The core of the 850mb cold pool will have retreated by late Friday with some weak WAA and high clouds increasing throughout the night. Exciting, I know.
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    I got seasick once on one of those silly whale-watching boat rides and 3 hours felt like an eternity. Not sure you could pay me enough to spend days at a time on the high seas...
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    I've actually spent a little time since Monday looking into what it would take to hit up La Serena, Chile in 2019. At the centerline, about an hour north of the city if you take the rural coastal roads, totality is just 2m36s – as we've all just witnessed, that's spectacularly brief. That said, it all goes down about an hour before sunset, so the low angle would introduce a while new dimension into it I think. The photography prospects would be epic with the beaches and rocky coastline.
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    Some folks just don't share in the enthusiasm even after experiencing the thing for themselves. My dad has seen a couple in his lifetime and thinks it's pretty cool when you find yourself in totality, but probably wouldn't go out of his way to see another one even if it were only a half hour down the road. Everybody gets their kicks in different ways... if it were up to me, my whole family would be fanatical snowstorm chasers but alas.
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