powderfreak

Very aesthetically pleasing scene in the hardwoods right now.

Actually getting some mangled flakes in town now as wet-bulb evap cooling at the start takes place. First flakes at home.

Headed out with the dog now for a lap to the picnic tables and back before settling in for some football. How Sunday’s should be this time of year haha.

39/30 What a change from yesterday.

Yeah 46/39 at local PWS, MVL ASOS a bit more mixed at 48/35. Interesting modeled temperature battle going on between 18z models tomorrow. Euro vs GFS. 40s during the afternoon is nothing special for time of year, but mid-30s during the afternoon would be note-worthy. Definitely related to precipitation and evaporational cooling, but ECM looks much more likely. EURO

Breezy NNW wind now 17G24 and down to 52F. CAA happening. Tomorrow will be a bit different than today.

The press conference said they searched all the trailers at that Maine recycling plant as the owner kept telling them the shooter was very familiar with the place. However, there was an auxiliary parking lot across the street or something with a couple extra trailers that weren’t mentioned to police. So when they went back to focus on the area and were checking off spots cleared, they became aware of this additional area with a couple trailers. Maine State Police tactical units then cleared those and found him in the back of one. Sounded like a plausible f*ck up based on the aerial map they showed. But you still think they’d look into anything within 100 yards of that recycling plant. Or that someone would be like, “what’s that over there?” “Oh you own that too?”

We hit 68F with thick OVC. Dark but mild day. Weird. Now 61F and falling.

And from +7.3 and no freeze in October for the first time in recorded history... to the American models wanting it to snow Sunday night and Monday morning. NAM and GFS very similar evolutions... though the rest of the world's models (RGEM, GGEM, ICON, EURO, etc) say no shot in hell and want no part of this. *For the record I'm not looking at the amounts here, just that its coding snow. A widespread coating/trace with some legit -SN obs at a few ASOS would be nice.

The fact that it was 63F at 2am up here east of the Spine last night is pretty crazy. +19, +21, departures past two days. Our normal high is 52F and normal low of 32F. +7.3 on the month here. That is pretty incredible. And still no 32F. Two 33s though.

ICON and GGEM keeping the dream alive. All snow maps are over done this time of year. But they highlight the more climo favored zones.

It could happen anywhere; there’s a bond in New England and especially NNE. We all know people in that area of Maine. They have the same laid back values of just trying to go through life wholesomely, and enjoy a few things along the way. That no community is immune from this sort of thing is the truly sobering and gut-wrenching part.

Watching online I keep thinking it’s a recording… hope they get it going.

Crazy to think this was likely over within 30 minutes of the act. I think he did it and ended himself pretty quickly afterward. Glad you and your community can have that closure.

Sorry for your loss Jeff.

Yeah and even if he killed himself in the woods somewhere he theoretically may never be found… always leaving people left to wonder.

6z GFS is interesting for a 4-day prog. Like this is no fantasy land stuff. NAM has it a bit further north.

DIT’s birthday snower bash.

They always know more info then they let on, yeah. I still think he’s in the area… if he makes it a few days, eventually someone will come home or visit a place to find it was broken into it a home alarm is tripped… and call the police, and the entire weight of US law enforcement will descend on the woods in the area of that burglary. Like the prison break in N.NY… you think they could be anywhere, but the police know the odds are that people on the run stay local or move slow. I bet the police are flipping out at every home burglar alarm that gets called in by a security company within most of Maine.

Yeah, I bet they play the odds and it’s that he’s still in the area bedded down. But get in an unknown vehicle, shave and alter appearance a bit, maybe hide in plain sight? There’s no way they locked the area down fast enough to stop someone from driving out/away before it became apparent what was happening. If that guy has a slightly altered appearance (hair color or glasses) and is passing through Scranton, PA, do we think anyone would notice?

Duce could be in Chicago by car at this point.

Even that. 350 state and federal officers searching and they didn’t check his Dad’s house or put agents on the house immediately? Still seems weird.

How the hell are they just getting him at his house? That thing should’ve been picked apart within an hour of the shooting when they had his name. And then if he wasn’t there… how’d he get back without them noticing?

What the records this time of year down there?

Good stuff, George. It’s obvious you put some real time and effort into this and in the end, the learning is all the matters. Thanks for the posts.