powderfreak

Where else gets routinely exciting weather year round? The thing is each area of the country can get more extremes but all the extreme events don’t happen at the same place over and over. So while it feels like you are missing out, just move somewhere else and watch 10 months of boring weather happen… while still watching extreme events happen around the country where you are not.

Ended up with 0.38" yesterday, just enough to keep the mushrooms happy.

So much lightning… just had another round of close strikes two hours later. Summer evening vibe with constant flashes and Thunder for a couple hours around here.

Good amount of debris on the roads, in my yard and a few good-sized branches down on my way home. Sub-severe wind but looked like what up to 40mph gusts will do to leafed out trees. MVL recorded a couple 38mph gusts and that sounds about right here too, with 50-65mph up on ridges. Coworker and friend sent this from top of the Quad looking due south as the shelf cloud squeezed through the gaps and over the Spine.

Good wind at 3-4kft on velocity. I’m not home but looks like it downslopes off the Mountain and punched some good velocities lower down in elevation on the east side.

Got some weather moving in. Pretty dark out west.

Yeah $2 a day is cheaper than a cup of gas station coffee, for a/c all day? No brainer. I’d pay a decent amount more than that for climate controlled luxury.

Do you know that you actually used significantly more kilowatt hours or is the cost more a function of the price of commodity? I'm guessing it's a blend of both, but would be interesting. I didn't have my heat pump all of last summer to be able to compare, so this year is really the only barometer I have.

It should not be this difficult . Everyone can believe whatever they want to believe in today's world. Statistics are just there for interpretation.

This seems like a semantics argument, not a science-driven temp departure argument. 72/70 and soupy. We are getting crushed with positive departures right now, haha. Normal is 74/49.

The differences were on display when I was in Europe… there was a bunch of stuff that I was like no way in hell would that fly in the United States. And people would be like why not? Why can’t those people be doing maintenance on a hotel roof 100 feet off the ground with no fall protection? It’s their choice. Lol. People and companies get sued day and night in the US… and some of it is good, better workers rights/OSHA stuff, and better safety on consumer products, better building codes, etc. But on the flip side our litigation society means everyone is wondering how liable they will be for every decision. Kid passes out in the heat in a classroom, hits his head, parents are in an uproar because the school knew there was a Heat Warning/Advisory and they don’t have A/C or fans. School then needs to pay that family in a settlement out of court.

How does one quantify that vs normal vs below normal? Below normal to above normal can be the difference between 82F and 85F for highs. Probably running A/C in both cases. Just like in January, you’re heat is still on whether the month is -2F or +6.

Yeah this is going to absolutely torch. +5 type month it seems, ha.

It feels like a discussion where one wants to make sure below normal doesn’t equal cold. Just like how above normal in January doesn’t mean it was hot. But we use departures to measure temperatures, it is what it is.

So bring some data to the discussion, show us. Come with some numbers for June/July/August. BDL… go.

We are a nation of litigation.

What about the 19 days at or below normal and -1.0 at BDL for the month? Does that account for the actual data around those parts for June?

88/70 feels pretty hot.

81/72 at 10:30am is solid. That’s high-end. Normal max is 74F, so our dew is about where the normal high should be.

Snowfall rates aren’t high enough to accumulate on the blacktop.

Yeah this is soup outside. 72/70 and not much to fall tonight given afternoon dews were about the same as they are now. Inside is a crisp and dry 64.

See I click that very link and it comes up like this to me, and embeds with no issue. Didn’t have to alter anything after clicking your link, but the browser changed it from x.com to Twitter.com.

I could go for a front loaded winter too. I’d be fine trading March for December. Maybe it’s just anecdotal and not fact, but feels like it’s been a while since we’ve had a good December area-wide. Of course snowfall climo is weakest in December of the Dec-Mar stretch, but would be nice to buck the trend leading up to the holidays.

Ahh great info on the Sound. I totally forgot about that in your location. That’s super impressive then. Up in NNE here it seems like the dry ground, red flag type days before full green-up can mix out to some high temperatures… like 90/45 stuff. And seems many of the mountain valley ASOS spots away from the Atlantic influence can really torch during the early warm season. But yeah being on the LIS with SST at that time of year, that seems pretty rare/wild.

Nothing gets folks excited on here like a mild December and waiting for winter to arrive. Already laying down the ground work for “winter is just a couple weeks away on the weeklies.” Thanks for sharing those.