powderfreak

Yeah triple putting is right up my ally. The putts are my biggest problem. I feel like playing occasionally I can keep the driving and ball striking from irons ok, but short game “feel” just isn’t there. My worst shots are pretty much anything like 30-125 yards. Basically I’m good with full swing pitching wedges and irons… but as soon as the distance gets under a full pitching wedge I’m very prone to chunking it or skulling it. That half swing like 70 yard shot is my demon. Sometimes I’ll feel brave and try a full 60 degree wedge but that’s even lower probability of hitting cleanly… that’s almost a certain rocket skull 40 yards over the green . But those feel shots under like 120 yards, and especially like 40-80 yards, is a problem. Divots the size of beaver pelts from those while the ball goes 20 yards.

I saw an Instagram story of a friend I ski with in the winter here, and he just had his 12th hole-in-one! I had to ask and confirm and he goes yup, kinda crazy but yes 12 legit holes in one. That blows my mind. Even as a near scratch golfer that seems absurd.

Ha to be honest I don’t feel that strongly one way or another. Shouldn’t have said anything, lol, but I like weather climo discussion. Shocking too that further south stays warmer, longer this time of year. Time to get off the picnic tables and start moving down hill now.

It generates discussion for sure. A well known tactic employed to generate disco.

It’s like in April/May when someone is like oh noes, here comes the torch. Ya’ll will have to suffer through days in the 70s…. No 55/54 cold rainers for you! April/May and September/Oct are the times for torches.

Everyone gets the weather they want. Participation trophies for all.

Who can hate these days?! Watch the Red Sox win the 1pm game and then head out for an evening walk to the picnic tables with the dog. High of 77F in the valley, well above normal day but right in the wheelhouse of enjoyable. Its beautiful up here right now. East side shadowed and cool, sun still catching southwest aspects.

You need to cope over San Diego weather? It’s weird how you want people to get angry over sunny days in the 70s in September. The horror of 72/48 on September 25th!

Looks awesome. No need for highs in the 50s. The later we get into September and October the more enjoyable above normal is.

I like that phrase… “authentically dry air.”

Dews be back up here. 72/65 now after 50s this morning. Crazy how quickly the body acclimates to drier air that 65F feels like the jungle again. 3-4 weeks ago 65F dew was almost chamber weather .

Need the NNE mountain obs and geographical perspectives. Bring on the cold season.

Runs into an out next play, ha. It’s the 2021 Red Sox.

It's the Orioles. Red Sox have made those mistakes in the past two months too though. Red Sox doing what they need to do against the Orioles. Renfroe with the bases clearing double, 7-1 now... best off season pick-up comes up with a big hit again.

Is this the real McCoy?! "The jerseys capture the color scheme of the Boston Marathon, which is held annually on Patriots’ Day in the city." Not sure why tonight.

Ahh you are starting to come around now to the Top 10 weather. Goalposts starting to shift and rightly so.

Doesn’t happen often for me. 40-45 is usually where I fall on 9. Gotta get out with our mutual friend Mr Maxwell.

Yeah that sounds about how I would get one, ha. This was the rare great ball strike that felt so good. Maybe next time, ha. Played even par through 7 holes (2 birdies, 2 bogeys) but ended up finishing the 9 holes at +3 due to finishing double bogey then bogey.

Almost pulled off a hole in one this evening. 140 yard 8-iron. The guys on the next tee box said it looked to lip out, slight change of direction passing the cup. Looked dead on like it was going in from the tee.

Not to nitpick Gene, but why do you need to take away any rain that runs off quickly? That’s all built into summer climo. You’ve (we’ve) always had short duration intense convective rains in the summer since the dawn of time. It counts just as much. No where in the annual precip of New England does it say short duration heavy rains need to be removed… the annual precipitation totals build plenty of that in. I’ve always found that reasoning odd but it’s not just you, it does come up around here in the forums a lot in summer… when folks are like I got X inches of rain this past month but most of it doesn’t really count because it fell quickly and ran off. I know its a reference to not feeling like the vegetation got watered, but the vegetation has been dealing with convective rains for centuries here.

Adirondacks… NE Kingdom of VT… Central VT…

First blue spec on the GFS at 180 hours out in NW ME.

Yeah I would definitely hedge against any bitter cold shots too, it is only September.

The lowering sun angle and earlier darkness is noticeable. Maybe that influenced my “corner turned” posts earlier. Shadows are now north facing and growing dark at times that used to feel mid-afternoon. These temperatures aren’t cool to normal, just very enjoyable T/Td without being cold. People lighting wood stoves is the next benchmark up here IMO.

73/48 in the valley… 61F up here. Chamber Weather.