powderfreak

I think he’s down in the mid-Atlantic a lot this time of year…. I can tell you living in the country in NNE right now you wouldn’t be able to be that concerned with COVID. I think he knows if his life revolved around N.NH/BML he wouldn’t need to think about it. The rat race can be brutal in the suburbs.

Some November 2018 nostalgia... Snowvember. First two are from the base area and then third is from up high. That was like instant heavy dense snowpack over a series of QPF rich systems.

How much longer until the puddles connect into one big one?

You sir better specify that... Mansfield, Connecticut .

Many of us regulars too just gave up and joined the convo, ha. Not necessarily content police but nostalgia for the old ways of the forum. You checked in as a way to escape real life issues and talk weather with other weather fanatics, vs. coming to hear thoughts on society’s problems and maybe discuss weather on the side. But there’d also be 6 hours at a time between posts in the summer. I agree though if we are going to do COVID convo just let everyone in the pool at once and see who drowns .

I hated country growing up but now I feel middle aged when I find myself tuning in more and more. That twang.

“Mom, what’s Dad doing?” ”Oh he got fired up from his weather forum but instead of running around measuring snow like he usually does, he’s been standing on the front porch waving an American flag for an hour now.” ”From his weather forum?” ”Yeah maybe they found out it attracts those moths he’s obsessed with.”

I don’t agree with forced vaccinations, your body your choice. My comment was based on you thinking our military members have freedoms. The military is the literal opposite of freedom. You do what they tell you, when they tell you and you don’t ask questions.

People in the military are FAR from “free”… they have an entire separate military police force to track you down if you try to leave. And you listen to those above you and do not question it. I can’t think of a worse example to make for freedoms than the military. They fight for freedom but they are far from free.

“My college buddies told me to take two of the red pills with them and see where the day takes us. Next thing I know I’m sitting in the Capitol wearing uncle Donny’s wolf hide with a bear head, my buddies are dressed like Vikings, and the SWAT team is approaching us. All I wanted was a little recreational fun.”

You’re my type of dude, love the random one liners from left field…even if disagreeing it’s done with humor. And the world needs more humor.

Ha no that’s exactly what banter used to be. Would see 15 posts a week of “79/63 partly sunny” in the summer .

Sounds like what I’m doing right now. Brutally painful getting dragged through Christmas Tree Shops and Bed Bath and Beyond right now. Should be going on the evening hike, ha, but wife has other plans. No masks and you’d never know anything was going on. It’s weird to hear you guys talk about it on here, ha. People in Mass not going about their business?

It’s always crazy how few people seem to understand that calling someone names, stupid, or even insinuating it with hyperbole just negates their whole argument. It’s rampant in politics these days. When all else fails, revert back to your 2nd grade survival skills… put ‘em down with scary words!

I’m just stating what we saw up here in a place where hundreds of thousands of people visit each winter and folks routinely get smoked by various sicknesses every winter. The number of call outs due to illness was all-time low. No one puking in the bathroom from stomach bugs, no hoarse throats, no strep, no mono, … yes I’m aware people were getting COVID but I know I’m not the only one who noticed a vast reduction in the normal wintertime illnesses.

Haha, I was just thinking as soon as Trix showed up you vanished. That would be one helluva conspiracy theory… schizophrenia. One part is Trix and the alter ego is Phin and they battle COVID all day long inside a single human brain.

Purely observational, was it a combo of masking and hygiene theater that seemed to completely nip any sickness at all out last winter? Many people seemed to have their healthiest winter ever… not even a minor sniffle. I just know that from ski areas being absolute cesspools of sicknesses in winter (basically thousands of people a day with runny noses spraying droplets everywhere) from rental shops to ski school classes to lodges…. literally seemed no one got sick at all from anything. Or maybe it’s as simple as high self awareness that if you don’t feel right you stayed home when in the past you’d still go out for your ski day or work day? Combo of all of the factors working together? I see the studies on masking but I just can’t deny how little sickness there was last winter or any kind at all.

They’ll find a way to lose even still.

I still haven't looked, nor to I care to read threads once political groups gang up on each other.... If a thread is created to discuss certain posters and their vaccination statuses (if that's true), I'm not a fan. This is a weather/science forum... emotional responses should be kept in check. That includes any indication that someone is happy about an outcome that results in more serious infections or deaths, vax or not.

Amen, I never step out of the NE forum, keep the universe smaller, but that’s some f’cked up shit if true. One of the worst parts of COVID has been humanity turning on itself like it’s a two team sport… hoping the other/counter ideology crashes and burns.

This is a tropical forecast. The mins are the highest departure for sure... getting a run of upper 60s to near 70F mins along with upper 80s to near 90F maxes, that forecast is the "dog days of summer" up here. The POPS definitely smack of a continuation of the random heavy rainers. Seems like that pattern of hit or miss stuff that initiates off the high terrain and then drifts out from there. Air mass storms of Caribbean vibe over NNE. The BTV airport probably has a night where it's in the 80s at 2-3am, with a nocturnal southerly jet moving up the east side of the lake.

That’s legit. If LCI is 95F and MHT 97F, I’d call that a hot day. We’d roast up here too.

Lots of cream haha. Hiking down 2000ft in essentially a wet bathing suit, gets a bit raw. But you are right, that was no cold rain. Today was like water coming out of a spa steam room. 71/69 at local PWS… it’s gross out for 8:45pm.

Can you hear the rain? That’s wild. Just bubbling over itself.

I’m afraid I might watch or read the news instead, ha. Don’t think I’ve seen a single news story not from this thread since the start of MLB season… that was my life rewarding move, cutting all that out. Dropped cable… just NESN, Netflix, weather.gov, and AMWX is a helluva way to live lol.