powderfreak

For sure it's a quick take. The energy tonight is definitely different but that can come and go nightly in a 162 game season. For all the people saying the Yankees are playing a AAA team, all these new players though are fighting for their careers and injecting energy into the lineup. The base-running aggressiveness has been very un-Yankee like. Not all highly paid or made players… new guys want to prove themselves. The best players and teams are those with nothing to lose. That goes for a lot of things in life, ha. Rise to the occasion.

You’d hate for last night’s crap show 6-inning rainout (including questionable rain non-delays/delays, Verdugo getting hit by a ball thrown by a fan, interesting ump calls in big spots) to be a turning point in the head-to-head series between the Yanks and Sox. The Red Sox look flat footed and lethargic. That’s how we’ve gotten used to seeing the Yankees. The energy is flipped.

Deerfield River has to be raging. 5-6” total radar estimates out of ALY in the Deerfield area. I figure ALY is the better radar there… lower elevation scan and closer to rad site.

Oh for sure, it’s largely symbolic. It’s meant to deter but there’s no ID check so it’s like asking only unvaccinated people to wear masks inside .

One interesting thing I’ve noticed all afternoon is that some rain showers are moving in one direction, while others are moving in the opposite direction. All the low level stuff is going from NE to SW… low clouds are moving southwestward that you can see from the surface. Aloft it’s going the opposite direction. Like this stuff in the northern Champlain Valley… some echos are going one way and another set of showers is moving SW to NE. If I could post a longer radar loop that stuff has been happening all afternoon.

10 minutes apart, that changed fast lol.

1.91” tapering off. Hopefully can salvage the rest of the day.

Yeah it depends on how showery that backside stuff is. Whether it holds together or falls apart as to if we can get outside today at all. We've been under some pretty solid 1/4"-1/2" per hour rain at times that added up. It is crazy how this will be almost 5" for July, already above the monthly normal, but is 10" less than some in SNE.

There are hour long interviews with him on Section 10 and Starting 9 podcasts and he comes off as a very likeable player. Him and JD together is hilarious. I got a much different opinion of him after hearing him chat on those podcasts.

Up to 1.66”. Almost an inch in there since emptying the stratus earlier this morning. Hopefully this pushes out by 1-2pm.

Yeah no thanks, I’m already pissed that it’s raining today lol. Need to figure out when I can get outside for a couple hours, hopefully this crap can turn off by midday. Mountain bike and hiking trails don’t need water. It’s been so good and dry. Snowboarding legend Jeremy Jones was in Stowe recently commenting about how good and dry the dirt is in NVT for biking this past week.

In 17 days too! Averaging 0.90” per day so far this month. That’s wild.

Miller’s Falls in Franklin County, MA on CoCoRAHS coming in with 5.63” . More rain in a day than we’ve had this whole summer by far up north.

Not sure I’ve ever seen a MLB go this long in torrential rain. It’s been pouring for a while. There’s a pond behind home plate.

3’ above flood for that type of mellower topography is absolutely wild. That’ll spread out into some surprising areas for folks who didn’t think it’s possible. 150% of flood stage.

That was embarrassing. Verdugo loves talking with the fans. That’s what they do to repay him. If he was hit by that thrown baseball out of the stands, I mean wtf.

Vaz did not swing there with bases loaded. Sox bench was right to be outraged.

Those rainfall amounts are still hard to comprehend. A quick 3-5.5" over a decent footprint... in an already extremely high water table and stressed waterways. That's some tropical storm type rain and one can imagine 50-100 year flooding from it.

Yeah Sale and Eovaldi were paid way too much. They were basically paid for past performances that seemed like a thank you contract. Luckily Eovaldi is working out this season and hopefully Sale can come back strong, but no way those guys would get those deals a year later from their signing. Cole is having a great start again. Sox are only leading because Eovaldi is pitching well and the Yankee offense is dead... Cole's also lucky KiKi didn't hit that ball just now about 1-2 feet further and it's a home run. But he's an ace pitcher, no question. The Stanton contract is definitely the worst IMO. Paid like $27-$30 mil a year through 2027 for a DH that doesn't play the field. Leaves very little roster flexibility if you can't put him in the field. This game is a solo home run away from a tie anyway. Great pitching tonight.

Humans have a lot of issues. Most of the time we don't see it but the human race is a mental basket case on the whole. People also don't notice it until it affects them too. But take a random sample of humanity and the majority of them have some aspects that would give a psychiatrist a hard-on. The number of germaphobes is striking and COVID likely was cataclysmic for them. Several years ago (pre-COVID) while driving down to Albany we had a car issue on I-89 and were assisted by a NY State Trooper. He wore black gloves the whole time which I thought was interesting for the situation, like he wouldn't be concerned with finger prints or whatever. He took the gloves off right before he left but as we thanked him for the assist in securing a tow, I went to shake his hand and he said "Oh sorry, I'm a huge germophobe, I don't shake hands, I won't even pick up a restaurant menu. I just took off my gloves." I thought it was an interesting line of work for someone like that, but thank you for your service. Maybe he was messing with me and as a rule doesn't shake hands, but he actually said he doesn't touch restaurant menus. This jacked dude with a bulletproof vest talking about germs. The human mind is interesting. I can't imagine that type of person dealing with COVID though.

Didn't get any real rain today. Maybe a couple hundredths? Had one brief shower while hiking right after this photo... looking due south, a shower moving in from the west (right to left). Was barely enough to wet the ground up at 3,600ft, might not have even reached the ground at 1,500ft or lower aside from a random sprinkle.

Yeah I just had a couple minutes to look at some PWS…supports your 80% theory. Radar off by about an inch, but that’s 5” instead of 6” lol. Eastford site with 5.11” today . Several Ashford sites 3.50-4.75”. That is an insane amount of water to come on top of all the soakings already.

Any ground truth to these numbers in NE CT? Good lord.

What a time to be alive in that Pike region to NCT, NRI and adjacent Mass.