powderfreak

Finally got a nice drink last night. Pretty good claps of thunder too, nice Nocturnal storm vibes. 0.90” in the Stratus this morning. Wasn’t expecting that.

Yeah it’s something that happens rarely at the picnic tables. I’ve seen freezing mist/drizzle with clear ice over snow in September. It’s very hard to get a deep layer sub-freezing column. The summits have been known to get sub-0C on upslope flow but with super cooled water droplets. Not a cold enough atmosphere to support ice crystals.

Today the dog said goodbye to winter with a final roll in the snow. This is the last patch of frozen water on Mansfield and likely to melt out in the next 24 hours. It goes very fast once it gets this small. I also love that you can see the footprint of it, with the green vegetation all around the dead, flattened grasses. It's crazy to think the brown grass, recently melted off, is going through the same process that our lawns go through when they melt out in April, ha.

Annually! That thing gets worked at near 4kft and exposed fully to wind from like 270 degrees around the dial. I don’t believe it got it last summer though with the COVID stuff (bigger things to worry about than the picnic tables and deck, ha), so that’s two winters of wear and tear.

63F and a bit muggy at the picnic tables… haze and high clouds too. Flesh devouring bugs too.

I don't have a station online, there are several very close by. I just have a basic one for the garden. My climate seems to very closely resemble MVL ASOS on the whole, we drop faster in the evening as the shadow from Mansfield hits first. Gives it a head start over MVL. But by morning, the two spots seem very close in low temps. Afternoon highs seem pretty similar too on sunny days.

That makes sense based on our mountain climo. November seems to feature a baroclinic zone starting to move into and through the area. And I think we do better on the general climo NW to SE (sinking south) period than when the jet stream mean rises north in the spring. The northern Greens like to live on those cold frontal passages, with dynamics or strong thermal changes going from warm/moist to cold/dry... found more in November than April. On average April is probably more warm air advection and November more cold air advection. On a very simplistic level with a lot of seasonal variability, I think that bolded stat can be explained as simply as cold air advection and warm air advection in the large aggregate.

The first night off for the Red Sox after a 17 day stretch. Weird having to decide on something to watch.

You probably weren’t spending much time in this sub-forum before last year, but prior to that this Banter thread would grow like a page per week, if that, during the summer. This June banter thread probably has more posts already than a decade of summer banter threads… back before debating and trying to solve all the world’s problems was allowed .

That’s awesome that it updates so often. I’ll bookmark that tool. That’s often my issue with graphical sites like that as they often update only on the hour and can be late at that… so they often have decent lag and don’t update the SPECI metars.

I use mesowest to look by station manually often. I’m sure there are much easier ways to do it. https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mesowest/getobext.php?table=1&banner=off&sid=KMVL

Looks like 30s for dew points all the way to almost the south coast even. Good stuff.

Dews got down to 35F a couple hours ago. Now back into the upper 30s… 68/39. Perfect.

What did you end up with for a low? 41.7F down this way along the West Branch. Felt real nice. And yeah if you sit in a relatively lower spot (but still good elevation) that’s the best for night cooling. A bowl/field at like 1300ft seems ideal with higher hills around.

42F. Crisp.

Nope, didn't age well. Richards did not pitch well in the end. Now the bullpen trying to cough this one up, after a dramatic 2-out, 2-strike grand slam by Arroyo.

Nice dude! Crisp evening. 49F here, but MVL is 55F. Temperatures are all over the place on the mesonet. Calm and clear is key, the lower (relatively to background geography) spots are cooling efficiently but any breeze causes a spike.

Garrett Richards pitching well... and then just crushing an RBI double, one-hopping the wall, against the Braves. This game in Atlanta sounds like a home game for the Sox, the Braves fans hate it. I love when a Red Sox pitcher gets to hit and absolutely smokes a ball. 104mph exit velo, ha!

Haha a seasoned vet in the political forum. The imagery is strong with worker bees... just alive to service the great Queen bee. I think it works even better than what you had in mind.

It's hard to fathom that temperature to be honest. Seeing you standing nonchalantly next to that thermometer reading is pretty insane to me. 125F and a vibe of just chillin' out there. Can't imagine that. I guess it's like stepping into a dry sauna for a bit.

Basic worker bees . You do have a gift at making your points in the most condescending way possible, lol. It’s not a wrong take.

Ok yeah I agree with that. The playbook is the same, illicit an emotional response to a story. Whether it’s “Dateline” in 1996 with a “You won’t believe what this mother in Ohio has to say if you want to keep your kids safe, stay tuned at 7pm to find out how a child can get stolen right out of their own bed” or a headline now to get you to click on the story online…. they’ve always been sensationalizing stuff with fear. You are right though, they’ve honed their skills over time, like any competitive business does.

Right, exactly. Everything with this is how it ties into public policy. Like people shouldn’t be surprised there are people afraid of variants, because humans are afraid of all sorts of stuff that doesn’t make sense. Same with the media. The media hasn’t changed, it does the same sensationalist stuff it’s done since the 1980s, but really tapped into suburban middle class fears in the 1990s to grow ratings. So people harping on the media, they are just doing the same thing they’ve always done…. the difference no one talks about (though saw Amarshall hit it earlier) is how it affected policy. None of the behavioral stuff exhibited by humans during this is any bit surprising. But it crossed that boundary into public policy so now people care what others are afraid of.

Plenty of people afraid of masking again or shut downs, likely more than are actually afraid of the virus/variants, ha. But humans are weird and afraid of a lot of things, many of which don’t make sense. Like people being terrified of flying in an airplane despite it being the safest mode of transportation. We have plenty of largely irrational fears; COVID is nothing new in that regard.

Chamber weather but need to decrease sky cover another 25% or so to hit true COC status. Getting the Gondola ready for Saturday’s summer opening. Nice hoodie weather up here.