powderfreak

Personally I'd rather take my chances at an Amazon fulfillment center though than the High School classrooms I grew up in (maybe fire code now makes it so the windows can open?)... I still don't think any of those get the contact time person to person that you get in a school classroom with 30 people packed into a space smaller than your Randolph living room lol. But yes, everyone should be getting hazard pay. I thought what we considered "essential businesses" was ludicrous from the start... essential business means access to all the luxuries Americans are used to...essential to living or not.

For sure. I just think if I had a union I would use it to negotiate those terms. But yes this whole thing hasn't been "fair" and honestly life hasn't been "fair" for many people long before COVID.

Sounds like a normal day in a non-union job vs. a job with a union, ha. Every Target employee since the dawn of time has been saying "Can you imagine being able to negotiate for more paid time off or better health coverage instead of them just telling us to shove it?!"

Not being asked to assume some risk? You are packing a lot of bodies into extremely poorly ventilated, old school buildings for hours and hours at a time. I don't blame teachers for looking for something other than the same ol' same ol' school day.

Now that look like damage.

Hopefully the bear living in the dumpster was ok.

I feel like you guys get 0” or 8” in a summer month with a river of moisture training over SE SNE from the ocean. But you don’t do just the sustained 1”/week for 4”/month that averages show.

This backside wind is pretty impressive. Probably the strongest wind-blown rain yet just moved in with classic NW flow. That increase is lighting up some heavy showers.

Crazy. Over this way Mansfield is either having issues or it just didn’t happen, as they didn’t even gust to 50mph at 4,000ft. Something seems off though as MMNV1 has been <10mph sustained the past 3 hours. Feels windier down here.

They keep any type of summer wind records up there? Pushing 150mph is pretty sweet.

Also relatively cool, raw day but with dews. 66/65 currently. High of 68F. First max in the 60s in a long time. Inside temperature is 66F just from open doors, coolest it’s been in a while.

Just passed 2.00” rain, about what models showed. It’s nothing excessive but it has been a much better soaker than I expected in terms of lacking runoff. It’s been raining since 7am, just a steady drenching rain, heavier at times. The heavier echoes around here were moving so fast they never really seemed to sit over one spot for long, keeping the flood threat down in the mountains and allowing vegetation to soak it up. If you are going to see 1-4” of rain across the BTV CWA, generally this was the way to do it for a soaking that isn’t all runoff and flash flood.

Sweet micro-scale observations man. I love that stuff. In the end the actual gusts doesn't matter, 54 or 62 or whatever. Once over 50mph its all strong wind. Glad you guys got a sweet wind storm out of it. Do you have power? My cousin on Long Island just showed me his estimate for restoring power by PSEG is 1:30pm on August 7th.

Yeah that's solid for an open air field even in a low elevation. Being in a forested neighborhood would probably slow it down but tree top gusts were probably 50-60mph fairly widespread in E.CT it seems.

Looks like the Mount Washington peak wind in the past two hours has been 107kts/123mph! That's impressive for summer up there. KMWN 042248Z 12068G85KT 1/16SM SHRA FG VV001 13/13 RMK PK WND 120107/09 The current observation of 79G96 is pretty solid, lol. KMWN 042348Z 13079G96KT

You got an anemometer on that Davis? Man, prolonged 65+ it must look like a war zone, especially those gypsy weakened trees!

It has gotten real windy in the past hour or so in Stowe. Really don’t want to lose power. Gusts to 40mph seems to be where we start to lose power from the damn white pines on Cady Hill. A bit over 1.5” of rain, will probably be close to the modeled 2” of rainfall most models showed here.

Glad he got his damaging event... he lives for that shit, must be in full glory.

Yeah 50mph feels absolutely crazy in the middle of the summer. As a whole like snow intensities, they are over-estimated. If anyone saw a legit 65-70+ gust in foliage dense hardwoods it would look like a tornado ripped through.

I still think most people under-estimate how strong 40mph is with full foliage. That's pretty solid to get 40mph measured in an apple orchard. Legit 40s in interior New England is more than enough to take some branches down.

My father says he’s over 4” of rain now SW of ALB. Thats probably about their August normal rainfall right there.

Ah I didn’t look at surrounding areas. Seemed high but tropical storm and all...

It's 81/81 there.... tropical! That's crazy to get 100% RH at 81F.

Been raining all morning, only a quarter inch so far but laying the ground work for later. 68/66

Finally a crisp, normal night. Quite the warm river heading north through the Champlain Valley.