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30 minutes ago, VivaManchVegas said:

I hope they have some heavey's to keep that stuff at a minimum.  I suspect within 3 or 4 games you will see him with the team. 

I would not be shocked to see Hagens before the season ends but the team may prefer him get playoff experience with Providence and may not want to burn his first year of an ELC for what only may amount to a handful of games. I was 100% confident they would have signed Hagens to his ELC once BC season ended but given they didn’t, not sure they will now. 

32 minutes ago, kdxken said:

Did you go to Springfield to watch Hagens ? It will be a miracle id bruins win in Buffalo. 1-1 going into the second so there's a chance. 

 

 

I did not, I had something to do after work and Bruins are playing. If bruins were off tonight I probably would have. With going to Miami this weekend I won’t be able to watch Saturday night and I can’t even get updates for Sunday’s game. Flight back is 6:30 and game is 6:30 and I’m flying Avello which has no WiFi   

2 minutes ago, tamarack said:

We lost our black Lab of 13 years on Oct 29, 2016, and with us past normal retirement age led to pondering whether to get another dog.  We decided to wait until spring before making a decision.  "Spring" came on Feb 4  a yellow Lab mix thru Maine Lab Rescue.  Scrawny 32-lb 17-month-old fixed female from TX.  (She's now in the 50s and not fat.)  Might've never seen snow, and her first 2 weeks here included 5 storms totaling 45", then the Pi-day blizzard really spooked her.

Now 10 yr old, turns 11 in July, still spry but achy when I do a reasonably long bushwhack on our woodlot, as she has to sniff everything - if I walk a mile, she does 3 or 4.

I wouldn't be surprised if we don't make it until the end of summer lol. The plan is my girlfriend is going to go to the shelter and pick out a dog. I can't go and do it because I told her if we encountered pups that were a part of a family there is absolutely zero way I could just take the one, I would have to take the whole family. 

What I should say though is, the dog will pick her. That is how she ended up with the dog. She went to the animal shelter when she was living in Florida and went into a cage...all of the dogs ran and hid into the corner and only one went up to her and she figured that was the one. The dog had just been dropped off at the shelter a day or two before. Talk about fait. 

1 minute ago, DavisStraight said:

Thinking of adopting another one? I didn't want to after I lost mine last year but my wife found one and I love her and so happy she's around.

Yes we 1000% will be, but probably not until later in the summer. 

My girlfriend will begin bar prep in about a month and is taking the exam the end of July and I will be doing two classes over the summer ( I debated taking the summer off but if I do two classes fall/spring/summer I will have my masters end of summer 2027) and they are only 10 week courses so we both are going to be super swamped. 

We both absolutely want to though. She adopted the dog when she lived in Florida, found him at the shelter when he was only 6 months old and she said he was badly abused. The first time I met my girlfriend and came to her house the dog and I got along right away. This dog was absolutely the most best, loving, sweet, and caring dog ever and he had such an amazing life and we want to provide that option to another dog too. 

We still have a cat so we're not totally pet-less. 

11 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

My brother just lost one of his Golden’s suddenly this morning.  Diagnosed with heart swelling yesterday gone today.  Only 9 years old.  

That's terrible  

Just now, WinterWolf said:

Mind off things….? Everything ok pal? 

We had to put our dog down on Monday and scheduled it to happen like 2.5 weeks ago. It was an absolutely emotionally grinding few weeks and really hard processing. I know things will get better over time but the process getting to that point absolutely sucks. 

Flying to PBI from HVN 6:30 Friday morning. Headed to Miami for a few days for a bachelor party. Hoping that will at least take my mind off things after this week but much, much looking forward to a few days of temperatures around 80 with a touch of humidity. 

We said goodbye to our dog today. Gentleman came at 3:00 as we chose an in-home option. We got to feed him everything he wanted and he was so happy. Hopefully he’s back to being able to walk and run on the other side again. This sucks though…absolutely sucks. Going to miss him so much. 

40 days!!

Gusts really starting to pick up here 

2 minutes ago, MJO812 said:

I use to watch that show all the time. I think i have to start watching reruns again.

It was phenomenal. It sucks too because the show ended with a massive cliff hanger. They did the movie I think it was after the show ended and were supposed to do a part 2 but it just never materialized. I think there are some channels (I see it on Hulu and Pluto TV) which plays episodes all the time. 

1 minute ago, dryslot said:

This is questionable as to if he has or not.

Hopefully it isn’t true but local news just shared his family confirmed 

Nooooo Chuck Norris died. That’s a blow to the day. Walker Texas Ranger is the first TV show I ever remember 

1 minute ago, dendrite said:

Well BN but not to the Fairbanks extreme. 

For one of my classes we do a class forecasting contest and I thought one of the cities was going to be Fairbanks b/c that’s what the professor listed for the week and I freaked the heck out  thank god he had changed it. 

1 minute ago, dendrite said:

March can suck here, but holy hell at Fairbanks this month.

GWDLT

I wonder where Anchorage ranks too...I feel like its been quite cold, even for them. I mean they aren't usually terrible because they get moderate a bit by the water.

I guess it depends on ones definition of "wintry threats" and potential expectations. As cool or chilly as the pattern looks ahead, there don't seem to be much in the way of prospects to hope for a storm. It's a rather benign pattern, generally associated with weak systems with little room or opportunity to really amplify. If one is just looking for snow showers or whatever, obviously that is still very much in game and always in game, even into mid-April. NNE of course is a different story...always potential there, even into early May. Pretty blue colors on the precip type maps with FROPAS don't mean there is a snow threat. 

1 minute ago, metagraphica said:

Are we moving to Oklahoma? 

Maybe we can move Oklahoma here!

1 minute ago, CoastalWx said:

Let us know when it’s 500 miles closer. 

It's basically spring training of severe weather season. Have to brush off the dust and evaluate threats close by so we're ready when our time comes

Looks like maybe some violence across western and southern PA on Sunday. 

9 hours ago, OceanStWx said:

I'm generally a fan, but it's going to take some education.

The TLDR is that SPC now has a way to highlight low coverage but high potential intensity events.

I think about 6/1/11. Back then there was only a slight risk, but you could make an argument that coverage was reasonable for a slight only not enhanced. You can now add CIG zones to highlight significant tornado risk even in a 2% or 5%. That just wasn't possible before without a 10% hatched.

There was complaining about the miss in MI on day 1. But there was literally no way in the old outlook system to put a significant tornado risk there without upgrading the entire outlook.

That's a great perspective on this, thanks! 

At least there is a shot at some thunder Sunday night, especially towards the coast

1 minute ago, TauntonBlizzard2013 said:

Spring isn’t usually bad here. The ocean affect garbage is oversold once you are 10 miles inland.

But it looks cloudy and raw with some rain Saturday. Not sure how that’s good lol

Saturday should be dry and ranging from upper 40's to 50's 

9 minutes ago, FXWX said:

Reading the critical drought story on 25 Boston makes me wonder if they think we are in the middle of a severe summer drought! Not mid- March?  Banning outdoor water use, etc... Sounds kinda crazy!

https://x.com/i/status/2034340337364218330

Those ridiculous drought maps lead to a whole new form of hype.

1 minute ago, WinterWolf said:

Agreed. But the point was they were so completely buried beyond belief, so having almost nothing almost makes sense to average it out.  But ya, feel sorry for them. 

I think though that was more in the Sierras where that happened (2022-2023 winter?). But outside of that winter I think the West has had some serious "snow droughts" over the past several years. I say that kind of loosely because below average for some of the ski areas still can produce 200" of snow lol but I'm pretty sure many of those areas have been hurting YoY. 

5 minutes ago, MJO812 said:

Euro has nothing and warmer than gfs. Weenie land past 200.

Let me know when its inside 12 hours