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that’s where the nest looks to be…inside that hole in the siding I put up the glass but the bees seemed to be getting in from the top right and zero clue how.

One day last week I noticed there were several yellow jackets inside on some curtains. So I did some further exploring and found many dead ones on the inside of the window and on the floor behind a piece of furniture. I was stunned because I had just cleaned in that area not long ago. I did some looking around the window area (both inside and outside) and could not figure out how the bees came inside. So I got rid of all the bees. Well the past few days I noticed more bees getting inside. I did some additional exploring and by our front door there seems to be a nest and I noticed bees were coming in from the screen door...from the top right of it and zero clue how because there are no holes. This morning I found several in the kitchen. I sprayed last night in the whole where the bees come in and out of but what else can be done? What also shocks me is...for yellow jackets these things don't appear to be very aggressive. Even inside...they just hang around on an object or walk across the floor. Even when I swat at the ones by the door so they fly outside...they aren't aggressive.

Thursday night/Friday a bit intriguing

Late Thursday night/Friday could be interesting in terms of convective potential. Maybe a forced line of convection with damaging wind gusts/spinner potential.

don't wet it too much...might freeze

Also depends on what we're defining "cool blast" as but you make a strong point. Just looking at 850-temperature anomalies, they don't really deviate much from the "average" behind the cold front. In this warming state of climate if we're going to see below-average temperatures...like solidly below, I'd like to see a rather anomalously cold llvl airmass. Also we should note...the extent of the air behind it is really dependent on how deep that low becomes near Hudson Bay. But given what the airmass looks like now...diurnal heating will likely somehow find a way to get most places a few ticks above-average. This cool blast though will likely be better defined regarding overnight temps than daytime temps.

sounds like a tree-topper or otherwise known as the Kevin-special

I went back the other day and was looking a little closer at it...you could almost argue the signature was actually more suggestive of divergence than rotation.

I know fall is coming... I saw a wolf spider on my bathroom floor this morning. I was standing drying off and I saw something crawling at the bottom of the sink...stupid wolf spider. Even without my glasses I could see it. I was scared because it was only a few feet in front of me so while I was doing my hair I was keeping a close eye on it...which was tough b/c I didn't have my glasses on. In the three seconds I looked at the mirror to get the cute styling going, I looked down...done. I pick up a piece of clothing that I wore yesterday that was on the floor and shook it...IT RAN INTO MY CLOTHES. Not sure if I killed it but there is a little portable heater thing in the bathroom...I picked it up and dropped it on the spider...hopefully the leg of the heater got the spider but I did not see it crawl anywhere after that. WOLF SPIDERS DON'T BELONG IN THE HOUSE

Definitely going to be the first "cool blast" of the season but I'm not so sure we really see "below-normal" temperatures during that period...I think we'll see temperatures closer to avg...some areas may come out a tick below an some probably a tick above

Not for you

It is very depressing looking through the 384-HR GFS and not seeing much CAPE across the country

the cold just sucks...it really, really sucks. 30's...40's it's tolerable (a bit annoying when wind is involved) but days when it its in the teens or even 20's and we get into the single digits at night (or below-zero) with wind...just nothing fun or enjoyable about that at all.

see they smart I will agree...the gnats and bugs that swarm you in the summer really suck...that's probably the only thing I hate.

Even the penguins hate winter...that's why they're dying. they offing themselves

Outside of snow winter is pointless...it's stupid. It's depressing how short our warm season is up here and it's even more depressing when you factor in the length of day changes. And how many good snow storms to we really get a winter anyways? and honestly...outside of the weather aspect and what drives us to love snow...snow makes winter even worse as it creates more hassle than it's worth. There is zero enjoyment being outside in the winter...ZERO. People can say what they want about the heat and the summer but at least outside of peak heating hours, being outside is tolerable and at least there is the beach/ocean to go to. Where do you go in the winter....ummm nowhere...maybe you're lucky and have a fireplace or a wood stove...but that is still INSIDE. Winter's you have to wear all this clothing and long sleeve crap and if you get dressed before you do your hair...you're totally screwed.

Eventually a '38 redux will occur and we may have to never worry about when leaves change color again

IDK why the US Regional maps section is not working...but that way for month https://www.nrcc.cornell.edu/regional/regional/regional.html

You can't compare temperatures in September with that of August...you can still have a summer-like pattern in September but because of the climatological decrease in temperatures, descending sun angle, and other factors, of course you won't see widespread upper 80's and 90's (especially the further north you go). We've been above-average in terms of temperatures for the month. Summer can't be and shouldn't be defined by temperatures either. The pattern we have been in...even this month is more typical of summer, but because we are nearing the equinox and going through the beginning transition phases (especially at higher latitudes) we are more prone to getting weaknesses within the pattern (which is what drives the fronts through and these brief cooler periods)...but at the end of the day after these brief fronts/troughs we end right back into a summer pattern

I agree...I think any sort of troughs we see here would be more transient than sustaining. I think though we could be primed for a pattern change moving towards mid-October and that might feature a sustained period of below-average temperatures with active weather. Lots of noise in the medium-to-long range which seems indicative that we are seeing the hemisphere transition from summer to fall (and eventual winter). Noticing though we really may start to see changes with the jet configuration across the western Pacific...lots of wave breaking being modeled and momentum deposit into the high latitudes. Another thing to watch too are the signals for these tropical waves of the Southeast U.S. coast when become pretty strong and get shot north.

Quite a bit of uncertainty towards the end of the month and the first week of October. Not that this would be totally unusual for this period but I envision sort of a rollercoaster type pattern where we alternate well above-average with near or slightly below-average temperatures (although what will happen is we are either going to be well above-average or somewhat below-average...don't think there is a middle ground). You can see the huge spread quite well just by looking at NAO forecasts alone. There are some hints though we could get some pseudo-blocking. Hell...even uncertainties with what happen across the West...huge spread in the PNA signal too.

I had a dream last night there was some crazy system working through the deep south and parts of AL and FL were going to get snow...in September

I saw a flash of lightning on my way to work this morning!!! It was fork lightning

Lack of stronger s/w forcing probably was a big factor too. The bulk of the s/w forcing was in SE Canada...which can usually benefit NNE but it was a bit farther north into Canada. If the stronger height falls were a bit quicker I bet it would have made a difference. Just too much of a disconnect between sfc front and upper-level forcings

One thing of note today was how poor the llvl lapse rates were. Obviously a product of lack of sun and strong sfc heating but it's very difficult to get widespread high wind event with poor llvl lapse rates...especially when the shear alone isn't anything overly through the roof