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  1. CoolHandMike
    So ready for this. Tomorrow we're making a crap ton of beef stew with the intent to preserve ~8 quarts or so for the coming months. Our house is going to smell ridiculous and I'm here for it. What better way to spend a cool, rainy fall day. Cheers you guys~
  2. CoolHandMike
    This has been a ridiculously great stretch of weather to find one's self working outside. I've been slinging a 3" hand auger for geologic sampling for the past three days, and I'm so happy the work was delayed until this week (we were originally slated to do this a month ago!!!) We hit 48.9°F this morning. I needed a sweatshirt for the first few hours yesterday with the wind, but today was just glorious. Going to attempt a drone flight tomorrow at work, I'm hoping the wind stays calm. Anything above 15mph sustained and gusts above 20mph grounds us, so here's hoping. I see highs in the 60's in the forecast, finally! Saturday looks to be a properly fall-like day, and how appropriate. I think I will choose to celebrate with a home-made beef stew. Missed you, fall.
  3. CoolHandMike
    Aww, that's a bummer. I really need to do what you did and find a way to extract the data locally. Thanks, Agnes!
  4. CoolHandMike
    So I'm looking to upgrade my weather station in the near future. Does anybody here know if you can keep your existing station name (and thus be able to maintain contiguous data collection)? I have almost 3 years of saved data and I'd hate to lose access to it. Really enjoyed last night's "sweatshirt weather". Our low was 50.3°F.
  5. CoolHandMike
    Up late, can't sleep. This is very nice, haven't seen it this low since June:
  6. CoolHandMike
    The ~3.5" of rain we got over the last few days has set my basement sump pump into overdrive. I think the 11" rain event a couple of months ago altered the groundwater flow patterns, since before that, the sump well was always dry after previous significant rainfalls. Has me somewhat worried, if I'm honest. I really need to source a battery backup for that pump.
  7. CoolHandMike
    uh, ok, I take it back:
  8. CoolHandMike
    Sky just got super dark, but we're squarely in the fringezone:
  9. CoolHandMike
    I agree with this. I also think we can all agree that you do have maybe just a wee little bit of bias in your data? No? You are the only one here consistently saying "Oh, look how cold it is here in East Nantmeal compared to everywhere else! Climate change and global warming are obviously false!" I mean, you haven't actually said that (have you?) but I've been here long enough to discern that that's obviously your meaning. You're at a much higher elevation than many of the rest of us (this has been pointed out to you numerous times). Nearby weather stations at lower elevations (where most of the rest of us live) do not reflect your observations, as perfectly calibrated as they may be. As crass as this exchange may have been, how do you reconcile your empirical deviations with nearby stations that you have not cherry-picked to support your claims? (I will not throw any more graphs at you; I've already done so, and you did not provide any meaningful feedback.) Or are we all to believe that all of our observations are complete trash because our equipment isn't all NIST/NOAA certified? We have actual meteorologists (and other scientists, myself included) on this sub, and it'd be a real shame if we lost their participance due to the obstinance of some members to recognize how science actually works. You don't find data to fit your hypothesis. You evolve your hypothesis over time because of the data, even if it means you are initially wrong. Climate change is real, sir, and no amount of shouting "East Nantmeal is getting colder!" is going to change that. I'm done arguing with you and have decided to put you on ignore. You are an outlier here in this forum. Take that as you will, and please do enjoy your sweet, insulated life atop East Nantmeal; I've driven through it many times, and it truly does look like and sound like a lovely place to live. For now. ********************* AS AN OBS. Hoping this heat wave breaks tomorrow. From my shitty back yard weather station: Cheers and goodnight everyone. Let's all put this to bed.
  10. CoolHandMike
    1.18" in total, a good soaker. We needed it. Forecast calls for t-storms from 6am to 11pm, LOL I really, highly doubt it. 68°F right now, and has climbed a little bit in the past hour... This is not normal for this time of year, is it? There is still plenty of juice in the atmosphere, DP is 67, so we're definitely primed for more rain, we shall see if it actually happens. I keep waiting for that "traditional" pattern change that used to take place around Labor day...
  11. CoolHandMike
    Well that escalated quickly:
  12. CoolHandMike
    Well dang. You love to see it:
  13. CoolHandMike
    Ok, radar's starting to fill in to my south. Finally.
  14. CoolHandMike
    Nothing here. It's all forming just to my north.
  15. CoolHandMike
    97.7°F high IMBY today. This is (literally) not cool. Mid 90's at my work site in southern NJ these past few days, I am DONE with this heat. Sweating though my clothes multiple times per day is something I'd like to really stop doing, please and thank you.
  16. CoolHandMike
    Hope you all enjoyed "False Fall". I sure am: Next week. "Second Summer": UGH. At least the days are shorter now.
  17. CoolHandMike
    What's a KU?
  18. CoolHandMike
    I'll fill in:
  19. CoolHandMike
    That cell that just missed to my north has some impressive looking rotation in all the scud underneath it. I wish I could toss up a drone and get a better look, but RDG might have unkind words to say to me if I did, lol.
  20. CoolHandMike
    That mid-latitude cyclone currently over Iowa looks particularly impressive on satellite: https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/?parms=regional-northeast-truecolor-48-0-100-1&checked=map&colorbar=undefined Set to 48 frames and run the slider back and forth to really check it out.
  21. CoolHandMike
    Wow. That happened to us a lot in Chester County. I do not miss it. Apart from the many reasons I don't particularly like living in Reading, our power has been nearly rock-solid here, with only one major outage in the past three years, verses I can't remember how many in Chester County. You could sneeze in our old place in Thorndale and a transformer would blow up somewhere close by.
  22. CoolHandMike
    Yes, thanks for asking. The A/C company told us to turn it off at the breaker for ten minutes if this happened again, as a stop-gap until they could come out again. Thankfully it worked this time, but they'll be out here first thing in the morning (again).
  23. CoolHandMike
    Rolling thunder turned into a huge CRACKA-LACKA right over my house. .75" recorded in the bucket. Still lots of rolling thunder as well.
  24. CoolHandMike
    Rolling thunder and steady rain here. Ended up with 1.11" for yesterday, already closing in on another half inch in just the past 12 minutes.
  25. CoolHandMike
    Indeed! Really enjoying this. Can't have asked for a better August thus far.
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