Cold Miser

1 hour ago, CoastalWx said:

Brisk morning here with breezy NNE winds. But the big news is.....Sun! 

Sun like days of yore?

20 minutes ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

2 seasons acting like seasons in the UP. 

Be fair...Maybe 2.5 seasons up there?

32 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

Hopefully not a bad omen, but I saw a rat dying on a deck today....however Sox vs Yanks ps tilt and weak modoki el nino screams 2004.

I had an owl suicide bomb my car 2 nights ago.  Thing was huge.  Didn't have a prayer though once it hit.  I got out to see if it was o.k., but it died a slow death in front of me...staring at me with those creepy owl eyes.

23 hours ago, ORH_wxman said:

87-88 was a pretty good winter. December sucked though after the action in November. January 1988 was a frigid and snowy month. 

The following 4 winters were pathetic. Probably easily the worst 4 years stretch in SNE...96-97 through 99-00 has a case down in southern CT/southern RI...but elsewhere in SNE, probably not. 

I was in college in RI those 4 years and while there was some snow, I recall the rain and misery mist being the seasonal trend for many of those winter months (I nicknames Rhode Island Rain Island the entire time I was there).  Awful.  I was living in DC from 93 through 97 and I remember coming back to school one of those winters, either 93-94 or 94-95 and Newport to Bristol were buried when I came.  Cars were literally buried like you would see after a Boston blizzard.  I think it was a series of storms that just never missed R.I.

26 minutes ago, TugHillMatt said:

Appreciate that. I sure am familiar with that site. Love it.

Nothing quite like tug hill over to stillwater in winter, especially when the temps and wind are just right.

On 10/2/2018 at 11:55 PM, TugHillMatt said:

Hi, all. I have been perusing your forum since moving to the Tug Hill Plateau this summer. Can't wait for winter to start!

Nice shots of the ADKS.

Similar situation here as to what many of you are reporting. The color show has seemed really slow...but all of a sudden...Poof! The past two days have been quite the change.

You've probably already seen this site, but if not, it's got great cams on the hill:
http://www.northernchateau.com/northernchateau.htm

32 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

7 I think  Tied for the record?

They mentioned 7 on the news yesterday, but I am not sure if that was before any confirmations from this week.  Either way a total wet dream come true for Wiz.

16 minutes ago, MetHerb said:

Where is this?

Kevin's basement.

14 minutes ago, weathafella said:

Wow!

Vague and ambiguous.

47 minutes ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

It’s a bit much, I need my 4 seasons...though it’s been more like 2 seasons lately as my climate is closer to ATL of 10 years ago, apparently.

15 hours ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

The contingent of folks who pi$$ and moan about Kev incessantly are far more inimical to the welfare of the forum than he ever will be.

Just in case people are not in the know:

1 hour ago, LurkerBoy said:

You long-time posters treat this forum like it's your little comedy open-mic night, with only some members regularly posting good information or responding to questions or guiding rather than patronizing. 

The reason silly questions are asked a lot is because they're not being answered fundamentally in the thread of convo that should be happening!

???
How did the circle of trust comment make this your response?

20 minutes ago, J Paul Gordon said:

Yup, kinda like that. Except we could call it (Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer, etc) Pattern Banter. That covers everything. Kinda like the National Enquirer, a rare piece that is actual journalism mixed with space aliens and monkey women bearing human children. Which is exactly what we're doing here, I guess. 

Kev, how about changing the thread to read, "Torchtober Model and Pattern Disco Banter"? 

We need more of this.

3 minutes ago, J Paul Gordon said:

Well, actually, some may not find this imagery unappealing. Some might even dispense with the robes.

But, seriously, the fun is being had over the hyperbole. If we are going to take you seriously (and you have had some excellent hits in the past), you might want to drop the "torch" references, "endless summer", and "seasons in seasons". It takes away from the seriousness of the discussion. But it also makes it a bit of fun. Don't take it to heart. Really. 

If November and December are outrageously warm, I'll do some hyperventilating of my own. Perhaps it would be better to create banter pages for this sort  of thing and be a bit stricter about keeping serious meteorology pages more "scientific".

Its not you, bud, its the choice of words. Seasons in seasons here means wide variations from year to year, particularly when it comes to temperatures in the colder season(s). My dream world would have February 2015 as the model for the entire period from Nov 15 to March 15. Summers would be warm with dewpoints in the low 40's and just enough rain to keep us from burning up California style. I don't know of many places on this planet where that happens.  Anyhow, chill a bit. If anyone is actually responding to you in anger or contempt they've got a simple set of non meteorological abbreviations: AW/AH. 

Kind of like this one with "Banter" in the title, which coincidentally is where most of the hype, endless summer, and endless winter references are made?

10 hours ago, kdxken said:

FYI for all the beer drinkers it's a good time.  And oh yeah, Tree House is waaaay overrated.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mass-fermentational-tickets-48108602124?aff=erelexpmlt

I'm not a big beer fan, but I go to brew woo in Worcester with my friends in the Spring and it's a pretty good time.  Real good atmosphere. 
Looks like they have a Fall version too:
https://brewwoo.com/

5 hours ago, Great Snow 1717 said:

Someone should have long ago given him a timeout.

2 minutes ago, BRSno said:

Where's his weenie tag?

If that's the case then 75% of this forum would require the ban hammer and/or weenie tag come mid winter... especially when the season is not acting in proper seasonal form.

9 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

wHAT -

"accurate" = Odd choice of word.  I commented on that earlier.

6 minutes ago, J Paul Gordon said:

Not in Kevlandia. A whole different climate there. In that country bananas are already growing in the lower Connecticut Valley. I should be picking them in ORH by the end of next year. Think mid Pliocene warm period or even PETM (Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum). "Seasons in seasons" were quite different back then. Anyone looking for a climate remotely like the one we (used to) have here in New England better buy land in northern Greenland and the bets are off there, too. Temps in BTV and CON should max out in the low 90's next week with DPs in the mid 70's. Wish they hadn't closed the pool at our condo in Maine.

Lemon trees for all in the north woods of CT?

Just now, dryslot said:

Its fall, Summer is over, (see calendar) Some have to let it go, It will be back next year.

I expect a true Autumn of yore coming our way.  ...Just wait for it.  It will come.

52 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

Freak he doesn't get me at all....it's just such nonsense BS that he throws out there...it has to be called out and commented on.  People come here to get accurate info...and when you see posts that just aren't true; or calls of weather a week out that you know won't verify, a comment from others who aren't pushing BS is warranted.  That's it.

 

Plenty today have commented on the Hype...I just elaborated on their thoughts.  

9 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

Nobody is a stalker Kev.  You're just a #BS'er that's all.

Yes, people do come to this site to see what kind of info they can take away from the discussions.  Taking the hype aspect out of the equation, "Accurate" is tough word to use when dealing with weather predictions.  During a particular event we will see variations on forecasts with some of those variations being very different from each other.  With that being said there are a few here whom I look to for specifics for my location.  Sometimes I will even text them away from the noise of the forum when I am looking specifics.  Other times I just follow the bouncing ball within a storm threat/ forecast page, taking away from it what I can.  Yes, it is easy to get lost in the nonsense, and hyperbole. 

As frustrating as it can be for some, especially if people have their predisposed hopes up for a threat that does not amount to what they expected, I can see how what they perceive as nonsense can piss them off.  The never ending summer posts are another example of this.  People have to learn to tune out what they don't want to see.  Kevin, like others expresses things the way he see's it.  Some will argue that he's not a met so he should put a lid on it.  Maybe it's his agenda, or whatever to get under people's skin, but in the end it's just weather.  For the most part I like the way things move in here.  You learn not to get hung up on peoples opinions.  

Kevin is one of the guys I contact outside of the forum since he has a pretty decent record for East of the River and along and north of route 6 locales, at least with me. 

53 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

One more thing I just looked up... is that the 31F at MVL on September 9th is a new 30-year extreme.  The previous earliest 32F temperature was September 11th, 1995.

I remember discussing with snowman21 the 26F temp that morning at SLK and it fell very near the end of the 10th percentile, showing it was a very rare occurrence for it to be that cold, even at a spot like SLK.

Funny how that stuff happens sometimes in a sea of very warm anomalies.  Had that one morning of prime rad conditions not happened, we'd be really getting towards the end of the whiskers, ha.

 

Definite days of yore topic that will be discussed at length over growlers of homemade mead, and corn cob pipes while sitting in ye olde' pub 'n' grub for generations to come.

1 hour ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

Nobody should break the smallest sweat in their own crib...no matter how big and hairy.

I agree.

I just happen to live in a super insulated, tight apartment, with a ceiling fan above my head. As long as windows and doors were shut I was only slightly uncomfortable at times. I just never felt the need to drag-ass up to my house to grab a window unit. ...This coming from a guy who hates, HATES, HATES, HATES!!! humidity and high heat. 

7 hours ago, dendrite said:

I'd argue you have to go way back to find something like this. This is the most humid since the late 40s and before that you had the dustbowl days and the little ice age. Maybe back to when the vikings were living on Greenland?

Viking days of yore?

Stay tough Steve.  Hoping for speedy recovery en route after surgery today. 

We need you to help tame the endless heat and high dew talk.  

4 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

If the ACATT crew were Scotsman, Ginx would be William Wallace.

Maybe, but Flippity floppity (i.e. Kevin) would be Robert The Bruce.  ...One day as King of Cold the next day as Sultan of sweat.