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    Napril 2023 Obs/Disco

    in New England

    Posted

    7 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

    My aunt leaves her AC in year round in her bedroom and in the living room. She has a very small place too and it doesn't get cold during the winter inside. I was going to do that at my girlfriends but I just took it out. 

    Heat loss for sure in those spaces.

    New England Met Spring 2023 Banter

    in New England

    Posted

    15 hours ago, mreaves said:

    Nice.  That guy has an interesting blog

    Yeah. He makes a point of taking advantage of the snow when it's there, and travel as much as he can during the day. He is good at pointing out that during what can seem like crappy conditions (shoulder trails along the roads are sparse, etc), but deep in the woods if you are willing to trailer in a bit you can find miles of trails still.  Technically trails close up there by April 15th, but I doubt there was much good riding past this weekend.

    Napril 2023 Obs/Disco

    in New England

    Posted

    1 hour ago, weathafella said:

    I have a vague memory of a similar burst in the early 60s.  I came home drunk and somehow got past my mom undetected before losing my gut contents into the trash  basket in my room.  I opened the window and dumped it.  Unfortunately we had just installed central ac and it landed smack dab into the compressor under my window.   Parents looking at each other the rest of the week muttering how the house smells like vomit…

    lol.
    That is great.

    Napril 2023 Obs/Disco

    in New England

    Posted

    9 hours ago, weathafella said:

    Cover off the compressor this week.  I dare say we’ll need nighttime ac by late week.

    Flight from ord to BOS today.  Warm in chicago and I can almost feel the edge of it here tonight.  Summery week on tap for sure!   Is this April akin to March 2012?

    lol.  Earliest AC power-up in memory for you?

    Napril 2023 Obs/Disco

    in New England

    Posted

    4 hours ago, NW_of_GYX said:


    LCC has been closed for two days. Had my best day in 30 years on skis yesterday at solitude where we’ve gotten a more modest 34” of snow since Sunday. We got “country club” skiing yesterday for the first hour and half as the canyon road opened up. Blower Utah powder on an empty mountain like you read about. Insane. Today both canyons are closed for avy mitigation and the resorts are closed, but tomorrow when things open back up we should be skiing another 12” of dry powder that fell overnight. Here’s a pic of current status from our cabin in the canyon. That’s the neighbors place from our second story deck.


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    Ain't No Foolin'...Winter Is Over (never started) Wrap-Up And Review Thread

    in New England

    Posted

    Since winter weather is finished for most on the forum (for many it was finished in mid-January), with the exception for places like Moose Knuckle, Maine, Deer Toe, Vermont, and Bear Claw, NH, it’s time to recap.

    The grades (all items are equally weighted)

    Overall Seasonal Snowfall: F (farce)
    With a paltry 11” total for the season I didn’t even come close to my seasonal average.  This is the first time in my life that I have lived in an area that received less than a foot of snow for a season. This includes 4 winters in the mid-Atlantic, and 5 winters in R.I.

    Snow vs. Rain: F (futility)
    There were so many rain events I lost count. 

    Staying power/ (number of days) of pack: F (forlorn)
    Pack? Pack my bags and moving to the Sierra Nevada’s for winter next winter…or possibly next week to capitalize on what continues to be a beyond epic winter for that region.

    Local winter enjoyment: F (foolish)
    Cold days with zero walkable ice on the lake, and now on the ground made for a miserable depressing, brown landscape of death and despair.  

    Temperature: C
    There were plenty of cold days, but with bad system timing, and atmospheric dynamics (is such even a thing?), any cold was pretty much useless.

    Snowstorms/ events (quality/ quantity): F (feeble)
    2 events brought about 4” each (mid dec, and late feb).  Big fu.cking deal.   

    Overall Grade: F (f.uck you winter 22/23)

    The pros here will say that there was so much potential…I say, fuc.k potential. It’s all about results.  Potential is like hiring the fresh-out-of-school kid because the hiring team sees so much potential in him, By the time his 90-day probationary period is over they find out that he was hanging out at his desk watching gamer girls on Twich play video games in hot tubs, and goat porn most of the time. But it’s too late because the days, weeks, and months were lost, having zero production.

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    March 2023 Obs/Disco

    in New England

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Typhoon Tip said:

    Nice fat regional power outage blanketing 4 or 5 towns this morning... to which Ayer was one of them.

    Apparently some sub-station decide to trip ... or blow up. Who knows.   Well...actually, it wasn't a damage thing or else we'd be out for 2 weeks.   I read that these substation parts are not stocked?  one particular reason why a Carrington Event would be particularly crippling... because A, it would take a long time to fab the parts necessary for each substation that got zapped, and B, because so many of them... it would take years (years!)  - per NSA estimates - to restore the grid to any kind of function that we've multi-generationally become inextricable so accustomed to needing - to put it nicely.  

    Jesus...   It really does hone two failings about this thing...

    1 ... Ironically, despite all that power being distributed across the face of the planet contained within the wholly dependent grid, it is utterly fragile. 

    2 ... The shear lack of back-up systems ( redundancy ) flop over for what is tantamount to an apocalypse if it truly failed.  It was ugly out there.  Within 20 minutes, the line at Dunkin pooled out the door, and people were yelling into the store as though the staff was somehow at fault.  This is how fast "civility" and order and politeness ... everyday cooperative assumptions begin to break down.  It really is a prerequisite to a species that deserves it's own demise, to evolve it to be helpless without an aspect they do not protect.  Individual residences and edifice can certainly formulate ways to take themselves off grid when the grid trips... but still... society should long been researching and implementing back up systems - they don't even have to be as distributive as the primary - 'brown supply' the f'n population. Just with enough to run a light and heating element. 

    It will get worse before it gets worse.

    We are slowly breaking down within civil societies.  The more technology develops, and allows people to become hermits, doing everything within the confines of their homes... working, playing, etc., while simultaneously becoming more anti-social towards the real life population, the worse things will get.  Things like power outages, fuel and fuel shortages will only amplify the pending collapse of society.  Fragile it is...All of it, and not just the power grid. 

    Good luck out there.

    March 2023 Obs/Disco

    in New England

    Posted

    ...Old man winter reminding me he's the boss and hitting me hard this a.m. 

    Just like a Disney movie...All I have to do is wish upon a star, and my dreams WILL come true.

    Second pic is at work...where the heavy stuff fell.

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