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There's no one-size-fits-all answer ... You didn't ask me - just sayn' You satisfy the east ends, the west get left in the dark(light) and vice versa ... and back and forth we go. If you wanna dig into philosophy of it, this contention only happened when humanity gained the ability to communicate in real time across long longitudinal distance ... Prior to that, this was never an issue anywhere. It's one in a many subtle examples of how our evolution has out paced the planetary system - now THAT is one helluva a mutation, huh -
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March 2022 Obs/Disc: In Like a Lamb, Out Like a Butterfly
Typhoon Tip replied to 40/70 Benchmark's topic in New England
Plausible often is not possible just sayn' -
Yeah... this is my only peeve about it. I don't really give a ratz azz what happens otherwise with daylight in the winter, because it's not like I'm outside for any reason other than dashing between doors. There are supposed insurmountable issues to society but I find those arguments to be more if not evasive, really just being cow-tied to convention and/or personal wants, masquerading as hardships. If this were 1970s ... perhaps, but techno-cultural relativity gives something back to the other side of the debate. In this modernity there are ways and means to make it feasible.
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So I guess I'm a douche about this particular subject matter because I've often fantasized that there should be a non-premises rule, restricting aberrant early access. That also would capture for Remote access, too. IT's can shut down VPN access based on a mouse click, and/or give it to selected IPs if in the case of emergencies...etc.. If someone wants to get up at 4:45 am that's fine. That's their business and life. But you work a full day between 9 and 5, just like everyone else, in a fairer distribution of competition. The reason work days get edged increasingly early over time is because of the unfair lead-in of the early advantageous. That's what starts the pull... But that is also causing stress to the majority ..as they have lives and often enough, valid reasons to not show up to work in the middle of the f'ing night.
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Okay interesting. I was child in S. Lower Michigan through the early 80's ( as I date myself...). I thought back then they didn't move clocks? I dunno, but now that I think about it, I had forgotten that happened this Century. And I know what you mean about late setting sun in summer. Kalamazoo is right there.... same, with golden horizontal sun still shinning off the tops of the tallest trees at 930... with still legible light at 10, knowing it is only two hours until midnight ...is a rather weird state of affairs.
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March 2022 Obs/Disc: In Like a Lamb, Out Like a Butterfly
Typhoon Tip replied to 40/70 Benchmark's topic in New England
It's not likely to get that far inland where y'allz are... It was real this morning up this way, prior to 9 or 9:30 but area obs have since vastly improved. It appears to be absorbing in, and like Scott mentioned there are already signs of S flow taking over. As the sun warms and turns over the BL further, we'll probably see the surface mix out entirely up here where we are and bounce the temp. -
There are two aspects to this for me: One: This is probably a wild notion on my part, but it's just a supposition. It seems there is an "apathy" to handed down wisdom ( understood to be meaningful/useful lore) that is become more and more the sociological behavioral norm. Flouting previous failure signals as such. I think that modernity and convenience addling is the problem. We really do live and breath and "resort" in times of relative hardships, to an embarrassment of recourse options compared 1900... 1950 was that much better. 2000 even more recourse aplenty. And despite the dangers continued Industrialism and its transformative power, unguided nor appropriately measured, invariably leading to x-y-x holocaust(s), we get richer. (Perhaps right up to the edge of our oblivion as a digression point). That is our reality here inside the "relative opulentia" of the Industrial bubble. With recourse comes less necessity for prudence, and thus... cutting hand-me-down lore of ways and means, at all scales. From the barns to Wall Street, to the White House. The information from forefathers is obviously listened to, but it is not really 'heard' like it used to be. It's like because there is not enough suffering from scarcity, people tend to nod at advice more so than take it very seriously and modulate their behavior, based on whatever's being handed down. I could see DST taking another trial swim... even though in the grand scheme as things ... the 1970s is a very very brief distance. But the lessons are in conceit or arrogance, not transmitting into this generation. Two: But there may be a difference now than a 1970s experiment. Perhaps the same powers/technology of modernity ...could also provide a different approach to application of DST in perpetuity. Firstly... Indiana and I think Arizona ( and there may be others ), I don't believe have ever messed with their clocks. Why not take a closer look and observe how their states go about the logistics and cogs of state vs private matters. Maybe their denizens hate it? Maybe the like what they have for a-b-c reason. Perhaps they don't have an opinion. ...Maybe those examples might lend some insight. Technology is transformative in how we live and carry about. There could if perhaps should be out of box thinking in how to use it to ameliorate all these "omg logistical can't happentisms" which are really based on of either fear, or insular inability to do just that: think outside the box and be creative with the powers/abilities in place.
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March 2022 Obs/Disc: In Like a Lamb, Out Like a Butterfly
Typhoon Tip replied to 40/70 Benchmark's topic in New England
you don't get to celebrate ...Not after all the troubles you put us through over snow and cold heartache. LOL -
March 2022 Obs/Disc: In Like a Lamb, Out Like a Butterfly
Typhoon Tip replied to 40/70 Benchmark's topic in New England
Yeah...I just noticed that too... Also the leading edge dissolving in RI .... It's shallow whatever that is ..or "was" rather and it might not dictate the whole day. Thing is, this time of year, expectations being realistically low anyway ... a N wind in this air mass is a value add. Just keep the evil ocean heat and life sucker where it belongs, please -
March 2022 Obs/Disc: In Like a Lamb, Out Like a Butterfly
Typhoon Tip replied to 40/70 Benchmark's topic in New England
The accelerating mass of lower clouds exiting SE out of the GOM is a smoking gun for a layer below 925 slipping SW... There are wave form fractals over the Berkshire's oriented NW-SE... and so the eastern SNE sore butt air mass is decoupled from that ... cutting underneath. -
March 2022 Obs/Disc: In Like a Lamb, Out Like a Butterfly
Typhoon Tip replied to 40/70 Benchmark's topic in New England
Last I looked I thought today was going to bust warm pretty good based upon the 925 mb thermal depths/cloud RH... But as the dawn raised the dimmer switch on the setting via satellite, this time sensitive loop, https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/?parms=local-Rhode_Island-02-24-1-100-1&checked=map&colorbar=undefined ...reveals what looks to me like a sneaky "un-charta-able" BD feature has sneakily crept west like a scene out of the 1980s B-thriller, "The Fog" -
March 2022 Obs/Disc: In Like a Lamb, Out Like a Butterfly
Typhoon Tip replied to 40/70 Benchmark's topic in New England
It's just part of the unending charm of a Internet bus-stop Americana, that there are so many different interpretation sensitivity radars sending detection intents and purposes back to the user - right or wrong... -
March 2022 Obs/Disc: In Like a Lamb, Out Like a Butterfly
Typhoon Tip replied to 40/70 Benchmark's topic in New England
True … but the point was really about ‘light’ - for me anyway. I’d be disinclined to bed down with evening light but it’s probably not an issue for everyone. ‘Sides … that only lasts for a month. -
March 2022 Obs/Disc: In Like a Lamb, Out Like a Butterfly
Typhoon Tip replied to 40/70 Benchmark's topic in New England
Thing is … time registry on Earth was derived and set in accordance with celestial mechanics and the sun. It is DST the is the arbitrary, un-planetary designation of time quota and is thus “fake” comparing both … Is there going to be two time clocks kept: the real one, and then the rockstar one? I guess it doesn’t ultimately matter. Time is fluid in all directions, only constrained in the presence of gravity … or extraordinary values of V … which for present day purposes and practical Euclidean scales is limited to Newtonian motion where time is exceptionally close to constant. Since we don’t deal with realities susceptible to time dilation … we are at liberty to call time whatever we want. Interesting. -
March 2022 Obs/Disc: In Like a Lamb, Out Like a Butterfly
Typhoon Tip replied to 40/70 Benchmark's topic in New England
yeah..that's the first thing that came to mind for me ... 8:45 pm, between May ...12 or whatever and July 25th ...isn't the sun still not set yet at that hour? It's all good - not sure if I could ever do that even with training. interesting... -
March 2022 Obs/Disc: In Like a Lamb, Out Like a Butterfly
Typhoon Tip replied to 40/70 Benchmark's topic in New England
Then move the school day up an hour... ? It's called evolving the culture and society. Being manacled to traditional methods is so mid last Century.. It's time to stop being Officer Stickbutt about toeing the line of conventionality. ...not you, just sayn'. I mean I'm tired of the it can't be done rhetoric, because of this, that, or the other logistic impossibility - bull shit ... The human world is what humans make that world - -
March 2022 Obs/Disc: In Like a Lamb, Out Like a Butterfly
Typhoon Tip replied to 40/70 Benchmark's topic in New England
All due sympathies from a voice of experience... I'd always been tip-top. I didn't know what I was in for when that fateful pop sounded off during a pick-up game of b-ball. The sensation was as though someone had slapped that back of my leg, just beneath the calf muscle. As I began the turning motion to ask the defender, "What the fu -" I stammered when instead, no one was there. And the turning movement revealed that my right foot was pretty much off-line for all weight bearing. I was soon looking at the ceiling. As I limped to the bleachers and sat looking at the back of my lower leg, an inward notch was visible about 2 inches above the heal. I still had no clue what this was. The thing is...it didn't really hurt. The initial pulsed slap-pop sound sent a jolt up my leg, but that was it. I hadn't even been to a doctor for a physical in like 15 years. I was 34 years old at the time. No complaints. Pow! It was really audible too. Someone near by, "what the hell was that?" I went to the emergency room, and waited for two hours to be seen and ultimately gave up. I wasn't in pain. I just had lost the use of my foot - disconcerting, but no pain. I limped around daily life for three days... still not knowing what was happening or connecting dots. But then I was in the shower and noticed this disturbing black-purple hematoma had pooled at the bottom of my foot. It was like one of those moments when your an idiot kid, and the horn and screech saved your life? You turned white with with fear. It was a turn white moment. It was that gnarly and scary looking. "Okay, time to call this one in -" At work that morning I called my IP; I need to find out where to go for doctor visits. I mean, part of the tip top down side is that you don't know these things. After describing, they had me call an orthopedic, "North Shore -" I think it was called. Described it to the nurse and she was like, "You've been walking on that all week?! you need to get in here ASAP." It turned out, the Achilles Tendon explosively ruptured, ...so clean and violently, that it didn't recoil up into the calf muscle like is typically what happens. When that does that, the pain is typically so severe the patient almost passes out. This just when boom, and was left dangling inside the sheathing, with mop end shreds according to the surgeon. I didn't know what to expect from the deeply invasive reconnection surgury that took place two days later. Like I said, ...I was a new to this sort of thing. They inserted an electrode into the back of the knee in prep, delivering a pulse of electricity directly to the peroneal nerve, that left everything below the knee essentially invisible. In post op, I was not told what would happen when the nerve came back to life - I blame medicine for that. No counseling ... time of expecting this. What to do to prepare for that. They just gave me a vile of this stuff called "Oxycodone," the back side of which had written in big capital bold red letters, "IF YOU TAKE MORE THAN 2 TABLETS IN 24 HOURS, YOU WILL CAUSE KIDNEY DAMAGE" ... Shit, I'd always been an Advil junky for Migraine headaches ( Aura type too...) Nothing hurts worse than those ... I'll just double up on Advil. Wrong. That pain became so severe, that was when I almost passed out - on several occasions. I'd never experience anything like that. I had a massive gash, oozing plasmas, held together with staples, essentially no prophylactic management tools having been applied. My sister found doing a check in ... pretty much in the fetal position in a state of delirious apoplexy... She called North Shore Ortho and got the doctor's pager and after tracking the mother-f'er down and telling him the situation, and the big, bold red writing about kidney damage, he was like "Are you kidding! For get that... Give him 5 tablet of that immediately" I mean I didn't know... The funny thing about Oxy's - for me - was that it didn't really stop it from hurting. It only made you not care that it hurt. Weird state of mind. Finally after 3 -5 days, the orb of pain that made up my foot had finally fade to just being a painful foot... at which point, Advils like chicklet candies began to work. -
I thought there must be some sort of connection there …. https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2022/03/14/former-us-ambassador-marie-yovanovitch-trump-emboldened-putin-ukraine-newday-berman-vpx.cnn I mean who didn’t, right - May be proven less than significantly instrumental but the idea had crossed the mind …
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March 2022 Obs/Disc: In Like a Lamb, Out Like a Butterfly
Typhoon Tip replied to 40/70 Benchmark's topic in New England
Weekend is the first example of the bowling ball susceptibility … really looks pretty classic. The end month probably deconstructs away from planetary wave toward a pinch low. -
I'm hesitating to do my taxes ... certain econ programs were suspended during the 2021, and I was relying - ill advisingly so probably ... - on interest paid to save me from owing... Not sure what the arithmetic will be now.
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huh? I was commenting on Phin's post, which was angled at an entirely different someone else/context. No offense, but I'm not a part of your conversation there -
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There are those that seem interested in NOT allowing light to rise over the societal state of dystopian darkness of that thing. For those lusting to maintain over-arching senses of arresting doom over theirs and everyone else's world, they should really be far more afraid of a limited scale, if not outright full on nuclear holocaust at this point. That's far more likely than anything that pandemic shit's going to do moving forward. The latter's followed the biological arc, and digging up content that fits one's narrative and perpetuates their own agenda ...unfortunately does not change the reality that it's distancing into history.
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March 2022 Obs/Disc: In Like a Lamb, Out Like a Butterfly
Typhoon Tip replied to 40/70 Benchmark's topic in New England
I mused about this last week ..yeah. I called it the 'spring flashing' that happens more less observable every year... Sometimes it's like, 'oh that's weird - what just happened' when looking at the mid...extended range charts. Other times, it's seductively slow and you just end up there over a 10 day period. Usually occurs sometime in March. This last weekend's system seemed to coil up the pattern its self, and cold, and escaped away with it... leaving weaker gradients and slowing velocities in across the broader expanse of the continent. That's not to say it won't snow again. Concomitant with this type of patterning ...we enter the cold pocket/cut-off low risk, as Will and I have mentioned ( also ). There's evidence that we just flashed and there's also evidence that we'll have to watch for 'bowling season' type events over the next couple of weeks. -
March 2022 Obs/Disc: In Like a Lamb, Out Like a Butterfly
Typhoon Tip replied to 40/70 Benchmark's topic in New England
Thanks … ah I’ve always been a winter enthusiast. I’ve also been equally enthused with summer. Years ago I posted quite frequently …major thread starts going back to Eastern, but that may predate you’re involved - I don’t know There are weather types that sensibly I do not care for, indigenous to either seasons. It’s not unusual or unique to say … not a fan of soaring HIs of summer for example. Equally, disenchanted by 32.decimal rains of winter. The reason I posted more is because I happened to be between gigs and had the bandwidth. I’d say it was a decent enough performance for total deterministic/risk assessing at longer leads - though I get it that actual snow is the primary purpose for this particular engagement (lol). Unfortunately … day 6-8 leads is a bit over the horizon for discrete event profiling. The one event that did offer some coherence a bit further out was the blizzard … but wouldn’t we guess, had to snow the least amount relative to blizzard criteria. Some years are just minted for mediocrity -
March 2022 Obs/Disc: In Like a Lamb, Out Like a Butterfly
Typhoon Tip replied to 40/70 Benchmark's topic in New England
Tomorrow's still a tricky day for diurnal. On one hand ... we've entered the time of year when/where a west wind under a full sun is going to bust most machine -based numbers cold, however much or little. On the other hand, tho day starts with a cold 925 to 850 mb and modest negative anomalies. But it's not just those competing aspects.... The day actually ends warmer than normal in that level. 00z Tomorrow night, .... hm... Flips the script, within the daylight hours. It's like it'll dawn 13 to 19 around the typical dungeon locales, and be mid 50s by 4pm ...that's some spectacular diurnal deltas if that happens - but that could be good for a nape stroll around 5 pm with the sun now setting later ( thus higher) and the wind light.