Typhoon Tip

Well boo- yah .... for a 100 years over due. But, such is progress -

Man..you're lucky to embrace and get to experience that jeaous bro - ...although I'm sure you'll be recording the Red Sox playoff run lol

God you guys... let it go LOL hey take a look at this GGEM solution the tropics... holy conduit - something tells me if this comes to be the set up in 198 hours, media might be taking an interest -

I was kind of hoping that cane out there would get sucked into that NYC ender -

OH that's cool dude! where in ? Any chance to see the wild life... you could be very lucky.

On Sep 20 ? I guess ... I saw some climate records but it seems pretty rare to me to be in the 90s after .. circa Sep 15 but whatever - I get the gist.. Not that my opinion matters much ... but summer's back broke back in late August. What's happening since, however, is obfuscating factors. We are running positive height anomalies after the fact. Non-hydrostatic heights still running warm everywhere, muting troughs in the models heading into shorter terms... The look, and that behavior, don't spin very back breaky - because based upon linear climate... they aren't. We were 84 to 88 in three of the last February and/or Marches over the last 5 years, with 558 to 564 thickness.. It playing its self out in both ways. It's not allowing warm days, without cooling the hemisphere yet ( much ). Oh it will ... cool that is. But a day like today, we're getting cool weather, relative to heights. Sorry , we are. If it matters, we have to think of this crap in relative terms: 20 years ago, this is not broke when it's 79/69... Nor when looking at the 'hydrostatic' ( actual thickness), being near 570 for 3 or 4 consecutive days, that can't be very convincingly justified. If the sun came out, it would be 84/70 today.... we probably would not be conditioned to even engage this discussion - even though the back is broke either way. We just happened to mask that with SE flow ... heah. It's over relative to this year's temperature patterning and ability to launch. But it's kind of getting blurred

What ? ... curious -

i thought it was the GFS frankly ... It really never had "Peter out" more than just that - petering out - other that two model cycles. but, I don't have to be right about that either. lol. I just seem to recall the GFS loops at Fl State's only having Pete really for two runs, last week, ..one was near miss, too. I think tho to be fair - imho - the models in general did well.

True ... but, with the exception of what it means to snow vs liquid contentions, "noted"

oh ..okay, so already having the bug discussion. seriously though - this mosquito aspect is very seasonally late for those assholes

So when is the "Kill the bugs" aspect of this thread's title going to happen ? jesus fuggin christ. This is the latest in any calendar year I can recall having this many problems with this many mosquitoes... unrelenting. I open my car door ... dive in, slam it behind me as quickly and expeditiously as possible without injury ... 4 or 5 darting at the windshield. They're getting in the house just because my storm door has that stupid lag that slows the gate and they've "learned" to time it.

Quick cautionary for using the QBO: The last 5 .. 7 years have seen some remarkable occurrences wrt the QBO. There were anomalies never before witnessed along recorded/observational history. The wind direction/momentum in the respective sigma levels uncoupled, with differential levels demonstrating wind reversal, unexpectedly mid phase. Here we ago again with another institutionally reliant field teleconnector falling out of whack, for one. But, it may be worth it to note, as it may (may not) mean anything - lol. This from "Science Daily" may serve as an entry/primer on the occurrence and some science after the fact: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/09/160908151118.htm This article focuses on the 2015/2016 winter event ( also echoed in the AMS journal entry, "Dynamics of the Disrupted 2015/16 Quasi-Biennial Oscillation" ), but I'm "pretty sure" there was another either last year or the year before? either way - Personal thought: These source's cause identity seems to be related to R-wave dispersion flowing backward into the tropical latitudes...imposing that momentum with enough inertia to cause the transient break downs. I almost think of it metaphorically as a wave strong enough to bounces off the far end of a pool with enough momentum to come back... It may not mean much more than a very powerful polar jet - which by theory and convention, "power" in that context means it is transporting huge wave kinematics - so perhaps that that fits so to speak. But, it may mean more than that, too. If there are competing forces emerging that are capable of disrupting the QBO periodicity, which by function and form is a global phenomenon, it seems intuitive to ponder whether there are other ( perhaps "emergent" newer climate change motivators ) that should be considered. What in the f those are... we call upon Science Fiction writers. I of course have ideas - LOL

Great ...all they need then would be to clean up the shit stained turpitude down on the streets -

You should be able to eat that once in a while tho. it’s all about recovery time. Layering is bad.

Agree with Kevin in working out though. Strenuous -but not injury - maxed out for 45 min, 5 a week, and your body creates its own/elevates HDL

You need to give up booze, too. Especially as you get older. three stiff gin n tonics can f up your bad lipid counts for three days.

Let’s begin with a cessation in the use of the word ‘blizzard’ … jesus christ

There’s an article floating about the mediasphere re China halting coal in capitulating to CC concerns/international pressure.

Was cool and foggy at dawn here ... but sat revealed it was a Nashoba Valley phenomenon, as it took on the neuro fibrous look.. still, it was autumnal in vibe. Now, full summer. Late high .. we're squeezing in on 75/63 so, may not be "July" but summery.

Lol, was just thinking that ... how it seems really quite lovely for suckin' one up, but there's no prom date -

Dude, I cannot even consider my home- unit BP cuff or my heart rate quickens. Actual doctors office? heh... right - I'm like the Youtube dog that has it's front legs extended and locked, leaning backward on his curled haunches, tail covering genitals... being dragged though the Vet's lobby by a taut leash while whimpering.

My beloved 'General Sherman' is an ~ 250 year old sugar maple whose canopy partially over shadows the tri-lot region of my own yard with those neighbors. It's so beloved because it turns this brilliant saffron hue, so intense it must go beyond the physical registry of human visual cortex capacitance. Purely mesmerizing ... ... when it's healthy. The first 6 years I lived here, it became very dependable - it peaked between October 10 and 13, without fail. If the sky were ever that cerulean/azure autumn emerald blue and the sun was behind you, you really needed sun glasses ...lest you squint by the orange refracting light. Of course, clean up 10 days later wasn't fun - with all that suspended deciduous mass deposed to Earth, it stacked nearly foot deep. But something strange took place 4 years ago. That year, it didn't peak - it seemed to succumb to some sort of "blighty" infestation. The leaves turns from green to a vomit brown-yellow ( whatever you call that color in arty standard pallet ), speckle-adorned with these shit-blotch marks, falling as they seem more like to grew ill - so there was no suspension period either. It was like the foliage plagued and died - it was striking. I thought maybe the whole tree actually just did. But ...the following April rolled around, the buds swelled and burst open, and that vague sweet maple fragrance permeated while bees probed away, no harm no foul. But that fall, it did the same thing... shit - I was thinking this is the new thing. Last year, it did something altogether different, though. No shit stains. It turned not saffron, but yellow ( no brown). It was like healthy yellow, but this tree had never turned that color. Head scratcher. Not only that ...but it happened in mid September, and by October 1 ... barren-limbed. I later read that some species indeed went early and felled. The reason was espoused as "too much of a good thing" with growth parameters last summer. Deciduous trees apparently only have so much energy available to both creating wood/cellulose, and maintaining leaf chemistry - once that threshold is reached, the tree will flush regardless of the surrounding weather ( I'm probably butchering this paraphrasing ... ) This year, it seems to be mid way back to the original 6 years. There were spotty yellow and orange leaf, but up until two days ago, it was some 90% still green. Not sure,..the last couple of mornings have made the mid 40s here, despite the 76 F afternoons... maybe that chilliness "triggered" but it's starting to look like sections want to go. And they are orangy hinted, not yellow. I'm guessin' we peak here in 7 or 10 days, perhaps early, but back to saffron. We hope ...

Heh, ...wait 'till the solar dimming really kicks in now that the Equinox is aft. That's when the October "set backs" get real historically. You have an over-valued market by probably some 20% easily.... in a CC crisis begging for a connection to Fossil Fuel cracking the foundation, and a Pandemia that's likely only to get worse while we continue this Darwinian clean up of non-vaccinator ideology... This year strikes me as a still shining star whose core has already imploded - we're just unaware, in borrowed time, for it takes up to 10 hours for the shock of repulse super nova wave to succeed the surface and burst out it's death vomit. This autumn might just be an "economic 10 hours". ...Maybe. We only needed one bad thing to cross hairs with societal "S.A.D." back in 2008, nefarious credit swaps. It seems almost an easy prediction when the Globe is saddled with reasons this time.

I probably should get mine checked. Have a routine physical here at the end of October. Typically blood panel for renal, liver and lipid spectrum after 14 hour fast. annoying - But, last time it was 60 HDL and 117 LDL ... Try-g' were under a hundred. The report came back as overall "good" but that 117 was oooh so close. They want that 96 or <. The physician/lab tech stated on the report that it is/was not urgent and most likely a 'fluke' reading when taking into consideration the other numbers. Total was 180 and the ratio was 3.2. Cholesterol has never been my problem really. I'm a thin dude. I don't eat processed shit. Rarely eat refined sugar. Never drink. Don't smoke. Work out intensely every day ... unless a friend or fam plan gets in the way. Those are a day off. Otherwise, 10K runs, 25 m bike rides... 1 hr eliptical and free weights, rotation. ... My resting HR is like 46 beats. Here's the thing - hypertension. My doctor is flummoxed. He thinks I have tendency anyway, but on top ...this 'white coat syndrome.' I must admit, every time I look at a BP cuff my heart rate increases. I have some weird adrenaline shit going on with medical agenda. Not a fan. Yes, you can have congenital hypertension, but even in this group - my lifestyle typically does push the numbers lower. When I stand up, I get light headed/vertigo, unless I'm in the f'ers office. I've done some research; I suspect I have caffeine sensitivity issues. Turns out... 12% of the background population has this condition and most don't know it - according to NCBI/science entry. Of those, half less actually have the condition 'extreme.' Most people will observe a modest BP spike when consuming coffee or other heavier caffeinated loads. According to literature, on the order of 7 to 10 systolic, over 2-6 diastolic. For sensitive people, these rises can be triple that, and can last for up to 6 or even 9 hours! Few people really know this... The last time I prepped for physical, I was not told to fast, yet the panel was still done. That kind of pissed me off. The doc said, we'll take that into consideration. I had like 4 cups of fully load caffeine coffee, with half and half. Another lesser known aspect about caffeine - enzymes in your blood break down caffeine into LDL's ( ... proooobably the reason I pulled a 117 - gee) that may transiently show up in tests. Duh - idiots. The point of saying all this, make sure that you do not drink black coffee despite what the stupid fasting instruction says. If you are like me, and consummately put up tall BP numbers ... ( my father had HT and so did his father so I probably have that gene regardless) you might save yourself a prescribed intimate relationship with big pharma. Just sayn' and it may also contribute loftier LDLs.

This is awesome ... we get one extra day of summer this year -