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Typhoon Tip

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  1. isn't that 'Cousin Eddy' 's from 1989 Xmas Vacation - lol
  2. Lol... I prefer to think of this phenomenon as the weather happening at you ...not around you - I once had to be in a meeting with hook echo on radar 4 miles away while hail core was signaling golf balls, and there were no window in that conference room. man... never forget that. All I could do was wonder if that was thunder through ten different walls of an office building's diffused auditory vagueness. after the meeting there's leaves and small branch debris literally grounds with scung lines from the curb flooding so deep it came across yards of the complex. Sun was shining...
  3. Yeah... I mean, one does not have to be a codified Epidemiologist to connect the dots on this -
  4. Heh.... how 'bout, ' we're all dead in 50 years by life expectancy alone ... excluding the proverbial lightning strikes of chance so, f.u. - I'm outta here' You know ..it pays to find a congenial work environment with non-douchian managerial apparatus of at least modest humanists in charge ... I can walk into my boss' office and say, " Hey Jim - uh... - " interrupts, "see ya tomorrow" The amazing thing about that is ...if the employee in that circumstance and scenario does it with relatively infrequence, it's not even remembered. And, because they are happier, the are 10 X's more productive
  5. Well... we'd have to physically calculate the difference between radiative budget, versus mechanical cooling source - that latter skews the cooling amount. See, in that case of 'lower els' ... that's drainage and accumulation, due to basin phenomenon ..blah blah ... But what we were talking about is strictly the black-body thermal storing/environmental caching as possible reason for lower DP warm nocturnal nights, during residual pattern ( i.e., unchanging in the latter sense ) .
  6. Which I'm okay with ...by the way...
  7. you know it's funny ... I check the "Worldometer" daily COVID cases ... if for morbid, just to see if there's any hope... () Yeah, the case loads are painfully slowly dropping as a longer termed trend. It's sort of 2 steps down, 1 step back up...3 steps down, 4 steps back up, 2 steps down two days in a row, 1 step back , 2 step down, 1 step back... But in the scalar daily numbers, we are this week showing more daily cases than we were BEFORE masks became a millionaire over night cottage industry. Yet, from meme to the IMC ( Industrial Media Complex) and in between there's now this wanton fervency for ridding of mask - 'just can't wait any longer' ? We were not born with masks. 750,000 years of Human biological immune system evolution never needed them, otherwise, ... As much as we conceit we are not apart of those natural signals ( called bow-wow instincts - yeah, ...we're all just sophisticated f'n dogs man), we are showing the instinct to 'get it off!' Put a mask on a house cat and watch what it does ? ...What we are doing now is just the sophisticated frantic swipe and churling mews ... it just happens to be spread out over a mere performance that makes us perpetuate our belief in control over our domain. Because in pure numbers, ...if it was enough to trigger the mask frenzy at the front side, we should be removing masks in 2034 - LOL. Kidding of course... I mean, yeah - we know more about the transmission of this thing and have more empirical -based awareness of what it does at the individual level... integrating to the whole, that tends to assuage policies given time. sure.. But, you can't tell me this isn't hypocrisy to "get if off - I don't care what the cost," to some degree.
  8. Yeah cuz I was just thinking about this further. A 'radiation budget' and the physicality of an environmental setting, 'might' play a role ... I mused up there about the 96/31, typical lower Saharan diurnal spread of desert air, as being inconsistent with that idea but hold on for a second: It occurs to me, ...that's not really a very proficient black body example. The desert is white and pale sand and dust. These surfaces heat up, but also do not store as much radiative heat - such that at night, they don't have as much radiation to give back to the kinetic temperature of the atmosphere - so the cooling momentum is larger and out 'weights' in that sense, the restorative availability - temp plummets. Interesting... I think there may be something to that. Contrasting, ...if we are in absence of CAA in an otherwise dry air mass over American soils and physical settings, we are far more proficiently storing radiative energy from insolation during preceding afternoons - and thus have much more in in the nocturnal cycle to radiate back. I don't know - it's as good a hypothesis as any. If the dark body objects.. foliage and so forth, all store more thermal energy during the day, a clear night has to radiate more. Such that after a couple ... few days, the ground is gaining more and more energy than can be completely emitted away ..so there is a net thermal gain after repetitive days of it. That "might" offer an explanation for the "kinetically charged" dry air phenomenon we are scratching heads over - ... why after a few days, the same DP stays warmer suddenly. It could just be black-body storage phenomenon
  9. Mmmm yeeeeah I'd not take that to the bank - no way. ... I mean, we grew up in New England's "Pulp Fiction" basement scene, spring horror ... Sorry, that above cannot be bankable. I was looking things over with a smirk and thinking, yeah ...it's warm days on the Euro but anytime we see a +1 SD velocity northwest mid level flow/jet stream hosing SE from mid latitude Ontario to over the lower Maritimes, that's usually an automatic BD genesis at some point or the other. I mean, the model tries to maintain that structure as a 'laminar' flow with no perturbations or 'bumps' in the stream, for days? A this range ... good luck! Granted, that is just the 00z run ... We could be on the cusp of a series of runs that show less vestigial -NAO ( which is what that is, btw - a tussle between the -PNA trying to overwhelm the circuitry across the country, while the NAO imposes some sort of subtle blocking that's less than more obvious at the same time... ). I mean in fairness they intimated as much, "..if current trends hold" so we'll see. It's almost like to separate probability curves though.. lol. Like, all that modeling is one, ..then, the other probably of just being b- f*ed... Those seem to be driven along by different physical processes. hahahaha
  10. Yup ... particularly in these pattern "seam" nights like this ? Basically... in three nights, it can be clear all it wants, even still maintaining a rather low DP ...RH ... and the temp stalls at a 47 everywhere. Yesterday, whimsy with words I denoted this as "kinetically charged nocturnal lows" .... trying to sort of 'cartoon' describe it when it seems you can keep lows from falling sometimes, without the obvious DP assist. It just seems like there is something more to nocturnal lows than just DP ... It's like sometimes - not sure why or if this is even real ...anecdotal - a DP of 39 under the same observable synoptic metrics stalls everyone higher ...but those same calm winds and clear ceilings and DPs like last night, over-achieve by several... I've hypothesized that the atmosphere not including WV ...also has some vestigial thermal cache if perhaps several days of processing. But than that doesn't make sense at all when we consider that deserts routinely go from sub freezing to very hot in afternoons. So yeah... I guess I don't have a f'n clue on this one LOL
  11. In fact re the country-side flora ... the sugar maple - type species are noticeably fuller in the leaf bloom just since yesterday. It's like we went from 1/3 unfurl to 1/2 or even 2/3rds in the one night. I wonder about the temperature sensitivity relationship in vegetation ...if single preceding day's/weather patterns can trigger a specific night of robust recovery. Interesting. I mean it could just be coincidence, but yesterday really 'felt' more like shorts weather ( thought I kept with two layers and pants like a middle aged noog lol ..) anyway, and the leaves were tinier. I remember thinking about this, too - then this morning they clearly and discernably seem more open/bigger ...casting more like real shadows on the ground.
  12. Got chillier last night than I thought it would. Bradley CT, Nashua NH and Bedford MA all pinged 39 - decoupling's a 'cast killer. But, it's also warmer by hour this morning's recovery than I imagined, too - 69 already here as of 9:15 am with a few 70 even ... home stations dappled about. Fithchburg MA is 66 at 9: am, and Boston knocks the door of 70 too if not already there. 76 incoming ... The sounding exposes this as a weird scenario, actually. I mean 500 mb thicknesses are still chilly, mid 540s... You don't typically see temperatures bathing the surface in mid or even upper 70s along with/under that metrical condition - more like a triple nickels dm thickness for that range. It's like the warmth is stacked in the bottom of the atmosphere ... It's making the conditions unstable. LI's reflect that being down to 0 to +2 range .... Low DPs are probably making parcels invisible - lol... Like invisible CB.. kidding. But, we might still observer some crispy pop-cornies ... The very superb heating conditions with no cloud, and purer air in absence of any offsetting CAA anywhere is probably going to cap temp early, and then bounce around on the thermometer, this steals 10ths of a degree as it erodes it's way up to 77 in few spots maybe. Basically ...anatomy of utopia
  13. Thing is I like motorcycles in general concept. I just don’t like that they are used as ego boosters ... I don’t like how those in ‘the look’ are supposed to personify this non conformed care free image ... yet they care enough to go out of their way to affect an image - you’re a hypocritical full-of-yourself asshole trying to force people to give you attention. Nothing else. I can’t trust other drivers, either. And I have to admit every time I am immediately behind a motorcyclist some part of my internal monologue, says “oh f* now I got to deal with this guy”. It shouldn’t be any different than any other vehicle but I’m sorry it just is when you see that person exposed like that… I don’t know I just don’t want to give people yet additional reason to have internal monologue about me
  14. What is meant by tested positive in India when in context of having been vaccinated tho positive means nothing ... vaccinated people will be asymptomatic carries. Vaccines don’t stop particles from going up ur nose.
  15. yeah...I mean what - are we supposed to do again, wear dog tags with immunization crimped into them now? Waltz into a place ... "yo vaccinated" and that's it ? Prediction - all out brawls. Some will waltz in, 'hey, are you vaccina -" cut off, " F you !!
  16. Definitely something dodgy is ... wth
  17. Yeah ... feed the complacency. 'Well if we can lower guard - ' ...that's how the 51% population thinks in my cynical world lol
  18. wait, I thought the CDC just announced no masks outside - what?
  19. Yeah...that's the one ... it was 2010, not 2012 ..
  20. I go through that solar angst at the other end, too, but opposite direction... It's why I prefer my ensuing seasons "front loaded" ? Like, I'd rather pop winter a week after Halloween and have it be snowy through the end of January... Claim a positive seasonal snow result by Jan 30 ...and I don't really care what it does in February. That's sounds absurd, I know - considering our climate and the beefiest bad-ass-iest bombs of lore and yore have always happened pretty much after Feb 2nd ... (unless it's Dec '92) so, yeah, in fairness, I'll rejoin if it's worthy. Otherwise, ...the sun f's up even Feb too. The closest I experienced this was in fact ...fairly I'd say above the 90% achievement, 1995... We mix- jobbed a 3-5er matte down and froze it solid around Nov 9 up there in the Merrimack Valley at school, and didn't see bare ground until the big thaw at the end of Jan... Nickle and dime snow events with steadily more ridiculous cold. I remember hip to shoulder high snow banks down the street from WHDH in downtown Boston, in 9 F cold, with the snow squealing under sidewalk footfalls ..it was around the 15th of December. That's how you run a front loaded winter. I mean if it's still 60 F shorts weather at T.G....I'm like great, days get longer in a month and we're still not killing the tomatoes? I almost think it is easier for our area to do front loaded winters than front loaded summers. I remember 1995 and a handful of contender winters ...2008 ..2010 maybe ..but only one summer, 2012.. It was ludicrously warm in March and that sort of just kept up... we had 96 day, May 20something with a meso over town at night.
  21. 69 .. 70 at most home sites... I still suggest if the sun keeps up with reclamation of the firmament .. we may pop a shockingly important 74
  22. Mm ... 'Wiz' and I have been elaborating about the cool mid level lagging look for these days through Saturday since the day before yesterday - ... It may be focused this morning along an axis, though, enhancing matters. But we are seeing the expected improvements as that broader based dark bottoms are gone and what's out there looks more fractal cu and debris in nature. So... halt humanity and stop the Earth spinning while we figure out this inCREdibly urgent subject matter -
  23. Yeah... I just posted the most likely reason for that - least why I think... There are some height rises moving down from your neck of the woods and we may see some improving skies sweep this way after 2 or so. It's amazing how riveting the weather is to talk about right now, huh. lol
  24. Not a bad analysis actually... I'm noticing at a more discrete level that there is a subtle declination in the 500 mb heights passing through between 12z and 18z ...and as that exits south and heights rise just that little bit ..we may see the skies improve 2-5 pm ...
  25. It's a 'non-accessible' one, too - I mean, pancaking at 11:15 to noon means there's probably a 650 mb layer CIN going on ... so we can't tap the free lift part of the sounding at real mid levels. I'm just ready for a pattern change. We've been running along with a frigid spring pattern, yet putting up average temperatures ... for a month now. It gets old -
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