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6 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

This is kind of weird, I just did a mile long walk with the dog and we saw three dead birds in the road, all different species maybe a quarter mile apart.

No obvious wounds or trauma. I wonder if it had to do with the thunderstorm?

Might be disease? My bro had two in his yard yesterday in Berlin.

8 hours ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

A single bat eats thousands of insects per night.  Fascinating creatures too.  I just don't want them in my house.  Lol

Emphatically agree. My brother discovered a dead one in his kid's play area scattered among their stuffed animals/toys and had to do a rabies course for the whole family. Not a pleasant experience. Cost him a couple thousand bucks, and his insurance was billed a couple hundred thousand.

9 hours ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

 It’s equivalent to the northern lights of fireflies right now. I’ve never seen anything like it. 
There was either some anomalous population boom this year or one of their predators is underpopulated. 
 

I’m so glad to hear you have them. I had a lot last year, but zippo this year. 

20 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

This is one of my all time favorite wx days of all all time . One to recall fondly 

The only torch I really remember fondly was March ‘12. 

32 minutes ago, BrianW said:

Haha. It's like Miami down here on the shoreline. 

88/74 at 9pm. 

It is quite steamy out there. Don't have the AC on yet though. I plan to install tomorrow.

Now this is more like it. Full sun, light south breeze, burnt nape, distant thunderheads on the CT side of the water. Glad summer is finally here. 

Oh look, another overcast morning with dense fog. 

36 minutes ago, Chrisrotary12 said:

Another waste of a day today 

Yup. Still socked in clouds and fog. Miserable. 

Miserable day. Just socked in fog and drizzle with a raw breeze. 

Pouring on the island. Didn’t expect this. 

Just now, Torch Tiger said:

Yeah I’ll pass. 

1 hour ago, dendrite said:

Tents are native. We let them live  

Gypsies we splat. 

I always assumed they were one and the same. Interesting.

The damn tent caterpillars are all over the south side of Fishers Island. I was going out of my way to squash them with my car.

19 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

This is insane 

The radar out there is insane.

3 hours ago, Chrisrotary12 said:

Dude I legit just noticed this in mine and said this to my wife. 

My car is buried under maple keys. It's ridiculous.

Holy Jesus on that supercell northwest of Dallas. That is an absolute beast!

Nice boomers!

Some sleet mixed in with that last round of heavy rain.

49 minutes ago, Sn0waddict said:

72F 

What a day!

17 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

The Joplin tornado impressed me the most. El Reno was a beast, but that meat grinder in Joplin went through the city. The video of when it first starts and then watching it become a monster in seconds is pretty effing frightening.

Hackleburg/Phil Campbell takes the cake for me as far as EF5 monsters go. However, purely from a menacing visual aesthetic goes, the Linneus MO and Keota IA wedges from last year are hard to beat.

22 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

Treadmill ftw

Yeah, there's that. I don't particularly like treadmills though. They sort of do the work for me, if that makes sense. Boring as hell, too, unless there happens to be a gorgeous girl on the adjacent one (never happens).

Is it too much to ask to not have a wind roaring in my face every time I go for a run? It's been ridiculous this month.

24 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

I still wonder which is more of a rare one.  97 or the Rocktober storm

Gotta go with '11. I think Hartford's all-time snowiest October prior to that was like 1.5" and they got a foot out of that one storm. Just destroyed records.

8 hours ago, dryslot said:

The front is coming thru and temps are dropping like panties on prom night.

So not dropping then? (My date later turned out to be a lesbian)

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