Will - Rutgers

28 minutes ago, nycwinter said:

once in a century event...

the centuries grow shorter

1 minute ago, rclab said:

Good evening Will. My biological thermometer hasn’t gone up in quite a awhile, global warming notwithstanding. As always …… 

they make pills for that now

it's 66 outside, my thermostat is about 72, and i feel pretty cool.  global warming has broken my biological thermometer

3 hours ago, forkyfork said:

they might be acceptable fried

4 hours ago, etudiant said:

So I can count on you to sponsor the event?

Will Rutgers's Spotted Lantern Fly eating contest. A NY/New England ecological action.

I'll happily front the initial $100 prize. Double it if 200 are eaten.

the tree of heaven produces a lot of bitter-tasting alkaloids which i imagine may concentrate in the lanternfly.  probably a key reason they are so distasteful to typical predators.

today felt like a legitimate beach day

hey @MJO812 do cops get to wear shorts?

80s tomorrow and then Saturday before the frontal passage, and the frontal passage still only gets us into the mid 60s.

i try not to confound immediate weather with climate change but jesus christ this is a bizarre October

2 hours ago, etudiant said:

No worse than shrimp, plus they only feed on pure juices, unlike shrimp that will eat anything.

Maybe baked, with a nice Chianti??

you just know someone, somewhere, at sometime, tried it

5 hours ago, forkyfork said:

have you stepped on a gravid female yet

oh god, the crunch... those things are ****ing juicy.  it's sick and satisfying at the same time.

4 minutes ago, rclab said:

Good evening Will. I believe that your wielding the power of creativity. Besides the juxtaposition of your Lantern fly post with forky’s frigid one makes removal impossible. As always ….

i swear we could make a religion out of you

rclab stop liking my posts, they're basically all garbage and you debase yourself by doing so

you're our perfect guy, leave me in the gutter

mods refuse to delete my terrible shitposts, thus making me drunk with power

they should replace the July 4th hot dog eating contest with a spotted lanternfly eating contest

like, if you can eat one, you pretty much win

4 minutes ago, ecovers94 said:

Hi everyone,

Lurk all the time on here but have a compelling question... can someone explain what is causing the overnight lows to be so high for so long? I don't think I remember an October where it's taken so long to go into the 40s. Thanks!

high dew points

a near total absence of the kind of continental polar air masses that might cross during a big fall frontal passage

and someone who knows more than me could explain the specific patterns and teleconnections but the end result is high dews and very little cold, dry air

6 minutes ago, Rjay said:

I'm not sure how poorly forecasted it is vs us being weenies.  

i just read the AFDs, i feel like we end up with more mix than Mount Holly predicts but that's not a quantitative analysis

1 minute ago, Stormlover74 said:

Except I always mix now

yeah a lot of the bigger storms over the last 5 years, since i came to Piscataway, have featured extensive periods of sleet.

there is always a strong mid-level warm tongue, usually poorly forecasted, that seems to muck things up.

not that i am complaining, sleet is neat

2 minutes ago, Rjay said:

In recent years we've had 78 in January and 80 in February.

there's not a whole lot that's off the table with some of these ridges

51 minutes ago, SnoSki14 said:

Even near normal temps by next weekend will feel cold compared to what we've seen.

i have noticed my perception of warmth and humidity has definitely been changing over the last few years

endless summer

the Joro spider is beautiful.  more or less just a cousin spider to other native golden orb weavers.  probably not the worst invasive species we could be hit with.

i wonder if the lanternfly problem might eventually be self-limited by the amount of damage they're doing to their principal host tree, the tree of heaven.  many of the trees of heaven that i have observed infested with lanternflies look very stressed.

7 hours ago, rclab said:

Good evening Will. I want to thank you for the ‘weenie’. I have to remember, now there’s a stretch, to be careful what you ask for. Even so I’m still happily celibate. As always ….

look rclab, i gotta be there for you no matter what you request.  unless it’s a below normal fall in which case i am obviously powerless.

is there some kind of inversion or something?  people are running fireplaces and stuff and smoke is staying near the ground.

2 hours ago, Brian5671 said:

I had almost no burnout here all spring/summer which is rare.  Never took out the lawn sprinkler even once

lol i hadn't thought about it until you mentioned it but you're right.  i don't think i've ever seen the lawns this green in summer

6 minutes ago, forkyfork said:

the hrrr shows the precip flaring up again later tonight. maybe that can get knyc closer to 10" for the month

what would be the driving force behind that, forky?

35 minutes ago, winterwx21 said:

1.45" so far. Had some very close lightning strikes as well.

massive, very close.