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6 hours ago, Typhoon Tip said:

Sad ... for the world, that's gotta be the end of the road for TRS - right?

I mean, the man was 80 ( congrats! being in proximal to that life - ), and I'm pretty sure Jagger's 1028.   Richards, as the joke meme goes is being propped up by who knows what ..  I just don't see them really necessarily ... anyway, their music is older than 3/4 of the living population. 

I think Elton John did it the right way... He like announce retirement - does cameos and junkets and such... but it's less egregious to watch.  You know, go out with a sense of dignity in a little bit of planned resolve.  It is kind of painful to watch when aging celebrities "pretend" they are still pop-relevent.  Maybe sad is a better word - but ... Watts was neither interested in celebrity, or casting delusions of grandeur - just speaking in general. 

Some actually know it ... sorta kid around with it. Like, I think it was Clint Eastwood?  Not sure .. .but went something like, "I direct now because look at me - there's no way I could do the other thing" in a ha ha way. 

Heh, Rolling Stone:  "What a drag it is getting old"

I agree with you in principal but disagree with you in regards to The Rolling Stones.  I'm not a huge fan myself, but their fanbase spans all ages.  A lot of college students that are still into rock/alternative are fans, and I know current college age fans that have attended their shows.  I don't think they pretend to be pop-relevant, they know their current place in the world of music.  They were probably more irrelevant in the mid 1980's than they are now.

Their most recent tour, which is still ongoing (and delayed at times due to COVID), has grossed almost a half-billion dollars.  I don't see them stopping even with Watts passing away - he already had to bow out from the current tour for his medical issues and they continued with a different drummer.  There may be a compromise where they may still tour on occasion but there may not be any more new recordings now that he has passed.  RIP...

1 minute ago, ORH_wxman said:

Finally got a little gust that caused some damage

The Crab grass isn’t Henri’s fault!

Just now, weathafella said:

What’s the total # without power as of now?

76k in RI…

Man, look at this historical track on Henri… he was never strong and confident. From the beginning he was drunk after leaving the club in Bermuda, wandering around looking for a food truck, and accidentally ended up in Westerly, RI.

9 minutes ago, NeonPeon said:

I toured the damage in Newport by bike, which says it all. Some limbs, esp right on the water. That's it. Less than a moderate noreaster. Normally the Northeast side of a storm like this has teeth, but not if there no longer is an east side to the storm at all.

Yeah, with most of the energy pivoting WNW despite the eyewall over Westerly, we were mostly spared the heavier winds gusts… some trees and branches down here but nothing too major.

29 minutes ago, MJO812 said:

Boring event

We were all fooled by the models last week that showed a 970s low.

Most of western RI doesn’t have power.  boring for some terrible for others…

7 minutes ago, OceanStWx said:

Maybe Henri has tilted over in the other direction now. Wouldn't be that shocking honestly.

I think we all knew that western turn was gonna happen after landfall… it’s been fun watching this storm zigzag itself through various atmospheric elements…

Newport, Jamestown, and Mt Hope bridges temp closed due to high winds. Probably just for a few hours…

This is just RI…

1 minute ago, DotRat_Wx said:

Wherever the cliff walk is. I'm not very knowledgeable on the South Coast 

Heh you could walk to my office from there… thankfully I’m not there… but I’m sure the ocean is angry!

Gusts definitely picking up here…

Not sure why there’s so much anger towards tracking interesting weather in late August. Sure not as strong as some had hoped, but as a homeowner with a hurricane rider I’m quite happy it didn’t max out…

I’ll repost this to lighten the mood since it’s still applicable, thanks to the forums AI software lol…

5 minutes ago, kdxken said:

I hope no infrequent board visitor actually believed his west nonsense .

There was still some “West” nonsense overnight when it became viewable on KOKX radar.

2 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

Bid to hfd on the Euro and a ton of rain again for NYC 

Quote

DISCUSSION AND OUTLOOK
----------------------
At 200 AM EDT (0600 UTC), the center of Hurricane Henri was located
near latitude 39.3 North, longitude 71.0 West. Henri is moving
toward the north near 21 mph (33 km/h).  A decrease in forward 
speed and a turn toward the north-northwest is expected later this 
morning. On the forecast track, Henri is expected to make landfall 
in southern New England or on Long Island today.  After landfall, a 
turn to the north and a slower forward speed are expected as Henri 
moves over southern New England.

Reports from Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter aircraft indicate 
that maximum sustained winds are near 75 mph (120 km/h) with higher 
gusts.  Slight strengthening is possible early this morning. 
Weakening is expected to begin later today. However, Henri is 
expected to be at or near hurricane strength when it reaches the 
coasts of southern New England and Long island.  Rapid weakening is 
expected after Henri makes landfall.

Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 35 miles (55 km) from
the center and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 150
miles (240 km).

The latest minimum central pressure estimated from data from 
an Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter aircraft is 987 mb (29.15 
inches).

Euro significantly east from 12z.

4 minutes ago, Sn0waddict said:

Ukie a 995mb into Rhode Island. A far cry from the 960 into NYC it had a few days ago. Safe to say it ain’t a good tropical model. 

I think this storm has been tough on all the models...
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2021/HENRI_graphics.php?product=5day_cone_with_line
 

Maybe this is funnier than it should be because it's 1AM...

4 minutes ago, ice1972 said:

OK thats fine.....its just we thought we knew 12 hours ago......maybe we still don't know....IDK.....lol

BTW the high tide here in Cape May flooded out our unit on the bottom floor....which seemed fine mostly cuz we are on the second floor.....owner didn't think anything about it...lol

 

That's true... except 12 hours ago there were models in two different camps.  Now the only one that's farthest west is the ICON.  All the globals and regionals I can see on Tropical Tidbits have it coming in somewhere between E LI/SE CT and SW RI.  That seems to be pretty solid evidence of where landfall might be 18 hours out... just waiting for the Euro to see what the trend is...

Just now, ice1972 said:

I’m in cape May BTW….I have no dog here….other than my house in West Hartford…..lol

I just can't see it.  There's a point on the map due north maybe a smidge nnw of the eye and it's moving right towards it, lol.  Otherwise I don't care either the farther away from my house the better... but it's not looking like that.

0z GEFS...

3 minutes ago, MJO812 said:

Not at all

Looks like it will be more west than that

Okay….

6 minutes ago, ice1972 said:

Theres a definite NW trajectory occuring now.......is the trough overperforming or something? Or did the models not handle the H too great with that east shift?

Looking at it on radar... seems to be going where it was predicted.  NNW turn is required for E CT/W RI landfall...

HMON.. hot off the press...

4 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

All the stations in my town are out of gas. Man the hype is off the hook for a tropical storm.

Don’t all the emergency prep guides state to gas up? Is that hype? 
 

I’m not going crazy myself but I did gas up both my cars…