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7 hours ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

It's still a 2.5 hour drive from her campus... if she can get the Outdoor Club or whatever interested so they can carpool or take a van I think she should go for it.  Her car is pretty old to make that trip a lot.

She'll probably need to go at least 3 times before it's worth it.  If it's that far it's a harder call IMO.  Ellen-only day tix can be had for cheap sometimes, especially weekdays

It's awesome and 199 is a total bargain

Only caveat is that it gets 2nd class citizen treatment from Alterra sometimes, but still great.

crazy nice out

3 hours ago, forkyfork said:

this is exactly the type of bullshit system the nam would be stupid with

As long as we know when to toss it (tomorrow)

And when to use it (last Satuday)

7 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

Well my maps took me to the wrong part of Mount Pollux so I had to scramble. Best I could do was Cold Spring Coutry club in Belchertown. Terrible views but too late 

Sorry...  

3 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

Going to go to Amherst golf club 

Meh.  Google Mt Pollux and go there if you're setting up in Amherst

7 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

Does anyone know of any really good viewing spots in this area? Debating on what to do but time is a wasting. The area I would go in southwest New Hampshire would definitely be best but my worry is the best stuff will go from Berkshire through northern Mass, just south of the VT/NH border.

Turners Falls airport is a good spot.  Or on the top of Mt Sugarloaf (which you can drive up), except you aren't in position to move easily.  Fields between North Amherst and North Hadley too, wide open fields over there.

6 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Ahh the beach 

Peak beach season.  No crowds.  Warm water (usually).  Free.

Unfortunately it's pretty dark to the west.  CHH looks like the best bet today.  

Drove down to West Dennis this morning.  Cloudy the whole way but sun peeking out right along the south shore of mid cape.  

some of our better forecasters starting to get bullish on severe possibilities out here on Saturday

23 minutes ago, radarman said:

Seems like KCEF may have been decommissioned... No official word but it's getting the unperson treatment on all official sites... Bummer

From UMass and the surrounding area it's 40-60 mins by car to ORE, ORH, BAF, & BDL

Called the airport-- apparently the equipment is still there and this relates to a data feed issue at all USAF maintained sites.  No estimate on resumption of data but it likely will be resumed.

Seems like KCEF may have been decommissioned... No official word but it's getting the unperson treatment on all official sites... Bummer

From UMass and the surrounding area it's 40-60 mins by car to ORE, ORH, BAF, & BDL

7 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Gotta subtract out that 7/31 data. Belchertown had 1.91” and Amherst 1.42”.

Nice catch.  Weird how the nowdata apparently reports it from the previous day.  

2 hours ago, dendrite said:

Disaster month north of CON into the Lakes Region

% of normal

Radar based QPE sucks out here.  BTown coop is 84% of normal mtd and very near the 25% of normal contour on this map.  Pretty big diff.  Amherst coop is 75% of normal mtd.

39 in the good radiating spots in BTown / Ludlow

I used to always buy K Tix but I dunno, $145 doesn't seem like much of a deal at this range. I like the place but jeez.  Probably just go to Magic if in the area, or continue north.

94 bucks for Epic day passes good at Stowe (et al) isn't a terrible deal.  Picked up a few before the Sept 1 deadline.

2 hours ago, kdxken said:

Perfect day to cut some bigguns.

 

 

38 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Fuck winter 

36 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Let’s go winter. Let watch lows to BGM and 10:1 maps show a foot at 34F vs this.

Some would take one look at all those long pants and assume it was winter

Maybe the Villages will make a few exceptions for folks

Record low high temp at ORH is 60.  On the hourly we seem likely to break it but probably on the 5 min data it'll end up a tie, barring some late brief spike

Low high temp at BDL is 70 from 1922

Current high for the day is 63

70/48, deep blue skies, sun.  

Quick hit heavy rain and a nice breeze

Big, big waves.  Let's lock in an offshore breeze, TIA