CapturedNature Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 Meanwhile...it's cold here now. 48F with the wind gusting over 20mph. Not quite shorts wx. 54 here. The Air Now station in town at 1000' reported 61. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Valley Snowman Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 BDL with the classic take all the temps and +2 it. 79.3 for a high here. Full blown summer day with kids in the kiddie pool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 Lol glad to see the Kevin arguments over a degree or two at his summer verification point if BDL are alive and well the weather overseas was amazing this week... Can't wait to return to gloom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneypitmike Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 I'll be spending most of the week in Cedar Rapids this week. Temps will be similar there to here, but looks like we'll have the sun for the duration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishRob17 Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 Yeah Rednecks are usually experts at that stuff...it's the yuppies who can't handle outdoor stuff that often are the culprit. Truth because the yuppies in their subdivisions think they know it all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 Deep summer here in Orlando. 93 for a high today. Supposed to be a pretty stormy week here. Looking forward to some good lightning storms and driving rain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 78/73 currently Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 Opening day for Senior and Little League for the grandkids ,sunny but a chill in the air Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneypitmike Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 Beauty of a day here. Took down a couple trees now doing some burning. Hopefully that'll burn down enough so I can work on the lawn. I don't want to be confused with people in Tolland who can't burn without causing massive brush fires. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
codfishsnowman Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 the late season snow thread tappered quicker than a mid winter noreaster does here in dv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 could have a small window of opportunity for a few strong storms on Tuesday. Could be fun out in PA tomorrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 53/27...not bad with full sun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhoon Tip Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 Yeah Rednecks are usually experts at that stuff...it's the yuppies who can't handle outdoor stuff that often are the culprit. I bantered in effacing humiliation, my own recent experiences with attempting to burn brush during typical pre-green-up spring Fire weather. No need to re-iterate all of that. Sufficed it is to say ... you turn your back for just a moment to bend and break sticks into manageable fuels, and the next thing you now, you have tentacles of fire crawling with wind driven rapidity ... radially down wind from whatever insufficiently protected apparatus you are using to burn. Which is precisely and embarrassingly (consider my background, I should have been much more precognizant) what I allowed to happen. Seeing as no permanent damage ... or, me having to actually call the fire department took place, I can laugh now in retrospect. But only because it's been a few days. That same evening I was still too pie eyed with disbelief at my self, and the untenable thought of what I narily prevented from happening. I never saw fire spread so fast. And, because I rather impulsively set out to burn without out taking even the minimal precautions ... I put my self in a situation where I was adrenaline-scrambling with an accelerated heart rate and wobbly knees to get the situation under control. So some basic precautionary measures if burning is the best option for brush and left over, downed tree material ... spring cleaning. One, have a working hose near by. In my case ... the outside spigot had not even been turned on for the season. Said source is in the crawl-space cellar, which was closed under a couple hundred pounds of household storage ... which set over the top of the access hatch. It was really an amazing feat that I got that exhumed in time, the outside water turned on, in time - almost miraculous really. Two, wet the ground around the base, under, and outwards away from the burning apparatus by 20 feet. This simple application, which would have taken all of 2 minutes really, would have prevented all of that hustle-up/emergency. Three, do not over-feed the fire! You do not want or need half burning embers to fall out and/or lift airborne by heat convection ...up and away from the vicinity where you are burning. Smaller, manageable fuel stows will burn just as fast as putting a large amount in all at once, which is inherently risky. Four, while burning ... re-wet the ground in the same areas -- the impetus being, ...the area should not be burnable at any time, and will tend to dry out quickly while you are burning. Five, ...and probably the most important precaution you can take, DON'T BURN! It really should be a last resort. Most brush piles can be, with a little physical effort, reduced and removed ... and most townships provide places at their local transfer stations for the transport and off-loading of lawn organics. As for me... I feld a tree last Autumn, and though the bigger logs have been cut up and taken away, I have several debris piles consisting of ...limbs 2" in diameter and less, that are rather large. These are like 300 $ a pop to have an excavation crew come in with a wood shredder/chipper and remove. Ugh ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 How does early Gay look? Can we warm up the first week after Napril ends? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhoon Tip Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 How does early Gay look? Can we warm up the first week after Napril ends? Not that my opinions is the be-all but I think that's a transitory time, as the cool pattern we are apparently destined to suffer before hand starts to fill/roll-out/decay ... lose impetus in general. The NAO appears to be the only first best cause of why the local period is going backward from the 20th -the 30th or so.. And that appears to neutralized toward the end of the 10 days or even sooner. The problem is, thereafter there doesn't appear to be a "replacement" sort of pattern trying to nudge in, which might accelerate any such change... So things might just be no-skill - The WPO-EPO arc (North Pacific) in total is flipping negative as the NAO goes back neutral positive out in time (interestingly..) but the deviation numbers may not be sufficiently large to assume they'll usurp the pattern over N/A this late in the year. When the NAO relaxes..the medium really loses gradient (as depicted in all ensemble means and operation tendencies) as we get into the first week of May, and that may at last be some kind of indication that we'll be entering the weaker teleconnector correlation akin to the warmer season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhoon Tip Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 Just to rub it in out of malice ... ( ) Here is the percentile calculated by the National Climate/Diagnostic Center for March... nicely demonstrating the targeted persecution toward those that actually embrace the warm weather in spring... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Modfan Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 I bantered in effacing humiliation, my own recent experiences with attempting to burn brush during typical pre-green-up spring Fire weather. No need to re-iterate all of that. Sufficed it is to say ... you turn your back for just a moment to bend and break sticks into manageable fuels, and the next thing you now, you have tentacles of fire crawling with wind driven rapidity ... radially down wind from whatever insufficiently protected apparatus you are using to burn. Which is precisely and embarrassingly (consider my background, I should have been much more precognizant) what I allowed to happen. Seeing as no permanent damage ... or, me having to actually call the fire department took place, I can laugh now in retrospect. But only because it's been a few days. That same evening I was still too pie eyed with disbelief at my self, and the untenable thought of what I narily prevented from happening. I never saw fire spread so fast. And, because I rather impulsively set out to burn without out taking even the minimal precautions ... I put my self in a situation where I was adrenaline-scrambling with an accelerated heart rate and wobbly knees to get the situation under control. So some basic precautionary measures if burning is the best option for brush and left over, downed tree material ... spring cleaning. One, have a working hose near by. In my case ... the outside spigot had not even been turned on for the season. Said source is in the crawl-space cellar, which was closed under a couple hundred pounds of household storage ... which set over the top of the access hatch. It was really an amazing feat that I got that exhumed in time, the outside water turned on, in time - almost miraculous really. Two, wet the ground around the base, under, and outwards away from the burning apparatus by 20 feet. This simple application, which would have taken all of 2 minutes really, would have prevented all of that hustle-up/emergency. Three, do not over-feed the fire! You do not want or need half burning embers to fall out and/or lift airborne by heat convection ...up and away from the vicinity where you are burning. Smaller, manageable fuel stows will burn just as fast as putting a large amount in all at once, which is inherently risky. Four, while burning ... re-wet the ground in the same areas -- the impetus being, ...the area should not be burnable at any time, and will tend to dry out quickly while you are burning. Five, ...and probably the most important precaution you can take, DON'T BURN! It really should be a last resort. Most brush piles can be, with a little physical effort, reduced and removed ... and most townships provide places at their local transfer stations for the transport and off-loading of lawn organics. As for me... I feld a tree last Autumn, and though the bigger logs have been cut up and taken away, I have several debris piles consisting of ...limbs 2" in diameter and less, that are rather large. These are like 300 $ a pop to have an excavation crew come in with a wood shredder/chipper and remove. Ugh ! We usually recommend having some sort of pit to burn, with charged hose and use common sense. Hearing lots of brush fires this weekend; I enjoy listen to the MA Fire tower guys, using old school tech to locate fires. Do we think the rain Monday/Tuesday are beneficial or just help dampen things? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 We usually recommend having some sort of pit to burn, with charged hose and use common sense. Hearing lots of brush fires this weekend; I enjoy listen to the MA Fire tower guys, using old school tech to locate fires. Do we think the rain Monday/Tuesday are beneficial or just help dampen things?we burn in a large pit surrounded by 20 feet of gravelly dirt which yuppies like Kev think should be grass. On another note raked the outside of the fence woods side, leaves under the surface leaves are soaking wet so no worry about deep brush fires. Lots of nightcrawlers, great fishing night incoming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 A perfect spring COC weekend, cool night's warm afternoons. To me this is what spring is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 The end is near... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 A perfect spring COC weekend, cool night's warm afternoons. To me this is what spring is.+1Give me warm and dry for 6 months and cold and snowy for the other 6! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weathafella Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 Chilly out of the sun but in full sun a fine weekend. Big 4 to date through yesterday: Napril BOS: +1.2 ORH: +1.7 PVD: +0.6 BDL: +1.1 While tomorrow looks cold Tuesday and Wednesday could be solidly above ahead of the misery going into the weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 Oh poop...not another year of COC...can we justbhav Jay term please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxmanmitch Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 I took another spin up by my plot up at 2.2K in S VT today and I still can't believe how much snow is left there, even after a week of warm temperatures and near constant melting. It really is winter's last holdout there. Depth is highly variable dependent on the amount of sun exposure, ranging from near nothing on sunny southern exposures to almost 20" in the deep shade. Average is probably 10-14". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 Nice....certainly a place where you keep the lot pretty much dirt...lol. No use for grass there. Seems like a great cabin spot to get away. Any lakes nearby? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 Still have one little pile left along the driveway here. The neighbor still has a huge pile in the backyard from snowblowing all of his snow into one giant sledding hill for his kids...lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 Nice....certainly a place where you keep the lot pretty much dirt...lol. No use for grass there. Seems like a great cabin spot to get away. Any lakes nearby?grass is overated, give me a spot like that , a lake and pine needle beds with minimum lawn and it's heaven Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 grass is overated, give me a spot like that , a lake and pine needle beds with minimum lawn and it's heaven I like grass, but I don't want to put much effort into it. I just let the random patches of clover grow and the wild flowers do their thing. I prefer the natural look, but that's just me. It keeps the wild animals perusing through the yard too. Pulled in tonight to see 4 deer in the backyard. I'll take that over a chemically loaded lawn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 Deer were cute years ago. Now just giant rats transporting disease. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 Swiss Alps or Mount Tolland? It was hard to tell from the plane today! Pretty sweet undercast though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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