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I hate the whole Telecommunication Industrial Complex - As other's have danced around or directly impugned... you're proportions are essentially correct:  it's an entire enterprise racing to see who can operate an economic engine most immorally, while still somehow being allowed by law.  

Yet, we are sort of impelled toward it because let's face it ... if one wants to compete in the sense of even menial living aspirations, you can't be tuned out entirely.  Unless you're aspirations are elsewhere; sure, you can go build yourself a yurt somewhere and completely disappear off the grid.  

Talk about holding a society hostage -je-sus-christ.  Thing is, I almost get the feeling or wonder - if the World et al were not necessarily preoccupied with  being drowned in the depths bigger horrors and what-have-you geo-political tumult, if attention could rather then turn toward these lesser evils ... establishing certain equitable methods for these sorts of things.  Until such time, they'll likely continue to operate under direct scrutiny of monitoring of any kind.

For example, I've often wondered if n an ideal world, you could have a base line "serf" level housing, medical, electric, and telecommunication, that is based on a socialism.. Then, for people that want to maintain certain luxuries, THAT is where you build a capitalistic economic engine on top.  Believe me, the ID of the common serf WILL try to get to that level so there would be no shortage of demand --> supply. 

Greed won't let that either.  It's like...  greed makes us WANT to hold the world hostage.  Human kind really is a big festering boil of ethical pestilence -  

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One thing to keep in mind is the local cable providers crush you with taxes and all kinds of surcharges on the bill. I remember when I had cable there was like $15 in all kinds of surcharges especially the ones added by CT. Sling is $20 a month with in think just sales tax so it's like 22 a month. They some how don't have to legally add that CT local access programing, state telecom surcharge, etc. 

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I've had Directv since 1996. I find it is the best option if you're a professional sports enthusiast with their games packages. Obviously a pricey proposition and not for everybody but as Orh-wxman alluded to their are other options on the internet if you're careful and have a good adblocker and use Firefox.

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1 minute ago, scoob40 said:

I've had Directv since 1996. I find it is the best option if you're a professional sports enthusiast with their games packages. Obviously a pricey proposition and not for everybody but as Orh-wxman alluded to their are other options on the internet if you're careful and have a good adblocker and use Firefox.

I've had it too and it annoyed the **** out of me that I could not get the Boston local channels.  My house is apparently in the Providence DMA zone.  It was the reason we bailed on it.

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9 minutes ago, Baroclinic Zone said:

I've had it too and it annoyed the **** out of me that I could not get the Boston local channels.  My house is apparently in the Providence DMA zone.  It was the reason we bailed on it.

I kinda lucked out a bit as my wife worked in the industry at the time and was able to get waivers for the CBS, ABC, and FOX affiliates in NYC.  They took the FOX 5 in NYC away but apparently was grandfathered in to CBS 2 and ABC 7.

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4 minutes ago, scoob40 said:

I kinda lucked out a bit as my wife worked in the industry at the time and was able to get waivers for the CBS, ABC, and FOX affiliates in NYC.  They took the FOX 5 in NYC away but apparently was grandfathered in to CBS 2 and ABC 7.

The only thing I like for out of market stations is news and there are channels that let me watch channels all over the world for that.  I have enough choice of the major networks OTA.

My total out of pocket cost is around $70 including my Internet and Netflix.  For everything else I use Plex which integrates everything very well for me.  I call it my personal Netflix...lol.

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4 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

there's some spectacular CB structures in the area ...  nothing severe , yet ... but there are crispy domes punching through the alto-strata deck.  That's always a cool dimensional appeal/sight to see.   

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Tip,  this prompted a question for you.  Growing up in Maryland and spending time in Florida I noticed the difference between towering cu down there and up here.  Many afternoons as the towers went up they had very sharp edges between the cloud and clear skies.  Kind of like volcanic clouds with clear ripples and edges. Stunning exploding towers.  Up here in NH it seems as Cu towers go up they don't have quite the defining edges most times.  Don't grow as rapidly either.    Is it the higher dews?  Better surface heating?     Seems to be a difference as you get towards lower latitudes?  

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Just now, Ginx snewx said:

Saw the Modis Terra False color pic today and did a comparison with June 30th 2015 vegetation. Appears to me to clearly show the Gypsy moth defoliation

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The reports I read from 1981 had about 12 million acres of defoliation...I wonder how this year will rank.  Last Saturday I was literally watching them munching on a pine tree.  I thought those were trees of last resort for them but there seemed to be many options left for them...including my maples!

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2 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

Saw the Modis Terra False color pic today and did a comparison with June 30th 2015 vegetation. Appears to me to clearly show the Gypsy moth defoliation

We have several trees totally defoliated.  In one case we have a fully defoliated Oak with a fully defoliated Ironwood tree underneath... And right next to it an ironwood they didn't touch.  It's like they fell off the oak and were like, "sure why not", but it wasn't worth the effort of climbing the neighboring tree. 

It's horrendous.  They cannot die soon enough.  Don't think the fungus has made its way up here yet, they're still munching, it's still raining in the woods.

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4 minutes ago, radarman said:

We have several trees totally defoliated.  In one case we have a fully defoliated Oak with a fully defoliated Ironwood tree underneath... And right next to it an ironwood they didn't touch.  It's like they fell off the oak and were like, "sure why not", but it wasn't worth the effort of climbing the neighboring tree. 

It's horrendous.  They cannot die soon enough.  Don't think the fungus has made its way up here yet, they're still munching, it's still raining in the woods.

Even with all my death .. they were still crushing last night and this morning. There were tons of live ones climbing all over the dead ones on the trunks 

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Just now, Damage In Tolland said:

Even with all my death .. they were still crushing last night and this morning. There were tons of live ones climbing all over the dead ones on the trunks 

its over in my hood, only small debris field in the driveway and on the truck, we are happy, now for second growth of leaves

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4 hours ago, MetHerb said:

What kind of antenna are you using and do you have a pre-amp?  I'm lucky where I live being between 4 different TV markets (Hartford, Springfield, Providence and Boston) and I use one of the highest gain UHF antenna's with a low noise pre-amp and I'm able to pull stations in from 90 miles away.  Geography makes it difficult for me to get some stations but I know that without the right equipment I wouldn't get some stations.

I did a search on tvfool.com for New Sharon and it also brings up a CBS, FOX and NBC that should be possible but again, I don't know your geography.  You just need enough gain for the tuner to be able to render them.  ABC might be an option too under the right conditions and who knows what sub-channels might offered.

The beauty of HDTV is that you're getting the full HD signal, not some compressed version that the cable or satellite company tells you is HD.  It just looks so much sharper OTA..

Disclosure:  My electronic engineer dad would roll over in his grave at how ignorant I am about this technology.  The antenna, the usual assembly of various-length aluminum tube elements, was on the roof and the rotator in the basement when we moved in 19 years ago, and in my ignorance I'm confident there was no pre-amp.  We used to get all 4 commercial networks out of PWM plus PBS, and occasionally ch 5 from BGR - forget which network.  Post-switch, no amount of rotating brought any improvement.  Maybe things have changed in the years since the change to HD.  We're about 2 miles NNW of the Route 2-Sandy River bridge, in kind of a gentle sag in the topography. 

Back to wx, sun is out thru PC skies, so the TD is on the rise.  We managed to miss all the heavy bands this morning as they slid to the north, 0.15" dumped at 7 AM and probably less than that since.  Cindy's remains will probably stay mostly south, so unless we catch one of the scattered TS between now and July 1, June will have less than half of its 19-yr avg of 5.50".  (Probably at about 1.40" at present.)

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1 hour ago, wxeyeNH said:

Tip,  this prompted a question for you.  Growing up in Maryland and spending time in Florida I noticed the difference between towering cu down there and up here.  Many afternoons as the towers went up they had very sharp edges between the cloud and clear skies.  Kind of like volcanic clouds with clear ripples and edges. Stunning exploding towers.  Up here in NH it seems as Cu towers go up they don't have quite the defining edges most times.  Don't grow as rapidly either.    Is it the higher dews?  Better surface heating?     Seems to be a difference as you get towards lower latitudes?  

We do though sometimes ...even there/here.  I'm situated along Rt 2 here in N mass ...so for all intents and meteorological purposes you and i area in the same region. 

Anyway, i just took this on my iPhone as that severe cell ripped by SE of me about an hour ago:

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It's a little oatmealy/granular but it's an iPhone snap.  Anyway, this cloiud was remarkably well stenciled both with internal cloud/fractal/protuberances and against the surrounding cobalt blue medium. The Pileous was up there around 24 K (est) as this cloud not only punched through the alto strata deck but subsidence around the towers cleared it away - that level is usually around 18 K...   This cell went on to prompt severe as it whisked away up toward the N-shore.   

You are certainly right that higher CAPE air combined with mid level lapse rates will contribute to more proficient tower structures....  we just have to wait longer between opportunities to witness.   I've seen some damn right hyper fast CB genesis around this part, ...some punching 40 or even 50 k in the past.  I've seen rare anvil splashing and tropopausal roll-outs like you see more commonly in the Great Plains, too - 

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1 hour ago, MetHerb said:

The reports I read from 1981 had about 12 million acres of defoliation...I wonder how this year will rank.  Last Saturday I was literally watching them munching on a pine tree.  I thought those were trees of last resort for them but there seemed to be many options left for them...including my maples!

Easily believable, as by the time we reached my brother's place in Milford, MA we'd driven 60-65 miles (I-93/I-495/local roads) looking at near-total defoliation.  Our travel revealed the northern edge of totality - between MHT and CON - but the southern extent was far beyond where we stopped.  That early-80s outbreak was the only time (with one tiny exception, below)  I saw gypsy moth defoliation of conifers - white pine, which mostly survived, and hemlock, which didn't.  I didn't see major feeding far enough north to learn whether the little beasts would attack spruce and fir.  The early-70s outbreak, when I still lived in NJ, ate everything except white ash, ironic given the emerald ash borer invasion.  The only conifers in our part of NNJ were Eastern redcedar, which the crawlers didn't touch.  Lots of carbaryl got sprayed in that 70-71 disaster.

The above-noted exception was due to me and our logging contractor at Pinelands, 20 miles NW of PWM, in 1991.  Near the end of winter logging, he'd piled up a truckload of firewood at the edge of the logyard, unknowingly bringing many thousands of egg masses along, and planning to haul the wood in July when things firmed up.  This resulted in a population epicenter which utterly destroyed 2-3 acres, including a couple hemlocks near ground zero.  

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2 hours ago, Ginx snewx said:

Saw the Modis Terra False color pic today and did a comparison with June 30th 2015 vegetation. Appears to me to clearly show the Gypsy moth defoliation

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2 hours ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Look at the numbers of these bad boys on the trees this morning . It's no wonder the magnitude and scope they crushed this year.

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Glad we don't live there.

 

So, is it going to rain tonight?  Looking at the temp at the Pit, I wonder if something went through.  I'm seeing a high of 83.7* earlier in the afternoon; down to 78.8* now.

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1 hour ago, Typhoon Tip said:

We do though sometimes ...even there/here.  I'm situated along Rt 2 here in N mass ...so for all intents and meteorological purposes you and i area in the same region. 

Anyway, i just took this on my iPhone as that severe cell ripped by SE of me about an hour ago:

cloud.thumb.jpg.a6b01c0d33dcb76475aa1380b027317b.jpg

 

It's a little oatmealy/granular but it's an iPhone snap.  Anyway, this cloiud was remarkably well stenciled both with internal cloud/fractal/protuberances and against the surrounding cobalt blue medium. The Pileous was up there around 24 K (est) as this cloud not only punched through the alto strata deck but subsidence around the towers cleared it away - that level is usually around 18 K...   This cell went on to prompt severe as it whisked away up toward the N-shore.   

You are certainly right that higher CAPE air combined with mid level lapse rates will contribute to more proficient tower structures....  we just have to wait longer between opportunities to witness.   I've seen some damn right hyper fast CB genesis around this part, ...some punching 40 or even 50 k in the past.  I've seen rare anvil splashing and tropopausal roll-outs like you see more commonly in the Great Plains, too - 

Nice photo.   Down south I would frequently see towers like this go up on many afternoons.  The tower phase before the cloud gets to freezing height and starts to anvil out is my favorite time to watch.   Wish we had more up here!  

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