Chrisrotary12 Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 Thermometer might say 57, but the low dew points and wind is making it feel quite brisk. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdxken Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 5 minutes ago, Chrisrotary12 said: Thermometer might say 57, but the low dew points and wind is making it feel quite brisk. Thermometer says it's 52 and with a howling wind it's freezing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radarman Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 1 hour ago, tamarack said: Very best is hophornbeam (aka ironwood), a relatively small tree usually beneath the main crown canopy. (In NNJ "ironwood" was used for an even smaller tree of several other names - blue beech, musclewood. Hophornbeam was almost unknown there, as blue beech is almost unknown this far north.) After HH comes red oak, sugar maple and beech, with yellow birch and white ash a tic behind, the latter being the finest of all woods to burn when still green. "Ash wood green or ash wood dry, a king shall warm his slippers by." The very opposite is balsam poplar, as one Allagash woodsman noted, "You couldn't afford the oil it would take to burn [green] balm-o-Gilead!" A co-worker when I lived in Fort Kent wished to learn the age of the BPs in his dooryard, so drilled one with an increment borer, a small brace-and-bit with hollow bit so a small tube of wood could be extracted and rings counted. He pulled out the extractor and water ran out of the hole for a couple minutes. (Fresh-cut fir isn't much better.) Entertaining 12z GFS, 72 hours of near-constant RA totaling a bit more than 0.8" - NNE spring at its finest. We have 7 or 8 ironwoods on the property and sprouts everywhere and they certainly burn magnificently. But we also have a slew of shagbark hickory and while they take longer to dry, they burn nearly just as well I think. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 44/23 and gusting into the 30s. Pure hell out there for late April. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 Just looped the dog and it sucks out despite the sun. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdxken Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 10 minutes ago, dendrite said: 44/23 and gusting into the 30s. Pure hell out there for late April. Enjoy your summer week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 17 minutes ago, radarman said: We have 7 or 8 ironwoods on the property and sprouts everywhere and they certainly burn magnificently. But we also have a slew of shagbark hickory and while they take longer to dry, they burn nearly just as well I think. Hickory and white oak are generally in the same heat value class as hophornbeam, as is Osage orange, which rarely exceeds 20' in height. Black locust is up there as well. The only hickories within 70 miles of here are some planted shagbarks about 4 miles to my southeast. Most northerly natural occurrence in Maine is along Rt 1 in Woolwich, across the Kennebec from Bath. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 11 minutes ago, kdxken said: Enjoy your summer week. I just installed. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 25 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said: Just looped the dog and it sucks out despite the sun. I am so sick of wind. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 5 minutes ago, dendrite said: I just installed. High of 43F so far at the ASOS up here. That’s brutal for the valley at the end of April. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan76 Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 The wind really blows. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhoon Tip Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 2 hours ago, weatherwiz said: There is the potential for some localized heavy rainfall towards the end of the week while the front approaches. Looks like it becomes fairly parallel to the flow aloft and those are some pretty strong jet dynamics with us in a favorable quadrant for enhanced ulvl divergence. Too bad we don't have an evac mechanism aloft because that 0-3 ... perhaps 6km on Wednesday looks pretty positive in the direction shear... Noting Logan with 160 to 180 Deg and an LI -1 with -4 over LGA at 24 C in the T1 down that way, and ALB now popped to 20 on this 18z NAM ...so the w-boundary is fiddling in the run and could end up a slightly N... SRH ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 Ryan’s got 80 Wednesday AWT! And 72-77 all next week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 So many of the trees / buds started opening in today’s warmth and sun. Fantastic day . Just too windy 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 13 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said: Ryan’s got 80 Wednesday AWT! And 72-77 all next week. I have 80 because we had 85 yesterday. Didn't want to blow it up entirely. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 9 minutes ago, CT Rain said: I have 80 because we had 85 yesterday. Didn't want to blow it up entirely. So what do you really think? And you can’t say” it’s a really tough call” with frontal boundary . You wouldn’t publicly air 80 unless you felt very confident . You’re the chief met . It’s your call 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian5671 Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 Just now, Damage In Tolland said: So what do you really think? And you can’t say” it’s a really tough call” with frontal boundary S and W areas look the warmest...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Modfan2 Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 10 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said: So what do you really think? And you can’t say” it’s a really tough call” with frontal boundary . You wouldn’t publicly air 80 unless you felt very confident . You’re the chief met . It’s your call Brush fire all around! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 55 here for the high. Windy, but not too bad. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 Overall a late spring/ early summer look in CT. One of the best springs we’ve ever had. Mainly AN and dry 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian5671 Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 alot of clear days like today. Beats the usual backdoor cold front/cut off low hell we often see around here in March/April. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TauntonBlizzard2013 Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 Saturday looks wet on the 18z gfs... seems like potential for any one of the next like 7 days to turn kind of crappy. Spin the wheel of misfortune Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhoon Tip Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 18z American guidance attempted to edge N with the wavy front Wed ... Friday. NAM now ops to drop it down Friday and drill a humid rainy messy low circulation straight through, ... but the GFS takes Friday's low up the St L. Seaway and really sends us soaring first dp mid or upper 60s under 80s style warm sector. Then next week, the GFS goes flat ..all fields and really whisks the front/ .. air mass rapidly out and replaces with above normal heights/ flat ridging by D8-10 ... 582 dm IND-LGA ... Typical at that range, it has trouble loading warm thickness into the higher heights so suspect that 558 dm ends up 564 D7 ish... Different look overall then the Euro's cold 850 mb insert - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 Saturday looked fine on the gfs. Especially after mid morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 This month would’ve fit climo better if you flipped it completely around. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted April 26, 2021 Share Posted April 26, 2021 2 hours ago, Typhoon Tip said: Too bad we don't have an evac mechanism aloft because that 0-3 ... perhaps 6km on Wednesday looks pretty positive in the direction shear... Noting Logan with 160 to 180 Deg and an LI -1 with -4 over LGA at 24 C in the T1 down that way, and ALB now popped to 20 on this 18z NAM ...so the w-boundary is fiddling in the run and could end up a slightly N... SRH ... maybe some strong AM storms with the warm front north of the Pike. A wasted EML though...actually moves overhead during peak heating. Actually would be a solid severe threat W NY/W PA if the EML remained overhead there but it moves into our area by peak heating Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lava Rock Posted April 27, 2021 Share Posted April 27, 2021 37.7f. let's get that warm front up here pleaseSent from my Pixel 4a using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdxken Posted April 27, 2021 Share Posted April 27, 2021 4 hours ago, Damage In Tolland said: Ryan’s got 80 Wednesday AWT! And 72-77 all next week. I thought you said this was a summer week? What happened? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted April 27, 2021 Share Posted April 27, 2021 3 hours ago, Damage In Tolland said: Overall a late spring/ early summer look in CT. One of the best springs we’ve ever had. Mainly AN and dry 15th warmest 26th driest so no, that and your 7 inches of snowfall in mid April lol. Today overall sucked wxwise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted April 27, 2021 Share Posted April 27, 2021 2 minutes ago, kdxken said: I thought you said this was a summer week? What happened? Cloudy and 72 is midsummer on the mount 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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