August 2025 Summer Thread

[weatherwiz]

1 minute ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

If that has been used, I would stay away from it.  They don’t last long. 

We only planned on using it for the summer. It was in phenomenal shape, it was only used once. The person who purchased it before last summer passed away and whoever was going through the stuff listed it on Facebook marketplace and for free. Came with 2 pumps and 2 sets of hoses, filters, pH strips, everything. Pretty good fine for one summer! 

[HoarfrostHubb]

Squirrels have been feasting on something in the woods behind our pool.  I am surprised we have any based on the hawk and owl populations here 

[Torch Tiger]

we Chatham. Orleans next

[Typhoon Tip]

2 hours ago, Superstorm said:

I have been saying this for years, but people seem to just want to gravitate towards left verses right.  I believe media keeps us in this continued murk to deceive the masses.

It’s a bigger problem … I'm not disagreeing with you below; more like adding to it -

it’s a socio-technological related forcing in group response. There is too much varied information, exceeding processing/categorization capacity of most of population.  It’s entirely intuitive that this will integrate unfavorably in groups and larger orders … setting off the cultural mode of distrust of information - compounding this dilemma … there are nefarious manipulators clever enough to even leverage that confusion because they benefit from uncertainty and the anxiety an uncertain world instills at a personal level. 

This is why nationalism-type modes have popularized in recent decades, world over.  It’s really all a defensive contraction born out of fear of lost identity(s). The sense of invading ethos breeds pathos. Tribalism in some respects is also apropos as a response description. 

So it’s really more than media. It’s how tech has interfered with the social evolution of humanity. Media, of all forms, being ‘techno-reliant’ is certainly part of that. But  technology forcing occurring so fast in history is destabilizing.  Some can handle it. Many can not.  There are legit information sources but hard to ferret them out in a blizzard … Then the few that engage in the Machiavellian distortion shit are living in a hay-day, for their nefarious goals thrive in a basis of obfuscating information saturation. All they need is to appeal to nationalistic opinions, if not flavoring rhetoric in that regard, and the suggestions will resonate. 

[Cyclone-68]

28 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

Like Davy who is still in the Navy  said" pool beach time"

Probably will be for life 

[DavisStraight]

18 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

Squirrels have been feasting on something in the woods behind our pool.  I am surprised we have any based on the hawk and owl populations here 

Had a noisy owl across the street last night, freaked out my puppy.

[Typhoon Tip]

Huh. Actual bright sun blazin away out there 

[forkyfork]

if you think the noaa cuts are about waste and fraud you're a dummy who's easy to lie to

[Superstorm]

1 hour ago, Typhoon Tip said:

It’s a bigger problem … 

it’s a socio-technological related forcing in group response. There is too much varied information, exceeding processing/categorization capacity of most of population.  It’s entirely intuitive that this will integrate unfavorably in groups and larger orders … setting off the cultural mode of distrust of information - compounding this dilemma … there are nefarious manipulators clever enough to even leverage that confusion because they benefit from uncertainty and the anxiety an uncertain world instills at a personal level. 

This is why nationalism-type modes have popularized in recent decades, world over.  It’s really all a defensive contraction born out of fear of lost identity(s). The sense of invading ethos breeds pathos. Tribalism in some respects is also apropos as a response description. 

So it’s really more than media. It’s how tech has interfered with the social evolution of humanity. Media, of all forms, being ‘techno-reliant’ is certainly part of that. But  technology forcing occurring so fast in history is destabilizing.  Some can handle it. Many can not.  There are legit information sources but hard to ferret them out in a blizzard … Then the few that engage in the Machiavellian distortion shit are living in a hay-day, for their nefarious goals thrive in a basis of obfuscating information saturation. All they need is to appeal to nationalistic opinions, if not flavoring rhetoric in that regard, and the suggestions will resonate. 

Good points.

[WxWatcher007]

This makes me long for the days of dews talk.

[weatherwiz]

7 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

This makes me long for the days of dews talk.

see what happens when dews are low? 

[powderfreak]

11 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

This makes me long for the days of dews talk.

We are working to eliminate those too.

[CoastalWx]

Dews and heat here soon enough. Big big summer stretch coming. Poor Moregarbage.

[weatherwiz]

Just think...one of these years we're going to get a super strong EL Nino where we are ripping 70's in DJF...for multiple days. EWR probably hitting a 90 too. 

[kdxken]

Hate to do it but that's what they're there for right? 

 

[weathafella]

I’m just thrilled to see the sky as the smoke appears to be gone-hallelujah!

[Typhoon Tip]

42 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

Just think...one of these years we're going to get a super strong EL Nino where we are ripping 70's in DJF...for multiple days. EWR probably hitting a 90 too. 

That's actually more Nina I thought - the SE ridge and Nina are lusty sweaty bed companions during winter...

but heh.... CC will f* it all up too

[Typhoon Tip]

I wanna say ... 1999?   there were a couple of obnoxious warm departures between Halloween and January 1 that late autumn/early winter.   The SE ridge had become proxy over the flow east across the continent, and each time it lasted a week.  I remember consecutive days in the upper 60s balm, with no leaves on the trees and sweating streets.  One of them had a couple days to 74. 

Something like that, tho not as extreme took place in 2006, too.