Junorch obs and discussion 2026

[kdxken]

3 minutes ago, dendrite said:

I have about 60+ different cultivars. I’ll sell them at some point. For now all of my fruit is for myself or family. 

Ever put it in ice cream? That sounds good.

[Torch Tiger]

45 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

wtf 

what 

[Torch Tiger]

The column quickly warms Tuesday and stays that way through middle of next week as an expansive upper-level ridge builds over the central CONUS. Aloft, 850 mb temperatures soar to +15-18C. Unsurprisingly, dry conditions are likely through much of next week as surface high pressure builds overhead. Bigger story will be the increasing heat starting Tuesday through much of the upcoming week. Ensemble guidance shows somewhat impressively high probabilities for high temps >90F with values between 50 and 60% in the CT and Merrimack River Valleys Tues-Fri.

[Brewbeer]

Another super nice evening out there !

[kdxken]

73° / 54° pretty sweet evening. 

 

[weatherwiz]

3 minutes ago, kdxken said:

73° / 54° pretty sweet evening. 

 

Not bad out! No mosquitos either…so far. Usually get destroyed with them here 

[kdxken]

47 minutes ago, Torch Tiger said:

The column quickly warms Tuesday and stays that way through middle of next week as an expansive upper-level ridge builds over the central CONUS. Aloft, 850 mb temperatures soar to +15-18C. Unsurprisingly, dry conditions are likely through much of next week as surface high pressure builds overhead. Bigger story will be the increasing heat starting Tuesday through much of the upcoming week. Ensemble guidance shows somewhat impressively high probabilities for high temps >90F with values between 50 and 60% in the CT and Merrimack River Valleys Tues-Fri.

Brief mild up yawn.

 

[HIPPYVALLEY]

Well, looks like I’ll have to put the air conditioners in for next week.  
This week has been fine because cool, dry nights and fans.  
Tuesday onward looks pretty warm.
 

[Brewbeer]

Gonna put mine in tomorrow. Will be a couple of weeks ahead of last year.

[kdxken]

8 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

Well, looks like I’ll have to put the air conditioners in for next week.  
This week has been fine because cool, dry nights and fans.  
Tuesday onward looks pretty warm.
 

Thinking the same thing

[BrianW]

11 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

Well, looks like I’ll have to put the air conditioners in for next week.  
This week has been fine because cool, dry nights and fans.  
Tuesday onward looks pretty warm.
 

I would install.  Going to be a hot few weeks up there in the Pioneer Valley..

[powderfreak]

26 minutes ago, kdxken said:

Brief mild up yawn.

 

Charts.

[weatherwiz]

36 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

Not bad out! No mosquitos either…so far. Usually get destroyed with them here 

Spoke too soon

[CoastalWx]

AC cranked last two days. Summer is here. Months and months left.

[dendrite]

Can’t recall the mosquitoes ever being this bad.

Black fly season was sorta meh

[metagraphica]

9 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Can’t recall the mosquitoes ever being this bad.

Black fly season was sorta meh

Was just thinking that a little while ago. Barely any black flies other than early season. Those couple of cold snaps did 'em in thankfully.

[CoastalWx]

18 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Can’t recall the mosquitoes ever being this bad.

Black fly season was sorta meh

Drought Breh 

[#NoPoles]

39 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Can’t recall the mosquitoes ever being this bad.

Black fly season was sorta meh

Black flies are horrid right now. No mosquitos yet. So it appears I'm the opposite as you. I'm currently icing the back of my neck along my hair line. The black flies chowed on me yesterday. It's pretty awful.

[powderfreak]

30 minutes ago, #NoPoles said:

Black flies are horrid right now. No mosquitos yet. So it appears I'm the opposite as you. I'm currently icing the back of my neck along my hair line. The black flies chowed on me yesterday. It's pretty awful.

Black flies are horrific right now.  Bloody arms and legs, from killing them as they bite.  They are insufferable once you get into the woods and especially at elevation.  Eventually they will die off, and then it will be deer/horse flies as the culprit. 

[Typhoon Tip]

It’s summer
 

Really just goes back to slightly above normal on Sun - Tuesday and then that’s a heat wave

[Torch Tiger]

19 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

It’s summer
 

Really just goes back to slightly above normal on Sun - Tuesday and then that’s a heat wave

Normal summer then - within current parameters and (non)- constraints of 2026! 

[Torch Tiger]

1 hour ago, powderfreak said:

Black flies are horrific right now.  Bloody arms and legs, from killing them as they bite.  They are insufferable once you get into the woods and especially at elevation.  Eventually they will die off, and then it will be deer/horse flies as the culprit. 

I have read so much about black flies!  They are swaths with 100 ft.? range ..and  certain colors are magnets

[HIPPYVALLEY]

1 hour ago, Torch Tiger said:

Normal summer then - within current parameters and (non)- constraints of 2026! 

It's gon' be dry...

[Torch Tiger]

4 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

It's gon' be dry...

Maybe.  Of course one area could get that renegade deluge with 4" while two towns over gets nothing.  tis the season  

"we just don't know..."

[Chrisrotary12]

15 hours ago, Typhoon Tip said:

has anyone else noticed an absence of mosquitos

I had noticed the same but they seem to be returning now. Noticed them last couple days.

[Lava Rock]

I had noticed the same but they seem to be returning now. Noticed them last couple days.

Google prematurely released their 60million genetically modified mosquitoes.

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[HoarfrostHubb]

14 hours ago, Typhoon Tip said:

yeah.   not here. I'm wonderin if there was a spray thing I don't know about.  But I was over in Sterling at Meadow Brook, basically a 1000 acres of orchards, open fields, with woody glades doing disc golf last weekend and there wasn't one.  Then I was over at Qual Ridge in Acton doing a regular golf there and again...none.   Why is massachusett special

Very few skeeters here so far. We also had very few black flies during their typical peak (early to mid May). Lots and lots of hornets and wasps though.  
 

circle of life?

[HoarfrostHubb]

24 minutes ago, Lava Rock said:

Google prematurely released their 60million genetically modified mosquitoes.

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I had t heard about that until one of my students mentioned it the other day.   I guess people have been doing this type of thing for quite a while and I hate mosquitoes.   
 

but I read Jurassic Park.   Nature finds a way

[CoastalWx]

Haven’t had many bugs at all but the skeeters are coming. We don’t have black flies here. 

[dendrite]

9 hours ago, dendrite said:

Can’t recall the mosquitoes ever being this bad.

Black fly season was sorta meh

 

8 hours ago, #NoPoles said:

Black flies are horrid right now. No mosquitos yet. So it appears I'm the opposite as you. I'm currently icing the back of my neck along my hair line. The black flies chowed on me yesterday. It's pretty awful.

Nevermind…they arrived this morning.