August Banter 2026

[toolsheds]

1 hour ago, H2O said:

These would be perfect on some scrambled egg ice cream. Someone needs to invent that 

Just got a juicer last week.  Nothing better than a fresh glass of beet, apple, cucumber, lemon, ginger juice to wake you up.  :-)

[ravensrule]

21 hours ago, aldie 22 said:

So far im pretty happy with this Kremer fella on the Twins. Two quality starts in the books

Everyone becomes Cy Young when they leave the Orioles. 

[Chris78]

53 minutes ago, ravensrule said:

Everyone becomes Cy Young when they leave the Orioles. 

Or pitch against them

[psuhoffman]

@WxUSAF @CAPE @das@MillvilleWx  @Terpeast

Not sure why this isn’t getting more attention or maybe it is and I missed it but  NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis has been discontinued as of March. This is the primary source of all those analog composites you see posted in the discussion threads.  As of now I’ve seen nothing in terms of what’s replacing it. How can that be?  It’s a major tool. Hopefully someone can tell me I’m wrong and there is another option I just don’t know about for this data moving forward. 

[nw baltimore wx]

Unfortunately, at the last few minutes, some horizon clouds moved in and we didn’t see totality. Of the three eclipses that I’ve chased, this is a first for me and I am only disappointed for the newbie’s on the trip that still don’t appreciate totality. I won’t be home for a few more days, but here’s a phone pic of the “disappointment.”

[wxmeddler]

1 hour ago, psuhoffman said:

@WxUSAF @CAPE @das@MillvilleWx  @Terpeast

Not sure why this isn’t getting more attention or maybe it is and I missed it but  NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis has been discontinued as of March. This is the primary source of all those analog composites you see posted in the discussion threads.  As of now I’ve seen nothing in terms of what’s replacing it. How can that be?  It’s a major tool. Hopefully someone can tell me I’m wrong and there is another option I just don’t know about for this data moving forward. 

There was an SCN that went out about it last year and there was no indication in there that there was going to be a replacement or complementary service. The SCN went put at about the same time as other things which were curtailing the access / dissemination of climate information. 

[psuhoffman]

15 hours ago, wxmeddler said:

There was an SCN that went out about it last year and there was no indication in there that there was going to be a replacement or complementary service. The SCN went put at about the same time as other things which were curtailing the access / dissemination of climate information. 

Ugh. How is this not getting more backlash? Seems to be a pretty big deal to me. 

[MN Transplant]

On 8/12/2026 at 6:40 PM, psuhoffman said:

@WxUSAF @CAPE @das@MillvilleWx  @Terpeast

Not sure why this isn’t getting more attention or maybe it is and I missed it but  NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis has been discontinued as of March. This is the primary source of all those analog composites you see posted in the discussion threads.  As of now I’ve seen nothing in terms of what’s replacing it. How can that be?  It’s a major tool. Hopefully someone can tell me I’m wrong and there is another option I just don’t know about for this data moving forward. 

For research purposes, NCEP/NCAR was eclipsed a long time ago by ERA5 (Euro-based, of course).  It is all available, but I'm not sure if there are any sites that make it easy to use for the public.