October 2026 general discussion

[Brian5671]

Already 56 here.  TORCH!

[Brewbeer]

temp over 60 now, where's the wind ?  

[WinterWolf]

62 currently…gonna be gorgeous.  

[dendrite]

61.3/49

Tooooorch

[Typhoon Tip]

Off note/op ed:

Relatives currently across southern Michigan are experiencing a Lilac bloom here nearing November ... and the photos/evidence I've seen, these are robust bouquets ... Not a mere floret or two.  I began noticed this here in New England beginning ~ 7 years ago, and since it's been sporadic... year to year.. Small bud swells with a few cracked open, a small flower here and there- I've actually even witnessed seasonally dumbfounded bumble bee sniffin' around.

Not the bigger bouquets you get in May...but definitely "silently alarming" for climate aware types like myself - and definitely not enough of total population awareness... Nothing like this though,

 

Point being, the phenomenon is increasing in frequency and production - one among a vast compendium of different climate change ramifications that are ongoing.  I was just reading about thermokarst phenomenon ... permafrost detachment landslides, and glacial thrust events, all of which have both increased, but at an accelerated occurrence rates over the past 30 years.  The shit over in Tibet was civility being in the wrong place in the wrong Millennium when a detachment took place...etc. 

I know that global climate change is fake and that profligate exploitation of fossil fuels is part of human kind's divine right and provenance of all Earth kingdom come ... has nothing to do with acceleration/adding to it.  And that science is fake... But, I guess somewhere between the enormity of whole villages and their occupants being swept away, and the acrid stench of incarcerating poly-aromatic hydrocarbons ...there exists an incredible beauty like bouquet that has no right to exist at this time of year. Feels a bit like a forbidden fruit though ... definitely a guilty pleasure.  First cousin can be just too hot to leave alone I suppose...

[CoastalWx]

Yeah I saw Azaleas blooming but I wonder if that was due to when they were trimmed. Hasn’t been that warm.

[H2Otown_WX]

20 hours ago, WinterWolf said:

It is exactly apples to apples!  Nothing is fake if it’s at your house.  If your car battery dies because it is 22 degrees…no matter what the temp is 1500 FT up, is the dead battery fake?   Will you be able to tell the battery, hey battery good one,  good fake out, now go ahead and start my car?     You see, Theres the point.   
 

Is the TOR that blew your house down fake, cuz the town next to you didn’t get a TOR?  Temp is temp. Snow is snow. Rain is rain. TOR is TOR.   
 

If Kevin is shoveling 4”, and I’m seeing through translucent slush that’s a 1/4”  inch thick…is his fake snow?  
 

And finally…if we tied your bare ass to a tree, and kept you out in the 23 degree cold, all night long, and your nuts were the size of peas when the sun came up, would you call that fake cold, because 1500ft above your head it was 45 degrees?  Would that make any difference whatsoever to your frozen ass tied to that tree?  

[HIPPYVALLEY]

Dust storms driving through the back roads of the valley today.
Surprised I have not heard any brushfire reports yet.

[HIPPYVALLEY]

64° in downtown Northampton under bright blue skies.
What a day!