PowderBeard

Beautiful day to work outside and split wood for next winter. Damn Crohn's has probably taken 20 pounds off me this summer and I barely got through half a cord. Only 6-7x more needed  for 2021-2022. Looking forward to some thunder later after a jump in the pool.

Down at the in-laws in East Haddam. Some large dark towers starting to form. 

2 hours ago, moneypitmike said:

da-dew-gone-gone-gone, da-dew-gone-gone

Na, just like in June it will be 81/62 and folks will be commenting "oppressive." 

11 hours ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

MA Covid numbers have been much better the last week or so.  Below 2% positive.   Hopefully that spike was short lived.  
Im hoping to be able to work with my students in person at least part time of this keeps up.  Still can’t do labs though. 
 

 

I'm happy Mass schools open a month after many schools down south so we can see what happens. North Paulding (where the now famous picture of the hallway came from) is closed again today since they have now had 35 test positive after 4 days of  classes on a reduced schedule. It's another BioGen in the making. 

Where is all this heat? 87/64

If we are going to be stuck in Mass then Berkshire East is the best terrain we have...unless we all storm Brodie. 

Last week I worked on the neighbor's lawn a bit with a thatching rake after the storm. Lots of dead/dormant grass. Pretty impressed with how it is filling in and greening up in 5-6 days. Just goes to show how grass keeps growing in this heat with little rain if you get that crap out of it.

Just now, Damage In Tolland said:

In Jan 

For you maybe. It makes sense given your high elevation puts you closer to the sun.

Hope everyone is enjoying the last real torch of the year. Cider doughnut season cometh!

1 hour ago, Whineminster said:

I'm hoping to get in on that pounding action.  Had a little boom boom last night and got a little wet but not enough to satisfy me....or my tomato plants. What you end up with for precip?

Only about 0.2" in a brief downpour. It all helps. Wife's tomato plants have gone wild in the heat. We have a couple well over 6' and producing non-stop red and orange cherry tomatoes. The big fruits are just starting to redden up. 

Storms are trying to form, been pretty dark here the past hour. Temperature has really leveled off at 88* since about 11am.

The half inch of rain the past week has completely rejuvenated the lawn. Was getting a little off color in one section of the newer fescue planted the spring. 3-4 weeks I will dethatch, overseed, and start a nitrogen blitz. 

Nice breeze yesterday and more today. Makes it quite nice out. Looking forward to the potential for some more storms this evening. We had about two hours of good thunder last night. 

47 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

Nice, ORH.  

My wildlife includes accidentally leaving a can of Pringle’s by the pool this evening when the wife and I sat out for a drink.  A friend was dropping something off so we ran inside for a bit. 

I came back out a half hour later to clean up and the Pringle’s are gone.  No where to be found but I notice a paw print on the table.  Looking around I find the container along the woodline... damn bear stole them in the half hour we were chatting on the other side of the building!

Ah, the best Pringles flavor.

7 hours ago, Great Snow 1717 said:

The October Gale of 1841 would also work

Only reason I know of this is because the New England Historical Society on FB. They have some really interesting little reads.

https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/the-deadly-october-gale-of-1841/

So many roads closed in town. Just saw a FB post it took someone almost an hour to get to Ludlow (usually a 10 minute drive) due to all the road closures. Waiting to hear if the Quabbin access road is open. No point in trying to do anything else. 

This is unreal. We have moved to the middle of fhe house. Our living/sun room is getting pelted with branches and had a limb just miss the side of the house. I don't know if it is our exposure on this hill or what. Last hour has been better than Irene was in RI for me. 

What is happening right now?! We are getting thrashed. Gusts have to be above 50. Never seen wind like this. 

Rocking and rolling now. Some good roars. 

Looks like just north of the Mass/VT border is the spot to be.  Another impressive cuplet west of Dover.

edit: older return

Tornado on the Mass/VT border.

Brother-in-law in Manhattan on Pier 17 said wind is really starting to move in the past few minutes. Consistently >35 knots, no real gusts though.

Some cells really starting to pop in western CT/Mass.

3 minutes ago, LSC97wxnut said:

That 10-ish story building in the one of the videos was just vaporized... 

WTH

2 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

Totally get the feeling people in general all around are writing this off as meh. Hopefully it is but ....

Agreed, it's an afternoon and evening show.

2 minutes ago, Pluffmud said:

Is it me or did they change the change the track of Isaias on the 11:00 advisory more westward? Looks like none of the cone covers Connecticut or Massachusetts now. The center crosses further west of NYC

There was a western shift on models very early this morning. Precip shield looks further west than modeled yesterday too.