ORH_wxman

Yeah I mean there’s probably 4 or 5 holes anyway that would be in the 350-380 range (unless you are playing a really challenging course) and you can do just fine with low 200s off the tee but keep it straight. Then usually on most courses there’s 2-3 holes where you have a massive fairway with ample rough on each side that you can risk taking out the less accurate clubs. That maybe leaves you with 7-8 holes where you have to make a real decision on whether to trade accuracy for distance that might be very helpful if you can keep it in play.

That’s a young one. Usually the young males only have two or three points and by late July, a fully mature bull moose will have pretty big antlers as they stop growing and shed their velvet by late August/early Sept.

How are you with a 3 iron off the tee?

The ice is the most compact going back to 2007 for this date...just ahead of 2013. We're narrowly ahead of 2012 for least area on record on this date, but 2020 currently has over 800,000 sq km less ice extent than 2012. In comparison, 2012 and 2007 were the least compact at this point though both would become very compact later in the season near the minimum. This tells me that we're likely going to see a huge slowdown in extent loss coming up pretty soon. 2012 has a huge area loss event coming up in the first 10 days of August, so I think 2020 is going to have to build a bigger lead on 2012 over the next week to have a good chance to finish below 2012 in area. Extent is a different story, that may be easier to achieve, though still not easy IMHO despite the current 800k lead. 2012's extent loss in August is unmatched in the record....so it's going to be all about "holding on" to a lead in 2012 as it will begin making up ground very quickly...and as mentioned above, the compactness of 2020 right now is going to make it harder to sustain big extent losses going forward unless we see a big area loss event.

Time to keep the big dog in the bag

According to the census, Coos County's population peaked in 1940 and has declined every decade since 1980.

Mansfield Hollow is 250 feet...pretty much the same as IJD.

I don't think it's that low. That's basically what the nearby coop averages (Storrs and Mansfield Hollow) with incomplete data....so you can prob add at least 6-10" to it. They are definitely bad snow holes though.

Willimantic is a local snow hole. Prob in the 40-45” range. While nearby elevated areas north and west are closer to 60”.

Just got back from Juniper Hills. Played the Riverside course and shot 39-45 for an 84. First round since 7/22 last year. So almost exactly a year to the day. Can’t complain. Played surprisingly well except one terrible stretch on 10-11-12 where I went double-bogey-double. That pretty much sunk me on the back but I finished par-par at least including sticking a 5 iron to 10 feet on 17 (long par 3)...missed the damn putt though by burning the edge. Thought I had it. Anyways, it was great just to be out again.

I want it a touch warmer. Around 70 and overcast is my favorite. Makes tracking the ball very easy and sometimes the overcast scares the crowds off (like your misty weather) Don’t want it wet to screw up my grip or have the water hydroplaning the ball across the club face.

Not sure if you have a typo in there because it’s hard to read, but it sounds like they will cover a generic brand even if they aren’t covering the premium name brand? That’s not uncommon. If not, what you can do sometimes is call the insurance company and appeal or challenge them for not covering any of the options, and most of the time they will relent and cover it. You may have to speak to a supervisor if the person you are talking to is useless...sometimes you may need to go another rung up from first supervisor. My mother works for a large pharma company and is familiar with how the insurance companies work...and this is a ploy she taught me that has worked for me a couple times already. We had to put our first son on a prescription formula for a while and they initially claimed it wasn’t covered, but it really should have been. We called and appealed and they were like “oh you’re right, we will cover that”.

Those are just ridiculous numbers. And it isn’t one coop. You already posted ORH further south. 1911 is the gold standard for at least northern SNE and into NNE...it’s just too bad we don’t have hourly obs to weenie-out over to look for wind direction and dews.

Most of those are “legit”. But keep in mind those were the old Stevenson screen liquid MMTs...they read about 1F higher at max temp than digital ones nowadays.

1911 was so high end everywhere it seems. I bet the current site could’ve popped 98-99 based on the comparison to the airport during their overlap years.

It’s too bad we couldn’t have the wind be a little more westerly. ORH might have had a shot at 95 or 96. 96 seems to be the cap for modern times. The airport hasn’t hit 97 since 1953...but I always wonder about the land use around there back then or siting. They hit 97+ several times in the first 5 years from 1948-1953 and hasn’t hit it since. They’ve only hit 96 four times since then.

I know Ray and I had our tub turn into a beer tub at least 2 or 3 of the conferences.

Oh wow. I was assuming they were like 102. Maybe they hit that in a different day during the ‘91 heat wave.

Yeah ORH at 94 is the most impressive out of those. Almost tied the record of 95F in 1991.

Big 4 highs: BOS 95 ORH 94 PVD 94 BDL 99

I’d like to see at least a couple daily records fall. That said, we got somewhat close at a few spots.

Yeah I’m not sure what the max temp at ORH is based on wind direction. I did check 29 years ago (1991) and they had a SW wind when they hit 95F but they had been WNW all morning leading up to it. This morning was obviously not like that. Looks like they are done though for today. Another 93F at 4pm. That’s about what I figured they’d max out at with the wind today. It’s possible they snuck in a 94 briefly between about 3-330pm as that was their only consistent string of 34C obs on the 5 min transcript. Not sure there’s enough left today to make another run. Regardless, they needed 95 to tie the record.

Yeah 6 hr max at BDL is 98F. Same at BAF.

A lot of places in CNE and SNE are getting first 90F today. Definitely been a weird first half of summer.

They are def the best spots in SNE for this wind direction. BDL can prob pop 100 as long as the dews don’t come back up.