ORH_wxman

I thought the cool shot was weakening on the models though?

Wow just stepped outside:

What was it last year, white faced hornets inside the house or just outside on the house structure? They are nasty if you disturb them near their nest. Very painful stings too. Might be the most painful I've had. They just aren't as nasty as yellow jackets away from the nest. A yellow jacket will sting you pretty easily away from the nest...it's like they are just happy to be azzholes and sting for the hell of it...most other species of bees, wasps, and hornets wont bother you too much away from the nest.

If you find feral honey bees, you can usually call a local guy to take them off your property for free. Don't pay to have honey bee nest removed if you can help it. If it's bumble bees, no such luck...though I try and not kill bumble bees since they are excellent pollinators but if the nest is too close then you gotta do what you gotta do. Yellow jacket nests I will go out of my way to kill. They are the worst. White faced hornets il fairly indifferent. If they aren't too close, then they won't typically bother you.

Kevin's MADIS graph for predictions vs reality will have violent step changes in March and October every year.

Is the nest closed (I.e. They have a paperish exterior covering the comb cells)? If it is, you need to get down and spray into the opening. Just spraying the outside won't get it done if it's enclosed.

The old ORH site at 600+ feet used to radiate very well. It's one reason that it is so hard for ORH to get record lows...even more than just the usual uphill climb against climate warming. So many record lows are from that site...I think they put up like a -24 or -25 back in the 1943 outbreak and another -20 or two in 1934. When I was a kid, we lived at about 600 feet in ORH somewhat downhill of a ridge and I remember distinctly in the 1994 cold outbreaks that we would hit -20 while he airport would struggle to reach -8 or -10. I think we touched -23 or so on 1/19/94.

If there's another entrance then you'll definitely want to find it. Usually they only have one though. You'll also want to make sure the base of the bowl is flat enough that they can't still go under it. Anyways, it sounds like you are probably already having success if the activity has been reduced significantly. You might be entering the zombie phase of the nest. If you have killed the queen and it's only a few workers left then it's only a matter of time.

Yellow jackets are actually wasps and not bees. The glass bowl trick works on them.

There's a funny little trick you can use for "hole in the ground" nests assuming they are on relatively flat terrain.....you put a clear glass bowl upside down over the top of the nest hole at night when they are all inside. Then the next day they will fly out and be trapped inside the glass dome but because they have been exposed to daylight, they will just fly around inside the confined space and then re-enter the nest and think they just had a failed foraging expedition. They all eventually starve to death over the next few days. It has to be clear though,....if you use a solid dome, they will just dig a new exit through the soil. How weird is that? The clear bowl tricks them into thinking they aren't trapped. I got rid of a big ground nest this way years ago. It's obviously nice because it requires zero toxins.

Have you seen the airport location? It's on a huge ridge that's exposed. Basically has zero radiation a cooling there.

I missed this before but saw a reference...did you have a massive yellow jacket nest? Usually powder is for the big ones. I've become a mini-expert on bees over the years since I hate them so much. Yellow jackets are the single worst wasp/bee/hornet in my opinion. Took me 3 cans of raid to get rid of a large nest I discovered in the apex of our roof line earlier in July. It was like a zombie nest. Every time I thought it was dead, I'd see some stragglers flying in and out 2 days later.

Typical rad night. ORH will be significantly warmer than FIT on those nights.

Remember when he used to call for 1816 repeats in 2017 and 2018?

Long enough for a climate record. 35 is decent. Ideally you'd prob like 60+ but for a home station you have more than most people.

I'm picturing a van screeching up to a fresh blacktop pathway to the ASOS station and like 6 weenies jump out with pick axes and demolish it in like 10 minutes and lay down fresh grass turf in its place.

We need a dedicated QC team for all our stations in New England. We could hunt for piles of rocks near ASOS setups or new blacktop anytime we see MADIS graphs go haywire. We could hire accordion Cory to drive all over the region to make sure the snow measurements are accurate too.

It would be more believable if BOS had beat it by at least 1-1.5F (preferably more than 1.5F). Beating it by 0.7F with that MADIS graph though definitely gives it a *

Looks like ORH finished at 6th hottest July on record at the airport site (back to 1948)....9th hottest if you use the threaded data back to 1892.

2012 has expanded it's area lead to 210k....the best chance for 2019 is if the Laptev can retreat further than 2012. That's the weak spot when comparing year over year.

Lol at Kevin in here. Thats a pretty cool set of wind obs and radar sig that occurred too near Logan.

The 2014-2015 error was much greater than the other smaller fluctuations and it wasn't confined to summer. If it was part of a regular seasonal fluctuation then you wouldn't really think twice about it. Many ASOS stations actually have a slight drift warm in summer because mesonet stations are sitting on mulch beds. But that isn't what happened to BDL in that graph. You typically want to look for something that isn't a recurring pattern and looks out of place. That's where I would question it. I used to QC huge amounts of coop and ASOS data back in the day as a side gig for a research team in the reinsurance industry and 2018-2019 BOS would definitely be flagged...so would BDL in that 2014-2015 stretch.

Extent definitely has a better chance to beating 2012 than area. We're 170K behind in area now and 2012 doesn't slow down any time soon. We'll need some breathtaking losses to keep pace. If we have enough compression of the pack though, extent could still challenge even if area does not.

Thanks for loading this graph. I distinctly remember the positive drift that peaked in early 2015 because all of us were amazed that BDL still broke their coldest month on record in Feb 2015 despite running hot. The error was corrected pretty quickly after that (as seen in the graph).

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