ORH_wxman

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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Yeah that's a safe assumption.

High dews and lots of SW flow killed the daytime heat there. Usually want more WNW or NW flow and lower dews to get those 91-93F+ readings.

It's inline with other obs though so that's why it isn't that weird. That's why we bother looking at MADIS.

lol at BED the last month or so.

And it also mattered when talking record highs. At least to us in here. It doesn't change anything on the macro scale. We're not saying it hasn't been hot. But you cannot ignore that data either.

Yeah and they lost their cold bias low temp readings (due to ASOS being basically in a swamp) Wonder if there's some fresh blacktop nearby or piles of rocks, lol. Who knows. BOS and OWD don't look like gradual change based on new mesos coming online. Looks like something physical rather than a statistical artifact. Below is BOS for reference.

OWD had a pretty bad step change in late 2017 and the last datapoint in 2019 looks like another step change but we'd want to see a few more weeks worth to be sure

ORH isn't showing any recent drift aside from their mid-2017 blip.

That's kind of funny to read in light of the recent * at BOS.

Holy crap at 2001 at MWN, lol...sub-25F low.