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Saturday could be a bit fun...especially up north

Why are we using 70 as a threshold to define humidity? 70 and above is oppressive and usually 65 is the threshold for getting into moderate levels of humidity. Also, using “hours over 70” doesn’t really seem like a valid method of trying to come up with a conclusion on this

Outside of the stretch we had last week overnight lows/early AM temps have not been impressively warm. Now I know that I get cool or chilly much more easily than the average person but there have been numerous days this summer that when I'm stepping out in the morning (~ 5 AM) I need a light coat. Daytime temperatures have been rebounding quite well and obviously that stretch has been quite above-average in spots

This is true and a great statement. I hate how one location accounts for an entire area...that is incredibly misleading.

b/c yesterday was Sunday and Monday comes after Sunday

The biggest concern should be the Arctic in terms of warming IMO...what's happening there is what should be raising alarms all across the board, but for some reason people don't want to buy it. Was it in May when some place within the Arctic circle recorded a temperature of 84F...that's absurd. As the ice caps continue to shrink and the degree of ice covers decreases the earth's albedo is only going to decrease and allow for more radiation to be absorbed at the higher latitudes which will continue to yield stronger warming there. Another sort of scary thought is how as this ice melts there may be bacteria that has been locked up for millions of years now becoming airborne...I was reading about that somewhere. But yeah...Coral reefs is a substantially huge issue.

ahhh I think I remember that. I drafted Severino on my fantasy team b/c I really like him and just before he started to struggle I used him to get Max Scherzer

I think I had to have the heat on in the car for like 10 min Thursday and Friday morning to get the chill out...and stop the windows from fogging up

If the Red Sox can get into the playoffs...I'll take their SP over the Yankees any day of the week.

Hasn't he had 2nd half struggles through his young career? Having him would certainly be a help but IMO they would still need another top guy...maybe not a #1

Just b/c I don't blow up social media with sports anymore or post in the sports forum doesn't mean I don't follow what's happening. I've talked with plenty of people from before the season began and it was obvious the Red Sox were going to take a step back this year. 1) Regression to the mean and 2) They didn't do anything in the off-season to replace their key bullpen losses. Anyways the Yankees pitching was (starting pitching) was extremely suspect coming into the season....nothing but a bunch of #2 or #3 starters. The first half of the schedule was a cake walk for them...the real challenge was going to be in the second half. They may have an amazing offense and have guy who can hit the ball 450'+...this is great and all for the regular season but teams don't slug their way through the playoffs. The Yankees get into the playoffs but they won't advance a round...not unless they go out and make a move for a #1 SP and maybe another top-toer guy

lawns are like the Yankees...highly overrated

For any ptython peeps is cartopy needed if you want to make cross-sectional plots? I've tried to do some digging but I guess you can't install cartopy with pip? I guess it can be done with conda or condra or whatever it is but was having some issues.

What a day!! Even got to hear some thunder.

Yeah that is incorrect.

ahhh yes...the $$$ symbol...that was it. I like the drag down method much better

I wonder if they have classes now in middle school or high school regarding Microsoft products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc). At least when I was going through they didn't really offer in-depth teaching (I don't remember if they held elective classes which did so) but that would be great if they did.

oops...didn't post that in here but yeah I knew that at least lol I didn't realize that worked with formulas...this is great. It's amazing how powerful Excel is...there is a ton you can do. I'm going to do some workshops to really dig into the more powerful side of it. I think I could learn it fast. Hell...I'm amazed at how I'm doing with the Python training...I never thought I would understand coding but I'm at a point where I can start attempting creating weather charts/model graphics.

wow thanks...I wish I knew it was that easy I remember the last time doing something similar (like 10 years ago) I was using some weird crap with symbols

ahhh thanks. wow never knew that. Was it always that way?

Is there anyone who is proficient with excel? I'm trying to remember how do do a formula but can't get the correct formatting right. I've just attached an example but in the total column if you want the sum you just do SUM( ) so for the first row it would be SUM(A4:H4) now the formula would be the same for each row with the only difference being the row number...there is something you can do in the code (like a # sign or ?) where you just have one formula and it knows which row to compute

I assume you're talking about just July? anyways, it would be interesting to compare monthly departures dating back to when records began...using a starting point of whatever the newest station is (assuming IJD). When did the site move from HFD to BDL b/c that would be another thing to take into consideration.

This summer has been quite disappointing in that department...which really sucks b/c the overall synoptic pattern the past 6 weeks or so has not been very bad at all...there were just some kinks which hurt our chances. But to the degree of July has been in terms of what occurred that's not a bad call...and there were others harping on the potential too. Had it not been for the cut-off or -NAO in place for as long as it persisted we would have easily torched since late spring. That was the only thing which really stopped us. But yeah...projections moving into August right now (after the first week or few days) look more like a trough here