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I know its Breitbart, but oh my...the mental gymnastics needed to make this argument. It's 12D chess man... Now its the left's fault that the right won't get vaccinated. Good grief. https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/09/10/nolte-howard-stern-proves-democrats-want-unvaccinated-trump-voters-dead/

It seems like the amount of concrete directly surrounding the ASOS at the airport is certainly much more than a neighborhood where trees and grass are interspersed all over, I mean just look at this picture. Which area is WAY different than the others??...hmmmm, seems pretty obvious to me. The trees also do an amazing job of shadowing concrete at points during the day while the airport just bakes from sunup to sundown. I also wonder if the thermal mass of the runways and parking lots create better mixing that prevents the atmosphere from decoupling as effectively directly around the airport during the nighttime hours.

I’m not sure if this hurts or helps that theory IMO. The amount of pavement and building within one square mile of that ASOS is pretty intense. There is some serious thermal mass.

Also, to continue down the urban heat island discussion. I often play softball in the evenings on the East side of Rochester and I live on the West side of Rochester. As I drive home, the temperature will often increase a good 7-10 degrees from the softball fields in perinton to downtown Rochester and then the temp will drop back another 7-10 as I exit the downtown area and head home. I can literally feel it with my arm out the window. I think some of you are severely underestimating how powerful this effect is.

It's not just the runway, its the GIGANTIC parking lot literally less than 100 feet from the measuring area. I have to assume that makes some sort of impact. We also still don't definitively no where they take their measurements. If's at the actual office, then I think they would see a big impact from those parking lots. If it's somewhere else, then we really have no idea how to correlate this issue. EDIT- I'm just now seeing the post above. It's the same thing I mentioned a few months back and I posted about it. There is a new HUGE parking lot that was recently added.

The GFS has been completely over amplified garbage outside of 240 hours for the last couple of years. I'm really surprised they haven't found a way to tweak it. The output past 300 hours are literally insane. I mean how is someone who designs and vets these models ok with snow in North Carolina on that run. Its virtually impossible.

Oh heck yeah, I'm a Buffalonian at heart (even though I was a North Tonawandan, haha). Moved to Rochester when I was 22 to start my job at the University or Rochester. It was Southwest wind lake effect events that ignited my passion for weather at a very early age, probably around 7 or 8 years old. I was so baffled by how some places could have feet of snow while my yard had almost none. I was convinced back then that if Grand Island didnt exist I'd get more snow, Haha! I didnt really have a good idea on the size and scale of lake effect at the time and just wanted to blame something for my frequent heartbreak. I loved visiting my grandmas house in winter because there was always this outside chance that we'd get a ton of snow, weather was more exciting when you couldn't track it real time with radars, satellites, and models. West Seneca seemed to do really well in the late 80's and 90's.

Incredible event. I remember this one vividly, however it was a heartbreaker for me as a North Towner. We were at my grandmas house in West Seneca when it began and the snowfall rates had to be 3-5"/hr. This forced us to make a hasty departure and head home to North Tonawanda. As usual, by the time we got home there was virtually bare ground...I was pretty used to this by that point in my life but I always hoped the bands would sneak a little further North. Back then though, it was very hard to ever see a radar unless you got a glimpse on the weather channel so tracking it real time was almost nonexistent. My house was where the arrow is pointing

Let’s just pretend he’s actual suffering from dementia there (which I assume is what your alluding to). At least he’s not willingly sucking up to a foreign dictator. I’ll take the guy that isnt actually aspiring to befriend a dictator any day of the week. Joe Biden’s health has nothing to do with Trump being the weakest leader in our history. I mean that video has literally nothing to do with the point I’m trying to make so I'm done arguing with your juvenile responses.

Can you imagine if Obama had said this? Right wing heads would still be exploding. It’s just so juvenile and narcissistic too. “Trump gloats about the half-dozen or so letters Kim has written him as if he were a smitten teenager in possession of valentines from a crush. White House officials refer to the diplomatic correspondence jokingly as “love letters.” Kim addresses Trump as “Your Excellency” and employs flowery language to describe the president’s energy and political smarts, according to people who have read them. Trump has shown the documents to dozens of Oval Office visitors and bragged about them in public. “He wrote me beautiful letters, and they’re great letters,” Trump said at a September rally in West Virginia. “We fell in love.”

First I’ve heard of this but not surprising after how fierce and organized that MCS looked last night Something tells me this was probably a gustnado though.

Forget the source, just read all the direct quotes. I agree there is a lot of spin, and I don't care about that aspect. I watched and read when he said all of the things outlined in that article....and it was disgusting to hear.

I just couldn't disagree more about world leadership. Trump has openly idolized and adored the most ruthless leaders time and time again. It's completely unacceptable and comes across as being just about as weak as you could imagine. There is a reason other countries want Trump as president, and its certainly not because he plays tough. He's a complete pushover who just wants to be liked and idolized, and they know it. I really hope you read through this article at the things Trump has said about the worst dictators of our time. It certainly doesnt come across as someone who draws a hard line. https://www.npr.org/2017/05/02/526520042/6-strongmen-trumps-praised-and-the-conflicts-it-presents

I feel like this post is far more accurate if we were discussing the previous administration. It’s like a bizarro world. Trump trashed the economy and sent the deficit to the moon with his horrible corporate tax cuts. He idolized Putin and Kim Jong, making us look incredible weak. Biden isn’t wonderful but to turn a blind eye to how we got here is ridiculous. If you think the country is ****ed it didn’t magically happen in 8 months, look back a little further.

What’s odd to me is that we’ve had vaccine mandates for all sorts of diseases for decades and everyone was cool with it. This isn’t unprecedented, it’s just been politicized by the recent administration.

Not sure, probably happens more than we realize as I rarely check in on storms that are that far north. Pretty cool though.

Thats from the remnants of ol Hurricane Larry!

That storm mid next week is looking interesting. Just kind of explodes through the lakes from nothing to sub 990mb in about 24 hours with the help from some strong coupled jets. Could this be the first wind event of the fall season??..... one can only hope. The trees will not be ready for this one.

It's a really good question where they take the actual temp measurement. If its actually right on site where the NWS office is, there is an unbelievably giant parking lot that was recently expanded just South of them. That 100 percent will have an effect on the local micro climate. Now how do we figure out where the temp sensor is?

New homes are garbage in my opinion. Old lathe and plaster homes with real brick and mortar are way more solid. That said, I don’t think many homes would survive an EF3 wedge regardless of their construction.

Great footage but a dumb caption. The backside is pretty much never worse. There is nothing logical that could ever back up that statement

Just some fun eye candy but the latest hi res has it sub 900mb. Wowzers!

I know its a bit early and dramatic but this setup in the Gulf is ideal for explosive deepening. I have to think a cat 5 is fully on the table at this point. I'd be getting the F out of NOLA ASAP.

Thats a beautiful bald faced hornet nest. No need to do anything with it if you made it this far and haven't had an issue. They are rearing queens for next year by this point and will wind down in the next 4-5 weeks. They are valuable insect predator and get a bad rap IMO. I've been studying Bees, wasps and ants my whole life. I find them fascinating.

You got it, and welcome aboard. 900 million ash trees in this state and almost a third are already dead. Nothing stopping the borer at this point. Good eye though. Most people I know have lived here their whole lives and haven’t noticed yet. Kinda sad.