Tropopause_Fold Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 When is the awful humidity going to wane october Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted August 8, 2011 Author Share Posted August 8, 2011 sometimes i wish each sub-region could have it's own sports, politics and climate forum built in to it. We do, just post whatever the heck you want here, screw the rest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 When is the awful humidity going to wane Why? It's invigorating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaineJayhawk Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 Why? It's invigorating. Viva la Swampazz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
40/70 Benchmark Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 Why? It's invigorating. You called this....you were warning me of a swampy August. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 You called this....you were warning me of a swampy August. It will alleviate a little bit tomorrow, but we'll have to wait until late week to get the cooler air here. It's not that this August will be swampass the whole time, but I've always felt August can have the worst humidity. If you think about it...it makes sense. SST's from the Gulf to off New England are almost at their warmest. To me, August isn't know for the extremely high temps, but rather those days that can be like 88/74 or something like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
40/70 Benchmark Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 It will alleviate a little bit tomorrow, but we'll have to wait until late week to get the cooler air here. It's not that this August will be swampass the whole time, but I've always felt August can have the worst humidity. If you think about it...it makes sense. SST's from the Gulf to off New England are almost at their warmest. To me, August isn't know for the extremely high temps, but rather those days that can be like 88/74 or something like that. True that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 Pretty good shwr moving through now. More swampazz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 It really does have the FL feel to it with the TCU, shwrs, and awful humidity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 Some of the old timers I know would poor a little gas on the rash, they swore it got rid of it quickly, I wouldn't do that. It was very interesting to hear that, and as is often the case, the old timers had it right. This is off topic, but hopefully it will be useful and informative. The gas isn’t going to stop what’s already gotten into your system, but what it will do is wash off any of the compound (urushiol) that is still on your skin, or whatever else (steering wheel, clothing, etc) it got onto, and thus prevent further compound from getting in and propagating the allergic process. If you got to it quickly enough, gas would probably do a beautiful job of preventing the whole process. Urushiol is an oil, and as we all know, oil and water don’t mix, so simple, water-based applications will do a poor job of solubilizing urushiol and getting rid of it. But gas is really hydrophobic; it’s basically just a mixture of hydrocarbons. You can see in the structure of urushiol below that those R groups are very hydrophobic, and they should mix beautifully with gas. Like Pete, I wouldn’t recommend using gas due to its various other detrimental effects, but another more innocuous solvent that really seems to work well is isopropanol (alcohols have enough hydrophobic character to solubilize the urushiol oil), and most people will have this around the house in the form of rubbing alcohol. A guy I used to know had very bad reactivity to poison ivy, and his doctor told him to use rubbing alcohol to wash off the oil. He passed that wisdom on to me, and I use rubbing alcohol all the time now for this purpose. Generally it’s just in case, but after having poison ivy pester me for a few weeks one summer, I say better safe than sorry. Last week on one mountain bike outing I spent a lot of time going through a bunch of unknown flora, and I hit my legs with the isopropanol as soon as I got home, just in case. Soap and water is also supposed to work OK for removing the urushiol, but since there are so many different kinds of soap that may vary in their effectiveness, I like to stick with the isopropanol. Wikipedia has great articles on the poison ivy itself (including in-depth information on how to I.D. the plant(s)), and the cause of the rash. Check out all the mnemonics for plant identification, number 10 is: "If it's got hair, it won't be fair.", which one could envision causing a chuckle on this forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
free_man Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 An isolated, light rain shower moving through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
free_man Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 Raynham /East Taunton look like the place to be for a storm, in about 15 min. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted August 8, 2011 Author Share Posted August 8, 2011 Brutal working outside today, strength sapping, smegma sweating, swamp sticking brutal. Make it go away. Fook this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneypitmike Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 It really doesn't feel bad here. 76.8/68. Wish we'd get more showers than the spinkles that have come through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 Raynham /East Taunton look like the place to be for a storm, in about 15 min. Had no idea. 1" at TAN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 Had a very heavy downpour with a few rumbles of thunder. Had to be a good half inch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 Had no idea. 1" at TAN. Looks like it all fell in 30 min. too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 Also looks like rnd 2 to come. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 Also looks like rnd 2 to come. Yeah interior se mass seems ground zero. That rain up here fell really hard in a short period of time. No dryness here that's for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
free_man Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 Also looks like rnd 2 to come. Are you in Wrentham ? seabreeze doing it's magic..maybe top 2"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tropopause_Fold Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 could maybe justify a warning on that cell about to move over MVY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneypitmike Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 Yeah interior se mass seems ground zero. That rain up here fell really hard in a short period of time. No dryness here that's for sure. I got a few drops earlier this afternoon. That's all she wrote (actually, we picked up .04" overnight). 77.6/69 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSUmetstud Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 could maybe justify a warning on that cell about to move over MVY hell of a season down there...how many SVR warnings have they had? lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tropopause_Fold Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 hell of a season down there...how many SVR warnings have they had? lol not sure of the number but we've had several goes at it this season. might be too anecdotal but it seems to go that way...we either get virtually nothing or have a decent season. i bet that's a picturesque storm heading over the island right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tropopause_Fold Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 there's the SVR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 This may be the 5th SVR for MVY...lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 Definitely a wetter, more stormier pattern over the last 7 days or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tropopause_Fold Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 Definitely a wetter, more stormier pattern over the last 7 days or so. seems to continue, in general...for a while too. fairly active. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 seems to continue, in general...for a while too. fairly active. I like it. Makes for some excitement. What a chaotic sky today. It looked like MIA with these TCU forming. We had almost a pseudo shelf cloud with that first shower that came through. I got caught in downtown BOS with that. Now, the sky darkens again with more TCU. Cell to the north is quite visible. Pretty unstable out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeD Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 I like it. Makes for some excitement. What a chaotic sky today. It looked like MIA with these TCU forming. We had almost a pseudo shelf cloud with that first shower that came through. I got caught in downtown BOS with that. Now, the sky darkens again with more TCU. Cell to the north is quite visible. Pretty unstable out there. High CAPE/low shear environment with boundaries all over the place! Took this pic outside the office as the second storm rolled through... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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