ORH_wxman Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 That's awesome... I love that sort of stuff. Although we can be led to believe the East Slope is the only countryside in MA, I know from my family's cabin in North Woodstock near Union, that it can get pretty rural pretty quickly even in those areas. The Worcester Hills area is great because it sounds like there are some areas that feel like countryside but can still be really close to major NE cities. Most of NE CT is pretty rural as I'm sure you have seen. There are some town centers and such....but its mostly pretty rural. There isn't much there. Its quite evident on the google satellite maps. ORH is a big urban center itself, but it quickly goes rural outside of the city...esp north/south/west....to the east its pretty suburban. Winter hill borders 5000 acresof woodland, which is not small for that close to big urban center. N ORH county is very rural outside of Fitchburg/leominster. Like where Hubbdave is....not much around there. ORH county has the highest moose population in the state of MA. (since most of the Moose come down from NH/ME and not VT where the Moose population is decidedly lower than NH/ME due to the higher retention of farmland in VT...esp dairy farms) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Yeah it happens like that sometimes...maybe often, lol. The law of averages definitely gets heard eventually...but sometimes very quickly. ORH had zero 80F temps in June 2009 as well....they went 47 days to start that summer without one. Pretty incredible when you compare them to warm summers where it seems like you can't even buy a high of 75F. What continues to sort of amaze me is the departure gradient from SNE to this area of NNE. I don't care if you like warm or cold in the summer, there's a pretty good gradient relative to normal in New England. The interior VT climate locations are running near normal, increasing to a little above in western VT but nothing like the positives down in SNE. Saint Johnsbury, VT (1V4) is actually running almost a degree below normal still at -0.8F although its interesting that the average temperature of 70F is about the same as ORH's. Then as you move west it starts to warm a bit with Montpelier (MPV) running only +0.5F above normal this month. I won't post the dailies but Morrisville-Stowe (MVL) is +1.1F so now we are getting more above normal, and BTV is +2.4 so the warm anomalies increase as you head west in this area. I really think its been the nights and dry air that has allowed us to stay closer to normal. We were having some huge diurnal temp spreads so although the highs have been solidly above normal, the lows are keeping it close. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Most of NE CT is pretty rural as I'm sure you have seen. There are some town centers and such....but its mostly pretty rural. There isn't much there. Its quite evident on the google satellite maps. ORH is a big urban center itself, but it quickly goes rural outside of the city...esp north/south/west....to the east its pretty suburban. Winter hill borders 5000 acresof woodland, which is not small for that close to big urban center. N ORH county is very rural outside of Fitchburg/leominster. Like where Hubbdave is....not much around there. ORH county has the highest moose population in the state of MA. (since most of the Moose come down from NH/ME and not VT where the Moose population is decidedly lower than NH/ME due to the higher retention of farmland in VT...esp dairy farms) Yeah I've only seen two moose in all my years in the mountains up here (although I saw both a few times over several days), but everytime I go to the Whites for some spring skiing, I see tons of moose in NH. One trip I saw 3 different sets of moose crossing the road or chillin' in someone's front yard... it was like every 15 minutes once into NH another one would pop out of the woods, haha. I have seen plenty of bears here though, and wild dogs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Yeah I've only seen two moose in all my years in the mountains up here (although I saw both a few times over several days), but everytime I go to the Whites for some spring skiing, I see tons of moose in NH. One trip I saw 3 different sets of moose crossing the road or chillin' in someone's front yard... it was like every 15 minutes once into NH another one would pop out of the woods, haha. I have seen plenty of bears here though, and wild dogs. Yeah not surprising. Moose population though is ont he increase in all New England states though...but since VT has been the slowest to have their farmland regrow into forest and the barrier of the CT River, they have def been a bit slower than NH/ME....ME never really lost their forest in the western half of the state so once the farmland reached its peak in the 1800s in New England...they all started repopulating from W ME and N NH....VT was more cleared than those other two originally. My aunt and uncle have a book on the history of Princeton, MA and there are pics of it from the early 1900s and its so bare...its almost spooky to look at the pics. No woods anywhere. All open farmland. Now its almost all pure woods. They are big into the history of the town since their house is the site of an old chair factory that was in operation from about 1850-1940. The remnants of the factory are in the woods to the side of their house....its weird...basically like a mini ghost town seeing it. There is the old foundation and all the old factory machinery parts rusting inside the old foundation that is now totally engulfed in the woods now. The house they live in was the original house of the factory owners built in the 1700s (though the factory wasn't built until the mid 1800s as mentioned before). When you see the area, you always imagine that it was always woods/forest....but then you see the pics ad see how ridiculously bare it was even though way less people lived in the area back then. Its just each family basically had their own farm and on top of that, they all cut the wood around their farm for fuel/heating. Pretty cool though to see. There's some cool climo stuff in the book as it talks about the "Exceptionally warm winters of the 1930s and 1940s when Snow Pond failed to freeze by New Years"...that must have been hell for winter lovers. I think the only year I remembered seeing that pond fail to freeze by then was 2006. Even last year it did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted July 21, 2012 Author Share Posted July 21, 2012 I have yet to see a moose on my property, although I have seen tracks. I have seen moose twice here in town and there have been 2 moose/car collisions here this year (including 1 last week as per the HPD). I have had bear in my yard, as well as coyote. Occasionally some yahoo here will swear there is a mountain lion on the prowl. The local paper printed a pic of what someone claimed was one. Def. a bobcat (they are plentiful) but a big one...35 lbs or so. Mountain lions are huge. Go to the Squam Lakes Science Center if you doubt that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Torchey Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 What an incredibly hot month for all of sne, after a two day reprieve..............the above normal departures are back as the warmest year ever in recorded history trucks right along, we have simply become acclimated to the warmer temperatures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneypitmike Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Another tough day here on the mid-coast. Sitting on the deck looking out at this......getting ready to cook 25 lobsters today. Steamers, anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Torchey Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 even yesterdays bitter cold was only able to yield a -7 thanks to midnight highs. +4.7 for the warmest month of the year, simply ridiculous Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted July 21, 2012 Author Share Posted July 21, 2012 Another tough day here on the mid-coast. Sitting on the deck looking out at this......getting ready to cook 25 lobsters today. Steamers, anyone? Lobsters are cheap this year. Warm winter/spring ocean temps I have heard... Is that your view? Amazing. We went blueberry picking yesterday in Athol. holy cow is the crop in big time. They said it is their best blueberry season in memory. Just finished some blueberry muffins. Urp! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Torchey Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 More insanity.............orh +4.7 for the month Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Torchey Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Snow weenies would die for a -4.7 in January that did not feel cold LOL. Have a great day folks, and make it the best day you have ever had in your life!!!! Viva la 2k Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted July 21, 2012 Author Share Posted July 21, 2012 even yesterdays bitter cold was only able to yield a -7 thanks to midnight highs. +4.7 for the warmest month of the year, simply ridiculous 22 days in a row positive around here is unreal. These 2 days are like ice cubes melting in piping hot coffee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Another tough day here on the mid-coast. Sitting on the deck looking out at this......getting ready to cook 25 lobsters today. Steamers, anyone? Yes and yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneypitmike Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Lobsters are cheap this year. Warm winter/spring ocean temps I have heard... Is that your view? Amazing. We went blueberry picking yesterday in Athol. holy cow is the crop in big time. They said it is their best blueberry season in memory. Just finished some blueberry muffins. Urp! Yup--that's the view from my in-laws. I kind of enjoyed having my 'office' setup up here yesterday. That's the Kennebec looking over to Woolwich/Days Ferry. Great to hear about the blueberries. Hopefully the squirrels didn't get to all of ours! Also, regarding lobsters prices, big thumbs up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Torchey Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Another tough day here on the mid-coast. Sitting on the deck looking out at this......getting ready to cook 25 lobsters today. Steamers, anyone? Mike that looks awesome! Have a great day guys, late start but heading to Miz. eta 945......see ya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 even yesterdays bitter cold was only able to yield a -7 thanks to midnight highs. +4.7 for the warmest month of the year, simply ridiculous Thats misleading though. Has nothing to do with how warm It's been. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 I saw lobster $ 2.99in Maine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Happy Valley Greenfield Chris is praying for this, oh how he prays. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneypitmike Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Mike that looks awesome! Have a great day guys, late start but heading to Miz. eta 945......see ya Enjoy. For several years when I was in high school and college, my Dad was living up here (doing a week commute from New London to his job at Bath Iron Works). He was on the Day's Ferry side looking over here. Good times. Enjoy the beach. My brother-in-law's family from Westport is up here, too. I think the water temp will be a bit different from what they experience down there on the Sound! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted July 21, 2012 Author Share Posted July 21, 2012 Thats misleading though. Has nothing to do with how warm It's been. I am confused Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan11 Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 As of 2010 they estimated 800 moose in the Adirondacks and growing. We get a few in the ALB area each year wandering down. The closest population of them is around 40 miles northwest in nw Saratoga County. I have yet to see a moose on my property, although I have seen tracks. I have seen moose twice here in town and there have been 2 moose/car collisions here this year (including 1 last week as per the HPD). I have had bear in my yard, as well as coyote. Occasionally some yahoo here will swear there is a mountain lion on the prowl. The local paper printed a pic of what someone claimed was one. Def. a bobcat (they are plentiful) but a big one...35 lbs or so. Mountain lions are huge. Go to the Squam Lakes Science Center if you doubt that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 I am confused It's just that temps dropped during the day so it's a little misleading that it was an only -7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted July 21, 2012 Author Share Posted July 21, 2012 It's just that temps dropped during the day so it's a little misleading that it was an only -7. Understood. Although that was not the case at my hood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Understood. Although that was not the case at my hood. Yeah I mean for down there since they wet bulbed big time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 LL is going to be mentioning the monthly departure as many times as he can over the next 7-10 days as it drops off a cliff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allsnow Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 First -10 or greater July departure at Central park since 2007. 2012..20 72 61 67 -10 2009....9 73 61 67 -9 2007.23 72 60 66 -11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weathafella Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Nice change Thursdqy and especially Friday. Today is perfect. Cloudless skies. Heading to San Francisco Monday morning for work..bringing a jacket though most of my meetings and my hotel are where it will be 10 degrees warmer. Last time I was doing the same thing out there was 2 summers ago...l.had to come back to NE to warm up....lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Nice change Thursdqy and especially Friday. Today is perfect. Cloudless skies. Heading to San Francisco Monday morning for work..bringing a jacket though most of my meetings and my hotel are where it will be 10 degrees warmer. Last time I was doing the same thing out there was 2 summers ago...l.had to come back to NE to warm up....lol. 61 at the Yankee game last night at the start, perfect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eekuasepinniW Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 I went to attach the latest GFS but accidentally picked the wrong file. Very sorry about this mix up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#NoPoles Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 I went to attach the latest GFS but accidentally picked the wrong file. Very sorry about this mix up. bwahahahahahaahahahahahaha! cannas aren't flowering? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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