powderfreak Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Beautiful day in Woodstock, CT... topped out around 80F with mostly sunny skies. Garden rain gage showed somewhere near 2" of rainfall, too. Torrential rain last night and some very close lightning strikes. I see ORH had over 2.5" of rain last night. Impressive and certainly no drought around here given the amount of standing water in areas. Forecast here looks quite comfortable. No torch from Saturday through Thursday with highs ranging from 73-79F and lows 56-62F. Windham County: Saturday: Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 70s. North winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent. Saturday Night: Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. North winds 5 to 10 mph. Sunday: Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers. Highs in the mid 70s. Sunday Night Through Monday Night: Mostly cloudy. Lows around 60. Highs in the upper 70s. Tuesday Through Wednesday: Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 80s. Lows around 60. Wednesday Night: Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. Thursday: Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CapturedNature Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Montreal is about 2 hours from Stowe...maybe a shade under that when RT 108 is open through Smugglers Notch (May-October). In the winter you have to go south to Waterbury and get on I-89 and then go north. I spent a lot of time up there my first couple years of college (thanks to drinking age of 18 and Montreal is a great party city) but haven't been up recently. I've been hearing a lot this summer from the Canadian tourists about the waits at customs/border crossing. There's been several times where folks have encountered 2-3 hour waits to cross the border at I-89...taking 4-5 hours to get to Stowe from Montreal. And I don't get into the politics, haha. I'm here to ski and watch the snow fall I forgot about that. The world isn't as seamless as it once was. Before 9/11 there were rarely waits and you'd have access to a different world of stores that aren't available in the U.S. With waits like that you just can't zip across the border and back again. I'm glad the weather turned nicer for you visit down here...I wouldn't want you to think that were a hot humid climate like it's sometimes portrayed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 So awesome out here in Jamestown, RI today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CapturedNature Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Forecast here looks quite comfortable. No torch from Saturday through Thursday with highs ranging from 73-79F and lows 56-62F. I'd be interested in your lows over there. I see my station above you in Union is 62. That area radiates well at first but I wind up catching up with it most mornings. e.g. I'm 66 now. There's got to a be place over there that radiates well all night long...you know, a combination of elevation and valley. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 So awesome out here in Jamestown, RI today Heavy heavy beach? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaineJayhawk Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 I like watching the heavy heavies at the beach. Is ok, bro. Fat chicks need lovin', too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Is ok, bro. Fat chicks need lovin', too. As a drunk gentleman once told me...any port in a storm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan11 Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 I came down from the border on route 100 a few years ago. Lonely border crossing there. But we had purposely gone into the Townships to go to Knowlton...an idyllic village settled mostly by New Englanders ..near Lac Brome. Montreal is about 2 hours from Stowe...maybe a shade under that when RT 108 is open through Smugglers Notch (May-October). In the winter you have to go south to Waterbury and get on I-89 and then go north. I spent a lot of time up there my first couple years of college (thanks to drinking age of 18 and Montreal is a great party city) but haven't been up recently. I've been hearing a lot this summer from the Canadian tourists about the waits at customs/border crossing. There's been several times where folks have encountered 2-3 hour waits to cross the border at I-89...taking 4-5 hours to get to Stowe from Montreal. And I don't get into the politics, haha. I'm here to ski and watch the snow fall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan11 Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 My experience lately has been that it's the US border patrol that give you crap with tons of questions etc... You zip right into Canada with almost no questioning. For instance I was coming back from Hamilton at IAG crossing last Dec. and the girl practically gave me the inquisition about my genealogy work at the libraries there. Was this relevant? So that lonely border crossing I mentioned on route 100 might actually be a smart idea re-entering the US if you factor in a long wait at the main crossings. Montreal is about 2 hours from Stowe...maybe a shade under that when RT 108 is open through Smugglers Notch (May-October). In the winter you have to go south to Waterbury and get on I-89 and then go north. I spent a lot of time up there my first couple years of college (thanks to drinking age of 18 and Montreal is a great party city) but haven't been up recently. I've been hearing a lot this summer from the Canadian tourists about the waits at customs/border crossing. There's been several times where folks have encountered 2-3 hour waits to cross the border at I-89...taking 4-5 hours to get to Stowe from Montreal. And I don't get into the politics, haha. I'm here to ski and watch the snow fall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NECT Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Beautiful day in Woodstock, CT... topped out around 80F with mostly sunny skies. Garden rain gage showed somewhere near 2" of rainfall, too. Torrential rain last night and some very close lightning strikes. I see ORH had over 2.5" of rain last night. Impressive and certainly no drought around here given the amount of standing water in areas. Forecast here looks quite comfortable. No torch from Saturday through Thursday with highs ranging from 73-79F and lows 56-62F. It's always nice in Woodstock...not like Tolland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Heavy heavy beach? Pool, family time, then abandoned kids, terrific al fresco dinner Dark and Stormys ftw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Steve looks like the rain is back on again Saturday morning. Crap, thanks bro, speed that thing up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Miser Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Focus on the grades man. This. Although it's too bad about the ball playing ...for now. Speedy recovery in the works? I would have gone nuts in college if couldn't play a sport. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 ginx looks to me there is (this far out) a decent shot of getting some swell to the SNE coast from the current tropical wave making it off africa as i type. nice potential for this to have a strong and large wind field and perhaps be aiming enuf of that swell energy NW (so SE swell) . Something just to ponder now for the late august time frame of a big swell potentially as early as Aug 27/28 and more likely the aug 30/31 time frame. Personally i would enjoy 4-5 foot swell as i'm more into body surfing or sponging....the big surf is nice to gawk at but i really don't have any business in the water should 10-15 + swells be rolling thru. I will chase local swell as much as Snow. In S FL when we would get a NE/NNE hurricane/nor'easer swell i would paddle out on my board just past one of the outer reefs in delray or north boca into about 15 feet of water.(deeper then where the swells would break) ...would be just awe inspiring to watch roll in .....and every now and again you would see a "clean up set" about to roll thru... . Swells any bigger (although rare there do occur) notable in hurricane isabel (thru a tiny slot in the the bahamian island chain where a 12 mile section of SE florida lit up to 15 feet in swell and just to the north and just to the south was flat. very interesting phenomena on a rare ESE/E swell angle there. the perfect storm was another monster wave maker for sfl ...rare footage youtube clip of swell from the perfect storm along the Palm beach county coast....over 1200 miles away from the storm's winds.....the locals say the swell rose from 5 feet in the am to 20-24 feet faces in the pm. hurricane bill had similar surf near arcadia national park a few years ago the youtube clip (not of the infamous thunder bay incident that day) but of the 20-25 foot faces show some of the biggest clean swell maine (or anywhere) in SNE has seen in i would say decades Bill was awesome, I was in this, Misquamicut, separated the vets from the newbies, like skiing a wicked steep chute, the power was unmatched Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Miser Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Steve looks like the rain is back on again Saturday morning. When does it clear out? Oh, our summer party is Saturday in case I didn't tell anyone. Kind of last minute, and not as big this year. 125 people last year, people doing funny stuff in the woods, and whatever else was going on was a bit too much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Might be a lot of rain coming up for SE MA again..lol. Should be nice early next week before more humid air comes in, but it doesn't look all that swampy. Will be a wet pattern going forward...I'm sure at some point we'll have water isses in some areas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneypitmike Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Checking in.. Camp move out day is tomorrow, moving into final dorm for the year. As some as you know I had left shoulder surgery last year because of an on the field injury. Unfortunately, I have now managed to do the same thing to my right shoulder. Probably facing surgery again. Not sure what the future will hold for me now @ Towson/playing football. I am not exactly on the coaches good list for sure. Grades will now be a huge focus for this academic year for me to cover my own azz. Sorry to hear that, Jay. What did you do to the shoulder? Hang in there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneypitmike Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Might be a lot of rain coming up for SE MA again..lol. Should be nice early next week before more humid air comes in, but it doesn't look all that swampy. Will be a wet pattern going forward...I'm sure at some point we'll have water isses in some areas. Yup--glad I pushed for next weekend to head to the Cape. Expecting that a beautiful weekend will unfold here in GC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Yup--glad I pushed for next weekend to head to the Cape. Expecting that a beautiful weekend will unfold here in GC. This weekend? Might be lousy tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneypitmike Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Just saw that we've lost 5* of sun angle since the first of the month with another 6* to lose in the remaining two weeks of August. tick, tick, tick, tick...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Lon range Euro really swamps things back up later next week..It's not over folks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Lon range Euro really swamps things back up later next week..It's not over folks LOL, it's not bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Classless post. You've really changed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 You've really grown on me. Don't tell your wife. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneypitmike Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Lon range Euro really swamps things back up later next week..It's not over folks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Don't tell your wife. Bruce Scwegelor just threw his mouse across the room... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneypitmike Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Bruce Scwegelor just threw his mouse across the room... Hey, Dave. Hope you're enjoying your B-and-B time. Your wife must love that your spending the romantic weekend posting on Amwx! Have a great time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Son of a b**ch Scooter, friggin rain. Ryan did you go to Weekapaug? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Hey, Dave. Hope you're enjoying your B-and-B time. Your wife must love that your spending the romantic weekend posting on Amwx! Have a great time. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted August 17, 2012 Share Posted August 17, 2012 Hey, Dave. Hope you're enjoying your B-and-B time. Your wife must love that your spending the romantic weekend posting on Amwx! Have a great time. About to do the breakfast part. King beds rock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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