ORH_wxman Posted April 28, 2013 Share Posted April 28, 2013 Yes... random comments on a Tolland youth soccer field sideline mean the drought is becoming epic. Last year had less rain both from Jan 1st until now and March 1st until now in that area. We all somehow survived the catastrophe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Miser Posted April 28, 2013 Share Posted April 28, 2013 Folks at soccer today asking me why it's been so dry, are we headed for drought thus summer. They can't remember such a dry spring. Comments like that from non weenies means its getting badHas the pavillion I helped design been built yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted April 28, 2013 Share Posted April 28, 2013 BDL is a life threatening 2.69" of precip below average since March 1st. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Torchey Posted April 28, 2013 Share Posted April 28, 2013 -4.31 precip at BDR since March 1, not a drought but poorly timed with green up. Soil is bone dry, a bit worrisome most of my clients are using irrigation already. Bone dry weather as far as the eye can see, a tenth of an inch tomorrow won't do squat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted April 28, 2013 Share Posted April 28, 2013 Funny how I make an innocent post about short term dryness and instantly three of the typical trollers jump all over me. This place is going down hill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted April 28, 2013 Share Posted April 28, 2013 We've finally dried out the backyard. The soil is pretty much perfect right now. I haven't pulled the soil moisture sensor to calibrate it yet though. 6" Soil temp is up to 53F. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugarloaf1989 Posted April 28, 2013 Share Posted April 28, 2013 67.4 at 1000 feet today. Interesting And 65F at 400 feet in my town today, even more interesting: http://weather.weatherbug.com/CT/Coventry-weather.html?zcode=z6286&zip=06238 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the moors in england Posted April 28, 2013 Share Posted April 28, 2013 Funny how I make an innocent post about short term dryness and instantly three of the typical trollers jump all over me. This place is going down hill 12z euro prints out 0.5 in of precip imby just for this week. btw, Kevin, when is your typical bedtime? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugarloaf1989 Posted April 28, 2013 Share Posted April 28, 2013 Time to start filling the bathtubs for when the wells run dry. The Willimantic River already ran dry yesterday. A freind of mine was tubing on the river when the drought hit, the poor fellow never had a chance and died of dehydration: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted April 28, 2013 Share Posted April 28, 2013 Just read through his FAQ. What a weenie. He almost puts Kevin to shame.probably the best Met in the area and living the life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted April 28, 2013 Share Posted April 28, 2013 We've finally dried out the backyard. The soil is pretty much perfect right now. I haven't pulled the soil moisture sensor to calibrate it yet though. 6" Soil temp is up to 53F. I was going to throw some wood on the fire pit last night... but thank God I didn't with this epic dry spell. Would have spread through the whole neighborhood! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted April 28, 2013 Share Posted April 28, 2013 probably the best Met in the area and living the life. He certainly is living the life. What a snow weenie though. Cool dogs... cool location. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted April 28, 2013 Share Posted April 28, 2013 He certainly is living the life. What a snow weenie though. Cool dogs... cool location. yeah pretty much heaven for a snow weenie, that 20ft drift in late April is insane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted April 28, 2013 Share Posted April 28, 2013 Taylor Swift bought the Harkness House for 17 Million cash in Watch Hill. I have been inside that place doing some plumbing when I was a kid. It is crazy huge and the view of BI sound and LI sound is spectacular. The light house keep at Watch Hill said during Sandy the spray from crashing waves was going over the HH. That's about 100 ft above the Ocean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
free_man Posted April 28, 2013 Share Posted April 28, 2013 With the imminent drought and perhaps several weeks if not months of dry weather upcoming, hopefully the loss of life and property is minimal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted April 28, 2013 Share Posted April 28, 2013 Posted a bunch of images in the NNE thread, but three years ago I was experiencing the best late-season snow event of my life. The largest upslope event of the 2009-2010 season came on April 27th-28th with 18-24" falling above 750ft... even BTV came in with around 6 inches which is impressive for that location on April 28th. 3 years ago today... a lot more greenery on the trees than this year. There's pretty much nothing green out there right now, when in 2010 leaves had already popped and were getting crushed by 1-2"/hr snows. What an under-rated event for being so late in the season. Great NW flow event that led to snow cover on May 1st in a lot of the upslope communities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted April 28, 2013 Share Posted April 28, 2013 Taylor Swift bought the Harkness House for 17 Million cash in Watch Hill. I have been inside that place doing some plumbing when I was a kid. It is crazy huge and the view of BI sound and LI sound is spectacular. The light house keep at Watch Hill said during Sandy the spray from crashing waves was going over the HH. That's about 100 ft above the Ocean She looks like she'll get some upslope off the ocean. Maybe we can get her to post her obs here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clinch Leatherwood Posted April 28, 2013 Share Posted April 28, 2013 Another terrible day per the Euro Ens. A few more miserable spring days like today would be hard to take. A man can only handle so many days at 65 degrees with full sunshine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnno Posted April 28, 2013 Share Posted April 28, 2013 Another terrible day per the Euro Ens. A few more miserable spring days like today would be hard to take. A man can only handle so many days at 65 degrees with full sunshine. It is really unbearable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted April 28, 2013 Share Posted April 28, 2013 I have a question I really hope someone can answer. I'll use climate indices as an example. You know how many of the indices are standardized to like a 30-year mean? How do you do that? What I want to do is do that for some tornado data but maybe standardize it in terms of 15-year periods. The reason I want to do this is to come up with more accurate numbers and to take into account the fact over the past two decades increased storm chasers, better radars, spotters, etc certainly have lead to an "increase" in spotted/confirmed tornadoes. So let's say I add all confirmed March tornadoes from 1950-2012 into an excel spread sheet...my periods would be 1950-1964, 1960-1974, 1970-1984, 1980-1994, 1990-2004, 2000-2014...when I place the data in the spreadsheet how do I make standardization numbers for each of these periods? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugarloaf1989 Posted April 28, 2013 Share Posted April 28, 2013 Folks at soccer today asking me why it's been so dry, are we headed for drought thus summer. They can't remember such a dry spring. Comments like that from non weenies means its getting bad I would have thought it difficult for folks to strike up a conversation while wearing mask's to keep out all the airborne dust raised by people playing soccer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted April 28, 2013 Share Posted April 28, 2013 I would have thought it difficult for folks to strike up a conversation while wearing mask's to keep out all the airborne dust raised by people playing soccer?What sports is your son involved with in town? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Torchey Posted April 29, 2013 Share Posted April 29, 2013 What's with the pathetically lame drought trolling? Super budge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted April 29, 2013 Share Posted April 29, 2013 Basking shark washed ashore in Misquamicut today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJonesWX Posted April 29, 2013 Share Posted April 29, 2013 I'd like to some rains for the seed I'm putting down. Not worried about the 'boy who cried wolf/chickenn little drought', but the areas I'm overseeding are both too large and too far removed from my water source to effectively water. I'd never do it, but I wonder how much it would cost to put in an irrigation system. I think the lawn area furthest removed from the Pit itself is about 1000'. For an irrigation system, the heads are roughly 30' apart. installers charge between $100-125 per head (the cheapest you will find might be as low as $75/head, the highest might be $150/head). Figure out your square footage and you can get a rough estimate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted April 29, 2013 Share Posted April 29, 2013 Smell of smoke in the air today from Canterbury brush fire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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OceanStWx Posted April 29, 2013 Share Posted April 29, 2013 Basking shark washed ashore in Misquamicut today Did it wash ashore, or did the shallows evaporate around it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted April 29, 2013 Share Posted April 29, 2013 Did it wash ashore, or did the shallows evaporate around it?/quote]?? My friend who took the picture said it looked like it got hit by a boat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
free_man Posted April 29, 2013 Share Posted April 29, 2013 powerfully dry..bullseye over ENE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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