dendrite Posted May 3, 2013 Share Posted May 3, 2013 Dry bullseye right over GYX. The drought is getting bad here. No really, my golf balls are bouncing in the fairway instead of the usual 6 inches deep in the turf. 150yd drives with an additional 150yd bounce/roll? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joey2002 Posted May 3, 2013 Share Posted May 3, 2013 Pattern looks to be changing to wetter by later next week and beyond. Summer vacation washouts... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugarloaf1989 Posted May 3, 2013 Share Posted May 3, 2013 Summer vacation washouts... It would be nice to be able to do some river tubing this summer, last summer there was barely enough water to swim in until late August. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joey2002 Posted May 4, 2013 Share Posted May 4, 2013 It would be nice to be able to do some river tubing this summer, last summer there was barely enough water to swim in until late August. Plenty of water in the ocean! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugarloaf1989 Posted May 4, 2013 Share Posted May 4, 2013 Plenty of water in the ocean! I don't like the ocean, I'd much rather enjoy some cool lake or river water. The ocean is also a 1 hour + drive away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joey2002 Posted May 4, 2013 Share Posted May 4, 2013 I don't like the ocean, I'd much rather enjoy some cool lake or river water. The ocean is also a 1 hour + drive away. How could you not like the ocean?? I live for waves and surfing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugarloaf1989 Posted May 4, 2013 Share Posted May 4, 2013 How could you not like the ocean?? I live for waves and surfing... I don't like the stickiness of the salt water, the messiness of the sand, rough surf, the crowds and the $1,000 parking fees. I also don't like cold water and the beach/ocean swimming season is alot shorter for comfortable water temperatures, than our local rivers/lakes. To each his own though as I am a mountain/skiing person and there are plenty of people that don't like those features. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceanStWx Posted May 4, 2013 Share Posted May 4, 2013 150yd drives with an additional 150yd bounce/roll? Usually the wrong fairway though. GYX managed to squeeze out some precip in mid to late April, but still only 0.31" since the 15th. I mention golf often, but it is a good reference point seeing as much time as I spend there on my off days. Much of the back 9 and the outer portion of the front is basically a bog, and aside from the hazards there is no water seeping up through the grass as you would normally expect this time of year. Of course, we're also one good rainstorm from temporary water all over the place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
free_man Posted May 4, 2013 Share Posted May 4, 2013 Precipitation last 30 days: 30day.png Looks wet, compared to what's coming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneypitmike Posted May 4, 2013 Share Posted May 4, 2013 Concur with NCEP's mid-range forecast disco "...SENSIBLE WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS... IT REMAINS EVIDENT THAT BOTH CUTOFF H5 CIRCULATIONS WILL PLAY A MAJOR ROLL IN PROVIDING THE PREVAILING SENSIBLE WEATHER CONDITIONS ACROSS THE LOWER 48 THIS PERIOD. THIS WILL BE ESPECIALLY TRUE ACROSS SRN APPALACHIA...THE PIEDMONT...UP THE MID ATLANTIC COAST AND PORTIONS OF THE SOUTHEAST COAST LINE OF NEW ENGLAND AS THE EAST COAST COASTAL LOW MIGRATES VERY SLOWLY UP THE COAST DAYS 3-7 EFFECTIVELY EXPOSING THE UNNECESSARINESS OF THE DROUGHT TRACKER THREAD OVER AT THE RABBLE-ROUSING NEW ENGLAND WEATHER FORUM OF AMERICAN WEATHER...." Pattern looks to be changing to wetter by later next week and beyond. Won't erase the deficits right away, but it will inhibit the chances of this becoming any sort of an issue into summer. I can'be be sure, but the drought hyperbolists (is that a word?) will not be concerned about overcoming the deficits. Deep down, I think their focus is solely on their lawns and to get under Ginxy's skin. Once all our lawns are getting natural watering, they won't have anything nto faux-b**ch about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted May 4, 2013 Share Posted May 4, 2013 I can'be be sure, but the drought hyperbolists (is that a word?) will not be concerned about overcoming the deficits. Deep down, I think their focus is solely on their lawns and to get under Ginxy's skin. Once all our lawns are getting natural watering, they won't have anything nto faux-b**ch about.Lol nobody gets under my skin here. Kevin has left the board once again. There never was a drought only a dry period. Beneficial rain incoming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted May 4, 2013 Share Posted May 4, 2013 I can'be be sure, but the drought hyperbolists (is that a word?) will not be concerned about overcoming the deficits. Deep down, I think their focus is solely on their lawns and to get under Ginxy's skin. Once all our lawns are getting natural watering, they won't have anything nto faux-b**ch about.Drought is the new weenie fad season since we need something to troll with between the winter and high dew transition. After next week's rain it will be swampazz mode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneypitmike Posted May 4, 2013 Share Posted May 4, 2013 Lol nobody gets under my skin here. Kevin has left the board once again. There never was a drought only a dry period. Beneficial rain incoming. Kevin left? Who'd he get pissed at this time? lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted May 4, 2013 Share Posted May 4, 2013 Kevin left? Who'd he get pissed at this time? lolI think Will left him with e-ouchies yesterday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted May 4, 2013 Share Posted May 4, 2013 I think Will left him with e-ouchies yesterday. Sometimes this subforum is a soap opera. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted May 4, 2013 Share Posted May 4, 2013 I will say this, driving around the valley yesterday made me realize how unpleasant farming and landscaping must be in these conditions. Choking dust. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted May 4, 2013 Share Posted May 4, 2013 I will say this, driving around the valley yesterday made me realize how unpleasant farming and landscaping must be in these conditions. Choking dust. Makes you appreciate how very tough life was for the natives and early settlers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneypitmike Posted May 4, 2013 Share Posted May 4, 2013 Makes you appreciate how very tough life was for the natives and early settlers. I find the miles of stonewalls fromt he rocks they 'unplowed' an even better testament. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian5671 Posted May 4, 2013 Share Posted May 4, 2013 Sometimes this subforum is a soap opera. it's pretty funny sometimes....people take this stuff way too seriously Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted May 4, 2013 Share Posted May 4, 2013 I find the miles of stonewalls fromt he rocks they 'unplowed' an even better testament.A couple of my friends spend some free time researching and seeking out colonial stonewall boundaries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian5671 Posted May 4, 2013 Share Posted May 4, 2013 OKX has introduced rain chances starting Tue night into Thurs...30-40% chance at this point... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneypitmike Posted May 4, 2013 Share Posted May 4, 2013 OKX has introduced rain chances starting Tue night into Thurs...30-40% chance at this point... Get your seed down now--natural watering en route. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allenson Posted May 4, 2013 Share Posted May 4, 2013 Certainly awfully dry out there. Anyone poo-pooing this might be crying to their mommas when their well runs dry this summer. Let's hope for a pattern change soon--boot this tenacious high outta here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugarloaf1989 Posted May 4, 2013 Share Posted May 4, 2013 OKX has introduced rain chances starting Tue night into Thurs...30-40% chance at this point... It amazing to find them deep into some re-grown forest's here. You can go hiking in 75-100 year old second growth forest and find miles of stonewalls where farmland used to be. The forest will take back abandoned farmland fairly quickly, usually with 5-10 years or less.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneypitmike Posted May 4, 2013 Share Posted May 4, 2013 A couple of my friends spend some free time researching and seeking out colonial stonewall boundaries. You can research why mine are so oddly drawn---- It amazing to find them deep into some re-grown forest's here. You can go hiking in 75-100 year old second growth forest and find miles of stonewalls where farmland used to be. The forest will take back abandoned farmland fairly quickly, usually with 5-10 years or less.. Yeah--that was a huge deforestation back then. Firewood was at a premium--needed to ship it in from Nova Scotia since it was largely cut down in SNE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhoon Tip Posted May 4, 2013 Share Posted May 4, 2013 Drought is the new weenie fad season since we need something to troll with between the winter and high dew transition. After next week's rain it will be swampazz mode. April is typically a DP extreme; the region will either "suffer" excessive drying, or be overly wet depending on the year/pattern bias. You know this ... but when it is not raining, and there is a drying Canadian flow, there is no way to get moisture back into the atmosphere, so theta-e swings wildly downward in the means -- you end up going from saturated to desert air mass very easily that way. For that, this dryness is pedestrian and not out of the ordinary. As green up deepens/lushes out, the DPs will restore that way, and then a wayward system that inputs moisture such as Wed/Thur, will only add ... and yes, it's kind of a transition week into available DP air masses. Then, with the absence of bona fide ridging to really cause a "real" drought, there will be opportunities of instability to refit soil moisture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted May 4, 2013 Share Posted May 4, 2013 April is typically a DP extreme; the region will either "suffer" excessive drying, or be overly wet depending on the year/pattern bias. You know this ... but when it is not raining, and there is a drying Canadian flow, there is no way to get moisture back into the atmosphere, so theta-e swings wildly downward in the means -- you end up going from saturated to desert air mass very easily that way. For that, this dryness is pedestrian and not out of the ordinary. As green up deepens/lushes out, the DPs will restore that way, and then a wayward system that inputs moisture such as Wed/Thur, will only add ... and yes, it's kind of a transition week into available DP air masses. Yup. We're just now starting to get the transpiration portion of ET working into the system to increase air moisture. Like you said, these low dew, dry stretches aren't uncommon this time of year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted May 7, 2013 Share Posted May 7, 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quincy Posted May 7, 2013 Share Posted May 7, 2013 "Much below normal" streamflow continues in and around the Tolland County area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugarloaf1989 Posted May 7, 2013 Share Posted May 7, 2013 Eastern Connecticut streamflow is not running to terribly bad at the moment: Thames River Basin 01119382 WILLIMANTIC RIVER AT MERROW RD. NEAR MERROW, CT 05/07 12:15 EST 1.65 105 115 01119500 WILLIMANTIC RIVER NEAR COVENTRY, CT. 05/07 12:15 EST 3.10 98 234 01120790 NATCHAUG RIVER AT MARCY RD. NEAR CHAPLIN, CT 05/07 12:00 EST 2.60 38 137 01121000 MOUNT HOPE RIVER NEAR WARRENVILLE, CT. 05/07 12:15 EST 1.45 17 54.0 01121330 FENTON RIVER AT MANSFIELD,CT 05/07 12:15 EST 3.37 12 40.0 01122000 NATCHAUG RIVER AT WILLIMANTIC, CT. 05/07 12:30 EST 1.88 90 321 01122500 SHETUCKET RIVER NEAR WILLIMANTIC, CT. 05/07 12:30 EST 2.48 268 790 01123000 LITTLE RIVER NEAR HANOVER, CT. 05/07 12:15 EST 1.72 23 56.0 011230695 SHETUCKET RIVER AT TAFTVILLE, CONN. 05/07 12:00 EST 6.38 859 1,010 01123360 QUINEBAUG R BL E BRIMFIELD DAM AT FISKDALE, MA 05/07 12:30 EST 2.69 48 134 01123600 QUINEBAUG R BL WESTVILLE DAM NR SOUTHBRIDGE, MA 05/07 12:30 EST 3.68 69 187 01124000 QUINEBAUG RIVER AT QUINEBAUG, CT. 05/07 12:00 EST 2.61 83 301 01124151 QUINEBAUG R AT WEST THOMPSON, CONN. 05/07 12:30 EST 1.03 104 306 01125100 FRENCH R AT N GROSVENORDALE, CT. 05/07 12:15 EST 6.86 73 166 01125490 LITTLE RIVER AT HARRISVILLE, CT 05/07 12:00 EST 1.64 19 42.0 01125500 QUINEBAUG RIVER AT PUTNAM, CT 05/07 12:30 EST 2.54 227 578 01127000 QUINEBAUG RIVER AT JEWETT CITY, CT. 05/07 12:30 EST 7.31 1,550 1,500 01127500 YANTIC RIVER AT YANTIC, CT. 05/07 12:45 EST 1.62 49 153[/b] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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