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Early August Wx Discussion

Baroclinic Zone

By Baroclinic Zone,
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moneypitmike

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:lol: I live here and avoid driving on I-84 like the plague.  My wife usually drives till were out of the state because of all the out of state folks selfishly clogging up the left lane and the volume.  If people would just move right and only pass on the left, we'd all be better off.  You may have to take it down a notch but you're not saving that much time.  I-84 west of Hartford is the worst.  East of Hartford is part of the main path up the east coast (I-95 to I-91 to I-84 to I-90) so there's tons of out of staters trying to speed past the best part of the state.  No one comes here, just through it.  There's a reason why we're called the quiet corner!

 

Here's another tip for anyone trying to get into Manhattan or avoid I-95 from Westchester to the GWB - Take the Cross County Pkwy to the Saw Mill Pkwy and the Henry Hudson.  I've never really run into traffic there getting into Manhattan but you can still run into issues crossing the GWB unless you go way around.  I wish they had a high speed ferry from New London to Delaware and avoid the whole darn clogged region.

 

That's my SOP for getting to NYC and points south.  The only GWB issue going that route is traffic directly on the bridge.  As far as 84 west of Hartford--I hate that road, too.  But at least it moves if it's not rush hour.  That can't be said for 95/merritt.

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OceanStWx

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I've only been to NH a handful of times... us CT people spend more time in VT... no place better.

 

BTV is one of the few places in New England I'd want to move to. 

 

I was lucky enough to pull off a journeyman position at GYX, but I think my short list wouldn't be any more than GYX, BTV, BOX, ALY (could live in Saratoga), and maybe BGM (for alma mater's sake).

 

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weathafella

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Was at PIT, alternative check in area for overflow security. The line was against the window and a potent little storm moved in. Direct ctg hit at the airport, Shut it down for 5 minutes. Left and arrived back on time today, nonetheless. Pittsburgh is a highly under rated city,

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N. OF PIKE

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I've only been to NH a handful of times... us CT people spend more time in VT... no place better.

BTV is one of the few places in New England I'd want to move to.

VT is my favorite new england state. The whole damn state is beautiful! I like NH from about kancamamgus ne to jackson and north. Far northern new hampshire is prob a real gem (winter wx wise) if only they could develop it more. Wildcat summit and an adjacent trail is most beautiful slope view ive seen and the ride to stowe mtn w sun hitting the freshly fallen snow against the contrast looking up the steep spine of green mtn is most " awe inspiring inviting drive to mtn" ive enjoyed.

You want it to snow nearly everyday and bring back the childhood excitement of wondering how much you will have in am, go to the n greens. There are several events every year where 2-4 is forecast but more than 8 falls.

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moneypitmike

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Was at PIT, alternative check in area for overflow security. The line was against the window and a potent little storm moved in. Direct ctg hit at the airport, Shut it down for 5 minutes. Left and arrived back on time today, nonetheless. Pittsburgh is a highly under rated city,

 

Agreed on PIT--lots of neat things out there.  Did you ridie the incline?

 

Picked up a couple hundredths overnight.  Warmetst night in quite a while.

 

62.8/62

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weathafella

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Agreed on PIT--lots of neat things out there.  Did you ridie the incline?

 

Picked up a couple hundredths overnight.  Warmetst night in quite a while.

 

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Agreed on PIT--lots of neat things out there.  Did you ridie the incline?

 

Picked up a couple hundredths overnight.  Warmetst night in quite a while.

 

62.8/62

Not this time. Been there often though. Was warm and humid during the day there and at times quite turbulent at 38,000 feet which was rather unpleasant, Glad to be on the ground now.

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tamarack

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Agree. The appeal to northern NH and western ME is the lack of development. I guess you could throw the NEK into that as well.

 

To paraphrase a comment I heard years ago, "Developers invest in nice places until they are no longer nice."

 

Brian:  Up here the possibility of heavy rains is more for tonight/tomorrow than today.

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Typhoon Tip

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I'm suspicious that the 00z and 12z NAM runs are suffering some convective feed-back.  Particularly this 12z run... I think the idea of driving an all day MCS across SNE with a weakly closed circulation centered upon the QPF max is a bit overdone.  

 

At around 6z, an MCS develops over NE PA on this run, and then shortly there-after (within 3 to 6 hours) we see the PP try to close off around it... yeah, right.   Model overdoes it on a convective response, beta-meso scale heights fall, produces organized lift -->  closes of low.  MCS don't tend to dictate synoptic scale events, and that's what this run is attempting by collocated a closing PP with the MCS, and then moving the whole structure so slowly along with the deep layer changes.  What's interesting about that is the word "tend" -- that's not absolute.  Sometimes convection gets deep and strong enough to gnarl things up a bit, and in those cases feed-back does play a role.   I guess knowing when/where that will be truth or fiction in model runs is the key.  

 

edit: despite the coarser mesh the GFS looks better.  But that... who knows. 

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Typhoon Tip

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Every year, we're seeing weirder and weirder species of fish in Massachusetts due to warmer water temps.

 

A sailfish was caught in the Cape Cod Canal on Tues night..mild language.

 

 

 

 

Just be a matter of time and then "Jaws" incarnate strikes the Cape.  It's not so far-fetched actually.  Some of the best sci-fi/horror movies out there are so good because their's an angle of truth to their story-line to contemplate.  Great Whites have been seen off Cape Cod, ...plus, Gray seal populations have been increasing along the SNE coast(s), and seals are a huge food source for Great Whites.  What looks most like a seal near the shore ?   A human romping in neck deep water.  

 

Seeing as 'Whites have been seen, 'White eat seals, 'White have been known to attack human (based most likely on 'mistaken identity') -- it may actually be bordering on a Darwin Award NOT to envision where all that leads.  Do the math.  

 

That's why I like the movie "The Thing" so much.  It's fantastically unlikely, but still not impossible, ...that am alien could have crashed and gotten locked into the ice over the Antarctic or Arctic, and then modern human exploration "thaws it out" and it threatens all of humanity with an extinction event.  Good ole sci-fi.

 

Anyway, a territorial Great White staking claim around the Islands/CC during the warm months is not nearly as far-fetched. 

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Tropopause_Fold

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Just be a matter of time and then "Jaws" incarnate strikes the Cape.  It's not so far-fetched actually.  Some of the best sci-fi/horror movies out there are so good because their's and angle of truth to their story-line.  Great Whites have been seen off Cape Cod, ...plus, Gray seal populations have been increasing along the SNE coast(s), and seals are a huge food source for Great Whites.  What looks most like a seal near the shore ?   A human romping in  neck deep water.  

 

Seeing as 'Whites have been seen, 'White eat seals, 'White have been known to attack human (based most likely on 'mistaken identity') -- it may actually be bordering on a Darwin Award NOT to envision where all that leads.  Do the math.  

This is brand new information!

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ORH_wxman

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Great Whites have been around the Cape for centuries...but the seal population was almost totally killed off until they were protected in the 1970s...and the great whites have been more plentiful since the seal population has rebounded. Esp since the 1990s.

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Tropopause_Fold

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Great Whites have been around the Cape for centuries...but the seal population was almost totally killed off until they were protected in the 1970s...and the great whites have been more plentiful since the seal population has rebounded. Esp since the 1990s.

i'm were lucky out here...we'll pull off a sharknado. 

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Typhoon Tip

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tell me more about these " 'Whites "

 

Why?  what are you talking about...  You've lost me, and probably more of the others than the others are willing to admit in your little cadre of posters you think you belong to.  

 

You can continue to be an adversarial DB all you want --  You have just succeeded in my blocking you indefinitely.  I won't have to see it.

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