Ginx snewx Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 Yep. Hate seeing the leaves, dirt, rocks, etc... that my snowblower kicks up when I clear the driveway (a 300' gravel driveway). I agree with your sentiments. Beer tonight?nah have not had many beers since Sept. On a diet, laying low for a while. Ski season incoming and plan on spending a lot of days on the slopes. Got fat this summer should be fine by Dec. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Miser Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 Haha that's a pet peeve of mine as well. When it's January and -10F and you are shoveling fresh snow and end up shoveling a bunch of organic matter like dead leaves with your snow. lol. Same here. Leaves should never mix with snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weathafella Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 Lol, the day I discovered there were other folks just like me back in 1990 when I was on IRC it was such a relief. The absolute best part of weather boards. There is a commonality to all of us. 1990? That early? Younger guys don't realize how isolated we weenies were before the internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 I took Earl of Statistics back in the day How was that? I'm taking if now b/c my gf said it's pretty simple and it's a requirement for met Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 1990? That early? Younger guys don't realize how isolated we weenies were before the internet. First year of my second run at college as a full time undergrad at 33 years old. Mcidas when the Internet was colleges only. Only took one hour to download one Sat pic. The start of wunderground , Dupage etc. my first conversation I will never forget. Weenie named Don from Ithaca. I remember having a convo with Bob Copeland too. Then it exploded in 92. A long way from the difax machines in 78 watching the Sat of the biggest blizzard of my life come in in my Met class. Steve Cascione the long time Met in RI was in class with me the year before as a senior before he went to Accuweather. I spent more time in the early 90s learning the Internet for weather than for school work. In the lab I met the RI State climatologist and ended up interning with him and the USDA for URI, part of my work was ground truthing a new radar concept , Doppler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weathafella Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 First year of my second run at college as a full time undergrad at 33 years old. Mcidas when the Internet was colleges only. Only took one hour to download one Sat pic. The start of wunderground , Dupage etc. my first conversation I will never forget. Weenie named Don from Ithaca. I remember having a convo with Bob Copeland too. Then it exploded in 92. A long way from the difax machines in 78 watching the Sat of the biggest blizzard of my life come in in my Met class. Steve Cascione the long time Met in RI was in class with me the year before as a senior before he went to Accuweather. I spent more time in the early 90s learning the Internet for weather than for school work. In the lab I met the RI State climatologist and ended up interning with him and the USDA for URI, part of my work was ground truthing a new radar concept , Doppler I remember the early 1970s calling Bob Copeland and Don Kent whenever they were around, they'd come to the phone and talk to me a long time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 I remember the early 1970s calling Bob Copeland and Don Kent whenever they were around, they'd come to the phone and talk to me a long time!Your pic with Don Kent is priceless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weathafella Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 Your pic with Don Kent is priceless 41 years ago.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weathafella Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 43 years ago... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 Black and white...wow...going WAY back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joey2002 Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 Younger guys don't realize how isolated we weenies were before the internet. Yeah, I can't imagine life without the Internet... it's unreal how quickly things change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavisStraight Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 I love that one of Jerry humping the snow ,LOL Jerry, what day is that on the weather map with you and Don Kent? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ineedsnow Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 models back to coming out an hour earlier! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneypitmike Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 Eclipse fail with the clouds, ftl. 35.3/29 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneypitmike Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 Eclipse fail with the clouds, ftl. 35.3/29 Perhaps we'll get a glimpse of it out here--several patches of blue overhead and to my north. Unfortunatley, thick overcast extending forever to the east. Hopefully, the back edge of that area will quickly head east. Not confident that that will happen. 34.9/29 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 Anyone see any flurries Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneypitmike Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 Anyone see any flurries I think I had some phantom flakes, but they were of the "I think that was...." type. Somewhat like Big Foot. Sun might break through for a glimpse of the eclipse. 34.8/29 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 We have a few Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneypitmike Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 I've been having some widely spread wind directions this morning, ranging from W all the way to ESE (see below). Is anyone else seeing that? Probably something to do with my siting. Nice sunny morning. 35.1/29 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 Probably something to do with my siting.Correct. Your wind speed went lighter in that stretch and you were more prone to variable turbulence. How high up is your anemometer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneypitmike Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 Correct. Your wind speed went lighter in that stretch and you were more prone to variable turbulence. How high up is your anemometer? Thanks. It's really crappy! It's only at 8' and I'm located at the top of a steep dropping hill to the east (about 100' in a 1000', 150' in 1/4 mile with a rise back to my level in between). No doubt the hill creates unusual swirling. But, since the drop is just to the east of the siting, it's not too impacted with prevailing westerlies. Probably different in N/S vectors. I told my wife that since she got a pool that I'm going to resite it. I won't get to 10meters, but I hope I can get to 20' if I'm lucky. I'll be trading the 'open location' from my Davis for a location that will have nearby trees. I suspect the trade for height is a good thing to do. Now, I just need to get my wireless anemoeter to do it. And, then figure out how to connect that to my monitor. So much to do, so little know how. 35.1/28 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 -SN at MHT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 Thanks. It's really crappy! It's only at 8' and I'm located at the top of a steep dropping hill to the east (about 100' in a 1000', 150' in 1/4 mile with a rise back to my level in between). No doubt the hill creates unusual swirling. But, since the drop is just to the east of the siting, it's not too impacted with prevailing westerlies. Probably different in N/S vectors. I told my wife that since she got a pool that I'm going to resite it. I won't get to 10meters, but I hope I can get to 20' if I'm lucky. I'll be trading the 'open location' from my Davis for a location that will have nearby trees. I suspect the trade for height is a good thing to do. Now, I just need to get my wireless anemoeter to do it. And, then figure out how to connect that to my monitor. So much to do, so little know how. 35.1/28 Why resite the entire Davis if you plan to get a wireless anemometer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneypitmike Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 Why resite the entire Davis if you plan to get a wireless anemometer? If I did, then my temp sensor would be under tree canopy (as would my collection bucket). Both very very bad things, eh? 35.8/27 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CapturedNature Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 First year of my second run at college as a full time undergrad at 33 years old. Mcidas when the Internet was colleges only. Only took one hour to download one Sat pic. The start of wunderground , Dupage etc. my first conversation I will never forget. Weenie named Don from Ithaca. I remember having a convo with Bob Copeland too. Then it exploded in 92. A long way from the difax machines in 78 watching the Sat of the biggest blizzard of my life come in in my Met class. Steve Cascione the long time Met in RI was in class with me the year before as a senior before he went to Accuweather. I spent more time in the early 90s learning the Internet for weather than for school work. In the lab I met the RI State climatologist and ended up interning with him and the USDA for URI, part of my work was ground truthing a new radar concept , Doppler That's about the same period I was in Met school but I was 10 years younger, lol. I volunteered at a local TV station before college where they had an old style wet DiFax machine from the 60s and I remember waiting for sfc and model maps. They also had a weather teletype (I forget the name attm) where the hourly obs and other reports like the FOUS or FOUE would print. McIdas changed all that making a lot of that information available on demand. You're right about '92 being the magic year. With the explosion of Internet and Web access in the next couple of years, access to weather information became much easier and the combination of that and my programming background led me to leave the business and become an IT guy. I have a lot of nice memories of that time. BTW, I have a satellite photo somewhere of Hurricane Gloria off the DiFax machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 If I did, then my temp sensor would be under tree canopy (as would my collection bucket). Both very very bad things, eh? 35.8/27 Nevermind...I think I read your post incorrectly. I thought you planned to move the whole ISS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flying MXZ Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 Anyone see any flurries Yep. It seems pretty isolated here, but Plattekill's webcam shows it also. http://plattekill.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROOSTA Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 Solid Mix of SNOW !!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macriver Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 We've had intermittent flurries since sbout 8:30. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 Salem, NH RWIS reporting very -SN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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