Ginx snewx Posted May 1, 2015 Author Share Posted May 1, 2015 I had a well in my first house, way better than the town water I have now. You just get a soft water tank and a filter for the iron in the water and its fine. I never lost water due to little rain and always had great pressure. no brainer, if I lose water at 400 feet from a drought we all got problems. I just don't like chlorinated water Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted May 1, 2015 Author Share Posted May 1, 2015 Globals are still showing the tropical threat for next week. GGEM, GFS and ECMWF all have it in some form. wrong subforum though, that would be the SE subforum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsentropicLift Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 wrong subforum though, that would be the SE subforum Anytime you have a system near the southeast coast with a ridge overhead it's a threat to come right up the coast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 no brainer, if I lose water at 400 feet from a drought we all got problems. I just don't like chlorinated water I can't taste it. One good thing about the northeast....we don't need heavily chlorinated water. Ever smell the water in FL? Yuck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 Best part of upcoming pattern are the low dews, man looks fantastic, Dew the DewOh it looks like a few days thrown in with dews around 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 I do like having a well (I am lucky and have not-so-hard water), except when we los power for extended periods. That has only happened once for me though. Generators FTW, me FTL We have had to replace a few parts over the years (pump, some other thingy...), but overall good for us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 I can't taste it. One good thing about the northeast....we don't need heavily chlorinated water. Ever smell the water in FL? Yuck.I couldn't taste it either while I grew up with it. When we moved to a house with our first well I loved the taste. I can't drink the city water anymore. Some towns put a lot of junk in their water. I don't understand the need of putting fluoride in water. That crap is toxic beyond trace amounts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 I couldn't taste it either while I grew up with it. When we moved to a house with our first well I loved the taste. I can't drink the city water anymore. Some towns put a lot of junk in their water. I don't understand the need of putting fluoride in water. That crap is toxic beyond trace amounts. Hopefully the wells in Tolland are deep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Valley Snowman Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 Do you guys think Maine near Waterville back doors next Friday, Saturday like the GFS is depicting ?.My parents are heading up there to open camp for the season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted May 1, 2015 Author Share Posted May 1, 2015 I couldn't taste it either while I grew up with it. When we moved to a house with our first well I loved the taste. I can't drink the city water anymore. Some towns put a lot of junk in their water. I don't understand the need of putting fluoride in water. That crap is toxic beyond trace amounts. I grew up in Westerly and at the time the water was untreated and rated second in the nation for taste and clarity, never tasted chlorinated water until I went to GON as a kid at an Aunts, it even smelled awful. Since then WST was forced to florinate, chlorinate but no old timers will drink it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhoon Tip Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 Not buying summer starting, but looks like a pretty mild week. The front is more of a fropa with maybe seabreezes near the coast instead of NE flow..at least for now. With ridging out west over the Rockies..seems more like dry NW flow though later in the period, unless we can get a WF and wave of low pressure riding nearby. Not to be douchy but I have a different interpretation of the flow structure for this upcoming week... and by that "I" mean, hours 72 thru D6.5 or so... I see trough over the Rockies that fills and reloads in pulses, ...and eventual evolution toward summery riding ~95 W, ...that's pretty much a description of the D6 operatoinal Euro from 00z last night, admittedly.. But the bevy of tele's and other operationals and so forth offer support for that sort of evolution so I don't personally have a problem with that. And ... if that were the whole story alone I'd have to outright disagree and suggest that the season's first real summer-like air mass is about to go some distance toward signficantly correcting whatever negative departures have heretofore plagued the numbers... Where I tend to have issues is with the flow over eastern Ontario. At first I thought it was just a relic of the typical Euro/GGEM amplitude bias of the late middle range, ...carving out heights too deeply in the lower Maritimes (thus keeping the flow NW, north of CAR too long). That would tend to hang warm/stationary boundaries along a NW-SE not too far NE of SNE, with BD threat in perpetual play. It just doesn't seem, however, to be correcting flatter up there as we get that latter middle range now more at earlier middle range -- still rather sharp and confluent looking over eastern Ontario. I don't like shoving any warm...heck, even in July, into NE with confluence up there. As is, the Euro does have some sort of N-wall or weak BD scenario that knocks T's back mid week. I think that's been there for a while... But looking at Wednesday's chart(s) ...that could easily come down with more momentum than merely making for 850 mb temperature gradient look... If not, oh well...we go from first 82F to cozy 67's for a day. But get a load of that TC that even the Euro now hones in on... That's awesome, in May. That things been in the runs off and on, though more on...for three or four days actually. I also like how it's tropical moisture get entrained along the baroclinic zone way out there in time.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whineminster Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 I actually worked on the design of numerous public water supply systems, and many chlorinate just to be "safe". A lot depends on where you live in relation to the treatment system too....if you live near the treatment location, it'll taste like chlorine, if you live on the outskirts of the water system, it won't test as much like chlorine, but might be a bit more musty tasting. Chlorine breaks down over time. Utilities with groundwater wells don't automatically have to chlorinate in MA either. If there is a bacteria hit, then yes they have to from that point forward. The chemicals they put in water are harmless, since the concentrations are so low....I wouldn't worry about it. Personally I'm on a well with a low pH and high iron and manganese, so my water tastes like blood and it's eating away at my copper pipes and staining everything..... but I'm too cheap to do anything about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 Not to be douchy but I have a different interpretation of the flow structure for this upcoming week... and by that "I" mean, hours 72 thru D6.5 or so... I see trough over the Rockies that fills and reloads in pulses, ...and eventual evolution toward summery riding ~95 W, ...that's pretty much a description of the D6 operatoinal Euro from 00z last night, admittedly.. But the bevy of tele's and other operationals and so forth offer support for that sort of evolution so I don't personally have a problem with that. And ... if that were the whole story alone I'd have to outright disagree and suggest that the season's first real summer-like air mass is about to go some distance toward signficantly correcting whatever negative departures have heretofore plagued the numbers... Where I tend to have issues is with the flow over eastern Ontario. At first I thought it was just a relic of the typical Euro/GGEM amplitude bias of the late middle range, ...carving out heights too deeply in the lower Maritimes (thus keeping the flow NW, north of CAR too long). That would tend to hang warm/stationary boundaries along a NW-SE not too far NE of SNE, with BD threat in perpetual play. It just doesn't seem, however, to be correcting flatter up there as we get that latter middle range now more at earlier middle range -- still rather sharp and confluent looking over eastern Ontario. I don't like shoving any warm...heck, even in July, into NE with confluence up there. As is, the Euro does have some sort of N-wall or weak BD scenario that knocks T's back mid week. I think that's been there for a while... But looking at Wednesday's chart(s) ...that could easily come down with more momentum than merely making for 850 mb temperature gradient look... If not, oh well...we go from first 82F to cozy 67's for a day. But get a load of that TC that even the Euro now hones in on... That's awesome, in May. That things been in the runs off and on, though more on...for three or four days actually. I also like how it's tropical moisture get entrained along the baroclinic zone way out there in time.. I think we agree regarding your hesitance to bringing screaming summer into all of New England. You certainly could be stuck with more S-SSE flow taming the warmth down a bit at times. Later on, that trough over the Rockies becomes a ridge and thus NW flow in the mid levels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 I actually worked on the design of numerous public water supply systems, and many chlorinate just to be "safe". A lot depends on where you live in relation to the treatment system too....if you live near the treatment location, it'll taste like chlorine, if you live on the outskirts of the water system, it won't test as much like chlorine, but might be a bit more musty tasting. Chlorine breaks down over time. Utilities with groundwater wells don't automatically have to chlorinate in MA either. If there is a bacteria hit, then yes they have to from that point forward. The chemicals they put in water are harmless, since the concentrations are so low....I wouldn't worry about it. Personally I'm on a well with a low pH and high iron and manganese, so my water tastes like blood and it's eating away at my copper pipes and staining everything..... but I'm too cheap to do anything about it. Go wells! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 A lot sunnier than the doom and gloom forecasts we saw from outlets today.. Still a bit cool,, but feels fine in the sun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhoon Tip Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 I think we agree regarding your hesitance to bringing screaming summer into all of New England. You certainly could be stuck with more S-SSE flow taming the warmth down a bit at times. Later on, that trough over the Rockies becomes a ridge and thus NW flow in the mid levels. Absolutely... particularly Maine... heh. If the details of the flow synopsis alter and flatten that Ontario confluence some (which could happen still at D4/5 lead) then we'll talk. Otherwise, I'd stay climo for now... But that 'ridge' in the west later on... I have problems with that. That appears to be an artifact of both model camps bias' playing out in their own regard. In one instance, the Euro digs everything including butterflies too far S beyond D6/7 ...most of the time, and that completely obfuscates the 'truer' physical support for the flow configuration. Code for ... there could easily be more ridging in the east when push comes to shove. Contrasting, the GFS is notoriously an N-stream bully... so that could cause the N the stream to "carve" too much during this time of year in particular. I've also noticed that the ensemble mean of the GFS is really honing in on the +NAO phase state, yet the operational keeps trying to flip the bird to its' own family in developing these annoying sub-synoptic scaled blocks that just conveniently allow digging of the height into the NE.... 'Oh, look, now I have a block to curve around' - well duh. So yeah, it's a tedious debate - sure. But, it does have some sensible differences. But correcting for either of those tendencies distracts from a west ridge east trough by quite a bit. Also, the PNA is neutral/positive at a time of year when its correlation strength is falling like a duck over a nuclear meltdown, while the NAO maintains a strong positive signal - the NAO does carry warm season correlation. The NAO offers plenty of support for eastern ridging ...more so than either camp. We'll see... But as far as next week, be prepared for a cold wedge of chlly low tide smell, with strata cloaking envious eyes that peer landward from just off the N shore... Muah hahahaha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhoon Tip Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 A lot sunnier than the doom and gloom forecasts we saw from outlets today.. Still a bit cool,, but feels fine in the sun heh, it's pretty lousy up this way... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
backedgeapproaching Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 I can't taste it. One good thing about the northeast....we don't need heavily chlorinated water. Ever smell the water in FL? Yuck. I travel there a lot for work, nasty is an absolute understatement. Undrinkable out of the faucet. This is my first experience being on well water when I moved to VT, nice that I can drink water right out of the faucet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted May 1, 2015 Author Share Posted May 1, 2015 Pretty cool all climo stations finished April within a .1 of climo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Valley Snowman Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 Pretty cool all climo stations finished April within a .1 of climo. I'm thinking widespread +2 to + 4 this month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 I'm thinking widespread +2 to + 4 this month. I'll take the under I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Valley Snowman Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 I'll take the under I think. Interior definitely, coast is a bit trickier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted May 1, 2015 Author Share Posted May 1, 2015 I'll take the under I think. climo again is my call Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted May 1, 2015 Author Share Posted May 1, 2015 highest dew on the GFS for the next 16 days is 57 in my hood and that is under a shower on Tuesday, COC season upon us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 I'm thinking widespread +2 to + 4 this month. Yeah i think we'll see a lot of +2 to +3 over all of New England..there aren't any BN days signaled at all. The coast might come in with like a +1.5 or something depending upon sea breezes..but overall it's a well above normal regime..Perfect timing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Valley Snowman Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 Lows in the 50s and highs in the 70s next week is a good 5-7 degrees above average . BDL normal is like 69/45 by next Friday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 Just saw the euro op for the first time. What a weenie run for nice weather through d10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhoon Tip Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 it'll actually in be interesting to see how averages turn out... Now that we are apparently sans the EPO curse of last winter... The region may be subjected (I'm wondering...), or perhaps re-introduced to the background warming signal that's affecting the whole world really. Don't mean to roll eyes there ... and am aware how that may possibly be miss-construed. But we must face facts that more stations world over put up positive departures, than negative ones...spanning the last three to five decades worth of empirical data. It seems before last winter's "unique to eastern N/A" cold assault ..that really flavored this last winter too as a hybrid version... taking those two incidences out of the numbers, we were not different. It seemed endless months were always annoying decimals positive ... if not more demonstratively so with whole number values. Some March...maybe 2012 was like +8 or something ludicrous... Anyway, what I am getting at is that given the current global climate flux, it seems a +1 is an easier feat than a -1, when all other factors are behaving equally. That "equal" does not include odd-ball 18 month long -EPO plagues, either... So provided we truly do free of that influence of this month of May, I wouldn't be shocked at all if the region returns to the longer term case of +1 itus ,.,and if so, a +2 is not a stretch, either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 And then suddenly...it's summer Upper ridging is set to dominate our pattern for a good part of the first half of May. Expect above average temperatures and mostly dry conditions. Any rainfall will probably be scattered in nature with frontal passages. As pretty a first half of May that you will ever see around here. https://twitter.com/WSI_Energy/status/593775190498246656 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted May 1, 2015 Author Share Posted May 1, 2015 And then suddenly...it's summer 500 mb heights above normal mean summer? nice COC days it means Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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