mreaves Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 Shouldn't have shown me that, lol. Got a lot of home projects to get done this afternoon. Now I want to play around with colored topography. same here. love this map. Guilty as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 My homestead is at 1,240' if this map is to be believed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 link? but I meant real time clownIt's out for Aug. Have fun. ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/asos-onemin/6406-2015/64060KBDL201508.dat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 My homestead is at 1,240' if this map is to be believed. Topo.JPG 535 dead on, goes from 235 to 755 in 3/4 mile Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forkyfork Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 i knew my lofty 130' estimate was close Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 It's out for Aug. Have fun.ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/asos-onemin/6406-2015/64060KBDL201508.datBDL got screwed out of 2 more 90s on the 19th and 20th. They had official highs of 89F both days, but each saw many 1-min obs of 90F and both had 1-min maxes of 91F. The 5 min averages must've been like 89.4F...lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 It's out for Aug. Have fun. ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/asos-onemin/6406-2015/64060KBDL201508.dat 104 minutes at or above 90 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 My homestead is at 1,240' if this map is to be believed. Topo.JPG Nice that's some sneaky elevation. Didn't realize you were that high. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 This illustrates why I'm in a terrible place for wind unless it comes from the WSW. Capture.PNG You get good funneling through there though.My hill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forkyfork Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 check out the ewr and bdl torch zones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allsnow Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 BDL hit 90. Day 6 since Aug 13. BOS also today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneypitmike Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 I'm liking Hopkinton...reasonable commute for both of us and it's got 500+ feet elevation in a lot of spots. Nice town. You'll also find some good prices out in GC. Temps stay pretty comfortable out this way, too (got up to 81.3 here today). Sadly, I start my job in Boston tomorrow. It'll be a bright and early start. At least I'll only need to do the round trip twice a week--painful as it may be. 79.5/67 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 Nice town. You'll also find some good prices out in GC. Temps stay pretty comfortable out this way, too (got up to 81.3 here today). Sadly, I start my job in Boston tomorrow. It'll be a bright and early start. At least I'll only need to do the round trip twice a week--painful as it may be. 79.5/67 If I could, I'd live up north of ORH at 1200+ feet for very cheap...but the commutes are not reasonable from there. Perhaps when I start working from home more in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TauntonBlizzard2013 Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 Great first day back to Bridgewater today. Someone hit my car in the parking lot. Scuffed and dented the back bumper. No note, no cameras. Great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneypitmike Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 Great first day back to Bridgewater today. Someone hit my car in the parking lot. Scuffed and dented the back bumper. No note, no cameras. Great Sorry to hear. That sucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 If I could, I'd live up north of ORH at 1200+ feet for very cheap...but the commutes are not reasonable from there. Perhaps when I start working from home more in the future. I always liked Princeton. I know it's not cheap..but doesn't have that sticksville feel that areas to the N and NW may have. No offense to those there...but JMHO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 I feel like as I get older...I prefer the mtns more and more...but on the other hand...I would enjoy a house on a 200' bluff with wall shaking gusts too. If only there were a 1,000ft hill near Plum Island. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 I always liked Princeton. I know it's not cheap..but doesn't have that sticksville feel that areas to the N and NW may have. No offense to those there...but JMHO. Yeah Princeton is a bit pricier than other surrounding towns...but when you compare it to metrowest Boston, it is still very affordable. You just can't get a 3000 sq foot colonial for like 240,000 there like you can in Ashburnham or Westminster, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 You get good funneling through there though. My hill. image.jpg Can easily see what you mean when you talk about the bottom of your hill being colder on radiational nights....nice drain probably down into that little river valley. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 Yeah Princeton is a bit pricier than other surrounding towns...but when you compare it to metrowest Boston, it is still very affordable. You just can't get a 3000 sq foot colonial for like 240,000 there like you can in Ashburnham or Westminster, lol. Hopkinton is good. 495 right there for easy access to ORH or the Cape. Commuter rail there, I-90 etc. Good spot. I will say family and friends became a bigger deal for me..esp family. With our schedules...we have come to depend on them for help and it really has been beneficial to have them within 15 min away. My parents watch Bryce on Thursdays to help ease the mortgage that daycare can be, and it helps to have babysitters for both going out leisurely and also in case of emergencies such as sickness or this past crazy winter. I know you guys aren't there yet, but it was a big factor for us once we had Bryce. I more than likely would have lived north of Boston to be closer for work if we didn't have Bryce. Of course it doesn't have to be that way for many, but it did help us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 Nice town. You'll also find some good prices out in GC. Temps stay pretty comfortable out this way, too (got up to 81.3 here today). Sadly, I start my job in Boston tomorrow. It'll be a bright and early start. At least I'll only need to do the round trip twice a week--painful as it may be. 79.5/67 Damn round-trip to Boston twice a week? That should get fun in the winter. But congrats on the new job, though I know you were enjoying the layover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 Hopkinton is good. 495 right there for easy access to ORH or the Cape. Commuter rail there, I-90 etc. Good spot. I will say family and friends became a bigger deal for me..esp family. With our schedules...we have come to depend on them for help and it really has been beneficial to have them within 15 min away. My parents watch Bryce on Thursdays to help ease the mortgage that daycare can be, and it helps to have babysitters for both going out leisurely and also in case of emergencies such as sickness or this past crazy winter. I know you guys aren't there yet, but it was a big factor for us once we had Bryce. I more than likely would have lived north of Boston to be closer for work if we didn't have Bryce. Of course it doesn't have to be that way for many, but it did help us. Yeah that's why I'm zoning in on that town. Megan works in Walpole...easy commute down 495 for her. Commuter rail just up the road in Ashland for me (like 5 minute drive). Plus, getting back into the ORH hills over 500 feet is important. I will probably have less time to go back to ORH as much as I have done in the past couple winters if I have kids, lol...so I gotta shore up that problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 I feel like as I get older...I prefer the mtns more and more...but on the other hand...I would enjoy a house on a 200' bluff with wall shaking gusts too. If only there were a 1,000ft hill near Plum Island. That would be awesome. It would probably be an awesome snow spot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 I feel like as I get older...I prefer the mtns more and more...but on the other hand...I would enjoy a house on a 200' bluff with wall shaking gusts too. If only there were a 1,000ft hill near Plum Island. Mountains are a fun for a weather nerd. You get to watch a lot of meso-scale phenomena happen right in front of you. I think even clouds are really fun to watch around the mountains, because the terrain gives some scale to height. Its like if you have patchy clouds at 2,000ft elevation, from the flat-lands that looks the same as any level because its just over your head. In the mountains you have terrain go above that level and gives a perspective to the height of the ceiling. You also have the ridiculously localized events sometimes...like you get 4" while three miles away gets 10". Or you get 10" while a few miles away has 1-2". That stuff always fascinates me, which is why I often laugh when someone is pissed off because *only* 20 miles away had a bunch more snow. In a distance of 20 miles up here, you could have 3 different jackpots and low spots, even in synoptic events depending on low level wind lol. I'm sure the ocean is just as fun but in a totally different way...but you probably get some cool meteorology at play. Go ocean or mountains. Every time I visit my folks' near Albany in the Hudson Valley, I forget how boring that can be weather-wise day by day without a storm...you don't get those fun nuances that you get in the mountains, the type of stuff only a weather nerd would notice, haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ma blizzard Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 decent radiation cooling spot, but not as good as lower spots in the neighborhood: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 cool The western half of #Kilo is a typhoon and it's Sept. 2, but the eastern half is a hurricane and it's Sept. 1! http://t.co/iljoimCl1M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneypitmike Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 Damn round-trip to Boston twice a week? That should get fun in the winter. But congrats on the new job, though I know you were enjoying the layover. Yeah. I'll be working in the office on Mon/Tues and Thursday. They're putting me up on Monday nights (anyone know if the Parker House is any good--I hope it gives me points for some chain or another). With respect to the winter, I'm hoping for weekend gems. But, I'm confident the studded snows will get me through before the changes to rain as I approach 495. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxmanmitch Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 I love those shaded topo maps although the point & click values don't match up perfectly with the topo contours in some places. Given that my plot of land in S VT is on the eastern slope of some ~3K mountains at 2,230' things should be interesting when I move up there. That location should provide me with upslope from both easterly and westerly flow events as well as with orographically initiated/enhanced convection in the summer. We're expecting to break ground this fall with site work while the house hopefully goes up next spring/summer after mud season ends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eekuasepinniW Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 Are there more fires burning or something? It's insanely hazy with a nice pink sunset in progress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#NoPoles Posted September 2, 2015 Share Posted September 2, 2015 I love those shaded topo maps although the point & click values don't match up perfectly with the topo contours in some places. Given that my plot of land in S VT is on the eastern slope of some ~3K mountains at 2,230' things should be interesting when I move up there. That location should provide me with upslope from both easterly and westerly flow events as well as with orographically initiated/enhanced convection in the summer. We're expecting to break ground this fall with site work while the house hopefully goes up next spring/summer after mud season ends. you need a roomate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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