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You talking August '75? I'm pretty sure winds were more WNW during the afternoon in that one at ORH. There's those spots like EWB/TAN got over 105F.

 

 

 

May 26, 2010 is a good one...NNW flow and only 2F cooler than PVD/TAN...5F cooler than BDL, and tied with BOS.

I am pretty sure it hit 100 that day at ACK. I remember walking around stark naked in my south end apartment watching naked ladies across the way. Keep in mind I was 40 years younger than now. The next day, a bd knocked BOS down to the low 60s and my significant other and kept naked but got busy.

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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.

I find the roads in Princeton to be annoying. Too much meandering

I would prefer Westminster

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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. :lol:

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.

Is she at the high school there? My dad taught there for 20+ years until he died

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I am pretty sure it hit 100 that day at ACK. I remember walking around stark naked in my south end apartment watching naked ladies across the way. Keep in mind I was 40 years younger than now. The next day, a bd knocked BOS down to the low 60s and my significant other and kept naked but got busy.

You and Wiz and nudity

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I am pretty sure it hit 100 that day at ACK. I remember walking around stark naked in my south end apartment watching naked ladies across the way. Keep in mind I was 40 years younger than now. The next day, a bd knocked BOS down to the low 60s and my significant other and kept naked but got busy.

 

You and I would get along very well in the hot tub

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I was just reading through my Intro to met book and doing the problems for fun since nothing was assigned but I ran into a block and it's b/c of a word problem :/

 

A station near the equator has a sfc temp of 25C.  Vertical soundings reveal an environmental lapse rate of 6.5 C/KM and indicate that the tropopause is encountered at 16km.  What is the temp at the tropopause?  

 

Do i multiply 6.5 by 16 which = 104 and subtract 104 from 25 = -79C???

 

I've always been terrible at word problems 

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Holy crap really?? wow I'm shocked

Yep. With a tropopause so high up, many times you have deep convection with the tops of clouds easily that cold. Believe it or not, if you were to go up into the atmosphere....say 60,000ft....it is probably colder 60,000ft above Miami then it is 60,000ft above a place like Goose Bay Ontario or something. The reason being is the tropopause is much lower, further north. Once you get above the tropopause, lapse rates reverse unlike in the troposphere where temperature always decreases with height. You can compare soundings and see.

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Yep. With a tropopause so high up, many times you have deep convection with the tops of clouds easily that cold. Believe it or not, if you were to go up into the atmosphere....say 60,000ft....it is probably colder 60,000ft above Miami then it is 60,000ft above a place like Goose Bay Ontario or something. The reason being is the tropopause is much lower, further north. Once you get above the tropopause, lapse rates reverse unlike in the troposphere where temperature always decreases with height. You can compare soundings and see.

 

I'm reading about that now and it's really interesting.  I knew the tropopause varied at different latitudes and such but reading about the reasoning behind it is really cool.  

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Would the lapse rate be linear like that? Or does it matter and it is an average

 

I guess the average environmental lapse rate is 6.5 C/km but that obviously depends on atmospheric conditions.  In the example used though it's assumed the average is 6.5

 

Or, he could look at a skew-t log-p diagram

 

:lol:

 

I did look at an example of a pic in the book which showed a thermal profile and such and I compared what I got for the height to the pic and it was in the ballpark 

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Found out I was only 128 ft on that map, what a pit. 46 ft lower than BDL.

Hey you could be at zero like me, or just above zero. Nice elevation out by the airport (HPN) though. Considering moving to back country to gain at least a few hundred feet elevation and several miles of buffer from the sound.

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Hey you could be at zero like me, or just above zero. Nice elevation out by the airport (HPN) though. Considering moving to back country to gain at least a few hundred feet elevation and several miles of buffer from the sound.

10 miles east of me in West Stafford has 800-1000 ft elevations. Tempting but more expensive and less convenient for a big family with little ones.

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