Summer Banter, Observation and General Discussion 2018

[weathafella]

5 minutes ago, tamarack said:

Dad got a better one in the late 1960s, so we'd take the old beast onto the ice to clear away room for hockey.  Spout was quite wide, so we didn't have the clogging problems that dogged many other 1st-generation machines.

Dews in Augusta area hanging tough near 60 (lots nicer than 70s, however) while upstate it's low 50s TD.  Might bag another 40s low tomorrow - would be #7, only 2 fewer than average, a bit surprising for what will be the 3rd warmest August of 21 here.  Having 10 days with minima 60+, twice my average, makes it less surprising.

Isn’t that how Phil Rizuto ended up injuring himself badly during an event in March circa 1968 or 1969?  He apparently tried to clear the machine while it was still running.

[dendrite]

2 minutes ago, weathafella said:

Isn’t that how Phil Rizuto ended up injuring himself badly during an event in March circa 1968 or 1969?  He apparently tried to clear the machine while it was still running.

Feb 1963?

https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/184813749/

 

[tamarack]

4 minutes ago, weathafella said:

Isn’t that how Phil Rizuto ended up injuring himself badly during an event in March circa 1968 or 1969?  He apparently tried to clear the machine while it was still running.

And many other, less well-known folks, including a recently retired state entomologist who shall not be named.

[Damage In Tolland]

54 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

Euro says not so fast on the big warm up returning for next week... 

It's probably full of schit with it's amplitude bias over SE Canada ...  giving it the benefit of the doubt/conversation, it's jams BD or N-door front after front up under those stellar heights and pretty much locks NE out of the anomaly more than half the time.. 

we'll see

Recall when it did that same last week for this week. Posters were posting charts. Didn’t turn out so well for charts 

[moneypitmike]

Tickly, tickly.

73.9*

[powderfreak]

37 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Recall when it did that same last week for this week. Posters were posting charts. Didn’t turn out so well for charts 

You are having a pretty good summer forecasting.  Though there seems to be a strong correlation to your forecasting skill if summer is hot and humid, and winter is cold and snowy, ha ha.

[weathafella]

Last days of 90 next week.  Last 80 Thanksgiving?

[weathafella]

47 minutes ago, tamarack said:

And many other, less well-known folks, including a recently retired state entomologist who shall not be named.

When did retirement happen?  

[forkyfork]

highest theta e summer on record

[weathafella]

54 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Feb 1963?

https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/184813749/

 

My mind mixing up snowstorms....maybe I’m thinking of the one where my dad wouldn’t let me use the snow blower because the snow was wet....

[moneypitmike]

43 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

You are having a pretty good summer forecasting.  Though there seems to be a strong correlation to your forecasting skill if summer is hot and humid, and winter is cold and snowy, ha ha.

LOL.  Even a broken clock is right twice a day. 

[CoastalWx]

92 at BOS today. 

[Typhoon Tip]

3 hours ago, forkyfork said:

it's been doing this all summer

Yeah.. yeah I know. 

Lord knows I've been one of the loudest protestors of the Euro's zealotry in that regard...going back years actually. 

That said, it happened today - hm   I mean, step back and look at the geopotential medium - this front should not have taken place.  The rim of the 588 dm barely recesses south, and the mid level winds are paralleling the boundary - why did it come bullying in and underneath that?  I mean, it's gonna be 588 dm heights and thickness barely under 570 mb tomorrow and eastern Mass may be hung up in the upper 60s..  We've been disproportionately cold relative to the mid levels as a summer long plague - despite the torrid feel and the commiseration of all... you guys have no idea what "could have" fit inside of those heights we've had and continue to have.  Everyone no doubt has a faux impression of a ridgy summer now...  But I digress -

Anyway, if a front can bully in without any apparent physics to do so (haha) today, ...it can next week.  

[Ginx snewx]

2 hours ago, powderfreak said:

You are having a pretty good summer forecasting.  Though there seems to be a strong correlation to your forecasting skill if summer is hot and humid, and winter is cold and snowy, ha ha.

Charts had a roller coaster we cool down slide tomorrow Sat Sun up next week then down next weekend dont know what Kev is talking about but nothing has changed. We have not been balls to the wall HHH , we have had breaks in between just have been so far above normal dews and heat 

[CoastalWx]

1 hour ago, Ginx snewx said:

Charts had a roller coaster we cool down slide tomorrow Sat Sun up next week then down next weekend dont know what Kev is talking about but nothing has changed. We have not been balls to the wall HHH , we have had breaks in between just have been so far above normal dews and heat 

Where, Hudson Bay? It's been brutal since early July...except for several days mid July.

[PowderBeard]

Where were the high wind warnings for these 15 mph gusts? Multiple trees down in Amherst/Belchertown area. Saw a couple of cops out directing traffic. Is the ground just that soggy?

 

[dendrite]

32 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Where, Hudson Bay? It's been brutal since early July...except for several days mid July.

A spec of pollen trapped in amber proved 1077 AD was slightly more warm and humid than 2018.

[Ginx snewx]

7 minutes ago, dendrite said:

A spec of pollen trapped in amber proved 1077 AD was slightly more warm and humid than 2018.

 

42 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Where, Hudson Bay? It's been brutal since early July...except for several days mid July.

It was BN 7 of 8 days from the 19th to the 26th but ok thats brutal HHH for you millennials 

[Baroclinic Zone]

Yeah a couple day break here and there is not worthy of calling it a change.  Dew still sitting at 68F.  Dewin' the dew!!!!

[dendrite]

Yeah those couple of -1F and -2F days were awesome.

CXUS51 KBOX 301436
CF6PVD
PRELIMINARY LOCAL CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA (WS FORM: F-6)

                                          STATION:   PROVIDENCE RI
                                          MONTH:     AUGUST
                                          YEAR:      2018
                                          LATITUDE:   41 43 N
                                          LONGITUDE:  71 26 W

  TEMPERATURE IN F:       :PCPN:    SNOW:  WIND      :SUNSHINE: SKY     :PK WND
================================================================================
1   2   3   4   5  6A  6B    7    8   9   10  11  12  13   14  15   16   17  18
                                     12Z  AVG MX 2MIN
DY MAX MIN AVG DEP HDD CDD  WTR  SNW DPTH SPD SPD DIR MIN PSBL S-S WX    SPD DR
================================================================================

 1  84  67  76   2   0  11    T  0.0    0  9.6 22 210   M    M   7 1      29 200
 2  93  77  85  11   0  20 0.01  0.0    0 12.1 20 200   M    M   5        27 210
 3  91  76  84  10   0  19 0.00  0.0    0 12.0 23 210   M    M   6        28 200
 4  83  71  77   3   0  12 1.62  0.0    0  7.2 21 200   M    M   7 1      26 210
 5  91  69  80   6   0  15 0.00  0.0    0  5.8 15 170   M    M   1        18 180
 6  94  71  83   9   0  18 0.00  0.0    0  6.7 14 210   M    M   4        17 210
 7  92  74  83  10   0  18 0.00  0.0    0  9.5 21 190   M    M   3 1      25 200
 8  90  74  82   9   0  17 0.00  0.0    0  7.4 17 180   M    M   6        22 210
 9  90  72  81   8   0  16 0.02  0.0    0  7.3 15 260   M    M   6 13     20 270
10  89  68  79   6   0  14 0.01  0.0    0  6.3 16  10   M    M   4        19  10
11  76  71  74   1   0   9 0.72  0.0    0  6.5 12 100   M    M  10 1      14 100
12  81  70  76   3   0  11 0.65  0.0    0  7.1 17  40   M    M   9 13     21  40
13  74  68  71  -2   0   6 1.02  0.0    0  8.4 14  30   M    M  10 1      17  40
14  85  71  78   5   0  13    T  0.0    0  8.1 20 150   M    M   7 1      24 160
15  89  69  79   6   0  14 0.00  0.0    0  6.6 15 300   M    M   5        19 310
16  90  74  82   9   0  17 0.00  0.0    0  8.2 16 300   M    M   2        20 280
17  88  71  80   8   0  15    T  0.0    0  8.0 17 210   M    M   5 8      23 200
18  88  67  78   6   0  13 0.99  0.0    0  8.1 22  30   M    M   8 13     28  30
19  76  65  71  -1   0   6    T  0.0    0 13.9 23  30   M    M   9        30  70
20  79  63  71  -1   0   6 0.02  0.0    0 11.5 20  40   M    M   6 1      26  60
21  75  63  69  -3   0   4 0.01  0.0    0  7.1 12 120   M    M   9 18     14  90
22  86  67  77   5   0  12 0.25  0.0    0  7.4 20 320   M    M   7 13     25 320
23  78  62  70  -2   0   5    T  0.0    0  9.1 20 360   M    M   4        26 350
24  82  56  69  -2   0   4 0.00  0.0    0  5.9 18 240   M    M   2        23 170
25  79  60  70  -1   0   5 0.00  0.0    0  5.8 16 150   M    M   5        21 160
26  82  56  69  -2   0   4 0.00  0.0    0  6.2 16 230   M    M   2        20 200
27  88  69  79   8   0  14 0.00  0.0    0  6.8 15 280   M    M   5        20 280
28  95  72  84  13   0  19 0.00  0.0    0  7.5 18 200   M    M   3 1      24 200
29  95  76  86  16   0  21 0.00  0.0    0  8.5 18 210   M    M   1        24 250
================================================================================
SM 2483 1989         0 358  5.32     0.0 234.6          M      158
================================================================================
AV 85.6 68.6                               8.1 FASTST   M    M   5    MAX(MPH)
                                 MISC ---->  # 23 210               # 30   70
================================================================================
NOTES:
# LAST OF SEVERAL OCCURRENCES

COLUMN 17 PEAK WIND IN M.P.H.

PRELIMINARY LOCAL CLIMATOLOGICAL DATA (WS FORM: F-6) , PAGE 2

                                          STATION:  PROVIDENCE RI
                                          MONTH:    AUGUST
                                          YEAR:     2018
                                          LATITUDE:   41 43 N
                                          LONGITUDE:  71 26 W

[TEMPERATURE DATA]      [PRECIPITATION DATA]       SYMBOLS USED IN COLUMN 16

AVERAGE MONTHLY: 77.1   TOTAL FOR MONTH:   5.32    1 = FOG OR MIST
DPTR FM NORMAL:   4.6   DPTR FM NORMAL:    1.94    2 = FOG REDUCING VISIBILITY
HIGHEST:    95 ON 29,28 GRTST 24HR  1.62 ON  4- 4      TO 1/4 MILE OR LESS
LOWEST:     56 ON 26,24                            3 = THUNDER
                        SNOW, ICE PELLETS, HAIL    4 = ICE PELLETS
                        TOTAL MONTH:   0.0 INCH    5 = HAIL
                        GRTST 24HR     0.0         6 = FREEZING RAIN OR DRIZZLE
                        GRTST DEPTH:   0           7 = DUSTSTORM OR SANDSTORM:
                                                       VSBY 1/2 MILE OR LESS
                                                   8 = SMOKE OR HAZE
[NO. OF DAYS WITH]      [WEATHER - DAYS WITH]      9 = BLOWING SNOW
                                                   X = TORNADO
MAX 32 OR BELOW:   0    0.01 INCH OR MORE:  11
MAX 90 OR ABOVE:  10    0.10 INCH OR MORE:   6
MIN 32 OR BELOW:   0    0.50 INCH OR MORE:   5
MIN  0 OR BELOW:   0    1.00 INCH OR MORE:   2

[HDD (BASE 65) ]
TOTAL THIS MO.     0    CLEAR  (SCALE 0-3)   7
DPTR FM NORMAL     0    PTCLDY (SCALE 4-7)  17
TOTAL FM JUL 1     0    CLOUDY (SCALE 8-10)  5
DPTR FM NORMAL    -3

[CDD (BASE 65) ]
TOTAL THIS MO.   358
DPTR FM NORMAL   137    [PRESSURE DATA]
TOTAL FM JAN 1   894    HIGHEST SLP M ON M
DPTR FM NORMAL   249    LOWEST  SLP 29.59 ON 22

[REMARKS]

[Ginx snewx]

So now 7/8 days below normal (a couple according to Brian)is not a break from HHH , with me getting 2 upper 40 degree days by the way. Lol welcome to the new generation.

[CoastalWx]

42 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Yeah those couple of -1F and -2F days were awesome.

Looks more like COC sweat to me.

[CoastalWx]

We'll also ignore the hottest August ever. Maybe 2nd hottest in the NE CT backyards amid the rusty Yugos.

[Ginx snewx]

8 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

We'll also ignore the hottest August ever. Maybe 2nd hottest in the NE CT backyards amid the rusty Yugos.

Yea lets change what I said, asswhipe. Nobody said it wasn't your hottest August ever, nobody's stealing your ball sweat 

"We have not been balls to the wall HHH , we have had breaks in between, just have been so far above normal dews and heat" .

Lol enjoy your smog garbage and traffic in your never changing HHH pit of Emass

[powderfreak]

It's been warm, despite today's chill.  I'll raise my hand for hotter than normal since July 1st and it's not even close.

15 days in August averaged +5.0 or higher for daily departures here.  Mean monthly departure is +3.9F.  That appears to be fairly significant in the summer months.

[Ginx snewx]

40 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

It's been warm, despite today's chill.  I'll raise my hand for hotter than normal since July 1st and it's not even close.

15 days in August averaged +5.0 or higher for daily departures here.  Mean monthly departure is +3.9F.  That appears to be fairly significant in the summer months.

Been a torched July August summer for sure. One of the hottest 60 days on record.

[moneypitmike]

Enjoying the low-so-far of 56.5.  We'll see if our upper 60's tickle 70.

I'm not going to argue that it's been uncomfortable.  I will argue that the humidity and low mins have been the biggest culprit driving that discomfort--at least in GC.  The good news is that the clock ticks as it always does.  We saw how spring refused to emerge this year for the longest time.  But, it did get here eventually.  Similarly, the clock is ticking ever louder on summer '18.  Spells of warmth will still be there of course, but their magnitude and duration will diminish as the seasons won't be denied.

 

Somehow, I think Tip is going to endorse this post.

[dendrite]

I hope those running this morning in NE CT are enjoying the dews in the 50s.

[CapturedNature]

8 hours ago, CoastalWx said:

Where, Hudson Bay? It's been brutal since early July...except for several days mid July.

In 2013 I had over 30 straight days of high dews...this summer I've managed several stretches of 7 or 8 days.  It has not been constant though.  24 out of the past 62 days averaged BN...how can that be if it's been brutal except for several days in July?  I'm not pretending that I haven't put up two top 10 warmest months or had constant stretches of high dp's but I'm not going to ignore the empirical data that I've had breaks for several days or even a week at a time.

[CapturedNature]

7 hours ago, CoastalWx said:

We'll also ignore the hottest August ever. Maybe 2nd hottest in the NE CT backyards amid the rusty Yugos.

Not ignoring it here...8th hottest, despite the 20th-27th being below normal.  That's a break in the "constant" heat and high dp's in my book.  I guess if you want to ignore those stretches, it has been constant.  Even worse than the 30 day stretch in 2013.