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Summer Banter, Observation and General Discussion 2018

CapturedNature

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CoastalWx

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1 hour ago, PeabodyFlood said:

The fun thing is I recall an almost identical storm cell just sitting over the north shore and flooding Lynn and Peabody over a few hours back in like October 2010 or 2011.

2011. That started over my place in Dorchester. We must have had an inch of rain in less than 10 minutes. To this day possibly the hardest I’ve  ever seen it rain for a prolonged period of time.  Completely flooded everything. First time I ever was legit scared of my condo getting flooded. I was out there at 4am diverting water from my condo. 

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Typhoon Tip

Typhoon Tip

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This Red Sox team is ridic!

I turn on the game in the first inning ...as an arcing bomb is sailing over the left field wall at Camden Yards and it's like ... home run fatigue.  There's just no mystery in their offense game to game. Not sure if that is a testament to a horrible pitching year, overall, ...ubiquitously around the league, or if they are that good.  But it's like a machine - almost smacks of the 2007 Patriots.  Hopefully it doesn't end that way.

Having said that, it seems romantic to assume the team with the best record - regardless of major sport - rarely gets to take the prom queen home. It's always the 3rd or 5th seed that wins it all in their respective playoff seasons.  Doesn't it seem that way?  I wonder why that is - ...heh, if it's even true.  But the team that scares the piss out of everyone with these season long monolithic win totals "seem" to make less of an impact in their respective playoffs. 

'Least in modern times...  I thought the Seattle Mariner's beat the Chicago Cups 1906 116 win total, with 116 .. a slightly more notable achievement due to the longer schedule?  Neither team one the World Series in 2001 and 1906 respectively.

It may just be a numbers game... The top 10 teams really are not that hugely different from one another in spite of their comparative win-loss columns. Which would mean...there are 9 possible winners against that 1 top earner...  Odds are, assuming reasonable evenness among that top ten, that one of the 9 will actually win the whole damn thing.  Seems logical...

The upshot there is that there is no mystery where the top seed is cursed to not win in the end - just means they have to be on their a-game like everyone else. 

 

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Great Snow 1717

Great Snow 1717

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1 hour ago, Typhoon Tip said:

This Red Sox team is ridic!

I turn on the game in the first inning ...as an arcing bomb is sailing over the left field wall at Camden Yards and it's like ... home run fatigue.  There's just no mystery in their offense game to game. Not sure if that is a testament to a horrible pitching year, overall, ...ubiquitously around the league, or if they are that good.  But it's like a machine - almost smacks of the 2007 Patriots.  Hopefully it doesn't end that way.

Having said that, it seems romantic to assume the team with the best record - regardless of major sport - rarely gets to take the prom queen home. It's always the 3rd or 5th seed that wins it all in their respective playoff seasons.  Doesn't it seem that way?  I wonder why that is - ...heh, if it's even true.  But the team that scares the piss out of everyone with these season long monolithic win totals "seem" to make less of an impact in their respective playoffs. 

'Least in modern times...  I thought the Seattle Mariner's beat the Chicago Cups 1906 116 win total, with 116 .. a slightly more notable achievement due to the longer schedule?  Neither team one the World Series in 2001 and 1906 respectively.

It may just be a numbers game... The top 10 teams really are not that hugely different from one another in spite of their comparative win-loss columns. Which would mean...there are 9 possible winners against that 1 top earner...  Odds are, assuming reasonable evenness among that top ten, that one of the 9 will actually win the whole damn thing.  Seems logical...

The upshot there is that there is no mystery where the top seed is cursed to not win in the end - just means they have to be on their a-game like everyone else. 

 

So far the Sox season closely mirrors the season the Dodgers had in 2017. At one point the Dodgers were 91-36. They had a staggering run of 52-9 at one point in the season. At 91-36 it seemed like a lock that the Dodgers would win 115-120 games.....then the roofed caved in. The Dodgers lost 16 out of 17 games. No one could have predicted that stretch of losing. Included in that stretch was a 10 game losing streak which matched the franchise worst losing streak since moving to LA. The Dodgers righted the ship somewhat to finish with 104 wins. And they went on to play in the WS and lost to Houston.

What fate lies in store for the Sox?...well they may remain a hot team the rest of the way and break the all time record for wins in a season or they could stumble along the way to the finish line. Regardless of what happens the Sox are going to be under enormous pressure to win once the playoffs begin. And it is going to be interesting to see how the team performs in that white hot cauldron.

And you are right the lack of mystery in the game. All of the teams are being run by the stat geeks with a similar mindset. Jayson Werth recently  hammered(in an interview) the "super nerds " as he refers to them. Much like the NBA, MLB now features 1 style of play. 

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SlantStickers Anonymous

SlantStickers Anonymous

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5 hours ago, CoastalWx said:

2011. That started over my place in Dorchester. We must have had an inch of rain in less than 10 minutes. To this day possibly the hardest I’ve  ever seen it rain for a prolonged period of time.  Completely flooded everything. First time I ever was legit scared of my condo getting flooded. I was out there at 4am diverting water from my condo. 

I remember hearing the police doing water rescues at around 6am on the scanners. From the moment I woke up I was thinking “what the hell is that noise” the downpour was so loud. 

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USCAPEWEATHERAF

USCAPEWEATHERAF

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I could use the help of others who are interested in creating a New York/New England blog/website of weather snow forecasting and observations and anyone who is interested in storm chasing with me in the Lakes.  I could use the help of someone who is great with web design and a few weather forecasters

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dendrite

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Date  Max   Min  Rain  Gust Snow Depth
07/17 76.0  66.8 1.07   11  0.0  0
07/18 74.9  54.2 0.00   18  0.0  0
07/19 78.5  48.1 0.00   10  0.0  0
07/20 82.8  53.3 0.00   10  0.0  0
07/21 77.6  53.2 0.00   11  0.0  0
07/22 69.5  55.8 0.42   10  0.0  0
07/23 81.5  69.3 0.52   16  0.0  0
07/24 85.1  70.0 0.26   20  0.0  0
07/25 81.8  69.5 0.80   19  0.0  0
07/26 78.1  63.9 0.54   10  0.0  0
07/27 84.9  60.2 0.45   15  0.0  0
07/28 82.9  62.2 1.26   25  0.0  0
07/29 78.8  58.0 0.00   11  0.0  0
07/30 78.7  54.6 0.00    9  0.0  0
07/31 82.5  59.7 0.00    9  0.0  0

08/01 74.9  61.5 0.90   10  0.0  0
08/02 85.9  67.9    T   20  0.0  0
08/03 83.1  66.3 1.50   19  Hail 0
08/04 78.7  65.5 0.24    9  0.0  0
08/05 85.2  62.3 0.00    9  0.0  0
08/06 88.8  63.2 0.00    9  0.0  0
08/07 88.5  67.1 0.02   24  0.0  0
08/08 84.5  65.5 1.23   10  0.0  0
08/09 83.3  63.8 0.02   12  0.0  0
08/10 78.5  56.6 0.00   15  0.0  0
08/11 68.9  56.2 0.56    4  0.0  0
08/12 68.2  63.6 1.10    9  0.0  0

An update to this wretched stretch. Back to back highs in the 60s and a little over 1.5" for the weekend.

The 27 day total is now 10.89"

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LSC97wxnut

LSC97wxnut

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Yeah, that is a weird little feature right now.  Took the garbage out and wondered why it was pouring after not raining much here in Newton all day?

Went to the Science Museum this morning at 9:30 and was blocked trying to go in via Storrow and guessed it was flooding.  Never knew how bad it was just barely north of there until tonight.

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TalcottWx

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11 minutes ago, LSC97wxnut said:

Yeah, that is a weird little feature right now.  Took the garbage out and wondered why it was pouring after not raining much here in Newton all day?

Went to the Science Museum this morning at 9:30 and was blocked trying to go in via Storrow and guessed it was flooding.  Never knew how bad it was just barely north of there until tonight.

Definitely moist. We like moist.

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