tamarack Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 2 hours ago, dryslot said: Cool vid of a tree burning after being struck by lightning yesterday in Leeds Jct, ME https://www.sunjournal.com/2020/07/09/video-watch-a-tree-burn-from-the-inside-after-a-lightning-strike/?utm_medium=webpush&utm_source=browser&utm_campaign=pushnotifications Video wouldn't stream on my PC but the stills are impressive. Even worse is when a tree like that merely smolders, with little smoke, then bursts into flame a few days later when fanned by stiff CAA. Some significant forest fires have started that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bostonseminole Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 For those in the know, what happened to Tropopause fold? He has not posted in a few years.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 21 minutes ago, tamarack said: Video wouldn't stream on my PC but the stills are impressive. Even worse is when a tree like that merely smolders, with little smoke, then bursts into flame a few days later when fanned by stiff CAA. Some significant forest fires have started that way. Watched a white pine take a direct hit at the golf course just a couple miles away a few years back, It was a blue flash then bang just a couple seconds after and littered the width of the fairway as well as the adjacent hole with pieces the size of 3-4' 2x4's as well as shreds, It literally blew the tree apart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted July 9, 2020 Author Share Posted July 9, 2020 38 minutes ago, Bostonseminole said: For those in the know, what happened to Tropopause fold? He has not posted in a few years.. capecodweather.net he just chose to take his focus elsewhere 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bostonseminole Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 6 minutes ago, Baroclinic Zone said: capecodweather.net he just chose to take his focus elsewhere OK thanks, 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bostonseminole Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 anybody keeping up with what is going on in Kazakhstan? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorEastermass128 Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 28 minutes ago, Bostonseminole said: anybody keeping up with what is going on in Kazakhstan? Should we? Perhaps a mutation? Sweet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bostonseminole Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 28 minutes ago, NorEastermass128 said: Should we? Perhaps a mutation? Sweet. perhaps, but seems like it's a mess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 1 hour ago, dryslot said: Watched a white pine take a direct hit at the golf course just a couple miles away a few years back, It was a blue flash then bang just a couple seconds after and littered the width of the fairway as well as the adjacent hole with pieces the size of 3-4' 2x4's as well as shreds, It literally blew the tree apart. I've never personally seen a tree get struck (or anything else, for that matter.) My favorite strike, seen a couple months after the storm, was at the state lot in Topsham, on Pleasant Point between the Muddy River and Merrymeeting Bay. What had been a white pine 24" by 85' had become a 25' stub with a 45' treetop "planted" vertically about 4' away. The other 15' was widely distributed shards, some probably weighing over 100 lb. (12' long, 8" by 12" thick) That was in the mid-1990s and the shards are becoming compost, the treetop finishing its full descent to earth about ten years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HimoorWx Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 I've been digitizing my father's old slides, and ran across these pictures of a Franconia Notch landslide from the early 1960s. Anyone know what year? I'm guessing somewhere about 60 or 61. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted July 9, 2020 Author Share Posted July 9, 2020 34 minutes ago, HimoorWx said: I've been digitizing my father's old slides, and ran across these pictures of a Franconia Notch landslide from the early 1960s. Anyone know what year? I'm guessing somewhere about 60 or 61. Maybe 1959? https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=106089 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted July 9, 2020 Author Share Posted July 9, 2020 Based on the angle of the shot over water, looks like we are looking at this area. You can see some areas where slides have occurred. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdxken Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 2 hours ago, HimoorWx said: I've been digitizing my father's old slides, and ran across these pictures of a Franconia Notch landslide from the early 1960s. Anyone know what year? I'm guessing somewhere about 60 or 61. How are you handling the negatives? Scanning? If so what are you using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HimoorWx Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 Based on the angle of the shot over water, looks like we are looking at this area. You can see some areas where slides have occurred. Yeah, pretty sure that was Profile Lake. Had pictures of the Old Man in the same sequence. 1959 is quite possible. I was 5 then, and looking at other pictures of me on the trip it is plau. Sent from my SM-A505U using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HimoorWx Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 How are you handling the negatives? Scanning? If so what are you using?Bought a Kodak Mini Digital Film Scanner on Amazon. Think it was about $100. Easy to use, and does slides and negatives. Sent from my SM-A505U using Tapatalk 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 Now that’s a rockslide... awesome shots, thanks for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weathafella Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 Speaking of lightning strikes, I was on approach to DCA around 30 years ago and the plane got hit. Extremely bright and you’d think the plane would shake but it didn’t. Pilot came on the intercom and said “yes we were struck by lightning”. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 Is there another source to look at Daily Climate Reports? This whole crap with some NWS products not working is beyond ridiculous now...especially SPC outlooks...not populating for like 45 minutes past time 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 COVID cancelled the massive Stoweflake Balloon Festival here this year, but they still launched some balloons for the locals to watch from our backyards. This one just missed coming in our living room a few minutes ago and made a smooth landing in the backyard. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted July 10, 2020 Author Share Posted July 10, 2020 What’d the offer you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 28 minutes ago, Baroclinic Zone said: What’d the offer you? Said they’d leave something on the porch, I’d rather IPA over champagne. I couldn’t stay till they got their support vehicles. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Valley Snowman Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 Hiking at 3187 feet in Maine on Mt.Blue. Definitely a very buggy, hazy, and humid day for hiking but the weather does not look much better going forward this weekend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 We are approaching peak deer fly season here. Holy smokes they were bad this morning 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 cool...Anchorage had a t'storm yesterday. I can't even get one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdxken Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 2 hours ago, HoarfrostHubb said: We are approaching peak deer fly season here. Holy smokes they were bad this morning It's weird they're not that bad here. Usually by this time there are clouds behind me when I take the ATV in the woods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted July 10, 2020 Author Share Posted July 10, 2020 Deer flies and mosquitos on full effect here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MegaMike Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 6 hours ago, weatherwiz said: Is there another source to look at Daily Climate Reports? This whole crap with some NWS products not working is beyond ridiculous now...especially SPC outlooks...not populating for like 45 minutes past time If you're looking for max/min's (temperature, wind speed, wind gust, etc...) and or precipitation, GHCN-D is great. I'm not sure if there's an interactive website that hosts this data though... I use Python script to extract daily observations by station and date. https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/land-based-station-data/land-based-datasets/global-historical-climatology-network-ghcn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 6 minutes ago, MegaMike said: If you're looking for max/min's (temperature, wind speed, wind gust, etc...) and or precipitation, GHCN-D is great. I'm not sure if there's an interactive website that hosts this data though... I use Python script to extract daily observations by station and date. https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/land-based-station-data/land-based-datasets/global-historical-climatology-network-ghcn Thanks! I gotta get back into learning python...that would be sick to do. Would it be possible to extract daily observations by station and date into an Excel file? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MegaMike Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 40 minutes ago, weatherwiz said: Thanks! I gotta get back into learning python...that would be sick to do. Would it be possible to extract daily observations by station and date into an Excel file? Anything is possible with Python! That is what my script does (.csv output), but I only consider liquid water equivalent, snow water equivalent, and snowfall. The good thing about Python is that there are utilities/modules/etc... that already exist that you can install then run pretty easily for specific datasets. For example, for GHCN: https://github.com/aaronpenne/get_noaa_ghcn_data... Avoid any utility or archive that requires you to pay. This data is public. I'd suggest installing Jupyter Notebook. https://jupyter.org/ It's basically a (somewhat) interactive interface that runs Python script. It comes with a lot of pre-compiled modules and libraries too. You can message me if you'd like more details or run into any problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 Just now, MegaMike said: Anything is possible with Python! That is what my script does (.csv output), but I only consider liquid water equivalent, snow water equivalent, and snowfall. The good thing about Python is that there are utilities/modules/etc... that already exist that you can install then run pretty easily for specific datasets. For example, for GHCN: https://github.com/aaronpenne/get_noaa_ghcn_data... Avoid any utility or archive that requires you to pay. This data is public. I'd suggest installing Jupyter Notebook. https://jupyter.org/ It's basically a (somewhat) interactive interface that runs Python script. It comes with a lot of pre-compiled modules and libraries too. You can message me if you'd like more details or run into any problems. I was doing pretty well with Python last summer...then the fall came and I got super swamped. I forget what I was using...was either Jupyter or Conda. But I was having fun with all the mapping packages/data packages. mpl_toolkits, cartopy (this was BRUTAL to get to work...absolutely BRUTAL...took me weeks and dozens and dozens of hours), matplotlib, numpy, etc. I really need to get back into it...only issue is time to devote. Like I need to devote at least several hours a day to it so I can not only understand it but grasp it. Do you know of any oneline python courses that are strictly designed for meteorology? I would certainly pay for those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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