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16 minutes ago, forkyfork said:

yikes

 

You and I may be the only two individuals in this engagement of returning users that is willing to suspect ( if not anticipate) another 80 F temperature event in February.  I've seen this occur twice in 7 years, with a few other occurrences of at least 70 during Februaries over the last 10 years.  I also count the 86F heat in March back in 2017 as likely connected to the same sort of stuff/forcing.  Whether it snows in those FMA months is ultimately 'sides the point, there is an interesting signal there happening regardless - which has also taken place regardless of ENSO this or that.  

I don't have a problem with late Jan version of that - ... may not be 80 ( lol ) but 70.  I could see that happening.  Especially if we make it that far without a cryosphere over southern Canada. By then ... we are only two weeks from exiting the annual solar minimum period. 

It may be fun to yank the short and curlies of the winter enthusiasts with sobering aspects - that's not what I am trying to contribute to, here. seriously!  but I wonder about NH heat this next warm season. 

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Just got a propane full-up, 79.6 gal at $4.099.  genny has been running for 70 hours, and with the periodic 5-minute tests and a couple short outages since April, the gallon-per-hour estimate we were given seems to be working.  Called CMP because a neighbor on our short road had read that the road had power restored - nope; Sat. 10 PM was the latest estimate.  Burns a bit that folks on the tar road 2000 feet away got lit up last night, but with only 3 customers on our road, it's understandable.

Bright blue 10-15 mph breeze, mid 20s.  Would be a beautiful day were the ground white.  Family scheduled to arrive tomorrow, though that's not firm, but when they get here things will look much like their home in SNJ.  Sad

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20 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

The first week of January could be quite intriguing with the NAO looking to tank and the PNA becoming more neutral. Ensembles seem in pretty good agreement in how the NAO/PNA evolve moving through the end of the month.

PNA is a lot more than neutral from all three accessible agencies -

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3 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

PNA is a lot more than neutral from all three accessible agencies -

eh that was poorly worded. I was just looking at the charts though, didn't look at pattern. I should have said that there is strong agreement that the NAO becomes less positive moving through the end of the month and after a bit of a PNA spike, the PNA looks to become less positive as well. 

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29 minutes ago, tamarack said:

Just got a propane full-up, 79.6 gal at $4.099.  genny has been running for 70 hours, and with the periodic 5-minute tests and a couple short outages since April, the gallon-per-hour estimate we were given seems to be working.  Called CMP because a neighbor on our short road had read that the road had power restored - nope; Sat. 10 PM was the latest estimate.  Burns a bit that folks on the tar road 2000 feet away got lit up last night, but with only 3 customers on our road, it's understandable.

Bright blue 10-15 mph breeze, mid 20s.  Would be a beautiful day were the ground white.  Family scheduled to arrive tomorrow, though that's not firm, but when they get here things will look much like their home in SNJ.  Sad

My wife has reminded me we should have installed an on-demand LP genny, but we bought a Honda 7000IS inverter few years ago. Was pricey, but runs like a champ. In eco mode, I'm getting about 14hrs on ~4gal or about 0.29gal/hr. At $3.11/gal, that's costing us $0.90/hr. If we were using LP at an avg 1gal/hr, that would be $3.75 based on most recent tank fill. I know there are lots of benefits to on-demand, but I can't see spending 8-10K on such a unit for the convivence. 

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42 minutes ago, tamarack said:

Just got a propane full-up, 79.6 gal at $4.099.  genny has been running for 70 hours, and with the periodic 5-minute tests and a couple short outages since April, the gallon-per-hour estimate we were given seems to be working.  Called CMP because a neighbor on our short road had read that the road had power restored - nope; Sat. 10 PM was the latest estimate.  Burns a bit that folks on the tar road 2000 feet away got lit up last night, but with only 3 customers on our road, it's understandable.

Bright blue 10-15 mph breeze, mid 20s.  Would be a beautiful day were the ground white.  Family scheduled to arrive tomorrow, though that's not firm, but when they get here things will look much like their home in SNJ.  Sad

I'm in the same boat, when we lose power in town, there's only 4 of us on our street so we get taken care of last, they start in areas that get the most homes back with power first.

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23 minutes ago, STILL N OF PIKE said:

What are your January thoughts if someone put another weenie to your head 

That things are delayed until about mid month for any snow chances in SNE. Maybe the 2nd week things start to turn. With no blocking it’s just gonna be cut city until then in my eyes.  I just hope it’s not one of those good 7-10 periods and you build up at least some pack , and then you wake up and people are already discussing the torch or coming warmup which totally ruins any good winter vibes and ability to enjoy the snow . I can see that happening 

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23 minutes ago, Lava Rock said:

My wife has reminded me we should have installed an on-demand LP genny, but we bought a Honda 7000IS inverter few years ago. Was pricey, but runs like a champ. In eco mode, I'm getting about 14hrs on ~4gal or about 0.29gal/hr. At $3.11/gal, that's costing us $0.90/hr. If we were using LP at an avg 1gal/hr, that would be $3.75 based on most recent tank fill. I know there are lots of benefits to on-demand, but I can't see spending 8-10K on such a unit for the convivence. 

We went for the on-demand because we just got tired of camping out in our own house.  :D

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5 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

That things are delayed until about mid month for any snow chances in SNE. Maybe the 2nd week things start to turn. With no blocking it’s just gonna be cut city until then in my eyes.  I just hope it’s not one of those good 7-10 periods and you build up at least some pack , and then you wake up and people are already discussing the torch or coming warmup which totally ruins any good winter vibes and ability to enjoy the snow . I can see that happening 

It was delayed a week or so. But, the south did trend a lot cooler....we just didn't really get a polar airmass. 

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