Ginx snewx Posted Sunday at 03:32 PM Share Posted Sunday at 03:32 PM EEK! @eekuasepinniW https://x.com/WxNB_/status/1807079990783091117?t=ddf3-1R1zJd4jD7bq3xOFA&s=19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted Sunday at 03:36 PM Share Posted Sunday at 03:36 PM 6 minutes ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said: Taste the big coc first. Ditty getting his hawk tuah today 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lava Rock Posted Sunday at 03:46 PM Share Posted Sunday at 03:46 PM 80/74. Ride around sebago was fine till the 2nd half. Humid af. Sent from my SM-S921U using Tapatalk 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstronomyEnjoyer Posted Sunday at 03:58 PM Share Posted Sunday at 03:58 PM Those three consecutive mid-month days with the heat index well above 100° broke me. For the first time - and to my everlasting shame - I have installed... Not nearly enough for the whole house of course, but it provides a safe haven (in the guest bedroom) should it be necessary to retreat from the heat! 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted Sunday at 04:29 PM Share Posted Sunday at 04:29 PM 30 minutes ago, AstronomyEnjoyer said: Those three consecutive mid-month days with the heat index well above 100° broke me. For the first time - and to my everlasting shame - I have installed... Not nearly enough for the whole house of course, but it provides a safe haven (in the guest bedroom) should it be necessary to retreat from the heat! Climate shifting, installs where they weren’t before. I feel like 15 years ago no one had AC up here. Now everyone has it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavisStraight Posted Sunday at 04:56 PM Share Posted Sunday at 04:56 PM 24 minutes ago, powderfreak said: Climate shifting, installs where they weren’t before. I feel like 15 years ago no one had AC up here. Now everyone has it. We didn't have it down here when I was a kid. We had one fan for the whole house and we just sweated our assess off. Never slept well when it was HHH. Used to like to go to work in an air conditioned grocery store and go in the walk in freezer, that was my reprieve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUNNAWAYICEBERG Posted Sunday at 05:06 PM Share Posted Sunday at 05:06 PM 35 minutes ago, powderfreak said: Climate shifting, installs where they weren’t before. I feel like 15 years ago no one had AC up here. Now everyone has it. Thankfully the resident winter wolf is asleep during the summer and can’t bite your head off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJonesWX Posted Sunday at 05:08 PM Share Posted Sunday at 05:08 PM I’ll never understand why people resist installing a couple window units at least in the bedrooms. who likes to sleep all hot and sweaty, hawk tuah evenings aside. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
512high Posted Sunday at 05:13 PM Share Posted Sunday at 05:13 PM 89/75 light wind 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted Sunday at 05:25 PM Share Posted Sunday at 05:25 PM Right when I was about to go out and start prepping the deck for painting, I get a lake effect streamer pointed directly at me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eekuasepinniW Posted Sunday at 05:39 PM Share Posted Sunday at 05:39 PM 2 hours ago, Ginx snewx said: EEK! @eekuasepinniW https://x.com/WxNB_/status/1807079990783091117?t=ddf3-1R1zJd4jD7bq3xOFA&s=19 Now that is a nice strike, great find! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdxken Posted Sunday at 05:42 PM Share Posted Sunday at 05:42 PM 2 hours ago, dendrite said: Nice. Kinda hard to see the leaves there, but maybe those are some in the pic near the top right? That sassafras definitely stands out though. We have quite a few elm growing by the stream in the back woods that are tall and leggy. I’m not sure if growing in the water has helped them? I have another in my backyard that’s probably 40ft tall that a porcupine has been tearing up and another sapling growing in my tiger lily bed that a deer ate up. I’m trying to root a few of the semi hardened off cuttings that the porky left fallen on the ground. Interesting article on elm trees. Apparently they can grow bigger and live longer than I thought. They rarely last longer than 50 years however. They also classify them as "avoiders" or "survivors" . I found one today that is 21 inches in diameter. Would have to believe it's older than 50 years. https://www.nature.org/en-us/about-us/where-we-work/united-states/vermont/stories-in-vermont/largest-elm-tree-restoration-in-the-northeast/ 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted Sunday at 05:44 PM Share Posted Sunday at 05:44 PM 37 minutes ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said: Thankfully the resident winter wolf is asleep during the summer and can’t bite your head off. Oh he felt a tic or brain zap from that post. He just wasn't sure what it was. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weathafella Posted Sunday at 06:12 PM Share Posted Sunday at 06:12 PM 2 hours ago, Ginx snewx said: EEK! @eekuasepinniW https://x.com/WxNB_/status/1807079990783091117?t=ddf3-1R1zJd4jD7bq3xOFA&s=19 I think that’s fake. Shouldn’t there have been a very loud thunder clap heard vs the splitting tree? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted Sunday at 07:12 PM Share Posted Sunday at 07:12 PM Nice 78F dews at Norwood MA Airport Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavisStraight Posted Sunday at 07:13 PM Share Posted Sunday at 07:13 PM 1 hour ago, kdxken said: Interesting article on elm trees. Apparently they can grow bigger and live longer than I thought. They rarely last longer than 50 years however. They also classify them as "avoiders" or "survivors" . I found one today that is 21 inches in diameter. Would have to believe it's older than 50 years. https://www.nature.org/en-us/about-us/where-we-work/united-states/vermont/stories-in-vermont/largest-elm-tree-restoration-in-the-northeast/ How do you like splitting elm? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdxken Posted Sunday at 07:41 PM Share Posted Sunday at 07:41 PM 26 minutes ago, DavisStraight said: How do you like splitting elm? It has no redeeming qualities. None. If they were the only trees in my forest I would bury my saws. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdxken Posted Sunday at 07:42 PM Share Posted Sunday at 07:42 PM 30 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said: Nice 78F dews at Norwood MA Airport Pretty much record territory for this time of year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavisStraight Posted Sunday at 07:53 PM Share Posted Sunday at 07:53 PM Im still seeing lightning and hearing thunder to my south. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted Sunday at 07:54 PM Share Posted Sunday at 07:54 PM 8 minutes ago, kdxken said: It has no redeeming qualities. None. If they were the only trees in my forest I would bury my saws. My strategy is hack-and-squirt herbicide and wait 2 years. Reduces splitting labor from impossible down to difficult with my maul. Trick is to have just enough natural degrade to make the wood brittle without losing most of the heat value, though the bark almost always falls off. Doesn't work on some elms. Only trees within 100 feet of our stove qualify. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavisStraight Posted Sunday at 07:56 PM Share Posted Sunday at 07:56 PM 1 minute ago, tamarack said: My strategy is hack-and-squirt herbicide and wait 2 years. Reduces splitting labor from impossible down to difficult with my maul. Trick is to have just enough natural degrade to make the wood brittle without losing most of the heat value, though the bark almost always falls off. Doesn't work on some elms. Only trees within 100 feet of our stove qualify. I got a cut up elm one year and tried cutting it with a small electric splitter, got a bunch of mangled splits, I find it splits better frozen. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianW Posted Sunday at 08:17 PM Share Posted Sunday at 08:17 PM 5 hours ago, Damage In Tolland said: Wednesday gets humid and it remains hot and humid right thru the weekend as discussed What a special summer... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdxken Posted Sunday at 08:34 PM Share Posted Sunday at 08:34 PM 15 minutes ago, BrianW said: What a special summer... Oooh I may have to reinstall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdxken Posted Sunday at 08:37 PM Share Posted Sunday at 08:37 PM 41 minutes ago, tamarack said: My strategy is hack-and-squirt herbicide and wait 2 years. Reduces splitting labor from impossible down to difficult with my maul. Trick is to have just enough natural degrade to make the wood brittle without losing most of the heat value, though the bark almost always falls off. Doesn't work on some elms. Only trees within 100 feet of our stove qualify. Every year or two I see a nice straight dry one next to a trail and say what the hell why not? Split one or two rounds and then drive the rest back into the forest and throw it off the trailer. Sometimes I just don't learn... 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUNNAWAYICEBERG Posted Sunday at 08:42 PM Share Posted Sunday at 08:42 PM 24 minutes ago, BrianW said: What a special summer... That’s definitely different than every summer of our lives. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhoon Tip Posted Sunday at 09:06 PM Share Posted Sunday at 09:06 PM Wow... I don't think I've ever seen a "B" hurricane this intense. I'm sure it's happened before ( right? ) certainly not that often - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted Sunday at 09:24 PM Share Posted Sunday at 09:24 PM 1 hour ago, BrianW said: What a special summer... Can clearly see the dew up Wednesday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bristolri_wx Posted Sunday at 09:40 PM Share Posted Sunday at 09:40 PM 5 hours ago, powderfreak said: Climate shifting, installs where they weren’t before. I feel like 15 years ago no one had AC up here. Now everyone has it. Lots of reasons for that though, that aren’t necessarily climate related. Most people moving to forced air systems from water based systems makes it easier for central A/C even if you don’t need it. On some systems it’s now more expensive to get it without it since the central HVAC systems are designed for the entire country. Window units are also less expensive in relation to inflation now that last are made in China, Thailand, and Vietnam. I will say the climate related need is that it’s warmer and humid more often than it was a decade ago, regardless of what anyone feels is the cause. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted Sunday at 10:20 PM Share Posted Sunday at 10:20 PM I am at about 4.75 inches of rain for the month, which is pretty amazing because it’s been a relatively dry and sunny month. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted Sunday at 10:27 PM Share Posted Sunday at 10:27 PM Summer weather like we’ve never seen before in HFD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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