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New England Winter 2024-25 Bantering, Whining, and Sobbing Thread


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What do you know about with those old COOP sites that were tagged with using a nonstandard thermometer?

I’ve seen it on a few forms before. I was looking at some 12/1933 data for that cold shot and noticed Dixville Notch reported a weenie -52°. Just curious about what they could’ve been using to get the scarlet A.IMG_1158.jpeg

 

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8 minutes ago, dendrite said:

@OceanStWx

What do you know about with those old COOP sites that were tagged with using a nonstandard thermometer?

I’ve seen it on a few forms before. I was looking at some 12/1933 data for that cold shot and noticed Dixville Notch reported a weenie -52°. Just curious about what they could’ve been using to get the scarlet A.IMG_1158.jpeg

 

I don't know for sure, it could either be equipment (unsheltered for instance) or siting (not 2 m for instance).

Also, let's bring back the umlaut in Coos.

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7 minutes ago, OceanStWx said:

I don't know for sure, it could either be equipment (unsheltered for instance) or siting (not 2 m for instance).

Also, let's bring back the umlaut in Coos.


:lol: I need to see a freshet in Coös in an AFD someday.

Just realized there’s lots of beer in those obs. High -15 low -8 on the 28th. Then high -35 low -40 the following day. No surprise considering prohibition ended a few weeks earlier. 

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8 hours ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

Robins are fairly common in New England in the winter.  They could be part of a large group who stayed over or  ones from further north that migrated south to here. 

Someone on Reddit posted a young purple gallinule sighting the other week in the snow. 

https://www.reddit.com/r/whatbirdisthis/s/mBZ1LPdWMt

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Map of its range. 

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On 1/22/2025 at 12:58 PM, dendrite said:

@OceanStWx

What do you know about with those old COOP sites that were tagged with using a nonstandard thermometer?

I’ve seen it on a few forms before. I was looking at some 12/1933 data for that cold shot and noticed Dixville Notch reported a weenie -52°. Just curious about what they could’ve been using to get the scarlet A.IMG_1158.jpeg

 

Probably not far off. Berlin was -41F and Pittsburg, New Hampshire was -44F on the same date. The mean temperature for the month at Pittsburg was 10.0F, just 0.7F warmer than the Dixville Notch observation. Bloomfield, Vermont reached -50F on the same date, which is the all-time record low for the State of Vermont.

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On 1/22/2025 at 1:19 PM, dendrite said:


:lol: I need to see a freshet in Coös in an AFD someday.

Just realized there’s lots of beer in those obs. High -15 low -8 on the 28th. Then high -35 low -40 the following day. No surprise considering prohibition ended a few weeks earlier. 

Honestly, that might be the reason for the flag, not any equipment problem. It looks like the high and low were simply transposed on the 28th, but you can tell the observer was not properly resetting the instruments at a fixed time each day. Which unfortunately may have divested a legitimate state record, considering the Vermont state record was set on the same date.

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On 1/27/2025 at 10:12 PM, DavisStraight said:

I've seen a few of them, one was flying over my truck and looked huge.

Are they much different looking than great blue heron?  We see those pretty often.  Flying dinosaurs.

 

We go kayaking in Royalston and they like to inhabit a river that flows into there.  As we paddle up the river, they watch us, wondering if we taste good...

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