We Could Talk About The Weather

[N2NH]

Galileo is one of my heroes but he did not invent the telescope. It may have been one Hans Lippershey, a German-Dutch spectacle maker, based on the fact the he was the first to apply for a patent for one, but no one is entirely sure; the most likely scenario is that, much like with the airplane, it was a number of people building on each other's work. Galileo made some improvements on it but his real claim to telescopic fame was that he was one of the first to turn the device to the sky, write down what he saw and then publish it. For this, he's often called the first real scientist.

Well, if it's used horizontally as in looking in the distance, to me it's not a telescope but a spotting scope. Yes others built tubes with lenses at a fixed distance, but none of them looked up.

That to me is what makes it a telescope.

[KG4CGC]

It actually slowed down on the rain and stopped for a couple of days. Road crews are out all over the place moving dirt back into place and packing it down. So many trees fell over that all you could do was cut them up and wait for the rain to stop before hauling off the wood and filling the holes in. Sections of roads were getting wiped out around buried cement pipes that were overwhelmed by saturated soil conditions. There are a lot of places where normal rain isn't an issue but due to daily flash flooding were pushed to their limit.
It rained so much on the Blue Ridge Parkway that roads were literally splitting apart from where the soil was escaping and there was nothing to support the asphalt.

[N2NH]

It actually slowed down on the rain and stopped for a couple of days. Road crews are out all over the place moving dirt back into place and packing it down. So many trees fell over that all you could do was cut them up and wait for the rain to stop before hauling off the wood and filling the holes in. Sections of roads were getting wiped out around buried cement pipes that were overwhelmed by saturated soil conditions. There are a lot of places where normal rain isn't an issue but due to daily flash flooding were pushed to their limit.
It rained so much on the Blue Ridge Parkway that roads were literally splitting apart from where the soil was escaping and there was nothing to support the asphalt.

Hope that it all gets fixed and that things start clearing up. We had a day of rain Sunday, but thankfully not much else for nearly three weeks. We could use some time to dry out here too. The lower tier and this area was just told by Guv. Cuomo that they're getting screwed out of flood aid. It is now being sent to the Capitol district area around Albany, NY instead.

[Bubba]

Hope that it all gets fixed and that things start clearing up. We had a day of rain Sunday, but thankfully not much else for nearly three weeks. We could use some time to dry out here too. The lower tier and this area was just told by Guv. Cuomo that they're getting screwed out of flood aid. It is now being sent to the Capitol district area around Albany, NY instead.

What is there to do in rural NY ?

[N2NH]

What is there to do in rural NY ?

Watch the deer, snakes, possum, woodchucks, buzzards, eagles and the occasional bear. Ham bands (VHF/UHF) are decently active and there is a lot of Railroad activity. Heck, I can hear the Metro North trains blowing their horns from Beacon to Poughkeepsie just with my ears it's so quiet. The elevation is pretty good so I have line of sight to many repeaters although if you have a cell you might want to turn it off. There's no signal here.

[K7SGJ]

Watch the deer, snakes, possum, woodchucks, buzzards, eagles and the occasional bear. Ham bands (VHF/UHF) are decently active and there is a lot of Railroad activity. Heck, I can hear the Metro North trains blowing their horns from Beacon to Poughkeepsie just with my ears it's so quiet. The elevation is pretty good so I have line of sight to many repeaters although if you have a cell you might want to turn it off. There's no signal here.

A veritable paradise.

[PA5COR]

104 F today much moist in the air.
Warning from Estoflex for us:

A 18Z forecast sounding from the W-Netherlands show more than 2500 J/kg MLCAPE, strongly veered profiles, 25 m/s shear already in the lowest 3 km and a rich helical environment. In case initiation along the coast verifies, expect any storm to reveal explosive development into a mature supercell. Large to very large hail (hail diameter in excess of 5 cm), severe wind gusts and very heavy rainfall amounts likley accompany that activity. Combination of SRH-1 above 200 m^2/s^2 and LCLs around 1 km along the coasts also indicate an enhanced tornado risk in case this activity will be surface-based. CI has to be monitored closely and an upgrade may be needed if confidence in CI has increased.

[W7XF]

104 F today much moist in the air.
Warning from Estoflex for us:

A 18Z forecast sounding from the W-Netherlands show more than 2500 J/kg MLCAPE, strongly veered profiles, 25 m/s shear already in the lowest 3 km and a rich helical environment. In case initiation along the coast verifies, expect any storm to reveal explosive development into a mature supercell. Large to very large hail (hail diameter in excess of 5 cm), severe wind gusts and very heavy rainfall amounts likley accompany that activity. Combination of SRH-1 above 200 m^2/s^2 and LCLs around 1 km along the coasts also indicate an enhanced tornado risk in case this activity will be surface-based. CI has to be monitored closely and an upgrade may be needed if confidence in CI has increased.

Hmmm... a Severe Thunderstorm Warning and a Tornado Watch..... Cor, do y'all have weather whackers like we have here in the US??

[PA5COR]

Not the way as seen on Discovery with you guy's.
We get our share of tornado's and waterspouts in Europe, but mostly just a few people from weatherfora will go out in normal cars to followw the thunderstorm to film or photograph it.

Everybody here knows to stay the h*ll out of the way of a tornado....
Had a serious thunderstorm last week after the last heatwave 2 in a row 12 hours difference, unplugged the antenna's and grounded the inverted L.
Had quite a lightshow here and some serious thunder in the sky.
Several people wounded, 3 horses dead, houses on fire, flooding of villages and city's, the usual stuff.
Cold water from the Atlantic ocean and warm weather don't mix well here in summer.....
A killer of a thunderstorm went just past our country on the Northsea, clouds were 16 km high ( 10 miles) ...could see the lightning 60 miles away.
Now some new thunderstorms develop in France and are on their way North to us.
Time to umplug the antenna's before i go to bed in an hour or 2...

Hmmm... a Severe Thunderstorm Warning and a Tornado Watch..... Cor, do y'all have weather whackers like we have here in the US??

[N2NH]

Not the way as seen on Discovery with you guy's.
We get our share of tornado's and waterspouts in Europe, but mostly just a few people from weatherfora will go out in normal cars to followw the thunderstorm to film or photograph it.

Everybody here knows to stay the h*ll out of the way of a tornado....
Had a serious thunderstorm last week after the last heatwave 2 in a row 12 hours difference, unplugged the antenna's and grounded the inverted L.
Had quite a lightshow here and some serious thunder in the sky.
Several people wounded, 3 horses dead, houses on fire, flooding of villages and city's, the usual stuff.
Cold water from the Atlantic ocean and warm weather don't mix well here in summer.....
A killer of a thunderstorm went just past our country on the Northsea, clouds were 16 km high ( 10 miles) ...could see the lightning 60 miles away.
Now some new thunderstorms develop in France and are on their way North to us.
Time to umplug the antenna's before i go to bed in an hour or 2...

Stay cool Cor. I've hiked in weather like that. You have to know how to hydrate and you have to know when to stop.

We're about as perfect as you can get right now. We were in the clouds this morning until 11, then it cleared up. Low humitdity, about 10^oF below the norm (6^oC lower). We're forecast to have a low of 52^oF Monday. (11^oC)