I'm ready for winter. Sick of the rain and humidity...

 

Perfect! Sunny, gentle breeze, 74. I am glad summer is over.

 

It rained last night, so we had advection fog this morning, so I couldn't fly to breakfast; had to drive instead...
Last few nights got a bit chilly to the point where I had to put the warmer comforter on the bed...
Monsoon is about over...

 

Rainy these days and had a few ferries run onto reefs and one is at the bottom of the ocean.

 

Rainy these days and had a few ferries run onto reefs and one is at the bottom of the ocean.

I suppose navigation has not been perfected in certain parts of the world?

 

Very chilly here for the past few days. Getting down into the low- to mid- 50s F at night. Finally turned on the heat this morning for the first time since my fiancee and I moved in to the new apartment. Hopefully we can keep the colds at bay, though so far it seems to be a losing battle.

I'll need to take some more pictures at some point. Leaf-peeper season is almost upon us here in VT.

Matt

 

The "Heat Index" has been below 100 for two days, but I'm still dripping sweat from merely sorting tools in the shed. When the Heat Index goes below 90, I will probably think it's winter.
Yay, winter!

 

I suppose navigation has not been perfected in certain parts of the world?

You know what I think..
Careless Caps and they think they know everything.

 

It’s been very wet down here the last week. We have a disabled relative that lives out on Catawba Rd. next to Catawba Creek just north of town. He has been flooded out several times in the past.

We have more than once gone in the middle of the night to retrieve him and his dog from high water.

And rightfully so, he gets nervous when it rains a fair amount.

Last Tuesday morning the news reported, we had 6.5 in. of rain in many areas of town.

Now a few hundred yards down from his house, there is a USGS stream gauge.

Here is a link to that gauge.

http://waterdata.usgs.gov/va/nwis/uv/?site_no=02018500&PARAmeter_cd=00065,00060,62620,00062

The first graph is flow, its logarithmic.

The second graph is level. Look at this graph. After four days of heavy rain, it starts to climb.

Look at that rate at noon time Tuesday the 29th.

We got him out at 1 to 1:30 Tuesday afternoon. That high peak was right at his doorstep.

They are forecasting 5-8 more inches starting tomorrow. All of the hollows that feed that creek are saturated.

So he, his dog and his cigars are camped out in the sunroom.

We had a lot of rain earlier this year. I was surprised the hollows took 4 days worth.

We have some flood damage now in the area, we’ll see what the weekend brings.

 

@BR-549
Sorry about the high water in your area. It has been quite dry here in West Tennessee.

I had no idea that water level gauge data was available; thanks for the info. Here's a link to a gauge near me.

http://waterdata.usgs.gov/tn/nwis/nwismap/?site_no=07028960&agency_cd=USGS

 

Very wet lately. What I heard on TV: 21 extra inches of rain this year.
Stupid local government keeps mailing everybody Notice of Lawn Watering Restrictions.
With no lawn watering at all, there is blue mold growing on the grass.
My front porch has so much black mold on the concrete that I pressure washed it yesterday so people wouldn't slip if they stepped on it.
I was trying to acclimate myself to a Heat Index of 103F because the forecast was for today was "only" 100F.
Now I see the Weather Guessers revised the forecast to a Heat Index of 105F today!
Breaking a sweat (and being damp) every time you step out of the house gets tiresome.
Trying to do actual work out there, for several hours, forces me to plan on how to recover when I get over-heated.
Smart to have an air conditioner in the shed, I can retreat there to cool off. It would be even better if I had one room with a small A/C just for moments like this, but who hangs a window shaker on a house with Central Heat and Air?

No flood problems here. A mile from me is enough to get to a bayou at sea level, and Florida is made of sand, so tropical downpours just drain right off. An hour later, the streets are dry. The people are steamed, but the streets are dry.

 

Weather. Our scope of available 'approved' topics is getting constrained a bit. Weather, the ultimate salesman's conversation topic. Non-controversial, not biased, affects everyone. I guess the weather here is... fine. I'll update again tomorrow. Just a forecast so I don't surprise anyone, will likely be fine as well.

 

Compared to Texas, this Michigan weather is chilly.

I was at the legion last night and one of the snow birds had on a coat, watch cap, and long pants. I was still in shorts and short sleve short. Damm, it made me feel cold in that lower 50s weather. The mid 40s weather in the am didn't feel that bad.

 

I guess the weather here is... fine. I'll update again tomorrow. Just a forecast so I don't surprise anyone, will likely be fine as well.

I can't remember when I heard of a weather disaster in western Pa. South enough from the Lake Effect snows, East enough to be out of Tornado Alley, high enough to be upstream of the river floods. If it didn't snow at all, I would consider it almost ideal.

ps, is Pittsburgh still coated with iron residue? It was pretty ugly when I passed through there in about 1970.

 

I can't remember when I heard of a weather disaster in western Pa. South enough from the Lake Effect snows, East enough to be out of Tornado Alley, high enough to be upstream of the river floods. If it didn't snow at all, I would consider it almost ideal.

ps, is Pittsburgh still coated with iron residue? It was pretty ugly when I passed through there in about 1970.

No more steel plants here. Ok, one but with very little smoke. Everything has been moved to the beautiful city of Gary, Indiana.
All the buildings in Pittsburgh have been power washed (except one made of sandstone). Everything looks clean. The economy is focused on medical, robotics, software. Google, Uber, Disney and many other companies have mechatronics, advanced manufacturing and software development labs here. Lots of government agencies have collaborations with Carnegie Mellon and University of Pittsburgh.

The city is still the center of materials science development. Home of the research centers for Alcoa (aluminum alloys and aluminum oxide ceramics), PPG (glass and paints), US Steel, Kennametal (carbide cutting tools), Bayer Materials Science (Polyurethane foams and polycarbonate), Glass Research Corporation, Crucible Research and Allegheny Technologies (Titanium), Various small companies in the area do or did make small quantities of various other odd elements.

Ronald Reagan de-regulated railroads. The federally set rates for bringing iron ore from ships in Erie to Steel Mills in Pittsburgh were no longer in effect by the mid-1980s. The railroads thought they could make more profit by raising their rates. The steel mills just moved closer to the mid-point of the three nodes (Iron Ore in Minnesota, Low Sulfur Coal in West Virginia/Western PA, and Customers in Detroit) - Gary, Indiana!

This is what you remember. Scroll down to see what we are.

 

I miss those days!

 

This is not quite a non-sequitur, but close.

A couple of weeks ago, I went to Lynchburg, TN to tour the town's largest and most famous company. The tour was free and very interesting; one thing I did not know about JD was that they make all their own charcoal for use in the filtering process. Maple wood is burned in the open, and sprayed with water to control the burn, and they make lots of charcoal this way. On the way out of town, I noticed all the road signs were covered in soot. I suppose the Lynchburg residents consider the source and say, "It looks like money."

 

I've taken that tour many times an love it each time.

 

Hurricane's a-comin!

 

I miss those days!

Its taken some therapy but I'm finally getting used to breathing air that I cannot see.