Weather

Flash flood in Dorchester

adamg — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:03:08 -0400

Adam Pieniazek posts photos and videos of a flash flood on his street caused by yesterday's rain.

Brief but intense

adamg — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:02:20 -0400

Nothing like standing in a parking lot at one of the highest points in the neighborhood while a storm is coming through, eh? It was interesting, if possibly stupid, standing in the Bates School parking lot in Roslindale, watching the storm follow Washington Street up toward Forest Hills, then veering off across JP toward Dorchester.

Not a cheeseburger in paradise

adamg — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:12:39 -0400

All the rain makes for good mushroom conditions, as Karen Larsen discovered on a walk along the river in Watertown.

Even the weathermen are getting bored with all our weather

adamg — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:18:37 -0400

How else to explain why at least one referred to penny-sized hail the other day? Jim Sullivan attempts to rain on that parade:

... [T]he correct equivalents for hailstones use sporting equipment. Golf balls, baseballs, softballs, basketballs. That's the scale. Anything below the size of a golf ball is just hail. Anything above the size of a basketball is just ridiculous. ...

Jim also provides proper units of measurement for tumors, Glenn Davis's behind and his own blog posts.

A tree falls in Allston

adamg — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:38:48 -0400

Brad Searles reports on, posts photos of an incident on Franklin Street around 10 p.m. last night:

A rotted tree next to our place decides to fall... directly on to an idling taxicab. He'd been sitting there for all of two minutes, and WHAM. Fortunately he wasn't hurt, but it was a close call.

At least there's something good about all this rain

adamg — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:23:00 -0400

Saul Blumenthal took this Zakim rainbow photo yesterday.

Thunderblogging

adamg — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:20:22 -0400

Eeka is liveblogging the thunderstorm going on even as I type:

2:18 BOOM
2:19 CRASH
2:20 whoosh, thud, BOOM

The photo is the view from our Roslindale porch. It's so bad the garbagemen are waiting it out in their truck, idling in front of our neighbor's house.

Perspiration and Respiration

SwirlyGrrl — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:18:12 -0400

Ah those lazy hazy days of summer. The living may be easy, but the breathing can get tough for some people. Heat, humidity, and inversions can ratchet up the pollution levels and make the air we breathe unpleasant - and unhealthy.

Boston's own Airbeat displays hourly measurments of pollution levels in Boston. Funded by the EPA and maintained by community and student groups, Airbeat displays current data and links to national sites on air pollution and health. You can even sign up for e-mails that warn you when air quality is likely to suck.

West Roxbury, South Brookline swept away by flooding, sinkholes

adamg — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:04:04 -0400

Tammy must have one of those old Amphibicars. How else to explain how she survived flooding and a Florida-style sinkhole on the West Roxbury Parkway near where it meets the VFW Parkway after today's storm?

Oh, come on

adamg — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:01:24 -0400

Herald editor camped out at the Entwistle trial complains because when deliberations were over for the day, he had to drive home during the hailstorm:

Try sitting in a cramped court all day then driving away into traffic and some summer fury. This assignment ain't no picnic. ...