Recent comments in /f/newhampshire

WelfarePeanutButter t1_j8o33g3 wrote

Reply to comment by plowfaster in Thinking of moving to New Hampshire. Where to visit this summer? by [deleted]

I’ve lived in Concord for almost 20 years at this point, and it’s amazing how far it’s come from the mid 2000’s. There are a lot of interesting places to eat, great community events, good hiking trails, great public parks and pools, decent mix of small/local retail and big box stores, and you’re less than 90 mins from Boston, and about 2 hours from Burlington VT and Portland, ME. Cons: not a ton of available affordable housing/real estate, and the schools aren’t as good as they used to be. Dover and Portsmouth are lovely, too - closer to the ocean, but higher cost of living. It’s a wonderful state, though - I hope you join us here!

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TheCloudBoy t1_j8o1kpb wrote

Reply to Is Ohio toxic cloud heading our way? by granitestate6

Hi, meteorologist here. The short answer is likely no

The vinyl chloride burn has occurred under a number of days with a very stout subsidence inversion in play nearby. This means the atmosphere is not well mixed at night, but features a mixed layer as high as 2 km (~6600 ft) during the day with a layer average wind direction from the WNW. The picture above shows the burn plume trapped underneath very stable mid-level air with little horizontal movement, a clear sign of a robust subsidence inversion. The reports of multiple livestock & fish perishing over a shorter radius also confirms the presence of a subsidence inversion preventing these toxins from fanning out deeper into the atmosphere.

I've run an ensemble forward trajectory analysis (https://imgur.com/gallery/0rFlz1Z) starting at the location & approximate time of the fire, which follows the movement of air parcels up 1 km above ground (~3300 ft), a mean of each day's mixed layer during this burn. For you math/science nerds, this is the Lagranagian view of the parcel/fluid through time.

Notice that the mean mixed-layer wind direction (WNW) does carry whatever gas & aerosols are being emitted from this fire into the Carolinas before loitering over the western Atlantic. Given vinyl chloride gas is heavier than the surrounding air, it's likely remained in the lowest 1 km close to the incident location, signaling this is probably not a far-reaching event.

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PtrWalnuts t1_j8o1dyj wrote

Reply to comment by NewHampshireDude in Is Ohio toxic cloud heading our way? by granitestate6

Sure you can tell yourself that. Absolutely Pete has unlimited power and no opposition. Pretty much what he says goes. Kind of like the Lord. I'm surprised it's just the wave his arms and make it hell happen.

It has nothing to do with all the Republicans have gotten in the way for the last oh I don't know a hundred years.

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Live_FreeorDie603 t1_j8o18d1 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Thinking of moving to New Hampshire. Where to visit this summer? by [deleted]

Nice, good for you. I won't pretend to know anything about the field or job prospects so best of luck!

We just have a long-standing issue with people from Mass, NY, and other states moving here and trying to change the state.

In my personal experience, 5 families bought homes near us, and now we're surrounded by New Yorkers and Mass natives. Boy, are they all rude. No one waves while walking or driving. Someone yelled because my dog was unhooked in our yard. People put huge spotlights up at night that light up everything. Walking down the road with my rifle one day after hunting I guess someone called the cops "someone had a gun walking". A local cop shows up and starts laughing when he sees me. It's a different lifestyle here.

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