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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jul 20, 2021 8:28:30 GMT -5
Through 7/19, 12.70 inches of rain have fallen in Worcester. This amount has shattered the all-time record for rainfall in the month of July in Worcester. Don't know how long weather records have been kept for Worcester, but many decades certainly.
The Weather Service has posted reports of flooding on or near McKeon Rd, but no reports proximate to HC.
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Post by Tom on Jul 20, 2021 8:59:10 GMT -5
Not totally shattered, since Worcester only broke the record over the weekend.
I think these kind of records go back to about 1920 in this country
There are records of heavier rainfall in Mesopotamia a few thousand years prior to that
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Jul 20, 2021 9:09:33 GMT -5
It really rains often in Worcester, or at least it did in the 1970's. One year I decided to keep track of days that it rained, maintaining a log in my dorm room. Word got out about this odd project and I had people I didn't even know asking me for updates on the count. I believe I came in with a number at just over 50% of the days.
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Post by newfieguy74 on Jul 20, 2021 9:14:53 GMT -5
Not totally shattered, since Worcester only broke the record over the weekend. I think these kind of records go back to about 1920 in this country There are records of heavier rainfall in Mesopotamia a few thousand years prior to that Bonus points to Tom for what I assume is the first mention of Mesopotamia on Crossports. |
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Post by Chu Chu on Jul 20, 2021 9:31:28 GMT -5
Meanwhile, here in the Pacific Northwest, no rain for over 4 1/2 weeks.
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Post by newfieguy74 on Jul 20, 2021 9:41:02 GMT -5
Meanwhile, here in the Pacific Northwest, no rain for over 4 1/2 weeks. One of my sons lives in CA. The drought on the West coast is becoming alarming. |
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Post by hc6774 on Jul 20, 2021 10:09:00 GMT -5
When I think of rain water in Central MA I recall the Quabbin Reservoir
'... the largest inland body of water in Massachusetts... built between 1930 and 1939. Along with the Wachusett Reservoir, it is the primary water supply for Boston, 65 miles to the east, and 40 other cities and towns in Greater Boston. The Quabbin also supplies water to three towns west of the reservoir and acts as backup supply for three others. By 1989, it supplied water for 2.5 million people, about 40% of the state's population at the time. It has an aggregate capacity of 412 billion US gallons and an area of 38.6 square miles.'
Also the view of Wachusett Reservoir from the Joyce Center
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Post by Ignutz on Jul 20, 2021 12:49:30 GMT -5
When I think of rain water in Central MA I recall the Quabbin Reservoir '... the largest inland body of water in Massachusetts... built between 1930 and 1939. Along with the Wachusett Reservoir, it is the primary water supply for Boston, 65 miles to the east, and 40 other cities and towns in Greater Boston. The Quabbin also supplies water to three towns west of the reservoir and acts as backup supply for three others. By 1989, it supplied water for 2.5 million people, about 40% of the state's population at the time. It has an aggregate capacity of 412 billion US gallons and an area of 38.6 square miles.'Also the view of Wachusett Reservoir from the Joyce Center And its creation, in the 1930s and 40s, wiped out the towns of Dana, Enfield, Greenwich and Prescott. |
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Post by gks on Jul 20, 2021 14:20:42 GMT -5
Last year Massachusetts was in drought conditions for a large part of the year.
This year we're traveling to work in canoes.
Guess everything averages out in the end.....
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Post by A Clock Tower Purple on Jul 20, 2021 20:09:35 GMT -5
I wrote my undergrad senior thesis in history on the creation of the Quabbin, and my advisor & the panel told me that in 55 collective years as professors no one had ever written a paper so out of the box, and they all loved it- enough to give me an A- on it!
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jul 21, 2021 7:01:33 GMT -5
Worcester's weather records date back to 1892, Boston's to 1872. There are unofficial records for Boston dating back decades earlier than that.
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Post by rf1 on Aug 11, 2021 8:45:26 GMT -5
Back in my college days, a dorm mate had the best term for precip in Worcester (be it rain, sleet, or snow). He referred to it as "worcestering outside" (typically also followed with an "again").
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Post by timholycross on Aug 11, 2021 19:36:27 GMT -5
I wrote my undergrad senior thesis in history on the creation of the Quabbin, and my advisor & the panel told me that in 55 collective years as professors no one had ever written a paper so out of the box, and they all loved it- enough to give me an A- on it! I've always been fascinated how any governmental body in the US (in this case, the Commonwealth of Mass.) could mandate wiping 4 towns off the map. |
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Post by newfieguy74 on Aug 11, 2021 19:56:42 GMT -5
Eminent domain has always been a controversial issue.
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Post by Xmassader on Aug 11, 2021 22:06:31 GMT -5
timholycross Check out the town of Sopris, Colorado in SE Colorado where my mother was born in 1922. It was a mining town and, along with two other mining ghost towns, is now under the waters of Lake Trinidad.
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Aug 11, 2021 23:48:06 GMT -5
In addition to displacing thousands of people, the Egyptians had to relocate some massive monuments, statues, and a temple from the time of the pharaohs when they built the Aswan High Dam which created Lake Nasser.
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