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Even Google Maps is bored with my quarantine.
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‘Needle Ice’ on Waitts Mount
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Needle ice forms when the temperature of wet earth is above freezing, but the air is dry and below freezing. The liquid water in the soil wicks to the surface via capillary action through small pores and cracks, where it freezes on contact with the cold air; it expands and forms a small ice cap atop the pore…
“Where are some good places to cycle around Boston?”
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( Answer requested by Elynn Quirk.) This works almost anywhere — not just Boston: Open Google Maps. Click the three-line Menu icon in the corner. Select Bicyling from the left-hand menu. That’s all it takes. Google will then superimpose a color-coded layer atop the normal road map showing you the area’s (1) dedicated bike lanes, (2)…
Weekender: “Do New Englanders frown on clam strips and prefer clam bellies?”
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(Answer requested by Irwin Chung) Frown on? No. It’s a matter of individual taste. Both styles of fried clams, as we know them today, are local inventions anyway, created in towns on the Massachusetts coastline, north of Boston. The now-classic recipe for deep fried, breaded whole clams (with “bellies”) was created by “Lawrence Henry ‘Chubby’ Woodman from Essex, Massachusetts….
Boston, from Deer Island
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With the end of this year’s stint as a herring migration monitor (numbers yet to come), I had a free morning this week. It was summerlike, so I slathered on the sunblock and pedaled to Deer Island, in Boston harbor. Part of the Harborwalk rings the island. I hadn’t been there in a year, but…
Suuuure, the climate’s fine. No problems at all…
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As if Boston’s warm-ish, nearly snowless winter wasn’t enough of a clue that something weird is going on, a local resident spotted a porpoise in Dorchester Bay last week — a normal event in Spring, not February. A brief Boston Globe article on the porpoise is here, and includes a phone video of something you…
Around Boston: The nearly snowless winter continues
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Boston’s 2018-19 winter has been warmer and wetter than normal. There’s been some serious cold, but not too much; and a little snow and ice, but mostly liquid rain. It’s simultaneously convenient, and disturbing. Permalink: https://langa.com/?p=1966
“Why is there no ‘A’ Branch on Boston’s Green Line transit?”
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Boston’s street-level, light-rail, “Green Line” has B, C, D, and E Branches. Reader Kevin McCullough* asks: “Why is there no ‘A’ Branch,” There was, originally. It ran to Watertown and incorporated some of the oldest street-transit lines in Boston, dating back to pre-electric, horse-drawn streetcars. Today’s B Branch split off from it: But the tracks…
A reader asks: “Why is the weather SO unpredictable in Boston, MA?”
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Regional forecasts are actually pretty accurate. (See: How Reliable Are Weather Forecasts?) But very local, small scale forecasts have additional variables. For example, Boston is a waterfront city and so is subject to various effects that apply only to the immediate coast. A distance of a few miles/KM can make a huge difference in temperature,…
Around Boston: I enjoy the careful wording in this article
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