Tag: Long Beach
Storm prep. Long Beach photos Aug. & Sept. #RockportMA
Photo blocks from Long Beach, Rockport & Gloucester, Ma.:
Sept. 14, 2023
When it’s time it’s time. The lifeguard chairs, most of the stairs, and the footbridge are removed every year, and for this season it was at sunrise Sept 14. Rockport DPW is also on top of the storm prep ahead of this weekend’s Tropical Storm warning forecast. They work fast to beat the tides.
september 1,2 / schooner festival
I saw this beach chair and thought perfect chair for Schooner Festival weekend. Imagine chairs on the boulevard printed with custom vessels (iconic racers and current ones). The smoke in the sky again from fires in Canada.
september 8- Black SEa and black clouds then blue Sky, no rain or rainbow
When the sea is black, the photo with the blue sky pockets and the clouds like waves–the last sequentially–was unexpected. Note the scale of the Long Beach cottages vs. clouds.
August 18
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Did you see the sunbeam rainbow? And the red sprites and night lightning on the ocean horizon? Long Beach #GloucesterMA #RockportMA
Gloucester and Rockport views all in one summer day, 8/13/2023: 5 P.M., 5:01 P.M., 5:15, 5:16 (w/Salt Island), 5:16 (turned), 5:58, 6:00 P.M., 6:12, 6;13, 6:25 (sunbeam rainbow shines on Twin Lights), 6:26, 6:27, 6:28, 8:22, 9:30 P.M. Note the ‘big sky’ scale of clouds compared with a car, homes, roofs, Salt Island, etc
photo block 5pm-930pm observed sky: The many weather moods in 4 hours on August 13, 2023. Capped off with red (sprites) and white lightning visible from Long Beach 9-10:00 P.M. The lightning looked a bit like far off fireworks. Red and orange bursts and dashes registered some on cell phone (4 sec video clips below). Bet there were some beautiful night and day photos!
sunbeam rainbow
Rainbow and crepuscular rays- Rainbow streaks shine on Thacher Island.
video snippets below
7 seconds (tough to see: look for red in the middle of the frame at about 4 sec mark. May need to enlarge to full size to bypass the ‘play’ button)
10 seconds- look for dashes in the middle of the frame. White flicker on left was a drone
4 seconds- If this frame were split in 3 vertical strips, about 2 seconds in concentrate on the the left 1/3 to see a pinkish red pulse. Earlier in the evening there were sweeping arcs of diffused lightning
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Did you see the red and white lightning on the ocean horizon tonight? Long Beach #GloucesterMA #RockportMA
August 13, 2023.
Gloucester and Rockport views all in a summer day. Photo block 5pm-930pm observed sky: The many weather moods in just 4 hours. Capped off with red (sprites) and white lightning visible from Long Beach 9-10:00 P.M. The lightning looked a bit like far off fireworks. Red and orange bursts and dashes registered some on cell phone (4 sec video clips below). Bet there were some beautiful photos tonight!
8/13/2023: 5 P.M., 5:01 P.M., 5:15, 5:16, 5:58, 6:00 P.M., 6:12, 6;13, 6:25 (rainbow), 6:26, 6:27, 6:28, 8:22, 9:30 P.M. Note the big sky scale of clouds compared with a car, homes, roofs, Salt Island, etc
sunbeam rainbow
Rainbow and crepuscular rays- Rainbow streaks shine on Thacher Island.
video snippets below
7 seconds (tough to see: look for red in the middle of the frame at about 4 sec mark. May need to enlarge to full size to bypass the ‘play’ button)
10 seconds- look for dashes in the middle of the frame. White flicker on left was a drone
4 seconds- If this frame were split in 3 vertical strips, about 2 seconds in concentrate on the the left 1/3 to see a pinkish red pulse. Earlier in the evening there were sweeping arcs of diffused lightning that .
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Long Beach has a new cottage
Summer reads! photos July 13, 14: Long Beach Book Barn. And daybreak.
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Happy 4th of July! Red, White and Blue Stacy Boulevard Then | Now
Red, white and blue. Historic homes and cottages.
photos: Gloucester, Mass. Stacy Boulevard
- July 4, 2023
- vintage postcard (saved by my grandparents, found in their desk that I inherited
- winter scene from 2020 (Christmas in July 🙂 )
- 2017, 2018, 2019 vantage to note evolution of remodeling (the blue home was remodeled from its green door to the red door/blue exterior there today)
- 1942 Gordon Parks that I’m re-sharing from March 1, 2014 — asking again in case anyone can help identify the boys in the photo
photo: red, white, blue Long Beach cottages, Rockport July 2023
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Pretty night!
summer nocturnes July 3 ,2023
and 1 Horribles photo shared with me! Frank mobile from Wisconsin–in Gloucester’s Fishtown Horribles parade thanks to Ringo Tarr
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Sunrise Smoke sky. Flags for the 4th. Long Beach
photos: C. Ryan. Sunrise views from Gloucester looking out to Twin Lights and from Long Beach to the festive cottages ready for the 4th of July weekend. Below today’s for comparison: Sun rise Smoke Sky Last month. June 7, 2023.
Sun rise Smoke Sky Last month. June 7, 2023
little more yellow that morning. July 2, 2023 fog was in the mix.
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Stormy Day at Long Beach
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Surfer throws Rainbow spray 🏄🌊🌈
off Long Beach, view from Gloucester shore
low tide Long Beach – rip rap and surfers 3/5/2023
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dry and sunny or silver snow? winter days in #Gloucester, #RockportMA
January days! It’s snowing this morning, lightly.
Jan 29 | Jan. 31, 2023
sunrise | snowrise
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winter sherbert and mottled clouds. Daybreak sky #GloucesterMa
20 minutes. Jan. 29, 2023. Good Harbor Beach / Brier Neck. Long Beach. Gloucester & Rockport, MA.
12 snapshots. Pinch and zoom or double click for full size.
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Did you see the Cloud shelf | cloud roll? #GloucesterMA
January sky 1/25/2023, Gloucester, Ma. This morning’s elongated cloud roll/cloud shelf tube wrapped around the coast and tapered to a funnel horn tip. Views passing Good Harbor Beach and Long Beach
A shelf cloud stacks with the storm cloud. A roll cloud doesn’t. Both were at play today. The roll was prominent 8AM to noon.
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Stepping into 2023 on a clear and sunny New Year’s Day. Walking in #GloucesterMA
Picnics, promenade, and polar plunge- there were fresh starts everywhere we turned.
Photos: Gloucester, Ma. New Year’s Day, 2023. Coffin’s Beach, Long Beach, Good Harbor Beach, Niles Beach, Stacy Boulevard, and Wingaersheek Beach.
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Storm walk on Long Beach after high tide backed off seawall. #winterstorm
Dec. 23, 2022
Views from winter storm walk an hour after high tide when the splash over waves settled back from the Long Beach seawall. The waves are not as huge as some storms. Still, stair and platform debris at both ends of the beach. Surge pushed back into the street. This is the 2nd of 3 high tides in the forecast.
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Storm at sunrise was 50° Surf & Wind. 3 hr to Next High Tide #GloucesterMA
Jingle Bell Storm rise sunrise photos Dec. 23, 2022, about 3 hours before the next high tide: Power is on at Long Beach; Creek level at Good Harbor Beach footbridge; Salty Salt Island; Twin Lights, Thacher Island – sunrise spray and waves; Back Shore
8 AM No power outages reported on Cape Ann – 60,000+ in Mass.- http://mema.mapsonline.net/
9AM Update – 1000+ outages in Gloucester
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First winter snow a dusting on the coast and rainbow spray in the surf #GloucesterMA
Dec. 12, 2022
Good Harbor Beach, marsh estuary, Back Shore, Long Beach
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December morning, Long Beach. Sunrise reflections on cottage doors and windows.
Dec. 6, 2022
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Rockport DPW Removes Long Beach Stairs and Footbridge access
Long Beach, Nov. 10, 2022
This year, several of the stairs had to be dug out several feet for removal.
Sign of winter coming: Saratoga Creek footbridge severed access between Cape Hedge and Long Beach until spring returns.
Sand is covering the rip rap in November 2022, not as high as 2011, and deposited the entire stretch. Sand depth shifts on Long Beach. Read more here in an older post from 2017.
Nov 2021, Nov 2020
Seawall repair October 2022 Before | After
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Took a walk on Long Beach on a clear day
