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Memorial Day - heavy rain threat


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I picked the wrong day to unplug things in order to attach a wifi-extender:  my monitor isn't reporting it's data.  I fear I didn't link it back up to my station either.  My mother-in-law's sleeping in that same room so I can't even get in now to fix it.

 

Either way, it's been torrential for the last couple hours.  I'm in that secondary/tertiary band that's running through far NW Mass.

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Winding down here.  Hoping it clears out for a rumbler this afternoon.

 

I just realized that with a swimming pool, I can "eyeball" how much rain we've gotten by the change in water level in relation to the skimmers .  I'm estimating we wound up with between 1-2".

.70" here as the back edge moves through.

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New England winner is Stockbridge, MA .2 NNE.

That station is showing 4.04" of rainfall and most of it in 70 minutes.

Observer Notes: Rain started at 1310 and proceded to become heavy mixed with pea sized hail, Water quickly over came the drainage system and flooding occured. State of Emergency declared.

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New England winner is Stockbridge, MA .2 NNE.

That station is showing 4.04" of rainfall and most of it in 70 minutes.

Observer Notes: Rain started at 1310 and proceded to become heavy mixed with pea sized hail, Water quickly over came the drainage system and flooding occured. State of Emergency declared.

 

Meanwhile a few miles away from that deluge, about a tenth of an inch occurred. We just had light anvil rain and rumbles for a couple of hours. Summer rain is so fickle.

 

At least we had a bit over 0.5" last night and earlier this morning.

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as the sky condition begins to pale and alleviate during early afternoon ... there should be some surface heating (more west of course..); we'll see how any resulting destabilization behaves.  

 

otherwise, this is sort of what I meant yesterday when I thought that flood risk "might" be over-assessed.

I don't disagree that the pwats were large .. but we still need(ed) a trigger/forcing to really get that going.  some of this is/was idiosyncratic too.  if the timing was better.    

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as the sky condition begins to pale and alleviate during early afternoon ... there should be some surface heating (more west of course..); we'll see how any resulting destabilization behaves.

otherwise, this is sort of what I meant yesterday when I thought that flood risk "might" be over-assessed.

I don't disagree that the pwats were large .. but we still need(ed) a trigger/forcing to really get that going. some of this is/was idiosyncratic too. if the timing was better.

It was always supposed to be localized. I don't think even our most bullish posters were advertising a widespread flooding event.
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It was always supposed to be localized. I don't think even our most bullish posters were advertising a widespread flooding event.

 

yeeeah, but "localized" can validate any circumstance then - this 'localized' didn't deserve the status, either, and I think KTAN was over cautious. 

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