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Swamp like conditions this AM: Dew Point 69 F Humidity 94 %

I thought we were going to get dewpoints in the 50s by late afternoon - now it's onlyy for two or three hours in the overnight then it's right back up to tropical levels?? And day after day of miserable rain and increasing damp chill next week?? I HATE this frigging climate!!

If only this was January

Dunkin Donuts already have it.

They are reachin' stating it never really went away. And parsing it down to just cntrl NH,as if adjacent watersheds that flow into the area mean nothing and ignoring the overall no drought state of much NNE at the time.

They had "SKEWL" that day? After Andrew and esp. the Bliz of 93, the wx hype train has arrived for good, and you'd think a HU as intense as Floyd coming up the coast (yes, I know it weakened a lot, but that's not how the media acts!), across the board cancellations! Any tropical watches or warmings, the do not hesitate these days! I thought by 1999 that would have been the case as well. When TS David impacted New England in early Sep 1979, schools were not closed that day. Even though it was way W tracking up through cntrl NY, it was the best TC duration wind I have ever seen in New England outside a HU landfall, and surprising windy all the way to ern MA w/ gusts to 70-75 mph. I recall how windy it was at recess, and how much stronger the winds were second recess! And the trees whipping right next to the recess area. Branches could have easily fallen on us! And its turns out my observations from that event had something behind it. Check this paper out. Not you typical evolution for a TC at this latitude! @weatherwiz be like, "WE NEED THIS AGAIN!!!" Postlandfall Tropical Cyclone Reintensification in a Weakly Baroclinic Environment: A Case Study of Hurricane David (September 1979) https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/mwre/123/11/1520-0493_1995_123_3268_ptcria_2_0_co_2.xml

Time to nit... 1) "North East"?? 2) 55N/Gulf of AK is not "Arctic" 3) "new Polar stream high" - random improper capitalization It's bad enough you have all these "social-meteorologists" who lack basic wx knowledge, but add on sloppiness in their actual wording in posts?

A common fallacy I see on many social media posts is that they show the 500 mb heights and its anomalies as always "hot." 500 heights only serve as a *proxy*, and we do not live at 500 mb. What is the sfc pressure and 1000-500 thickness? What is the nature of the air mass and 925 temps? Also, the location of interest, where is it relative to the ridge center?

@CoastalWxcalls the recent wx in the NEUS "boring?" He has no context of the word apparently. Try the current Atlantic hurricane season out for size. And you know this record inactivity is squashing ratings for places like TWC and stations in the South. Relying on wx for consistent ratings is foolhardy. I recall the 96-97 winter, marketing and execs at many stations along the E Coast seemed "shocked" ratings were not like the previous winter. Clueless.

Now we are seeing 14-day forecasts? Yes, I know AccuWx has had even further for some time, but it just shows you how ppl keep trying to one-up each other when the fcst science simply does not support it or has advanced. Like one could tell w/ *any* real skill the temp would be exactly 70 on day 14. Also, "pattern predictions?" It's a freakin' wx forecast! Call it as such! Branding marketing, nothing more. Ooo, wait, alliteration, that's KEWL! It reminds me how on some radio stations in BOS a number of years ago, the "news" suddenly became, "what's trending!" Doublespeak!

3 days of <-30 SOI in a row 18 Sep 2026 1010.91 1014.40 -34.52 -18.69 -21.31 17 Sep 2026 1011.10 1014.00 -31.02 -18.48 -21.12 16 Sep 2026 1011.63 1015.00 -33.81 -18.19 -20.84 September is going to finish pretty strongly -SOI, making May-Sept one of the more -SOI periods on record. Here is what follows the following year (+16 months): [map default is +correlation, so for -SOI it's opposite]