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He needs to go back and critique his forecast for this…and then give himself a letter grade. Hint: The letter comes after E.

we don't need media for that - we can look out the window

Ying Yang

Maybe if we get a good collision of cool air and warm air, we'll get some good thunderstorms.

Wow, the WCS daily PDO continues to plunge back down as it’s fallen to -1.74 in the midst of a record strong El Niño! How is this happening? It was -1.10 just 5 days ago.

just in time for a return to summer around Halloween.

we will be playing 4:30-6:30pm!

probably not... The short reason for that is because it's not deemed or shown to be as necessary. That and general societal apathy to responsibility - but this latter aspect is a sociological crisis for a different time. LOL when I was Met zygote ( heh ) it was required. Everyone had to ... because everyone new the models were just not that reliably precise. They're better, but I'm sure there's a lot of arguers that say otherwise. I can tell from experience in both eras, pre and post 2000, there have been less in the way of vaster positive(negative) busts, respectively since then. The frequency being down hearkens to more reliance. Frankly, it's depressing... there was always a chance that so-and-so would end up being more. But you took the good with the bad ...sometimes, a lot of time, it was the other way. Man, the 1980s were notorious for epic Charlie Brown blizzards. The 1990s were better at not setting up everyone for magnificent ghosts, but interestingly ... missed more on the positive side. We seemed to get one good snow event a winter that was a rush to warn scenario. . I've extolled the awesomeness of Dec 23 1997 several times. 1-3 of glop --> 20" of powder. Anyway, the models have gotten to point where as much as we may be less charmed, they are still at a different level of usefulness than they were prior to 2000. That's just existential. So anyway... the urgency and need for now-casting isn't considered a priority, because the intra-event variances of the different storm metrics ... mm they don't go crazy like that anymore. Might even be presumptive. You know, the Boxing Day storm in 2010 ...that as "quasi positive bust" imo. Because it had been suppressed to the point where there really was not system any long on the charts for a couple of cycle at the low/ghosted most point. Then, inside of 72 hours it merely hinted. It really wasn't until 36 hours that it came roaring back. By 2010, that's bordering on model failure on the positive side. Relative to the state of the art of the time, that was really all but too late. In this current dying system... I'm not sure this needed to be down(up) gradated over what was original 'cast. We'll see how the objective accounts lays out during postmortem but it seems so far that it was acceptable gains(losses) wrt that.

What Ray said. It’s interesting how the valley produced another minimum in wind and rain, but only to an extent. I’m at 2.66” on the event and counting.

Were in another very long -SOI streak, 47 days! https://data.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/SeasonalClimateOutlook/SouthernOscillationIndex/SOIDataFiles/DailySOI1887-1989Base.txt

Man I thought 1.6" was a dud here,looking at CEF it looks like they are at around .65 storm total? That area up to Belchertown, Amherst looks to have really gotten screwed.

Thats what she said.

I hope you get more. I know this event has been meh for you.

Tipping points are a hell of a drug. The issue is that climate change is of course gradual, the average temperatures trend up over a 30 year period, but to those living it appears as these shocking discrepancies. To the data aggregate it appears as a line ticking, then jumping, up. But to us, climate change appears as a Hurricane Helene, as another heat done over Europe, and as a realization that “it doesn’t snow here like it used to”. The 2016 El Niño and these oceanic processes are our heat transport mechanisms, and when you have major El Niño events you release a ton of heat from the oceans and thus effectively “jump” into the next, ever warmer, climate. It will snow again, we will have a HECS again (it may even be this winter!), but you will also see these droughts where the isotherm has simply shifted too far north for us to reliably get snowstorms. It is what it is.

Yea we got stuck under one of those feeder bands all evening. The yard is a swamp. Wrapping up now and 5.06”.

Finished up with 2.24" yesterday and 0.27" this morning, for a 3-day event total of 3.16"and month total of 8.89". Storm center has crawled its way up to LI. Currently an overcast and misty 62 with dp 60.

As of now I agree some locations in the region will reach 85 or higher Friday afternoon - the 850 temps are several degrees above normal and in front of the cold front winds will be from the southwest - BUT if that cooler air speeds up and makes it here earlier in the day then expected temps won't max out so high - when you are 4 days away from an event always good to keep your options open - also how much cloud cover in advance of the front ?

The never say die Fay gets within 40 miles of Bermuda on the 12Z UKMET at 168! TROPICAL DEPRESSION FAY ANALYSED POSITION : 27.3N 44.7W ATCF IDENTIFIER : AL062026 LEAD CENTRAL MAXIMUM WIND VERIFYING TIME TIME POSITION PRESSURE (MB) SPEED (KNOTS) -------------- ---- -------- ------------- ------------- 1200UTC 28.09.2026 0 27.3N 44.7W 1014 26 0000UTC 29.09.2026 12 26.0N 45.6W 1013 24 1200UTC 29.09.2026 24 24.8N 47.4W 1012 24 0000UTC 30.09.2026 36 23.9N 49.1W 1012 25 1200UTC 30.09.2026 48 23.5N 51.7W 1011 27 0000UTC 01.10.2026 60 23.4N 53.7W 1012 29 1200UTC 01.10.2026 72 24.2N 56.1W 1012 29 0000UTC 02.10.2026 84 24.9N 57.9W 1013 28 1200UTC 02.10.2026 96 25.8N 59.8W 1012 30 0000UTC 03.10.2026 108 26.5N 61.2W 1012 29 1200UTC 03.10.2026 120 27.5N 62.3W 1011 31 0000UTC 04.10.2026 132 28.6N 63.0W 1011 31 1200UTC 04.10.2026 144 29.8N 63.7W 1012 29 0000UTC 05.10.2026 156 30.9N 64.4W 1012 29 1200UTC 05.10.2026 168 32.9N 64.6W 1014 26

But many of them do not do now casting..

JF was a problem. Yes was an ugly loss. All PSU fans should have tempered their expectations for year 1

BULLETIN Tropical Storm Hanna Advisory Number 1 NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL082026 1100 AM AST Mon Sep 28 2026 ...TROPICAL STORM HANNA FORMS IN THE CENTRAL SUBTROPICAL ATLANTIC... SUMMARY OF 1100 AM AST...1500 UTC...INFORMATION ----------------------------------------------- LOCATION...36.6N 50.4W ABOUT 870 MI...1400 KM ENE OF BERMUDA MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...45 MPH...75 KM/H PRESENT MOVEMENT...E OR 100 DEGREES AT 17 MPH...28 KM/H MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...1006 MB...29.71 INCHES WATCHES AND WARNINGS -------------------- There are no coastal watches or warnings in effect. DISCUSSION AND OUTLOOK ---------------------- At 1100 AM AST (1500 UTC), the center of Tropical Storm Hanna was located near latitude 36.6 North, longitude 50.4 West. Hanna is moving toward the east near 17 mph (28 km/h). An east to east-southeast motion is forecast over the next few days. Satellite wind data indicates that maximum sustained winds are near 45 mph (75 km/h) with higher gusts. Little change in strength is forecast during the next couple of days. Tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 90 miles (150 km) from the center. The estimated minimum central pressure is 1006 mb

All short lived, except Fay. Peak Season Forecast (Aug 20-Oct 20) Named Storms: 5 (5) Hurricanes: 3 (0) Major Hurricanes: 1 (0) Dolly, Edouard, Fay, Gonzalo, Hanna

given what most seem to be indicating for the upcoming winter, i think everyone in the sub would take this in a NY minute.