BombsAway1288

Very true. The whole metro coast really did get in on a lot of good action. Really stood out here with the over 100” in the second half for KBOS. Something I’ll never see again most likely

I wonder where that idiot troll who said the HRRR was only showing 0.3” qpf for DC is now? Hope he’s seen this. Congrats on what looks like an overperformer there. Been a while since your area jacked/trends kept getting better and better as the event got closer. Expecting us to get into the goods in the next two weeks hopefully. Have a putrid 1.5” here in East Boston, MA so far. Hoping for a 2015 type repeat here for the second half! Probably not a popular thought in this sub forum but congrats on tonight and enjoy it!

Well if it continues to look like this the media/public hype train will start early. I’ve already heard someone say this morning about a possible “blizzard” for the Patriots game over the air. Here we go smh

That’s far from the longest post ever. Check out some of Tips posts in the New England forum or similar posts to this in the NYC and NE forums leading up to/during snow storms. Some of them are endless!

I know what you're saying is true but jeez you're pessimistic with everything for the winter already on every post. It's not even December and the area has already had a 6" snowstorm! maybe back off of the pessimistic hyperbole a bit

Yes because that correlates well to how he's going to perform in predicting the long term in 2018 FWIW I think Mr. G is garbage and only on there for show these days at least.

What was he hitting on about Michael? Was he on the Cat 1, nbd train?

Tbh, I think that most people (at least in this forum) believe that it’s just as equal to take a measurement from Logan compared to downtown. If most people here looked on a map and saw how relatively close Logan was to Downtown Boston they would think that difference would be minimal. There is quite the microclimate there from the shores of Winthrop to the Back Bay of Boston just like the difference from KLGA to KNYC

In eastern Bergen County the squall just came through and it was all snow even though RadarScope had it depicted as a mix. Anyone west of city, and the city may be included in that, will have heavy snow for 5 min if it continues to hold together edit: now radarscope has it as all snow and it’s pretty robust. I think Upton should upgrade to a Snow Squall Warning for the whole area that the squall encompasses

From what I was told by a Met in the NE thread, the NWS rules for measurement location of an ASOS site can be within a certain radius of said ASOS. For KBOS, Winthrop falls under that radius so some guy just measures from his house, Taunton/Norton accepts it and it goes down as the official measurement for Boston. Not sure what the situation is like down in Philly but I know that people in this regional forum (which would include myself before I moved there a couple of years ago) will like the fact that Boston will often measure low and that gives KNYC a chance to "beat" Boston during nor'easters.

I live .5 miles west of Logan Airport in East Boston. The Logan measurement was what was actually measured and not a typo but it was a joke. I had about 1.5"-2.0" at my place. From what I've been told, the person who does the official measurement for Logan is located in Winthrop, MA which is east of Logan Airport and right on the ocean. They might have in fact on measured 0.1 at their place in Winthrop but areas JUST east of there got a lot more than 0.1" including Downtown Boston. The actual city probably got around 2" while areas a few miles west got a lot more. Unfortunately, as far as records go, it goes down as 0.1" for that storm

I think even if they had pretreated the roads in NYC and surrounding areas the intense rate in which the snowfall came in, it wouldn’t of really mattered. I’ve seen plenty of times where heavy snow at the beginning of an event overcomes the pretreat and the roads get snowcovered, as long as temps are cold (20’s). The real problem I think was that most of the general public wasn’t thinking that much was coming so most everyone just went to work like they normally do and didn’t take mass transit or their job having them stay home like if a big storm was coming. Combine all that with just horrible timing, busses not having chains on them and NY Sanitation not being ready to start at least spreading when it started to stick to the road and build up, and you have a recipe for disaster and that’s exactly what happened

All snow to start here in Eastie. If it thumps hard enough maybe we get an inch or two before the switchover

What’s up with the Trace of snow reported in the climatologically hottest time of the year (July 19th)? And on the 1st of July. Obviously that chart has some unedited errors

The perils of living on the immediate coast. I’m not expecting much in Eastie but I guess the same doesn’t apply to NYC. Central Park has officially reported 6in of snow. That’s about 6in more than most people/mets were thinking for them

Hopefully it won’t come back to bite them. NYC is an absolute mess right now that will make national headlines in the coming hours/days. People stuck in gridlock and not moving for 3-4 hours. The GW Bridge is basically closed and people are abandoning their cars and walking home across the bridge. Boston folk should be ok though as this is hitting after rush hour. In NYC it was the worst timing possible

Decent thunder and lightning made it to Eastie. Very strange with how cool it is. On another note, does anybody know why I can’t get the ASOS on my wunderground map? Is it something in my settings or do they not have those ones anymore? I emailed them but didn’t receive a response

Nevermind. Looks to be a Sunday deal or Sunday night into Monday which would be the 28th-29th interestingly enough. The GFS has a sheared inland mess in its 06z run but the FV3-GFS has a significant storm closer to the coast than the Euro albeit 35mb weaker than the said Euro. Hopefully they hold and others come on board as this would be the first fun week of tracking in the nor’easter season!

So what date is the euro exactly showing for this? And it’s really showing hurricane force winds to the surface at the NE coast?

Very good rotation right now just east of Norwalk. Looks like any possible tornado would be rainwrapped

Any update on that Westchester storm that’s moved into Fairfield County, CT now? It had some pretty good rotation going on per radar

That’s going to be something else come winter leading up to a storm. Are the 6z and 18z runs going to just as useful as the 00z and 12z when it comes to new data ingestion? I can’t even remember what the deal is with regards to the 6z and 18z GFS runs. Are they still considered “off runs” or was that all just some myth?

Easily 4”-4.5” here in Tenafly, NJ per radar estimates. Looks like more to come as well. Crazy day with flooding everywhere and even places that I’ve never seen it before

Yeah looks like from the pictures that the rails were on a grade of gravel. I’m no civil engineer and have no idea how different rail track foundations are but if there was a flooding or a current of water going over that area it could of easily washed away or loosened up the ground underneath the tracks making their support of a heavy freight train non-existent and therefore buckling the tracks when it rode over it. Just a guess of course.

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