CapturedNature

Hmmm....nice shower moving through now. Is it Friday already?

I'm just reading through old posts and getting caught up and had to chuckle at this post. I think I've seen this one year after year every summer.

At least they weren't sweaty from waiting to install them?

Did 70-75 just become near 70°? On another note, I feel bad you have to split your family up like that over a game. That sounds tough.

That map only shows the days departure, not the months. The past couple of days only moved my average temp from coldest May average to 6th coldest May since 1985.

They must have had some serious easterly flow that month - I have 4 colder May's than 2005. May 1990 & 94 were 1.8° colder than 2005 here at averaging around 51° compare to my normal of 56.6°F.

It's #5 for me and precip wise doesn't show up in the top 10. 2008 was colder and wetter for me but 1990 is near the top of the list for me.

Are you talking here and May 2005? I only had measurable precip on 14 out of 31 days in May 2005. We did have that one 7 day stretch from the 21st that it rained every day but other than that, it wasn't raining every day. I agree that May has been totally manageable at least for our locale but others have not been as lucky in terms of precip. I'm not minding the temps at all. It's been great to get stuff down outdoors and not be sweating. There's plenty of time for nice warm New England summer days before fall.

BDL may have had only 1.38" but like I said, places on the eastern edge of the valley had 1" more. I posted this earlier this year but I put up a video that my brother and I shot during the storm driving from Stafford up to Union and then on to Worcester, Hull and Boston before returning. I measured around 24" in Union in the morning and when we returned there was about 30". You can also see the transition from snow to rain and the wave action in Hull.

I can assure you that it was raining in the valley. It literally went from rain to a foot+ in about a mile as the crow flies and 800' up. One of the sharpest cutoff's I've ever seen. At my parents house in the valley we had 2.45" of QPF and 3.2" of snow. Stafford Springs (next town over and elevated) had a little over 3" of QPF. Like I said, snow ranged from around a foot in the lowest places to close to 30" in the highest.

My parents in in the valley portion of Somers only had about 3". The hills above them had over a foot....very sharp cutoff. Union had over 30" so that map is a little off. Elevation definitely played a role around here.

I had an early morning snow shower that left .1" and then sleet from 2-4PM but snow after that till about 3AM. I had 6.6". A lot of wind with that one too.

Northern Tolland County & a little north into Mass. is a decent plateau compared to surrounding areas. The center of Somers is already down to under 300' and you're under 20' at the Connecticut River. I'd rather be where I am... They still transmit the NOAA weather radio from Soapstone but the old BDL weather radar is no longer in use. I think they just use it as a transmitting tower but you're right about the views.

I was living at 290' at the base of an 1100' hill in Somers at the time and we did not turn over to snow until later on that Saturday. BDL and western parts of the valley turned before we did and I think I was living in the last place to turn to snow in that storm!

I was living in Somers at the time....had nothing Saturday morning and the drive up the hill by no more than a mile or so changed that to 13" of snow. Union doubled that but that storm changed me from someone that would get upset at that to just accepting what I had. A few years later there was a Norlun that dumped 13-17" over my house in a couple of hours and I missed it trying to chase it elsewhere....d'oh!

lol....it's Dave (or as everyone hear calls me 'Herb') but I'm the guy with the hat. I have no idea why I brought that hat because I remember it being really hot and you needed temps below zero to make it work. I bought it in Canada when I was living in Lyndonville.

What amazes me is the change in technology since then. Here we were driving around and only had a scanner and AM radio to know what was happening. I remember stopping at a phone booth and calling a colleague to get some info which is why we decided to go to the coast. The video doesn't do that justice because of the focus and the fact that the tide had started to go out by the time that we got there but I had never seen such a caldron before or since. I kind of chuckled at the comment I made saying I had never seen anything like it but you have to remember that since my birth I had never seen a 2' snow storm and since it all happened in less than 24 hours the impact was even more impressive. I've seen several storms since then and that storm seem to be a game changer as there was winters before that and winters after that in terms of storms.

I found a video that my brother and I shot of the December '92 Nor'easter and I wanted to share it for those that didn't get to fully experience it. We drove from Stafford, CT through Union and then downtown Worcester before going to Hull and downtown Boston. Outside of some goofball/awkward moments, it gives you a real sense of the conditions on that Saturday about 24 hours into the storm. You can tell by the comments that we had never seen anything like it and were really amazed by the conditions. At one point you can can hear the NOAA weather radio guy and how impressed he is as well. Enjoy!

Probably. I was at Lyndon at the time and it was an awesome show. I think it was visible down to Florida on that one. Just came in from taking a look and didn't see anything. I don't have the best view to the north due to hills though. The wind makes it tougher to stay out too long unless you're dressed for it.

It might be a media thing. It gives the television media time to start the newscast and intro the segment before going live to the governor.

That's my thought. I'm liking my call of 20" ±2" for MBY but I'd like to see where that band sets up (as I know everyone would!).

I kinda like the color enhanced WV loop: http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/east/eaus/flash-wv.html It makes the clouds pop....

I have concerns of us winding up between the two bands. We still do well, but we'll have to see how things setup once everything gets going.

I wish there was a way that access could be limited to members at times like this. There are 80+ people using this particular forum at the time and the majority are guests. It would certainly help lighten the load.

I actually never made it to the CT coast because I didn't think the wave action would be that good. We went to Hull, a place I had never been before, and it turned out to be great place to see the ocean swells and huge waves crashing right on the sea wall. This was the first real big storm that happened after I got out of college and I remember everyone looking to me for info and I spent a lot of time gathering data in the pre-Internet days (even though I went to school for Met I've always worked in the IT business). I had an old radio fax machine that I dusted off so I could get charts. I was up late on Saturday looking at data and my brother came home from work and wanted to do some storm chasing so we headed out. It was great storm to chase....better than the March '93 storm I think.