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We had a blast of 60-70 mph winds down here in southern RI about an hour ago. Westerly Airport was 65, hit 70 at Conimicut Point. Shook the house and uprooted a big tree at our neighbors near by.

Goes to show this may have been tagged as a "Wind Advisory" but it delivered far more than the HWW of the previous two events. Must've just been in the right spot.

10K without power also in RI mostly down here but somehow we've managed to avoid an outtage...thankfully.

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I said yesterday best gusts will be just away from south coast shoreline. Probably a little inverted. But it will ramp up.

Kudos to you! In RI the outtages are so far decidedly away from the coast.
Gust to 59 at Conimucut in Warwick. Seems to have an extra kick away from the shore so far.


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Figured I'd dig out one more old hurricane special from the VHS archive before the season is kaput...enjoy the Almacs and Benny's footage if nothing else

 

 

Piling on the sunset shots from tonight...picked the right night to hit Champlin's in Galilee. Block Island Ferry had seemingly less than a dozen on it as it rode in

It was gustier here 4 hours ago than it is now...still breezy but the white caps have diminished quite a bit.

Very breezy near Pt. Judith down here. Wonder if Lee is blowing itself out/speeding up ahead of schedule (wouldn't be the first time).

Also VERY cool and dry, like someone just flipped the switch to hardcore Fall. 

All this Lee talk got me to upload some hurricane docs. Put up a pair of 38 specials, one the WSBE broadcast Wake of 38 (produced in 1978 its pretty dated but has some great stuff in it) along with a decent History Channel special back when it actually aired programming related to history. Lol

 

NHS canceled storm surge watch for Cape and Nantucket

Also canceled TS watches west of Westport 

If anyone wants to relive past glories, I've been uploading some old weather vids and just dug out my Hurricane Bob special which WJAR ran a few weeks later back in 91. Some forecasting talk late in the hour, but mostly lots of archival footage for those of us who remember... 

 

 

Sitting in the dryslot in coastal RI. Sun now punching its way out with pedestrian SE wind, 39 degrees. Hasn't even rained since mid morning.

Enjoying all of your reports at least!!

Satellite looking that impressive to you guys? Lots of precip looks like it's heading well off shore which I think is what Ryan mentioned earlier Friday.

About 1-1.5 here in Wakefield, light snow, some wind kicks up every now and then , but nothing really that remarkable... yet.

2 hours ago, UnitedWx said:

More like the 80s winters are back.  This is just like a lot of that garbage that I saw back then. I think a lot of the youngsters here just aren't old enough to remember...or were even born 

I grew up on the southernmost end of the "Foster Glocester No School" zone of northern RI and even there the 80s were like this. So many nights I'd go to bed with expectations of a 3-6 storm and no school, only to wake up with literally nothing on the ground. Yes it was a different time back then in terms of school closures, and yes there were a couple of times when we'd get something and my Mom would refuse to drive me to school (we had a 20 minute drive into Providence), but make no mistake -- I had literally 0 snow days from 7th grade until I graduated high school (87-93) in Providence. Not a single one. As soon as I left the pattern changed the following winter!

2 minutes ago, bristolri_wx said:

It is quite amazing how often the "exhaust" zone in these events ends up over RI, even if it's transient - while its total chaos to the east and the west of us...

It is. Reminds me of numerous snow storms since I've been following this board. Before that, growing up, I always thought my mom was just kidding when she said Narragansett Bay had an odd effect on the weather!

10 minutes ago, bristolri_wx said:

Most of western RI doesn’t have power.  boring for some terrible for others…

No kidding. Most of SK is out here. Trees down everywhere. But this board is very much like that, if it doesn't happen to them they don't give a bleep.

Luckily the surge was one non event I will gladly take every time.

Must be interacting with the colder water because the eye is starting to lose its definition. 

 Also seems to be tilting NW from the last few frames also. It might clip LI after all if that is actually a real trend.

That eye starting to look a little ragged in the last few radar frames.

Is this trending westward "nudge" an indication Henri isn't going to intensify a hell of a lot -- and/or the trough that's to the west is stronger than indicated? Or both? What's the reason for the continual "movement" that way. Or is some of it related to the storm itself just being further to the west at the moment than anticipated.

The power outtages suck but we're used to it. It's more the coastal high tide/full moon coinciding that is the concern for us.

 

Can someone help me with numbers for immediate coastal RI? Have looked at models with a definite mix and rain, others with 3-6. Is this a nowcasting situation for here based on where ptype sets up? Trying to figure out when my wife has to go into work...

1 hour ago, tamarack said:

Some of that might have been differing attitudes by school admin folks, and less litigation threat.  From when our older child entered kindergarten in 1977, thru 1985 when we moved south, he lost 1.5 days total to weather - in Fort Kent, where we had a 130"/year average snowfall.

Things were different then -- agreed -- but it was definitely not a snowy period down here at all. Lots of storms like this one that brought rain inland with a rain/snow/mix line that for me set up north of Providence and south of the "Foster/Glocester" line where I lived. Which I can tell you, because there were a few times I stayed home (I was about 20 mins north of Providence), when school was locally canceled and conditions were worse in my town, whereas in Providence there was often nothing or not enough to cancel it (and my mom refused to drive in). Happened all the time.

The pattern changed literally during my first year away at college...they had more snow days in the winter of 93-94 than we had in the prior 7 years combined!

35 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

It helps for those of us who remember the 80s and early 90s to know whats going to happen with a storm like this lol.

 

Some people dont believe me but I had literally 1 snow day going to school in Providence from grade 7 to graduating HS (87-93).

Sure there was a weekend storm here and there, and it snowed more up in Greenville where we lived, but the pattern was definitely warm and often wet. It all changed once I went to college (it was a pounding for several years in the mid 90s) but when you are a kid you dont tend to misremember not having snow days!

I'm on the water so it's always "wetter" here but, even so, this isn't anywhere near "light, fluffy" stuff. Nor is it hammering too hard yet. Maybe a couple of inches but man, it is wet and heavy. Hard to envision ultimate accumulations at least around here being anywhere near 12-18 with it being this dense and wet.