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3 hours ago, CoastalWx said:

Hawaii Big Island, in big trouble.

Crazy rain. Has to have a shot to take down Harvey right? 

PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HONOLULU HI
443 AM HST SAT AUG 25 2018

...LANE PRODUCES TORRENTIAL RAINFALL OVER THE BIG ISLAND...

HILO AIRPORT MEASURED 31.85 INCHES OF RAIN FOR THE THREE DAY PERIOD
RUNNING FROM 12 MIDNIGHT HST AUGUST 22 THROUGH 1159 PM HST AUGUST
24. THIS BECOMES THE WETTEST THREE DAY PERIOD EVER OBSERVED AT HILO, 
WITH RECORDS DATING BACK TO 1949. HILO ALSO MEASURED 15.00 INCHES
OF RAIN ON AUGUST 24, WHICH WAS THE FIFTH WETTEST CALENDAR DAY ON
RECORD.

HERE ARE SOME OF THE NOTABLE RAINFALL TOTALS FROM THE ONGOING
EVENT, COVERING THE TIME PERIOD FROM NOON HST AUGUST 22 THROUGH 
4 AM HST AUGUST 25. ALL VALUES ARE IN INCHES, AND ARE PRELIMINARY
PENDING FINAL QUALITY CONTROL.

ISLAND OF HAWAII
WAIAKEA UKA                : 45.80
PIIHONUA                   : 44.68
SADDLE QUARRY (USGS)       : 41.87
WAIAKEA EXPERIMENT STATION : 41.15

Full statement here. https://nwschat.weather.gov/p.php?pid=201808251443-PHFO-NOHW40-PNSHFO

Pretty good couplet for a few frames on that TOR warned cell by Peterborough. 

Waterspout inbound for the vineyard / woods hole? Couplet on radar is pretty tight but weak. 

11 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

"Horrific"  ?

eye rolling... I had wind gusts like that here yesterday without a warning... Well, almost that high anyway - although, much of NH was strafed by tors and severe, yesterday, without a Watch, so...

It was, however, one of those deals that was anachronistic - so to speak.  I mean, morning... slate gray...  cool relatively so...  BAM..  But as Scott or whomever said, this wasn't really based on the 'checklist' - more mechanically forced perhaps.

Looking at this on my phone yesterday with no watches issued I was quite perplexed. Pretty much missed everything here though and even squeezed in 9 holes from 5:30-7:30. 

Everything pretty far west for the most part today. I wonder if anything gets going in southern NH soon as the conditions are pretty good in this area. Doesn't look like SPC is going with a watch unless things change. Going to grab a flight at a brewery in Londonderry and hoping by the time I'm done there's some photogenic storms as I'll be bringing my cameras with me.

SPC just dropped all areas of Slight Risk.  Wondering if things are ever really going to get going. Radar isn't looking to great nor is the short term guidance. 

Torrential downpour here. Damn dog had put the window of the car down without me realizing. Got super soaked walking like all of 5 feet. Pool is filling up quick might be going back out to drain some if this keeps up.

3 minutes ago, sbos_wx said:

I need Jerry to share his BOS every few minutes obs site again. I had to reinstall my hard drive and lost nearly everything on home pc.

https://mesowest.utah.edu/

Got up to 91 here today at LWM which was a surprise to me. Low last night was only 75 degrees with a 70 dewpoint. Anyone got a link for record maximum lows for Lawrence? I can only only find the all time low/high.

Edit: Most surrounding sites topped out around 88 today. I wonder if they are over reporting some as I've seen it happen before there.

31 minutes ago, BrianW said:

What a tradegy out in Branson MO. Duck boat sank when a storm quickly blew in. The video is hard to watch.

https://www.ktts.com/news/local-news/breaking-ride-the-ducks-capsized-on-table-rock-lake-with-several-people-on-board

Such a sad story. From reports I heard NWS had a severe thunderstorm warning out for the area about 30 minutes ahead of time. Does anyone have a good link to go back and look at radar out of Springfield MO from yesterday? 

Also wow Iowa really did get nailed last night.  This report out of Marshall on the SPC page is strongly worded.

REPORTS OF CATASTROPHIC DAMAGE ... INCLUDING VEHICLES MISSING ... VEHICLES OVERTURNED ... TOPS OF BUILDINGS GONE ... TREES DOWN ... POWER LINES ... GAS LINES ... ETC 

Putnam CT about to get nailed on that TOR warned cell unless it starts weakening quick.

Quite the big Flash Flood warning NWS Boston put up for eastern Mass. Torrential rain here but no wind to speak of. I see it time and time again that one good warned storm goes north through Derry and another south through Littleton/Westford. Such a good spot here for big numbers in snowstorms but I got a shield for any storms in my neighborhood.

Trying to decide to stay put here in Methuen hoping that cell by Leominster really pops or taking a quick drive north to Londonderry area. I Just got back home from walking the dog, might be to late to catch that warned storm north of me anyways.

4 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Toss it. That is probably close enough to not trigger a QC error even though the data is wrong.

Definitely. No other station around reported anything similar either. 

Anyone got a take on Manchester going from 77 down to 64 and right back up to 80 all within an hour. Assuming it's a faulty reading but they have Quality Control listed as OK. Notice no obs from 12:00-12:15 as well.

https://mesowest.utah.edu/cgi-bin/droman/meso_base_dyn.cgi?stn=KMHT&unit=0&timetype=LOCAL

Man do Thunderstorms hate the Merrimack Valley. Sitting in between the cells over Andover/Burlington area an the ones to my north about to go through Londonderry area. Just some light rain and rumbles in the distance here.  Seems to happen quite a lot in this area. 

Had a nice pounding rainstorm in Methuen about an hour ago. Dropped the temp from 90 quickly down to 75. Suns back out now and temp slowly climbing back up to around 78. Round two later on? 

51 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

its interesting to come in here and see this discussion, because I'm debating snow totals with my group of friends in an IM that don't really do weather stuff... 

anyway, I'm saying that I maxed here in Ayer at my place at 14.5" and it doesn't jive with the 18 to 21" being reported around me.  Either: someone ended up in a weird nadir total; someone doesn't know how to measure snow depth; someone is lying... 

Not sure which of those, but I just measure the stack depth ... I didn't clear anything every 6 hours.  I just have a perfect snow board region that is out of the wind and it lain with 14.5" new as of midnight when I crashed, and there was no evidence of accumulation when I awoke this morning. 

So, I am left with a quandary as to how much really fell:  my 14.5" ..or, the average of 18 to 20" ... I really don't believe the latter, however.  I suppose it is possible that there was a 4 to 6" gap that shielded just my street, if not my yard...from the rest of the town...but somehow I find that less likely too - heh

In a similar conundrum myself here in Methuen. 28.3" here and 27.3" in Dracut on the NWS statement and the Methuen one was a trained spotter. I sit right on the line and couldn't find anywhere around my house over 19 inches with 10 plus measurements taken. Definitely interesting.   

3 minutes ago, MarkO said:

Just getting crushed in Lowell under 35dBZ returns. Starting to worry about the white pines. Boughs are nearly touching the ground, that's usually when the upper ones start to give. 

Wind is pretty light, 29.2/28.

What would you say you have on the ground? Saw on the news 15" in Dracut but I got 9.5" here in Methuen right on the Dracut line. Been sitting barely outside that heavy band all day but really starting to rip now. Wondering if the gradient is that tight from here to Nashua.