ORH_wxman

The ice bath sitting there in the N ATL doesn’t inspire a ton of confidence for the NAO. Hopefully it doesn’t end up mattering. GOA has been cooling a lot too recently though still above average while the warm pool south of Aleutians has been strengthening....wonder if the PDO will try and go negative this winter.

Yeah it all depends on the relative location to the terrain around you. If you are on a local hill at 1500, it won’t radiate nearly as well as a local depression at 1500. Around there, you have such steep hills and mountains, that the differences get magnified. You prob radiate decent being generally between two large mountains but not as well as down the road along rt 2 in a relative depression.

Yeah the terrain is so steep in the whites there that you can have massive radiational cooling differences over small distances.

Loons out this evening

Yeah the pandemic has driven a stake through a lot of zombies.

Yeah, shortys don’t exactly represent the same thing as long lived majors.

Yeah 1804 hurricane-turned-blizzzard sounds about right.

Even a hurricane Bob like 100-150 miles west would be ridiculous.

Those other groups should have demanded hazard pay. Some got it actually because some of those workers were unionized and other companies voluntarily started offering hazard pay. But many people did not get it. Schools are one of the worst though for environment. My wife’s classroom is poorly ventilated and has no windows. Packing a bunch of teenagers in there who will be lazy about keeping their masks on correctly is definitely a breeding ground for super spreader events.

We’ve mostly been staying put. We did pick up a few items at hannfords and before the rain came in yesterday we got ice cream at the Gazebo. We’ll grab some take out steamed lobsters tomorrow night from Mack’s probably. I actually haven’t done campfire grill yet. We’ve almost went a couple times in our past trips...we’ll def make the trip over there next time now that I know it’s good.

Megan has been in the teacher’s union meetings the past couple weeks....and they are getting a lot of pressure from the outside to just return to school with very little safety precautions in place. I was saying that the union should demand hazard pay if they are gonna be forced to teach in front of a couple hundred teens per day.

Amazing day on the lake

Yeah weak Ninas are good for snow in December. Ninas in general are good for snowy Decembers but you are right that the weak ones seem to have fewer duds mixed in. Dec 2016 was kind of near average. But Dec 2017, 2008, 2005, 2000, 1995 were all above average for the most part (2000 was kind of meh along the coast but good inland)...Dec ‘71 wasn’t great but Nov ‘71 was lol...and then the rest of winter was big. Dec 83 was similarly good inland but pretty mediocre right on the coast.

Yeah I remember the pitchforks being out for CL&P after Oct 2011. Towns literally next door that were serviced by other companies were restored while the CL&P customers went for days and days longer without power. In some cases weeks.

Ahh. I figured. I don’t remember reading about eversource back then. Seems like eversource swallowed up all their subsidiaries.

Whatever happened to CT light and power? Are they still around? I remember they were eviscerated after the Oct 2011 storm after some criticism during Irene 7-8 weeks earlier. There was a map along the MA/CT border that showed the CT border towns with like 80-100% outages and the MA border towns with very few.

I’m still a little puzzled as to why it didn’t gust that hard for places like ORH into interior E MA and N RI...they were under pretty strong LLJ late afternoon and there was actually some sunshine there so you would have thought very good LL lapse rates and mixing potential. But it was basically a clunker for winds....you wouldn’t have even known a storm moved through looking at pics of my neighborhood....and it’s a susceptible area for tree damage too on a hill. There were some pockets of convective showers that produced...esp closer to the south shore, but otherwise, meh. But im struggling to meteorologically explain it. Maybe the LLJ just weakened a lot more than every piece of guidance had it as it moved northeast. Or maybe there was just enough extra land friction there...not sure. The latter wouldn’t explain places like BAF up to Chris in greenfield getting big winds though while the 495 belt was experiencing merely a gusty summer afternoon.

Irene was pretty strong in SE MA and the Cape. This one def focused the best wind further west. It seemed to be a lot spottier further east driven by convective pockets.

Congrats man. You wanted this and called it. Hopefully you bring down a few more. Sounds like it was a total dud back home. Not expecting much up here Maine either.

ORH gusted back up to 44 knots last update. Still pretty underwhelming for them though. Let’s see if they can rip a 50-55er before the stinger is gone.

Maybe E MA only got the first line. We’ll see how it goes in the next 60 min. FIT did put up a 45kt gust which is solid for that crater. Somehow ORH only went 44kt. Still a bit of time though under the max LLJ.

We’ll see how it does there. It was a dud in central/interior E MA

Seems like most of interior MA east of about the Quabbin didn’t get into it much. Kind of weird that CEF/BAF got hit but ORH on the exposed ridge was a total snoozer. Just the way it goes sometimes though. The interior can be really fickle when it comes to these things. Seems like interior CT to interior RI still got solid winds. Big winner was the south coast obviously...but that was advertised from the start.

Most people underestimate wind strength and over estimate wind speed. This is because the force of wind is exponential to the speed increase...it’s not a linear increase. As well-versed as I am in it over the years, I still find myself over estimating wind speed at times.

That’s really good for that pit. I keep waiting for ORH to get a big one but they have been total weak sauce so far. 41 kt is their max.