Despite the drizzle and rain at 33F-34F went outside and the snow still has a very sleety/icy crust on it. Not really that mushy on top yet. This stuff is gonna be ridiculous after the refreeze tonight.
I think we got a handheld at 65-67ish on the beach at CHH in Noel and that is obviously only 6 feet off ground and not 10m. There were def some hurricane gusts in spots during that.
Irene was pretty good on the Cape too. Earl was kind of a bust.
You have some random vorts rotating down east of the block over Hudson Bay. We need that to ease just a touch to allow the huge ULL to amplify the downstream ridging a bit more.
Remember all the damage when we drove back to my grandparents house in Yarmouth? It was damage everywhere. Really impressive storm that was. One of the few that lived up to the hype.
Wasn’t Noel. Noel was actually an epic chase. That was almost legit Hurricane conditions at CHH. We found that shit tavern that was open to get inside for cover. You literally couldn’t look into the wind because it was sandblasting everyone…that was despite downpours…wind was so strong it didn’t matter. It couldn’t mat the sound down enough and we’d just get blasted.
Yeah lot of heavy rain over SE MA. We’re mostly missing it so far thank god. Had a quick band come through about 20 min ago.
Not gonna escape that slug in NJ though.
Had around 5”…went to bed and cleared when we had close to 3” and then woke up and another 2” new….total new depth though with compaction is about 3.5-4”….super super dense and meaty with the sleet and poor snow growth in there.
The worst part is I had to dig out the mailbox manually. Drive belt or wheel got messed up on snow blower and it wouldn’t move this morning. Talk about bad timing.
Absolutely scalping here. Everytime it seems it wants to go to more straight ZR (or RA since it’s now 32F), it starts going crazy with the pellets again. Should finally go to RA pretty soon at some point.