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Or BDF w/ 45 and +DZFG!

Tubular vortex action near Logan Airport: https://www.wcvb.com/article/unusual-boston-waterspout-video-pleasure-bay/70952510 The cause of these make sense (wingtip vortices from aircraft). See here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViKYFsN3p24 They are not dust devils over water since it was cloudy and early in the day and these are too small in diameter really for conventional waterspouts. I've seen videos before on small lakes under similar conditions, and I said then "it's too small for a true waterspout!" So this explains it.

-6 at Estcourt Station ME!

Powder blizzard in April, quite a storm. And the cold behind it? -25 C at 850. BOS high of 25 the day after the storm was colder than the previous record *low* temp for the day, despite full sun.

Scott would be happy w/ this from 39 years ago. Vicariously he would be impressed! 4/3/1987 A large, slow moving low pressure produced very heavy snows over the Appalachian Region starting on the 3rd and continuing into the 5th. 60 inches fell at Newfound Gap in western North Carolina -- the largest single storm snowfall in the state's history. Up to 36 inches was reported in southeastern Kentucky. The total of 25 inches at Charleston, West Virginia easily surpassed its previous record for the entire month of April of 5.9 inches. The 20.6 inch total at Akron, Ohio established an all-time record for that location. Interstate 40 was closed by snow for the first time since it was opened 20 years ago. This storm also dumped heavy snow in central and northeastern Alabama. Never before had a snowfall blanketed Alabama in April. 10 inches fell at Valley Head, 9 inches piled up at Fort Payne, and Birmingham recorded 6 inches. Lightning and thunder accompanied the snow in some areas while snow flurries fell as far south as Mobile. This was the first snow ever reported in the month of April in Mobile since records began in 1872. The storm became known unofficially as the "Dogwood Snowstorm" in the state. This same storm resulted in big flooding in New England. I recall the Merrimack River at ULowell ragin'! 4/4/1987 New England was in the middle of its second heavy rainstorm in 5 days. This was the same storm that produced record snows in the Appalachians. This storm dumped 4 to 7 inches of rain over the area and this, combined with snow melt and rivers already at bankfull, produced record flooding, especially in Maine. 2300 homes were flooded in Maine with 215 totally destroyed. Record water levels were reached at many dams. Damage in the state alone reached 100 million dollars.

We had the WWB in the WPAC and two strong TCs form in the SPAC w/ one currently developing in the NW PAC. A strong WWB like this is often a precursor for s sig El Nino.

Any "WE GRAUPEL" later in the day w/ the convective stuff?

April snow is ALWAYS welcome, esp. the big PHATTY flakes! LOL.

It's bad enough the hard science gets mucked up, but an increasing problem w/ time is the how all/any information is presented. It has become egregious in many respects So many tropes, logical fallacies, slant/spin, and sleazy rhetoric that taints the facts and truth! I get the business of the media and other outlets, it is a business, but they way things has degraded over time has become a disservice to the public by in large. Weather is fascinating enough as it is, and there is more than enough great info out there available to all to have plenty to talk about w/ distracting "bells and whistles." I find so many have a genuine interest in weather, but they have trouble where to start for info and even then have trouble separating fact from fiction, hype from the real deal!

Strongest in a century? We don't have adequate/detailed enough ocean temp records prior to the 1970s to properly quantify the true extent of super El Ninos, which explains why we have only have had 3 since the 1980. https://ggweather.com/enso/oni.htm of 4 if you use RONI: https://ggweather.com/enso/roni.htm Also, any headline that asks a question, the answer is almost always a "NO." It is a devious way to present something as if it will happen when it is not likely to happen or highly uncertain at the time. This is done in wx en masse w/ teasing suppositions and conjectures. And the sub-headline states: "increasingly likely wide-reaching climate impacts that last into 2027." First, it is not climate impacts, it is wx impacts. Atmospheric phenomena impacted from El Nino are short-term. That is wx, not climate. It does not impact "average wx over a long period," it impacts individual wx events/patterns of various degrees in the 1-1.5 year window El Ninos last. This idea that wx=climate and vice versa is ridiculous. Changing the meaning of words to fit a narrative/ideology. Second, why wouldn't El Nino (of any strength, or La Nina for that matter) not have wide-reaching impacts? This is redundant. We know ENSO has wide-reaching impacts, as do the at least a dozen other global and hemispheric oscillations that exists. Third, how can a potential of something be increasingly likely to have impacts? You have something that is uncertain to occur (potential), so how can it be scaled as being increasingly likely to have impacts when you are not even sure if it will occur in the first place? You are putting the wagon in front of the horse here. Not being pedantic here. How science-based information is conveyed is important. Not defining terms correctly or using improper logic/reasoning is bad science.

Full PT by evening? Bordering on priapism I bet! LOL.

That is a *lot* of LTG in last 2 hr (24k+) ending 334am EDT for this time of year to our WNW. CoastalWx may have to pull out his laptop for a LTG PT event for renegade +CG! LOL. At the very least, he should prepare for wicked loud thunder booms under the inversion! Steep mid-level lapse rates all day should give us a couple of rounds TRW+ today. 06z HRRR shows an rather impressive mini-bow echo in ern NY early this evening moving E at nearly 60 mph. Supercell composite not bad in wrn MA/nrn CT/srn VT. ISOLTD "Scott spinner?" I would not be surprised if SPC extends the MRGL into western New England at 13z.

Sandy, whatever you chose to call it at at landfall, made landfall over southern NJ. That's more the Mid-Atlantic than NEUS. I was confined things to a hurricane center crossing the New England coast or Long Island. We've had lots of side swipes from hurricanes in the NEUS, but for a direct landfall, sensible wx impacts are typically much greater, esp. for wind and power outages.

It's now been over 34 years since the last hurricane landfall in New England or LI. This is the longest gap by a considerable margin for the region going back to 1851. If you told me in 1995, the next 30 years would be the most active Atlantic TC period on record, but no NEUS landfalls, I would have said, "NO WAY!!!" Yet, it has happened. NEUS may be more vulnerable in "quiet" periods dictated by the AMO, such as 1970-1994. 3 landfalls then, but that doesn't explain the record 5 in 22 years 1938-1960 during the active period 1926-1969. One reason could be that during "quiet" periods, the MDR being less active, and more "home grown" storms that form closer to the E Coast, increasing the odds of a direct hit.