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The heaviest rain that I can remember besides the floods on March 30, 2010 was during the remnants of Hurricane Ida. I remember driving home from work that night and actually having to stop multiple times because visibility was zero from the relentless pounding rain.

Yeah, at the very least I would say that Gay in 1992, Angela in 1995, Haiyan in 2013, and Meranti in 2016 have all surpassed Tip. Maybe Patricia in 2015 and Monica in 2006, as well. I remember seeing some estimates of pressures in the 860s for Monica, but nothing proven. Patricia may have also surpassed Tip since it was still intensifying after the record breaking recon pass.

Yeah, I'm saying even in general, it's a shame that if we ever get a typhoon stronger than Tip we will never know because we don't have recon. I'm sure that Tip has already been surpassed but we can't prove it.

Its a damn shame that we don't have recon anymore in the WPAC. Even if we get something that surpasses Tip, we will never know.

Definitely running behind yesterday, which is weird because today was supposed to be a little bit hotter than yesterday.

The all time record high min for PVD is 80F from 6/6/1925. I've always questioned that particular record. It was only early June there's no way that it's accurate. The second highest on record is 78F and that was set multiple times but in the middle of summer, not the first week of June.

The last time PVD had back to back 100 degree days was 1991. They didn't make it this time.

The media nowadays likes to hype every weather event to the max. Every heat wave is "extreme". This event isn't anything crazy. Although I doubt that many people would notice a big difference between 100F and 105F anyways.

I agree with mostly everything you said, except believe it or not, this current hurricane drought is not the all-time record. That record is the 42 year drought between a hurricane in 1896 and the 1938 hurricane. But we are definitely very overdue for one to say the least! Also, it seems like the 1930s were extreme for both heat and cold records. You had the 1930s Dust Bowl and then you had the coldest temps ever recorded in February 1934. I suppose that there is a degree of randomness to everything.

Are you sure that there were low dews on August 2, 1975? I'm not sure how accurate this site is, but it shows 104F with a dew point of 77F at the 2PM observation at KPVD. https://www.wunderground.com/history/daily/KPVD/date/1975-8-2 I just think that its kind of ironic how even with all this global warming that is happening, we still haven't been able to beat 1975, despite many other areas of the country (and world) breaking their all time record highs.

So July 1911 is probably the closest that we could get to something like that in this area then? Or August 1975? That 98F max at PVD on April 19, 1976 still baffles me. I wonder how hot it would've been if we had that same setup in July.

Any particular reason for this? I would've thought that the westerly flow off the ocean would make it more difficult for Seattle but obviously that wasn't the case in June 2021. But before that event, Boston had a higher record than Seattle.

You have to wonder if this area of the country will ever see a synergistic heat event similar in magnitude to what the PNW saw in June 2021. Surely if Seattle can hit 108F then Boston could do the same? If anything I would expect it to be more doable for Boston.

Too bad we can't get what the Mid-Atlantic is getting today.

Yeah I consider March 2018 to be king in my lifetime. Oct 2017 and 2021 were both good but they happened at night and the damaging winds didn't last for as long as in March 2018. Unless you live on the immediate coast, wind is usually underwhelming in New England.

The top map is missing a few readings around the PVD area that are visible in the second map. I see a 37", a 31", and a 30.5" missing.

Wow, I just came across this article published by the Martha's Vineyard Times which states that they measured 38" in the parking lot of TCI Press printing company in my town. Extremely impressive to say the least. I wonder why that one never made it into the snow reports? https://www.mvtimes.com/2026/02/26/delivered-news-great-blizzard-26/

Well that's what I thought originally. People were saying that Northern Rhode Island and areas just southwest of Boston is where 1978 was king, but then that map that was just posted on here shows a >36 zone for 1978 but the 2026 map only has the 24-36 zone even though some areas got >36 in this one too.

Oh wow tunnels? I had no idea that it piled up that much. So I guess that 1978 still ranks as #1 around here then? I'm so confused because everyone is saying how this was more than 1978 but I guess not.

Yeah that's too bad that the data isn't available anymore. 1978 was definitely more widespread large totals over a much larger area. Personally, I still think that outside of northern RI, 2026 had bigger totals for SEMA/RI but maybe it's just a recency bias on my part. I didn't live through 1978 so I wouldn't know any better.

Oh wow do you have the link for that measurement by any chance? The map that I saw only had a 20" over Seekonk so that's surprising to me. But even with 27" in 1978, this one still had more. I measured 31" IMBY in a very flat spot on my sidewalk with no drifting so I'd say that it's pretty accurate.

Oh absolutely. SEMA in particular. I mean, technically I'm in SEMA but I'm right on the RI border so in general I have RI's climo more than SEMA which has more ocean influence and therefore more severe coastals than most of RI.

Agreed. Seekonk is more in line with RI climo than the rest of SEMA. You guys definitely do better in coastals than RI does. It's very rare to get an RI jack. Even in 2005, I remember that Seekonk only got like 15" officially. Not sure how accurate that was though since it felt like way more than that as a kid. 2026 was by far the biggest storm for Seekonk on record. Snow maps from 1978 have us with like 20" here.

Yeah overall, 2022 was the first time this area jacked since 2005, and before that 1996. So it really doesn't happen all that frequently like many people think. Going by PVD records, the top five are 2026, 1978, 1996, 2005, and 2022. Outside of those, we have done good in several like you said but nothing S tier like out west. Jan 2011, Feb 2013, Jan 2015, Feb 2017, and Jan 2018 all dropped over a foot here, but then between Jan 2022 and Jan 2026 we got barely anything at all. People say it's always SEMA but we've been screwed over for a long time too, and Rhode Island in particular! I remember for many years it seemed like every major storm had the entire state in a snow hole. 2022 and 2026 was their redemption I guess.

You misunderstood what I said. You should read my posts again. I said nothing about people trying to make the storm live up to the hype after the rug pull. Actually the opposite. I think that people are trying to "downgrade" the storm after the rug pull and convince themselves and other people that the totals down south were erroneous and inflated, because it makes them feel better like they didn't miss out on a generational event.