gravitylover

Irene was a disaster away from the coast, especially as you got up into the Catskills, Berks and Greens. The flooding and attendant damage was unreal.

I wouldn't mind seeing another one the day before Thanksgiving where I get 10" of cement that shuts down the drunken stupidity like we got in 2014.

2 hours ago, Brian5671 said:

really moving north quickly-some showers already into south Jersey

I was in a very heavy (short) downpour in Mamaroneck this afternoon. It cleaned all the bugs off the front of the car and windshield  

I need to do what amounts to a lap of CT tomorrow. I'm hoping it's not wall to wall rain all day.

That looks to be moving pretty quickly. What are the chances most of it rolls through overnight rather than during the day tomorrow?

Holy fog weatherkids   I can see across the street but not much further than that. It's a relatively thin ground layer though because there's a distinct blue tinge to the sky and this weird eery bright glow from the sun. 

I saw the temp on the dash hit 87 this afternoon in Danbury but it was mostly 84-86 between Queens and there with low 80's by the bridge. around 3:30. Not looking forward to a bunch more rain on Tuesday, see what y'all can do about keeping it away would ya...? 

But as the sun came back out the last few days my lawn exploded! Everything here has greened back up but fall is definitely starting to take hold as there is color in the trees and leaves on the ground.

8 hours ago, weatherwiz said:

Oh nice! Are they meteorology majors? 

No, one is secondary ed and the other is an English major. We were just there yesterday to watch one of them in her tennis match against the girls from my old college, it's only 25 minutes from home so we're there pretty often. 

WOW at some of the rain totals. I've seen a few over 30" already and it's still pouring and will be for another 10-12 hours. Woof...

1 hour ago, LongBeachSurfFreak said:

Funny, just came back out here. But then again I’m only 3 miles to your west. Today has major erosion issues. A new inlet almost formed during sandy between today and Gilgo where there had been one historically. Robert Moses had 3 inlets filled to create ocean parkway. One at zacks bay one there and one between gilgo and cedar beach. The entire island surrounding the parkway was raised to 14’.

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I didn't know that. Are there before and after pictures somewhere?

Yeah the trails have been carpeted in it too. I think the excessive moisture and attendant high yields of good food have been 'good' for them, it doesn't help (hurt?) that the deer population has exploded.

Yeah it's weird, there's all this blue stuff up there and it makes you squint if you look out to the ESE. 

9 minutes ago, Hitman said:

Actually, I was up in vt for Irene.  That was biblical.  We were trapped in the mrv for 3 days before there was any road access into or out of the valley.  The destruction along the mad river was incredible.  We were staying at about 2000’ and so had no clue of the devastation until we ventured out the following morning.  

You can still see the scars from that event all over the place. The most obvious is going up Rt 4 east out of Rutland but there are some spots where there are trees stacked like cordwood across creeks but they're 15 feet above the regular water level.

4 hours ago, Tenman Johnson said:

Stunning to see that widespread area of 15”+ and nws radar does not have a higher color value. The one feeder to the north has been drowning the same area for hours. Anyone been under that? The last hourly total showed some 3-4” in an hour.

doesnt this kind of rain just penetrate way down and saturate the soils  with lingering problems that are rare and hard to solve?

In my experience yes, the ground just turns to jello and trees flop over if you look at them sideways for a while after the storm has passed. You also get trees that were on the edge of being unhealthy and they soak it up like a sponge and branches randomly fall for a while afterwards too. You'll also see streets get wavy when big trucks drive past if the underlying road bed isn't thick and properly built. 

4 hours ago, rclab said:

Those people are probably lonly ooking at October through March when the city averages about 75% of its average yearly total. We sought of get imprinted with those monster fall and winter Pacific lows that crash into the nortwest coast. Summer there seems very dry.

IME it is very dry there for a good part of the year, I've only been there in June and July but I've never seen more than a few clouds in the sky and temps over 80*. As with most of the Pacific coast the days start out grey but it's low level fog that burns off by ~10am, that's why it's so lush from about Santa Barbara north into Canada and the Redwoods are able to grow to such staggering heights even though it's so dry for so many months.

My kids go to school there now. I might have to go this year if the wife doesn't already have something planned for me that day.

6 hours ago, Hitman said:

Ha, I was just thinking the same thing.  I had just moved into my house a few months before.  Massive flooding here. There is a brook that runs through the property.  The runoff from Floyd completly rearranged it, ripping rocks and earth from an old dam and one bank and depositing it downstream.  It was crazy town.  Have t seen it like that since.

Chances are you won't see anything like that again for a long, long time. That was something truly amazing. The rain gauge in Fahnestock St Park recorded over 15" of rain that afternoon and most of the area along the Taconics got 14 or more. I don't remember the numbers down in Poughkeepsie but I want to say it was over 12" especially in the hills just east of town. The only other time I've seen rain anywhere near that heavy was in Cordova AK in July of 1989 when we got 11" in just a few hours in town and near 14" at the top of the mountains right above town. If I never see rainfall rates like these two again it will be ok, the devastation that much water in hilly terrain creates is overwhelming and you're absolutely powerless to do anything other than watch. Seeing 60 foot tall trees getting tossed and splintered like matchsticks and watching cars get picked up and washed into ravines is scary stuff 

^^ It's amazing how much more rain I got here from Floyd than the city got, nearly 10" more! I don't remember the total from Irene but I think it was also considerably more than the 7" on that list.

2 hours ago, Superstorm said:

 

There may be more rainy/drizzly days in Seattle, but NYC averages more rainfall total per year.

Seattle....37”
NYC........45”
Miami.....62”


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Every time I try to explain this to people they tell me I'm wrong 

1 hour ago, Stormlover74 said:

Radar is deceiving. Almost no returns showing up but its raining moderately at the moment

Here it's the mist, it's so thick it might as well be raining.

1 hour ago, JerseyWx said:

Funny you bring that up.  I actually had the windows up with no AC on yesterday driving on 287 because of the noise.  A lot of times I go without AC when driving, unless I have passengers 

This weather for me, and probably like 3 other posters, is great.

I turn the tunes up, it drowns out the wind noise 

You can keep it  

Yeah I much prefer keeping the windows open in the car but unless you're moving at a decent clip it's so unpleasant that AC is still necessary. Disturbing...

When we think we've had a lot of rain I can't help but think of the guy in NC that posted in their Florence thread last night that he is at 103" so far for the year. I couldn't believe it when i saw it but he confirmed it. Can you imagine...

23 hours ago, ice1972 said:

I haven’t seen one all season up here in CT.....that’s a bit odd....but ya here there usually gone by mid August if not earlier

I'm  ~40 miles west of you and they've been thick here. 

I haven't seen any in a few days now. I think the cool temps finally put them down for the season.

6 hours ago, Brian5671 said:

incredible tropical downpour here in progress-easily an inch in 20 minutes

I was north and east of you in CT today and drove through some pretty heavy rains. There was a lot of water on the roads north of Fairfield and some creeks overflowing and running across the roads.