gravitylover

I ran into quite a few heavy downpours around western CT today. There was a fair bit of water on the road in a lot of places, creeks are bank full and there's lots of deep standing water filling the low spots.

One thing that is kind of scary is how many (really) big trees are leaning precariously over roads and power lines just waiting for a strong breeze to bring them down. You'd think these electric companies would have learned after last winter and the May storm to take these things down. I think it's time to keep 5 or 10 gallons of gas always ready to go into the generator. I wish I could get ethanol free gas near me so I didn't have to use Sta-Bil. 

15 minutes ago, Rainforrest said:

Definitely not good. We’ve already had 103 inches so far this year. I don’t know how much more we can handle. 

103"? WOW. 

In the latest visible shot this really is a beautiful storm. Knowing (approximately) what's going to happen over the next few days I hate appreciating it but I can't help it.

Someone on the north side of the Chesapeake area-MD/DEL/NJ coast is getting a heckuva surf day today.

2 hours ago, uncle W said:

it rose to 63 the past hour...so much for the record again...

It was this close 

Looks like we wrap up the first 24 hours of this period with ~1.3" here.

Just short of 1.2" now with the heaviest rain and strongest winds of the day so far.

I think 57 was my high (so far) for today. It's just raw and nasty out there, we've had over 1" since last night.

51 minutes ago, IrishRob17 said:

Correct.  The one friend is cheap though and wants to save money.  Personally, I'm not going in September again, did it twice and one year was fine while the other sucked.  I'm going again next August.   

I know all about being frugal   As of just two weeks ago I wouldn't have thought twice about grabbing a deal on a few days on the beach down there but now it looks like a different story for the next few weeks. Even August is questionable but, I'd do it.

We seem to be running ~.1/hour so far today. Not bad, gives it a chance to soak in rather than otherwise. Hopefully Flo doesn't send much for rain and wind up this way or we'll have trees flopping over, so much is weak from the winter storms and how wet it's been this year and NYSEG did a piss poor job of clearing the lines in case another real storm hits the area which puts us in another no power situation. Something to look forward to 

53 minutes ago, IrishRob17 said:

Friends of mine picked the wrong week to go to the OBX, mandatory evacuation starts at 12pm 

That's the risk you take going at this time of year. It's pretty much peak season for them down there.

Looks like we are now up to ~.65" here since last night.

17 hours ago, LongBeachSurfFreak said:

Not a fun day to be an ocean life guard as it’s one of the coldest days I have ever sat in the stand.  Some swell from Florence has arrived though fairly small owing to distance and decay. 

What is the current water temp and how quickly do you expect it to drop from this point onward? If it clears up I'd sure love to come down on Wednesday for a last beach day, I think the water is going to get all churned up and it just won't be as nice after Flo does whatever she chooses to do.

53 minutes ago, JustinRP37 said:

They say patterns can be hard to break. Well this whole rain on the weekends pattern has been one of the most stubborn patterns I can ever remember. I am hoping that fall gives us some nicer weekends. And I swear to God if ANYONE says we could use some rain after a dry week or two... After all those fall leaves are supposed to make a nice crunching sound when you step on them, not turn to a soggy mess! 

But they do start to decompose more quickly when they're wet so there's that... 

Appears to be about .3" here and it's been pretty steady light rainfall with short periods of moderate mixed in since about 8 last night. For as little rain as has fallen the roads are getting ugly with big puddles and ponding on the roadways. 

Haha I'm on the third day now with pants and a jacket is in order this morning. I had to turn on the heat too because it was 62* in the house this morning and while it sort of feels good it's damp and it makes the old man back feel crappy. 52* with light rain and wind sure does feel like fall  

10 hours ago, sferic said:

With SST so very, very high how are we seeing temps in the upper 50's nearby?

Air movement is from the NNW. Look at the radar, you see that firm northern boundary to the precipitation? We are in a completely different airmass than down closer the coast.

7 hours ago, sb7916 said:

I'm hoping that if it does make landfall on the Carolinas that it somehow continues to track westward towards the central states and then straight up into Canada and doesn't make the northward curve back towards NYC so NYC can also escape getting hit with the remnants. We always seem to get hit with the remnants which in turn still gives us cloudy dreary miserable weather which in that case if this is always gonna happen with us east coast landfall hurricanes then we might as well have it make a direct hit on our area since it will still give us cloudy rainy miserable weather either way. I live in the NYC area and am getting so tired of the unsettled stretch with weekends of late in particular which seems to be the target time frame yet again for us if that damn hurricanes remnants bothers us. I'm so sick of it already and want nicer weekends already

Dude I think you need to live in San Diego.

A little harder than drizzle here. That northern boundary to this looks pretty firm. I hate being in the soup knowing that it's nice not far away.

3 hours ago, forkyfork said:

70 degree dewpoints return monday

Is that circulation over MI the remnants of Gordon?

3 hours ago, uncle W said:

 

as a kid growing up and living thru the 1980's I would never have dreamed or wish cast the amount of snowy winters since 1993...not to mention the 20" storms and 50" seasons...

No doubt. I just figured the two big storms in 1978 were a fluke until early 94 when I realized that it was really possible to get a good winter around here. I still wouldn't have expected what we've been through this century.

Looks like central Dutchess is getting pretty wet this morning and another line is headed for the southern part of the county soon. 

6 hours ago, LibertyBell said:

Wow 5 hours sounds absolutely exhausting!  When you said your car was floating, I bet you were wishing for more "gravity"!

 

I'm pretty used to spending 8-12 hours a day traveling so that in itself isn't too big a deal but when you kind of have your mind set on ~3 hours and it ends up at 5 those last few are rough. Last week I had a great solo trip up to Toronto with a stop at a brewery in Syracuse for lunch and one work stop for another hour so instead of 8 hours if I had done it straight through it ended up closer to 11. I actually enjoy the windshield time. Yeah when the rear end lost traction and the car started to go sideways with a wave created by an suv it was a bit disconcerting  As it bumped the curb on the side it regained traction and shot out of the water pretty easily. I hate how when traffic here in the NY area is really tight and you can't stop and have to just "dive in" because otherwise you're gonna shut down a whole road. That's what happened on the Hutch, there were cars sitting in the middle of the road after apparently screaming into deep water at highway speed and the WPD had the road closed and were making everybody leave and head onto surface streets.

I was out in the Hamptons when the weather started building this afternoon. You could see the storms over CT from Amagansett around 3. A few minutes after I left the gas station in Southampton it was setting in all black and filled with lightning and clouds bubbling under just north of 27 and stayed there for almost 30 minutes before overspreading the area as I headed inland on the Southern State. By the time I got to 135 it was absolutely pouring and the water was several inches deep on the road. As I headed west again on the NSP it was easing up but the standing water on the road was still a couple of inches deep especially on the sides where it was about 5". There were some intense downpours along the way and it had mostly let up by the time I got to the CIP but the exit ramp to the Throgs Neck Bridge was easily a foot deep, my car has 4.5" of clearance and it started floating just before reaching the end of the puddle  In Westchester the Hutch was a mess and was closed in a few spots on the southbound side.

The ride from home to Easthampton was just a hair over 2 hours this morning but nearly 5 hours coming home  Some places got a months worth of rain in a pretty short time this afternoon.

1 hour ago, forkyfork said:

oh no, mosquito bites! it's just like having cancer

It's not just mosquitoes, the variety of bugs this year is pretty amazing. See below...

1 hour ago, tim said:

...black fly warning for all south shore beaches.

last time we had a N wind the beaches were unbearable(last thurs)..think today will be 

the same..those sonsofbitches bite and too quick to swat..glad i'm in a/c today..

Yeah these things have been thick in some places up in the Hudson Valley and CT too. At the restaurant we were at last night they had to bring out citronella candles and surround the outside tables because at sunset they came out and it was unbearable. 

I hope it's not like that down there tomorrow, we're planning on coming down for our last beach day of the year.

20 minutes ago, Cfa said:

His post said 10 degrees with heavy snow, which is why I responded in the first place, I was genuinely curious, it wasn’t an “Oh you’re wrong”-type of response. I said I was unsure if I’d ever seen heavy snow below 25 degrees, lower 20’s probably would’ve made more sense.

I never said it was exceedingly rare, only that it isn’t the norm, and wasn’t anything I’d noticed.

One of my favorite heavy snow events was 32" at 12-14* in November 1994. Granted it wasn't here, or even near here, but it was absolutely amazing. That was on top of 14" the night before and in the middle of a 400" over 60 days stretch. I love the west slope of the Tetons  

1 minute ago, Cfa said:

  26 minutes ago, CIK62 said:

"There was significant snow during early daylight hours of Sunday, Jan.20, 1985, in Brooklyn at least,  on strong NW winds and 11degs.    It cleared and we set a -2deg. record Monday morning."

Thanks. I didn’t know this was possible in our neck of the woods.

I remember this period pretty well. We had some crazy cold on LI and up in VT where I went to college it was outrageously cold. I remember seeing temps of -30 up there and daytime temps in the -20's. On Friday nights I took my car battery inside because I had to be at work 30 miles away at 7am and couldn't risk the car not starting.

19 hours ago, forkyfork said:

bugs are great. buncha downers in this thread

Dude the stinging, biting insects have been overwhelming this year. Sometimes it's so unpleasant being outside and I'm an outdoor person through and through. Maybe your toxic NJ environment has reduced the insect population but up here in the clean zone it's pretty terrible.

8 hours ago, Juliancolton said:

The mosquitoes have been awful lately. They seem completely undeterred by liberal applications of DEET and sting you in maddening places like eyelids and between fingers. I'd also like to file a complaint about the tent caterpillar nests defiling all my trees. While I'm at it, I have a bone to pick with the moths that wait at your door to follow you inside, then spend three days evading swats and bouncing around your computer screen while you try to work. And the spider webs strewn across the yard every single morning, intolerable. What am I missing?

All insects can gtfo except fireflies and ladybugs... and only enough ladybugs to eat the aphids, not assemble into disgusting mobs in every windowsill as soon as the temperature drops to 45 for an hour.

45 minutes ago, IrishRob17 said:

Violently agree.  Every year a spider manages to use my Davis as a starting point for one of its webs. Oh, you forget the yellow jackets and flies which have been terrible lately as well. 

This has definitely been the year of the bug. We have a spider cricket problem and have a few other unique critters that I could really do without in and about the house and yard. As for your skeeter problem, we use an essential oils cocktail that works wonders - Lavender, Eucalyptus, Tea Tree and Cedarwood - about 8-10 drops of each into ~6oz water into a spray bottle. Spray a fine mist all over yourself from the top of your head including your face to your feet hitting all of your clothing openings and the back of your knees liberally. You'll get a couple of minor bites but the true devastation ought to be reduced to near zero. I'll have them swarming my face when I'm riding but they rarely land and if they do it's only for a split second. This stuff also works wonders on ticks and chiggers.

It's already icky out there this morning, looks like a great day to hang out in the central AC  

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1 hour ago, SACRUS said:

Must be nice swells east of DE bay (check out vis sat)

 

 

Boy those storms blowing up ESE of the Chesapeake area are cool to watch. I bet the surfing down there is 'interesting' today.