BrianW

HVN 47.2

I just saw this on Reddit from a CT lineman. Unfortunately, there’s a lot of power companies throughout the US right now, hitting the emergency button due to the weather in their respective areas. From Illinois all the way to Rhode Island and north, hundreds of power companies are snagging all the traveling lineman, nationwide, leaving Eversource short-staffed. The usual crews Eversource would get from Texas and alabama and Canada, are now going to Michigan and New York and other states and even staying back in Canada to work on their own system. Mark my words, if this number reaches to 380,000, I promise you it will not be a 3 day restoration timeframe. It will be a week or more.

Its for just CT. https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/CT-weather-power-outages-rain-wind-chills-17671343.php Eversource, the state's largest electricity provider, increased its outage predictions Thursday afternoon as the storm reached Connecticut. Eversource said it was preparing for a level 4 event with the potential for 125,000 to 380,000 outages that would take two to six days to restore — meaning some customers may still be in the dark on Christmas.

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One challenge regarding potential snow accumulations involves the placement of the inverted trough and associated enhanced precip along it as the shortwave passes aloft tonight. Discrepancies among the different models and among consecutive runs within each model continue, but generally favor a band higher liquid equivalent precip located in the vicinity of NYC to points west of the Hudson. Some guidance shifts this band over areas east of NYC late tonight, leading to a chance that forecast snow accumulations may need to be bumped up a little for areas east of the city, but for now have nudged up the numbers a little.

I still think the 91 corridor or just east near route 9 is going to get crushed later tonight...

From Upton's AFD. The challenge regarding potential snow accumulations involves the placement of the inverted trough and associated enhanced precip along it as the shortwave passes aloft tonight. Discrepancies among the different models and among consecutive runs within each model continue, but generally favor a band higher liquid equivalent precip located in the vicinity of NYC to points west of the Hudson. Some guidance shifts this band over areas east of NYC late tonight, leading to a chance that forecast snow accumulations may need to be bumped up a little for areas east of the city, but for now have nudged up the numbers a little.

Jan 8th Branford Point

It's going to setup right up the 91 corridor. North Haven, Hamden, Wallingford, Meriden, etc..

HVN will jack. What a deep winter scene here.

Might be a good time to buy heating oil before the incoming cold. I saw a billboard on 95 for $3.79 yesterday. Looks like prices have come way down.

Yes EWR has dropped below freezing but the concrete jungle on the outskirts has not. It looks like August here and you guys are like 2 months behind...

There still hasn't been a killing frost here.. I tried to get a fire going last night and there was like zero draft it was so warm.

I'll give Forky credit. I'm unfortunately down near EWR for Thanksgiving. I don't even think they get winter here anymore...

I got sent to Buffalo in I think Dec 2018 for work. There was a Bills game when I was there that like 10 inches fell during the game. Was quite the experience as it snowed nonstop for days. I also had to drive around in rear wheel drive service van that absolutely sucked.

59 here in Narragansett.

Why is there no names on who did the write up? I assume an Upton Met? Someone spent a lot of time analyzing it and writing the report. Why not sign your name on it?

This was a special day...

You should go check out the blooms down at Iggys in Narragansett.

KGON with CT's high today of 75. That's got to be a record.

GON and HVN 74.

Focus the next several hours will be across interior southern CT with upslope flow in a moisture-laden airmass with MUCAPE values of 500-1000 J/KG. PW on the 00Z OKX sounding was 1.97, shattering the all-time value. This is 4 to 5 SD above normal. This is clearly an anomalous regime we are in with respect to this northward late season push of tropical air. Thus there is a concern for a fine line of convection to develop as the front and max forcing coincides with the anomalous moisture rich environment later this morning. The potential is there for lower top convection possibly triggering a very short round of severe weather. Temperatures will likely approach records highs in a few locations like LGA, JFK, BDR, and ISP