BrianW

0410 PM TSTM WND GST NEW HAVEN 41.31N 72.93W
08/27/2020 M69 MPH NEW HAVEN CT MESONET

What a storm. Came right over me. Huge gusts coming in from all directions. Definitely some rotation. The damage I am hearing from friends in the area is nuts. Telephone poles blown over but not from trees falling. 

From what i am hearing. It started around exit 9 in North Haven and went SE right into Branford. There was another one possibly further north that went right through the center of North Haven. Last radar shot before I lost power and cell service.

I am new to radar scope. Is there a way to see past radar data?

Just now, Spaizzo said:

Anyone near route 80 are of north Branford? My gram is there by herself and well cannot get a hold of her.

Cell phones are down all over Branford, East Haven, North Haven, etc. Can't get ahold of anyone either. Im on wifi off my generator. 

1 minute ago, Mr. Windcredible! said:

Branford must’ve gotten nailed...10,000 outages there per Eversource...just over 30k statewide

Lost power and cell service here in Branford. Was insane. I am hearing North Haven is a disaster.

Last frame before I lost cell service.

Just saw Vail has announced its guidelines for Colorado. Seems really excessive. I think most people aren't going to bother going with all these guidelines in place. 

Vail Resorts owns five resorts in Colorado, including Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone and Crested Butte. Highlights of the protocols announced Thursday include:

• Guests will be required to wear face coverings on mountains and in every area of resort operations, including lift lines, on lifts and in gondola cars.
• Only related parties (guests skiing or riding together) will be loaded together on lifts, with exceptions: Two unrelated parties will be allowed to load on four-person chairlifts, seated on opposite sides of the chair; two unrelated singles or pairs will be allowed to sit on opposite sides of six-person chairs; two singles will be allowed to sit on opposite sides of gondola cabins.
• A reservation system prioritizing Epic Pass holders will be implemented to limit numbers and ensure that guests will have the space they need while at the resort. Pass holders will be required to make reservations before arriving at the resort. The number of lift tickets sold to the general public on a given day will depend on how many pass holders have made reservations, and they will be sold only online or through Vail Resorts call centers.

https://theknow.denverpost.com/2020/08/27/vail-resorts-ski-season-coronavirus-reservations/244367/

I'm working down in the Stamford area today. My work van has been bouncing between 84-86. 

26 minutes ago, wxeyeNH said:

937mb.   Port Arthur is going to take a beating.  Wonder if heating oil is produced there?   Maybe time to quickly fill up the oil tanks before prices go up the next few days??

I was just looking at the aerial view of Port Arthur. The amount of chemical/oil industry there is eye opening.  The size of the Valero refinery is incredible. Its looks to be over 2 miles wide. 

Are these places designed for a direct hit? If not the environmental impact is going to be huge. There is a huge BASF chemical plant just the North as well.

24 minutes ago, dendrite said:

I like ash, but I’m not a fan of drenching with chemicals to save the trees. Ash and elm will probably need some sort of gene editing to deter EAB and prevent DED. Hemlock and maybe oak are next in line. 

I usually don't use them either but the tree service gave me a deal to inject it with Tree-age since they were already here.. It supposedly is the best stuff to use against EAB and lasts for 2 years. I mainly did it because it is insanely expensive to get a tree removed here. That ash cost me almost $4k to get removed with some other small tree trimming. I bought myself 2 more years and I can get it injected again for $400 next year to buy 2 more. 

That's part of the big issue here is homeowners don't have the cash to get dead trees cut down. So they end up on power lines.  I know 2 people that actually paid to get their neighbors huge dead standing ash trees cut down. Cheap insurance especially when it was leaning towards their house. 

https://arborjet.com/product/tree-age/

44 minutes ago, PhineasC said:

Haven’t noticed any blonding. Basically the crowns of all of the trees are dead. Could have been an ice storm I guess. Locals said there was a nasty one a few years back that clipped all the ash. 

I lost 1 ash to EAB here in CT but have been treating another really old one with a soil drench of Imidcloprid. Its still doing great where just about every ash here is completely dead.. You can get a bottle of Dominion 2l on Amazon for like $25. Its the same stuff the pros use. 

The crown died off first on the one I lost. There will be woodpeckers all over it like crazy if you have EAB.

Here is the one I lost and the other I treated. I counted the rings on the one that was cut down and it was almost 100 years old.

28 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

Debating if I want to do BDL tomorrow or go towards SW CT. Just tough to find good areas with wide open views down there. Could do Newtown...there's a few spots I know. Danbury is a no-no given the COVID spike. 

East Rock Park in New Haven is a great spot. You can drive right to the top in your car. I think the elevation is 366 feet there. Awesome views. 

A UCONN professor of forestry wrote about how all the dead ash and oak trees in 2018 are going to cause major problems. Looks like the situation is pretty bad in Eastern CT from gypsy moths according to the article with some areas having 80-90% canopy loss.

From a public safety point of view, the numbers of dead trees that have the potential to ultimately impact roadways and power lines is well beyond the capacity of property owners, town budgets, CT-DOT and/or utilities to address.

https://blog.extension.uconn.edu/201...-insect-pests/

This is a common sight all over CT.

Its been a scorcher even on the shoreline. The water in Long Island sound has been crazy warm this summer. There was a stretch earlier this month where it was above 80 degrees for a few days and hit 85. I think the average sound temp is like 71 for August. New Haven was reporting 80 today. 

Looks like HVN and BDR put up 91's.

Its been an absolute scorcher down here on the CT shoreline. Seems like every morning driving along 95 my work van is 78-80 at 6-7 am. 

7 minutes ago, tamarack said:

Many years ago (mid-50s) I attended summer camp in western Morris County, a YMCA place called Camp Morris.  Weather permitting, they held the Sunday service in a grove of tall (especially to 9-10 year-olds) tulip poplars.  Memories get fuzzy after 65 years, but those trees were probably 20-30" diameter with clean trunks up to 40-50 feet or more and who knows how tall - could not see the tops.  Like being within a bunch of huge columns.  Not many in the woods where we lived in northern Morris, mostly oaks, maples and black birch except for younger stands, which had a whole different suite of species.

Our cabin is near Sparta. My wife has a ton of family around Morris County. You have mentioned many familiar names. She has family in Denville, Long Valley, Parsippany and Dover. I was just there this past weekend Canoeing down the Delaware. 

9 minutes ago, PhineasC said:

I don’t have much experience with them when young. More rural developments in MD tend to have clusters of very tall older specimens because they grow fast and dominate first after the land is returned from being farmland. There are many backyards in central MD that have several trees well over a hundred feet, many of which grew at dangerous angles to get out from under older trees that shaded them. I swear these damn things are dropping crap all year. They also like to shed branches from way up top that come down like spears and impale in the ground. It’s kind of a despised tree around  my old stomping grounds. Also sucks as firewood. I have heard when they are young they can have a nice full look and be more manageable. 

We have a couple huge ones towering over our cabin in NW NJ. We had a branch come down and spear our roof during Isaias. Right now they are dropping those pods like crazy. I was there this past weekend and all night they were dropping on the roof. 

7 minutes ago, Jeff Grann said:

The pool has been needing about 4 hrs a week with the hose to keep it mid skimmer. The pool temp has been 84-86 the past 6 weeks. The young hemlock trees and other mature bushes I have all around the house have needed more water than the pool. I had a soaker hose on for 8 hrs before the TS. That storm made up for most of the 2 inches of rain I've gotten since June. Storms have missed just to my South and North all summer. The few that came in from my west all seemed to magically dissipate in the 35 miles from the Delaware River to my house. Even during the late afternoon hrs. Been a bizarre summer considering how much rain NJ has gotten just to my South

We have a lake cabin in northwest NJ and the amount of rain that area has received is nuts. We have to repair the gravel road like every 2 weeks from the runoff. There are mushrooms growing everywhere. 

Around 57% of people across parts of India's financial hub of Mumbai have coronavirus antibodies, a July study found, indicating that the population may have inadvertently achieved the controversial 'herd immunity' protection from the coronavirus.

https://fortune.com/2020/07/30/herd-immunity-covid-coronavirus-india/

What a special summer...

Spent the weekend at my sister's in Narragansett. We bought most of this right from the boats in Galilee.

29 minutes ago, Jeff Grann said:

Used 26,000 gallons in 2 months. 

Where are you? NY? My water bill in CT is $100-150 every 4 months and I water the hell out of my plants and lawn. 

I highly recommend if you have trees that can fall on your house get them removed. I know of 2 people that had huge oak trees fall on their homes in the recent storm. They are being told to find somewhere to live for up to 4 months. There is nobody available to fix them. 

New York is reopening their gyms on Monday. I know someone in the industry. CT gyms have had over 150k+ people check in and there hasn't been a single covid case associated with any gyms in CT. Not a single staff or contact trace with a gym member. Supposedly that data was huge in getting NY to reopen their gyms. 

On a related note. Its pretty alamring how many people I haven't seen in awhile thay are extremely overweight now. This includes children as well. 

My friend owns a pool company and has been working 7 days a week all summer. He has deposits down through next summer. Said there aren't enough pool companies for the demand. 

Maximum derecho wind estimate now at 140 mph, Atkins measures 126 mph

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - New data collected by the National Weather Service shows even stronger winds than initially surveyed, according to meteorologists.

The Quad Cities office of the agency released new storm reports on Wednesday morning, following further storm surveys and new information relayed by emergency managers.

Based on the damage to the Westdale Court apartments on the southwest side of Cedar Rapids, which removed the roof, outside walls, and some inside walls from the top floor, National Weather Service damage surveyors estimate that 140 mph winds took place in that location.

https://www.kcrg.com/2020/08/19/maximum-derecho-wind-estimate-now-at-140-mph-atkins-measures-126-mph/