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1 hour ago, Baroclinic Zone said:

Lol.  looks like a les streamer 

There is another one now in Central CT. Are they lake effect streamers or something else? 

Edit: NYC thread says its a hige paper fire in NJ. Maybe a fire showing up in CT as well?

Snow Squall warning up for the shoreline counties in CT. 

Light snow breaking out in the New Haven area. Looks like these are going to come through right around rush hour. Heavier bands look to be moving in along the shoreline. Can see 95 being a disaster soon. 

Does anyone know if planes can operate in those temps? Can they take off and land? How could ground crews work in that? I would imagine if not thats going to be a mess with tons of airports closed. 

What time are the squalls expected to roll through the New Haven area? I plan on leaving work early depending on the time. 95 can suck in events like this. Don't feel like sitting in my car for hours if it does turn out bad. 

10 minutes ago, moneypitmike said:

Anyone have recommendations for home security (aside from Smith & Wesson)? 

Need to get one for the new digs.  Kind of a 'welcome to your new life' situation.

There are so many cheap diy options now where you just install all the wireless sensors yourself. I think Simplisafe is the more poular one. 

I would definitely install outdoor motion cameras. I have Ring floodlight cameras and love them. I used mine just recently when my camera went off late at night when I was away and some kids were acting suspicious looking into my cars. You can activate at 130db siren on it. Scares them away real quick. 

Installed a mini split Saturday. This thing is impressive in cold weather. Its rated to full heat output at 5 degrees and cuts out a-13. I used my FLIR and the condenser temp was -20 but it was still putting out 90 degrees at the duct. Cold weather heat pumps are impressive.

I installed a mini split/heat pump Saturday. Screw oil and natural gas. I have solar panels withe excessive capacity so its essentially free to run.

It claims full heat output to 5 degrees and it cuts out at -13.  This weekend was a great test run and at -1 it was still putting out incredible heat. Beyond impressed with it so far.

-26 wind chill at BDL. Impressive.

Ton of people without power tonight....

Neighbor is a lineman for UI in the New Haven area and was called in and they told him to expect to work for 3 days..

Almost 10K without power in North Haven.

https://www.uinet.com/wps/portal/uinet/outages/reportviewoutage/viewoutagemap/

1 minute ago, smokeybandit said:

It depends on the details of your plane's inbound flight.   And based on your route, your scheduled plane has a couple stops at Reagan before your flight.  But since the actual inbound is from Orlando, you might be OK.

 

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N203JB

Jet Blue 1098 is my flight tomorrow at 530 pm. 

I posted this in the mid atlantic forum as well. Looking forward to the storm down here. 

I am in DC for a wedding tonight and have a jetblue flight back to Hartford from Reagan airport at 5 pm tomorrow. Thoughts on that flight happening? 

I am in DC for a wedding tonight and have a jetblue flight back to Hartford from Reagan airport at 5 pm tomorrow. Thoughts on that flight happening? We were planning on taking a cab or uber to the airport. 

Looking forward to the storm though. Its been pretty much snowless back home in CT. 

IBM Wants to Use a Sensor in Your Phone to Create Ultra High-Res Weather Forecasts

https://earther.gizmodo.com/ibm-wants-to-use-a-sensor-in-your-phone-to-create-ultra-1831557349

9 minutes ago, moneypitmike said:

I have a Fujitsu at Pit2.  It gets it done.

How is the cold weather performance? I haven't really experienced any real cold yet but they claim to run down to -13. Fujitsu and Mitsubishi seem to be the leaders in reliability and efficiency.

Anyone else have mini split heat pumps/AC? I had 2 Mitsubishi hyper heat units installed over the summer and have been blown away by how efficient they are to run. It's been pretty mild here on the CT shoreline but these units claim full heat output at 5 degrees. I also had solar panels installed so they are practically free to run. The Coefficient of performance on them is 3.8 meaning they are 380% efficient. Its been staggering how much oil I have saved and literally have not run my oil furnace at all this winter. I think this is going to be the future of heating and cooling.

9 hours ago, TauntonBlizzard2013 said:

Just got our gas bill for the last month $181.... yikes. It was pretty damn cold out that entire period 

Natural gas prices have doubled in price since Jan in New England. What is your normal bill? Half that?

Congrats James. NWS picking up on his OES. 

56 minutes ago, backedgeapproaching said:

How is the temp sensor?  I had an accurite a number of years ago and my biggest issue was you just couldn't have it in the sun, the temp would just be so far off.  I had to put on the north side in the shade all the time for any type of accurate reading.

It has a solar powered aspirating fan. I have a few other outdoor temp sensors and it seems pretty accurate to me when compared to them and nearby stations.  

7 hours ago, dendrite said:

Those cheaper ultrasonics can be unreliable. I have no experience with that station though. Vaisala makes a high end all-in-1 like that, but you’re paying for it too.

This guy has a daily plot graph comparing his weather flow to his davis vp2. There is pretty decent continuity between the two.

http://ae3.homelinux.net:845/weewx/compare.html

https://www.wxforum.net/index.php?topic=35368.0