BrianW

Noon readings.

We left a party from the Hartford area last night around 11:30-12. Car thermometer was around 77-80...

Are these official high temps? Interesting that KBDR hit 90 and currently has the highest temp in CT with 78 at 9:52. http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/ASOS/current.phtml?sortcol=max_tmpf&network=CT_ASOS&metar=no&sorder=desc&format=html

95 in Norwalk was closed earlier. 3 inches of rain in 1 hour was reported. Video link here of all the idiots trying to drive through it. https://www.wtnh.com/news/connecticut/fairfield/stormy-weather-closes-portion-of-interstate-95-southbound-in-norwalk/1271710919#

Picked a great week to go to my sisters vacation house in Narragansett. A nice 75 here.

Interesting article on evasive insects. For Vermont, in particular, the prospect of an alien invasion by the Asian longhorned beetle has horror-movie undertones. It is not because the larvae eat trees from the inside out, or that they feed on 13 species of hardwoods — all of which can be found in state’s hardwood forests. It is that their preferred species are maple: Norway, red and sugar. Invasive Asian longhorned beetles on a maple tree. Photo courtesy of USDA. The scenario this conjures — the possible cost to the state’s economy, the mega-million dollar maple industry, tourism, the very image of Vermont — imagine an autumn color palette minus all the reds — is incalculable and unimaginable, so most people prefer not to. “The potential impact on Vermont — the loss of maple. It would be … ” Meredith Whitney, the UVM extension service’s forest pest education coordinator, pauses to search for the right word. “Horrible.” https://vtdigger.org/2018/04/01/emerald-ash-borer-broadens-base-vermont-alien-insects-lurk/

The damage from the emerald ash borer in CT is alarming. I drive all over the state for my job and just about every ash tree is pretty much completely dead. I didnt realize that billions of them are going to be wiped our. They are now listed 1 step above being extinct as critically endangered. I also read they are now detected in Northern VT so all of northern new englands ash trees are pretty much doomed. I have been treating my ash trees with insectside to some sucess. I only have about a 20 percent canopy loss but all the other ash in my area are completely bare. North America the emerald ash borer is an invasive species, highly destructive to ash trees in its introduced range. The damage of this insect rivals that of Chestnut blight and Dutch Elm Disease.[17] To put its damage in perspective, the number of chestnuts killed by the Chestnut blight was around 3.5 billion chestnut trees while there are 3.5 billion ash trees in Ohio alone. Dutch Elm Disease killed only 200 million elm trees while EAB threatens 7.5 billion ash trees in the United States. The insect threatens the entire North American genus Fraxinus, while past invasive tree pests have only threatened a single species within a genus.

Yep.

https://youtu.be/LCdIM67g3mY

Upton also didn't investigate the damage at sleeping giant state park in Hamden and Wharton Brook in North Haven. Check out the below video in the news link. http://www.wtnh.com/news/connecticut/sleeping-giant-state-park-destroyed-by-storm-other-parks-closed/1183924093

This picture was taken from the tower at the above park.

Friend in North Haven just sent me these. This was at Wharton Brook State Park.

Just saw a live Facebook video from sleeping giant state park in Hamden. Massive tree damage there.

Google maps traffic data from yesterday. The main wind damage swath is pretty evident.

Using google maps traffic data you can really see where most of the storm damage was. Looks like Danbury straight east to Wallingford got hit really hard. Lots of damage around Southbury as well.

This is done for central and western CT. People reporting on Facebook it's full sun in western ct.

WTNH just downgraded a good chunk of CT to 0-3 inches. This is busting huge out this way.

February 9th 2013 woke up to this in Wallingford, CT.....

Just got a ton of reports from friends//family of some good sightings of the Orionid Meteors tonight along the CT shoreline. One of the year's best sky shows will peak this weekend between Oct. 20 and 22, when the Orionid meteor shower reaches its best viewing. The meteors that streak across the sky are some of the fastest and brightest among meteor showers, because the Earth is hitting a stream of particles almost head on. https://www.space.com/34373-orionid-meteor-shower-guide.html

I lived in South Hero for a few years. The causeway is a good spot for viewing. Saw the lights a few times from there. Awesome wide open view looking north.

From NWS Boston.

Enjoy! With the persistent SW flow, dewpts will continue to slowly rise overnight, up to the upper 50s to lower 60s by around daybreak. The Bermuda high takes up residence along the mid Atlc and SE U.S. coast, setting up for our first day of hazy, hot and humid weather across the region.

NWS Boston bumped it to 90. Thursday... A mid summer-like day appears to be in the cards for much of the region. A very mild start with 850T around +16C coupled with southwest flow should yield a very warm to hot afternoon. High temperatures will likely reach near 90 away from a modified marine airmass across portions of RI/SE MA and especially the Cape/Islands. Dry weather will dominate Thu as forcing will be limited, but can not rule out the low risk for a few afternoon/evening T-storms on a pre-frontal trough.

Yep. I think Kevin is right. BDL will be 90+...