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So much damage. From the helicopter video I grabbed this shot of a highrise. Windows blown out with so much structural damage you can see right through some units. Wonder how their highrise building codes along resorts compare to Florida? Andrew was a near miss for dense buildings but would Florida's highrises look like this if a true Cat 5 came ashore in Miami-Dade?

33.1F up on my hill.

I would say that the foliage peaked today here in the NW Lakes Region of NH. I took the drone up for a quick look around before the rain. My Aspens and birch were vibrant but I think the HDR settings made it a bit more saturated than what I saw with the naked eye

Looks like our foliage peak will be tomorrow or Friday here in the NW Lakes Region of NH. Wind and rain this weekend will bring most of the leaves down except the oaks which always follow. I would give this season a 4 out of 10 so far but colors are rapidly changing. My guess would have been the peak this weekend if the storm and wind had held off.

September was the warmest ever. Not surprising since this happens often now. What is surprising is it was the most anomalous warm month in the data set going back to 1940. Scary stuff https://www.cbsnews.com/news/september-2023-hottest-ever-eu-copernicus-climate-change-service/

Luckily there is not an intense hurricane right now southwest of Phillippe's position. The strong trough approaching would yank something northbound quick if placements were just right. This is why New England usually gets it's strongest hurricanes later in the season when fall troughs arrive

It's amazing how the spigots shut off up here a couple of weeks ago while SNE keeps getting more and more rain. Smoke is also increasing here. Very dim sun. (Sounds Chinese)

But lots of smoke?

Dry,dry, dry. No rain as far as the eye can see. Through 378 hours on the GFS

EX 984.6mb

Wow, that was fast. The surface center of Ophelia is now under the expanding CDO. Recon about to go in for another pass. 987mb was last one.

Zero color in the high Whites

We had to fire up the wood stove too. Stayed around 57-58F all day About .65" of rain as of 630pm. Looking at radar it looks like we are about done but models say, nope

Just enough of a shower here to wet the deck. The best part about Lee was the huge cirrus shield on the western side last night. Beautiful sunset over a wide area of the Northeast. Here was the view from my front lawn

I am surprised that the National Weather Service has not issued a wind advisory for Inland areas. Gray Maine hasn't done it either. It's not like anything is really going to change with the track or intensity of the storm it's not already known so why the delay unless they don't even think it will meet that criteria?

There should be a wide area fantastic sunset over many parts of New England tonight.

Euro is about 25ish or so miles west of previous run

I think you are right. Tropical storm watches would be a better choice as it may be marginal to get a few hurricane gusts.

I've been mostly lurking lately but have been watching Lee closely. Here is a guess on watching/warnings if the track holds serve with just noise adjustments as models settle in. When would watches go up? 5pm or 11pm advisory tomorrow? Again, I'm just guessing so no flame throwing! Hurricane Watch from Watch Hill RI, Cape Cod and the islands and up along the coast. Inland high wind watch RI and Eastern Mass, NH and inland Maine. If the track stayed as, a guess might be that as the track locks in watches would change to tropical storm warning RI, Cape and Islands and Mass Coast. Perhaps hurricane warning downeast Maine coast but with north winds would hurricane gusts be recorded or just tropical storm winds.

I was totally obvious to the heavy rain in SNE. We had 2 showers yesterday .32" and about .28" the day before. I checked on Lee a few times during the day skipping AMWX. Wow on your rainfall

Fwiw....

Is it a lock?

86/72 up here. Most impressive is Chibougamau Quebec which is 525 miles north of Boston about as far as you can go on road! 82/68. That has to be a record in a big way especially the heat index.

Ha, I like to be creative.

Meteorological summer is about over. Our lawns enjoyed the rain. We have had to do very little watering. This picture is of the back of the house. We are trying to save our Ash tree from the Ash Borer and have had it treated the past couple of years. I'm sure it is a loosing battle after we are dead and gone. In the meantime we planted a Eastern Redbud ( I think) that is on the left of this picture. We also planted a oak tree (not in picture) that is just off to the right. That will be the shade tree in future years if the Ash does not survive. That Ash is now getting so big that it may interfere a bit with my anemometer during NW wind events.