snowman21

Wind changed in the 2000s when ASOS transitioned from cup and vane anemometers to the ultrasonic ones. That change only affected gusts as the averaging period was reduced from 5 to 3 seconds to match the WMO standard made possible by using a more responsive instrument.

I think it still is a 5-minute average sampled every 10 seconds. That 2-minute/5-second thing looks more like wind measurements.

It's an AWOS-3P. I've long suspected it only has passive shielding because of how quickly it races out ahead of everyone else in the morning. I know it has a little elevation being 400 ft. ASL, but so do other stations. For example this morning at 8 AM, SNC was the warmest temp in the state by 2° showing 86 when the next warmest DXR and BDL were only 84 and most everywhere else upper-70s/low-80s.

Yep.

Suspect it's a non-aspirated or poorly shielded temp sensor.

90 at EWR already let's go!!!!

$4 per year per taxpayer for everything NOAA does is a ridiculous bargain. It's stupidly cheap. NOAA's budget is $6B out of the $5.9T total spend. We're talking 0.1% of the budget and 0.4% of the federal work force.

la la la la la la lock it up

Gusting to 50 down here. 52 and 55 mph gusts at HPN and LGA as well. Guess the big gusts are too isolated to warrant a wind advisory.

And wind. Lots and lots of wind.

Still have a couple days before TV mets have to commit to that. For now they can just say cloudy with a chance of snow and mention the possibility of something bigger.

Yeah that's about what we have. Decent sized fluffy flakes coming down with vis about a mile maybe a shade under.

TBF to the road crews, OKX still saying only a 20-40% chance of light snow this afternoon as of their 1202 update even though it's been snowing steadily across all of their CT zones for the last couple of hours.

Did anyone's barometer reach 31 inches? Looking to see if any stations got to 31, some stations in NJ got to 30.98. Mine was just shy - never seen it that high before! Looks like MSS got to 31.01.

Look on the bright side: at least sunsets are getting later now. It's by seconds per day, but we're on our way to more mugs and jugs and margs and oyster shucking on the beach