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  1. 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.
  2. snowman21
    I think it still is a 5-minute average sampled every 10 seconds. That 2-minute/5-second thing looks more like wind measurements.
  3. snowman21
    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.
  4. snowman21
    Yep.
  5. snowman21
    Suspect it's a non-aspirated or poorly shielded temp sensor.
  6. snowman21
    90 at EWR already let's go!!!!
  7. snowman21
    $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.
  8. snowman21
    la la la la la la lock it up
  9. snowman21
    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.
  10. snowman21
    And wind. Lots and lots of wind.
  11. snowman21
    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.
  12. snowman21
    Yeah that's about what we have. Decent sized fluffy flakes coming down with vis about a mile maybe a shade under.
  13. snowman21
    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.
  14. snowman21
    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.
  15. snowman21
    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
  16. snowman21
    The eastern eyewall is already east of the mouth of Tampa Bay longitude wise. As someone said above, this looks to make landfall between Sarasota and Venice in the next hour or so.
  17. snowman21
    929 mb / 145 mph as of 8 AM EDT update
  18. snowman21
    Looks like the new forecast takes it up to 185G225 at 6z tomorrow before the weakening trend begins.
  19. snowman21
    925 mb / 160 mph on the 11:55 EDT update.
  20. snowman21
    Yes. Sorry, 155 mph max sustained.
  21. snowman21
    933 mb / 155 mph as of 11 AM
  22. snowman21
    Looks like as soon as it crossed 92°W around 13z it turned due east.
  23. snowman21
    First frost is the first low temperature at or below 36°F.
  24. snowman21
    Average first frost date at BDL was 9/30 from the 1971-2000 normals, 10/4 in the 1981-2010 normals, and now 10/6 with the 1991-2020 set, so a shift of 6 days later over the last 20 years. Probably similar pattern at every station.
  25. snowman21
    Enjoy that extra month of growing season if you're in northern New England I guess.
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