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4 minutes ago, Sey-Mour Snow said:

Crazy, pack is non existent along the shore out of the shade.  Down to 3-6” here with grass showing up in spots. 

Same here. Only snow left on grass is where it is shaded or drifted. Even the piles are gone in spots. That late winter/early spring sun really goes to work especially once you have any bit of exposed ground to soak up the sun's rays.

1 minute ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Mariano on the mound now. 

With Big Papi coming to bat.

8 minutes ago, Digityman said:

Ha. Yea.  Funny seeing BW with just 6ish inches

They issue them in the midwest with zero inches.

1 minute ago, ineedsnow said:

yup general public has no idea what's coming

so it's like a secret storm that only we know about?

16 minutes ago, leftymarlins said:

Trump upgraded the GFS????


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Nah the GFS is too old for him.

2 minutes ago, Fozz said:

So is this a blizzard?

Likely for eastern zones. How close this tracks will determine how far west the wind and vis criteria are met.

OKX has 6-10 for southern CT/metro area w/10-13 over eastern LI with the new watch.

Dustings of snow for everyone!!!

12 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

It’s because of that govt in that state and the ridiculous cold weather advisories they’ve started doing with NWS. We all lived thru much colder and there was no cold wx advisory or schools cancelled . Just embarrassing all around 

We've had wind chill advisories for as long as most of us have been alive. They were renamed to the more generic cold weather advisory 15 months ago.

1 minute ago, CoastalWx said:

Jesus why would you post that 

Owns stock in bread and milk?

7 minutes ago, Hoth said:

Hearing OKX radar is offline. Perfect timing!

What else is new

Watches up for OKX zones now.

6 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

Nice Hippy.  Not too shabby for a lot of us. Above average snow, and below normal temps for December …we take. 

Best December since '09 I'd say for combo of snow and cold.

1.3 inches after the first hour of snow.

Vis is maybe 1/2 mile in this band over the panhandle of CT. Accumulating nicely.

Snowing in Greenwich

1 minute ago, dendrite said:

How’s the NNE rollout? We’ve been wiping the floor with SNE on temps on a daily basis

As far as I can tell just these so far: BGR, CAR, FVE, HUL, and MLT.

6 hours ago, TheClimateChanger said:

What are you guys seeing with these new temp/dewpoint sensors? I haven't seen much discussion on this, but they seem significantly cooler than the legacy sensors. And MUCH higher on humidity, at least in the overnight/mornings. All of a sudden, it's 100% humidity all the time at night around here. Never used to see ASOS throw up a 100% humidity before.

Current Events

I don't believe it's happened yet. Last I heard there was an issue at one of the test sites that caused them to pause the replacement plan, but that was like 9-10 months ago back when we weren't trying to cut NOAA's already meager funding in half.

EDIT: Looks like they have begun to roll some out to southern region stations.

EDIT2: On second look, it looks like they are done with half of the stations. Around here: BDL, HFD, IJD, ACK, BED, BOS, BVY, FIT, HYA, MVY, ORH, TAN, PVD, UUU, WST, and PYM.

1 hour ago, radarman said:

Called the airport-- apparently the equipment is still there and this relates to a data feed issue at all USAF maintained sites.  No estimate on resumption of data but it likely will be resumed.

Hopefully the ASOS service life extension program makes the network more reliable. It's 30 years old at this point and really starting to show its age.

1 hour ago, metagraphica said:

Hit 71 earlier today.  Went out to walk the doggo 15 minutes ago and was like WTF?  58???

Too bad this rain didn't sink south about 12 hours earlier could have had a lot more records set. This kind of cold is pretty rare. BDL smashed a record that stood for 103 years by 7 degrees.

9 minutes ago, TheClimateChanger said:

That's how I remember it and found an old document from the EPA that has the same value.  With that said, Daryl Herzmann and IEM is an extremely reputable source, which would suggest it may have been changed at some time for consistency with wind measurements. Not sure. The WMO standard is for 5-minute averaging, but not all jurisdictions use that. The UKMET Office uses only 1-minute averaging for its platinum resistance thermometers, which I only recently learned from some complaining denialists from across the pond. These guys are always the biggest snowflakes. Oh, there's too much red on the weather map. The temperature is illegitimate because it's based on only a 1-minute average instead of a WMO 5-minute average! Etc., etc...

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.

1 minute ago, dendrite said:

I swear I remember it being 5 min unless it was changed.

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

13 minutes ago, Mr. Windcredible! said:

I think it's AWOS. But I've typically found it fairly reasonable and DP is showing DP as pretty well mixed (66F). 

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.

1 minute ago, dendrite said:

KSNC?

Yep.

3 minutes ago, Mr. Windcredible! said:

Even Chester CT managed to pull a 100...impressive. 

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