snowman21

4 minutes ago, ineedsnow said:

Thank you.. might be close but after this week I think 90 is hard to come by but could be wrong.. 

Starts getting tough after the 20th. Should get at least three more this week, which means we'd need five more. BDL has had five 90-degree days after August 20th ten times in its history. Septembers have been blowtorches for the past couple of decades, and even with that BDL has only averaged 2.2 90-degree days in the last ten Septembers with as many as five in 2015. 1983 had nine 90-degree days in September.

1 hour ago, ineedsnow said:

How many more until they do?

8 more to break the record of 38 set in 1983.

The only "nice summer weather" in SNE is on the shoreline where high temperatures average in the upper-70s to near 80 this time of year.

Just now, weatherwiz said:

hmm shades of 2011 where it took days post-storm for CL&P to seek out-of-state help

They said they had out of state help coming during yesterday's press conference, and that they expected to double the number of crews "in 24 hours or shortly after."

14 minutes ago, BrianW said:

They basically took a gamble and lost big. Lineman make $50-75 an hour. When they bring crews in from out of state it cost a fortune. The lineman are on the clock 24/7 as soon as they leave. They are even paid when they are sleeping in hotel rooms overnight. They then get storm duty pay for actual work at 2  sometimes 3 times their regular pay. Lineman jump on out of state storm work as they make a fortune. Its a matter of the utilities bringing them in and paying for it.

Interesting. I wondered why there always seemed to be crews from Iowa in Connecticut whenever something like this happens. I guess that's not a coincidence if the pay is really good.

Just now, hammerz_nailz said:

Pre-position crew’s for 650,000 customers out? Unless they hired and trained 5000 employees last Friday how’s that even possible.

From the press conference today it sounded like they just dropped the ball. Eversource said they didn't even really have an accurate forecast because as of Friday when they started preparing the storm was forecast to "go up the west coast of Florida."

38 minutes ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

I didn’t see any trucks this morning between the Bury’s and WeHa. They were probably out but with the amount of outages...I was expecting to see crews everywhere. I’m curious now WTH is going on internally there. 

At the gov's presser today he was bewildered as to why Eversource did not pre-position crews, so my guess is the crews just weren't distributed throughout the state until late today, and they may still be trying to work their way into the harder hit areas. It's the same story with every widespread outage. They always say they will learn lessons from things like Sandy or the October snowstorm which was almost a decade ago already, but they never seem to. They've got the pushing rate increases through PURA down pat though. They're awesome at jacking up the delivery charges, just not so great at the delivery part.

9 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

Wow. Huge trees down on the Merritt.

You'd be crazy to ever drive it in anything other than good weather. I know DOT has done a ton of trimming in recent times, but trees come done quite easily.

Winds less than 10 mph right now I'd say with the sun trying to make an appearance. Pretty quiet the last hour. Let's see if the backside has anything in store or is this it?

Feels like things are stepping down here the last 15 mins or so. Isaias now passing our latitude.

9 minutes ago, MJO812 said:

TWC just stated parts of SNE including Boston will most likely get a Tornado Watch soon

Already in effect 4 hours ago at least in southern CT.

3 minutes ago, jbenedet said:

NYC looks like a prime spot for tornado threat and high wind threat...Staten Island and Brooklyn are likely greatest risk being exposed to the southeast fetch off the open water...

Southern Queens where JFK is as well.

23 minutes ago, Hoth said:

60 mph winds in Stamford area by the look of it.

It was a wild 15-20 minutes in that thing. Was hoping HPN would capture the peak gust, but I think the worst of it was right along the water as it came into CT.

Those T-storms in SW CT mean business.

25 minutes ago, wxeyeNH said:

If it is upgraded at 5pm to a hurricane (which would be my guess)  can they super impose a hurricane watch over a tropical storm warning for areas up the coast?  Don't know if that can be done?

Yes it can be done. You will see it on the NHC warning/cone map as a pink line (hurricane watch) within the blue line (tropical storm warning).

23 minutes ago, wxeyeNH said:

They knew this afternoon would be the critical period,  would it get it's act together at the last moment as some models suggested so just wonder how they can have a 4-6 hour gap at the most important time?

Maybe because it's so close to land? It'll make landfall in about 5 hours, and it's within radar range and passing over buoys.

18 minutes ago, Baroclinic Zone said:

High Wind Warning

A High Wind Warning is issued when the following conditions are expected:

1) sustained winds of 40 mph or higher for one hour or more

OR

2) wind gusts of 58 mph or higher for any duration.

 

 

Tropical Storm Warning

A Tropical Storm Warning is issued when sustained winds of 34 to 63 kt (39 to 73 mph) or higher associated with a tropical cyclone are expected in 36 hours or less. These winds may be accompanied by storm surge, coastal flooding, and/or river flooding.

Seems redundant to me if there's no flooding/surge component to the warning. It's like a blizzard warning without the visibility requirement. Why have a separate warning just because the high winds are from a tropical system versus a nor'easter? The public doesn't care, and the result is the same, other than when you say tropical storm it makes for a bigger headline.

What's the difference between Tropical Storm Warning and High Wind Warning?

September is a summer month in recent history. Nine of the last ten Septembers, and 15 of the last 20, have been above normal at BDL. In the last ten Septembers, the average departure is +2.4, and over the last 20 it's +1.6.

Another 90+ day for BDL. Including today, 2020 moves into second place for most 90+ days at BDL in July:

1. 2019    19
2. 2020    18
3. 2016    17
4. 1955    16
4. 1966    16
6. 2010    15

4 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Yeah toss those WRI obs. Something was weird for 2 hours there.

https://mesowest.utah.edu/cgi-bin/droman/meso_base_dyn.cgi?stn=KWRI&time=GMT

SNC had a similar problem. Dew jumped from 74 to 77 while the rest of CT was 69-72, and then stayed there for a few hours before the station went offline a little while ago.

That Wrightstown NJ 100/77 HX 116 ob has to be wrong. That's 4 degrees warmer on the temp and 5 degrees on the dew point than anything else in the state.

19 minutes ago, PhineasC said:

Too hot to check for a pot of gold. It’s actually a double but the one to the right is very faint. 
 

That's going to be one hell of a view in about 100 days.

4 hours ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

OK group weather mind, I have a very dear friend, solo paddling the Connecticut River from end to end and he will be coming through Northern New England this week.  I would greatly appreciate any local weather updates as far as storms go.  Post here or by all means message me.
Thanks!

Aren't there a bunch of dams on the Connecticut River that would prevent you from paddling end to end?

25 days until the days start getting shorter!