snowman21

Average number of days with snow cover in CT:

NORFOLK 2 SW:  101.8
BAKERSVILLE:  80.0
BARKHAMSTED:  59.5
WOODBURY:  48.4
DANBURY:  46.8
WEST THOMPSON LAKE:  44.2
MIDDLETOWN 4 W:  41.9
HARTFORD:  41.3
MANSFIELD HOLLOW LAKE:  40.3
MT CARMEL:  38.4
BRIDGEPORT SIKORSKY AP:  29.1
GROTON:  21.8

Just now, dendrite said:

Wow...that is a late sunrise. Mine was around 7am.

Sorry meant to say sunset.

Anyone notice the later sunset today? Yesterday 4:19, today 4:20 PM.

2-4 was probably the best call. Only an inch here, but we lost some accums  because of 32+ temps. OKX had 2-4 across much of their CT zones, so good job by them.

3 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

If it didn't happen in a east coast city it didn't happen? 

Is it really a KU if it's not a category 3 or higher on NESIS?

4 minutes ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

Well, hopefully it shifts enough to give the goods to those who missed out on the KU.

When was there a KU storm this season?

Yuge 0.5 inch storm total here. Better luck next time for SW CT!

7 minutes ago, CTWeatherFreak said:

I dont think any of them had the foot that many in the county received... And BOX blew it by not issuing a WSW for the area as well..  Positive busts, while somewhat rare, are definitely preferable to negative ones.

I don't think they blew it. They just didn't think widespread 6+ (did anyone?), and by the time they realized what was happening it was too late. It could have gone the other way too, and they would get criticized for it. It's easy to be the Monday morning quarterback.

21 minutes ago, moneypitmike said:

Here's BOX's current map (timestamp notwithstanding, it looks like they upped it since then).  Meanwhile, they have no mention of changes of advisories in the 1:44 update, while they're forecasting a foot for Worcester. 

Twilight Zone.

They may be in advisory if they think ORH is just a lolli and everyone else will get less. I think they need at least half the zone (county) to be at or above the minimum criteria in order to issue the warning, so if the northern part of the county or highest elevations are getting a foot, and everyone else is getting 6-8 then it's just an advisory. Also, the minimum thresholds are 7 inches in 12 hours or 9 inches in 24 hours, so the long duration would mean it's just an advisory level storm.

A steady light snow here. As precipitation intensity increases it's all snow, but as it lets up it's just drizzle.

-PL in Stamford

If all you guys like warmth and CoC all the time, just get it over with and move yourself to a nice retirement home in Florida. 62 at midday in late November is disgusting. The only way this is acceptable is if it were July or August.

1 hour ago, Hoth said:

Not true. We only Grinch at Christmas. We're on to a new decade for snow threats! Not sure the '20s can match the epicosity this one delivered, but we can hope!

The new decade doesn't start until 2021.

Some people forget the 200 days a year the model correctly predicts partly cloudy and 67 from 5-7 days out, and inside 3 days the big models are almost 90% in getting the high temperature right.

3 hours ago, dendrite said:

Currently 67F at CAR and 37F in Pensacola. That's always fun.

First frost in Florida before Connecticut? First snow in Texas before Connecticut? What kind of crazy world are we living in?

39 minutes ago, dryslot said:

Those winds though, Can't have candy flying all over the place or the parents mixed drinks get spilled.

The winds won't be bad. According to the graphic above, just strong enough to tip over a garbage can. Now it doesn't specify if that's an empty or full garbage can, but I would guess that it takes 35 mph winds to tip over a garbage can.

9 hours ago, Dan76 said:

Growing season over?

Hey we got an extra 3-4 weeks of growing season this fall. Of the last 50 falls, only three (2019, 2017, and 1971) of them had all five SNE climo sites fail to have a freeze by Nov 1st.

We still have the EEE threat in Connecticut apparently. Ryan's station just had a story about some towns moving their Halloween events indoors. Another year with a late frost on the Connecticut shoreline, so maybe the bugs carrying the disease continue to live on until we get a good hard freeze, which is probably a few weeks away still.

Some impressive obs from NY:

Breezy Point NW49G76

Matinecock Point NW52G68

Jones Beach NW40G63

5 hours ago, KoalaBeer said:

It definitely was an experience! I remember thinking New Englanders were full of crap with "If you don't like the weather, wait 5 minutes" you hear all the time haha. I'll admit though, I like the variability of our climate more overall. Nothing beats a bombed out nor'easter deformation band sitting over your head.

Looks like DIA went from 82F to 19F in 18 hours for a temp change of 63 degrees. That is sick. 

Our weather is pretty stable and tame compared to the rest of the country.

Saw 95 at EWR, ACY, and MJX. Missed getting into rare air by about 40 miles.

5 minutes ago, dendrite said:

I feel like I haven't seen that in years...even at augmented sites where a crash occurred. Some of the international ones have had it.

Also odd that they'd have few clouds at 100 ft from smoke, but 10 mile visibility? Unless the obs were edited or the visibility and ceiling are measured in different parts of the airfield.

16 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Hope everyone is OK.

Smoke at the ASOS?

METAR KBDL 021358Z 00000KT 10SM FEW001 SCT110 BKN180 23/20 A2981

 

But no ACFT MSHP in the remarks.

So no more 80s for Torchtober? Are we done until Morch?

There's a lot of brown out there. Really obvious driving up 684 into the Danbury area. Doesn't mean that every tree is going brown or will go brown, but there's a lot of them out there.