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dendrite

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  1. 2 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

    Graupel shower with gusty winds through Ayer an hour or so ago.  Bouncing rattling particles with more frozen then liquid at one point. Some of the bigger pieces seemed to carry a bit in the wind, so it gave the affect as though it really wanted to flip.  Could see the curtains in the sky moving quickly by.  The sun was milked by anvil cirrus as it moved off ... low top convection-like.  But the freezing level/mix temp types were not far over head. 

    First frozen of the season in the books!

    Yup. I could see the snow curtains approaching here from the NW before it hit. 

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  2. 5 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

    Yea it was the worst short term fail . Dendrite nailed it

    Not sure I really called anything. The only thing I didn’t like was that the peak of the wind was all overnight. We’ve had good wind at night before, but this was more of a quick in and out impulse. That and the models kept backing off on the 850/925 winds the past couple of days. It’s tough to mix down what isn’t there. 

  3. 17 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

    We’ve had a few NW flow deals that I can recall that really did some damage. There was one I think in Nov 2004. Heck in Jan this year we had one after fropa that did damage here. 

    The first one you mentioned was over 20 years ago. I think you kinda proved my point.

    I want to say there was a good one in early 06 too…Feb maybe?

  4. 21 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

    It’s not fraudulent, but there’s a reason high end is on the rare side especially inland. 

    The W-NW CAA winds generally are. We can do 45-55mph no problem, but the >55kt stuff is rare. The westerly component doesn’t do as much tree damage either since the trees grow braced against that flow.

    Give me a mixed down raging easterly LLJ over something this.

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