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    Wake Me Up When September Ends..Obs/Diso

    in New England

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    17 minutes ago, kdxken said:

    That was my first thought. Why would frogs lay their eggs in the fall?

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    When Hurricane Isabel swept through Connecticut Sept. 19, it rained cats and dogs. At the Berlin home of Primo D’Agata, it also rained frogs. Well, eggs, anyway. Amphibian for sure, though no one knows exactly what kind.

    Mr. D’Agata says he thought they were hailstones. They looked like small pearls on his deck, he said. Only these didn’t melt. On closer inspection, they were sticky, with tiny dark centers. Mr. D’Agata took some to the New Britain Youth Museum at Hungerford Park, where a naturalist, Nicolas Diaz, offered a well-educated guess: amphibian eggs; a gift via Isabel from some southern swampland — most likely in the Carolinas. Central Connecticut State University’s biology department is investigating. So far, the evidence supports Mr. Diaz’s hypothesis.

    Mr. Diaz says that amphibians in the Northeast reproduce in spring and early summer, when its wet. By fall, egg-laying is over. But in subtropical climes, the season of love lingers.

    Steven Newman, a professor of meteorology at Central Connecticut State University, concurs. He explains that hurricanes often harbor a tornado or two as they make landfall. Isabel likely picked up the eggs as she hit ground in the Carolinas. Tossed high into the atmosphere — as high as 40,000 to 60,000 feet — the eggs could have stayed in circulation until reaching Connecticut. Mr. Newman says there are several accounts of this phenomenon — the biblical plague of frogs in Egypt possibly being one. In a more recent story, Mr. Newman says a severe thunderstorm once carried off a flock of geese and then deposited them far off-course — and frozen.

    https://www.courant.com/2003/10/06/cloudy-chance-of-frogs/

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    Wake Me Up When September Ends..Obs/Diso

    in New England

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    54 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

    Finished with 1.10” . Just didn’t understand the heavy rain and flood calls. This wasn’t that setup . Dry out the next 4-5 days before the dews and tropics and rains spread back in later Saturday thru much of next week. Foliage season is over 

    Enjoy the +RA later

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    New England Met Autumn 2023 Banter

    in New England

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    2 hours ago, CoastalWx said:

    That's an option. I was hoping for something else. I looked at cocorahs, but that didn't help. I guess metars would work, but trying to fill in the gaps in between.

     

    Yeah I’m not aware of much out there. Cocorahs does have ice accretion reports, but it’s difficult to navigate the obs and there aren’t that many. It may be in its infancy stage…not sure.

    https://www.cocorahs.org/Content.aspx?page=ice-accretion-pilot

    Of course the ASOS accretion obs aren’t a direct caliper measurement, but rather a remote sensing estimate. 

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