Hailstoned

"It's a wet damaging snowstorm for NJ-far e NYS and interior southern New England." 2 feet possible high terrain ENY/WNE. Thinks even NYC could pick up 6" on backside.

Walt Drag is pretty bullish on this storm, suggesting NWS totals too conservative, and societal impacts for many of us due to wet snow and high winds.

Ours though it got down to -11 performed like champs, though they are reputed to be less effective in below zero conditions.

Pretty telling that Boston went all the way from 1957 to now including the extreme winters of the 1960's and 70's to record such a low temperature. I wonder how much if anything that has to do with the increasing effects of the urban heat shield. I recorded temperatures as low as -18 to -20 in Monson, MA on a couple of occasions during the mid 90's

That seems like a lot of effort expended for a simple blower job.

Oh, and no doubt your smugness would remain if for the first time in thousands of years the solid earth under you (tundra) became mush (climate change). This is what's happening to those Alaskan Native Americans. Just like other fire ravaged/drought ravaged/hurricane ravaged Americans, they're seeking help. Are these Native Americans somehow less deserving?

Global warning craze?? Wait till the migration of "sane" climate refugees to our relatively unscathed, northeast U.S.A.

This white pine came crashing down in a tremendous gust of wind less than a hundred feet ahead of me in Monson, MA, about 45 minutes ago as the squall line passed through.

"Singal" and looking for something or other for long walks on the beach... (This would be happening right at the new moon, significant both for coastal flooding concerns and heightened possibilities of Biblicalness).

1968 sure brings back the memories-- a trio of storms in rapid succession culminating on the 12th in the worst blizzard conditions I have ever encountered, including the blizzard of 78-- granted, my location was at 1500 feet elevation in SW New Hampshire.

He's absolutely correct. Willful ignorance; distrust of science, lack of critical thinking skills; not learning from the past, etc. etc... This is how you reap the whirlwind...

Don't even bother...

If not a bust for severe, it was once again a bust for needed rain. Generally in a situation with mid 70's dews and an approaching cold front, most get their share of a soaking shower/thunder shower. Yesterday, the allocation to most was miserly to say the least.

Always read (or at least skim) from top to bottom. Your writing is appealing for two reasons-- first for the insights and information concealed (at times) within, and secondly for its originality and entertainment value.

American' Love Affair with the lawn is Getting Messy https://apnews.com/article/environment-gardening-white-plains-b2a0c7ab8940f93e872a90d86ea9c6f4

What many would have given for your 12+. In western areas it was 6 or 7 or less-- like being low on the totem pole at the House of Delight.

When a new moon and a big dog coincide… the ante’s upped for something historical…

I still have some of my daily "weather diaries" from the 1960's.

Oh, and leaf blowers, not to mention all the other planet destroying means of accomplishing the "perfect" lawn, really blow... https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/25/opinion/leaf-blowers-california-emissions.html?smid=em-share

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/north-america-has-lost-3-billion-birds-in-50-years?utm_source=pocket-newtab Keep those yard spaces mono-cultured green at all costs!

So was Walt Drag who was all over it. (He then worked for Accu Wx). The set-up was so prominent that even the relatively primitive models of the day we’re all lit up with anticipation. Walt always gave me early alerts of impending anything and at least by the Friday before he was telling me of prospects for something historic. And Copeland is right on with his measurements of 34” in Needham— I measured same next door in Wellesley.

Upper tier lightning from storm passing well north of Palmer, MA, this evening.

I wonder if the depiction of worst winds well to the east of the 38 center passage are based on the absurd, terrain enhanced gust to 186 on top of Blue Hill. From copious historical evidence and reports, 38's most extreme winds (and coastal storm surges) were in a swath from about the CT River to the ORH area and northward into central New Hampshire where entire pine forests were flattened. Not to say it didn't blow hard in eastern MA, but accounts, including personal ones from my relatives, do not paint nearly as an extreme picture as those in the aforementioned areas.

With 1938 conspicuously absent, don't quite catch your drift here. In August, maybe September, tropical systems affecting us may meander relatively harmlessly like Henri, but in a warming world with increased baroclinic instability as the fall season progresses, it's reasonable to surmise that an accelerating major hurricane affecting us is becoming more likely than but once every century or so.

In general, New England is in a fortunate position in relation to the ravages of climate change, but our big vulnerability is the increased prospect of an accelerting category 2 or 3 hurricane. That in two or three hours will be one hard knock that will take months/years to recover from. Henri and his trajectory were a warning shot across the bow-- something many times more merciless comes this way...