Wonkis

I'm not too far from you. I'm in Eden Park—just south of Rolfe Square. Yeah, it's tough trying to keep up with the low visibility and the snowfall rates. A guy I know who plows for the city was stranded for a couple of hours this morning.

This is the second city plow that's gotten stuck on our street in Cranston. It's going to be a painful clean up. PXL_20260223_185000385~2.mov

Incredible storm—thankful to have heat and power

Travel ban and state of emergency in Rhode Island. State and local response to recent storms has been a bit...lax (cough)...to this point in the season.

I Initially thought so, but digging through the AFDs of that event on Iowa State's archive I couldn't find the one I was looking for...

This is classic Walt Drag AFD fodder. He used to get excited about these systems and go into great detail about the dynamics. I'd saved one of his all-time classics from the Eastern Wx days, but I can't find it (and can't recall the storm)

Four confirmed tornadoes, and a possible fifth in Scotland, CT still unclear https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=box&issuedby=BOX&product=PNS Johnston–Scituate–N. Providence EF-2 N. Attleborough–Mansfield EF-1 Stoughton EF-0 Weymouth EF-1 scotland, CT still investigating

It's seems like the 2nd round/cold front in these setups always underperforms compared to the AM warm front.

41F. Moderate rain. Cranston, RI. The spring peepers were out yesterday.

There's a great paper "Seabirds Perched on Big-Box Stores Prior to East Coast Storms." 2017? I'll dig up the link, but the premise is you can approximate the QPF by multiplying the number of perched birds x .04

Meanwhile, somewhere in the Atlantic

Here for the RI geography throwdown. —oh yeah, and the 4 inches of snow. The only RI map you need in winter:

Not a huge impact away from the coast. Looks like southern RI got roughed up a bit. 1.24" total rain A couple of hours of 25-35 mph sustained winds max gusts in upper 40s breezy with some drizzle rn

Maybe they're waiting to invest in the evolution of grid tech—microgrids or whatever's next.