Mr. Windcredible!

Is this the housefly support group? I too had a bunch inside last night...killed off 30-40 either by fly swatter or a bug light/zapper my wife had bought for by the firepit. Had some a few weeks ago, but nowhere near as many. Never issues in the past either other than a stray one here or there. 

I did discovered an outdoor swarm yesterday when I rolled by garbage can from the curb. Sure enough...maggots and quite the stench coming from the can. We don't store the garbage can near the house...but I figured maybe it had been a mistake to roll it over near the spigot to spray it down versus taking the hose further away from the house. Even still, not sure how they would've found their way inside so quickly, not as if windows were open, but seems hard to believe they weren't related. 

And just so I meet my quote for weather related content in this post...currently 81F & cloudy.

Ended up losing power here afterall. Son is unable to make it home, roads all blocked.

Definitely best storm here in several years. Thought we were close to losing a tree or two in the backyard….but in the end just one branch snapped and hanging. Power flickered quite a bit but managed to keep it. Hearing a lot of sirens. Son says lots of trees down over near Guilford/Madison line near Rt 1.

14 minutes ago, snowman21 said:

Suspect it's a non-aspirated or poorly shielded temp sensor.

I think it's AWOS. But I've typically found it fairly reasonable and DP is showing DP as pretty well mixed (66F). 

Even Chester CT managed to pull a 100...impressive. 

1 hour ago, Typhoon Tip said:

The funny thing is ... this would be more difficult ( I suspect ) if it were the July 20 variety.  

At this time of year, "geologically" we just walked out the door from spring rains climate and our shoes are still wet.  The grasses are all green and lush, and trees are all perky flopping leaves...   they are just dumping evapo -tran water vapor into the ambience at a very high mass load.  The idea? perhaps higher than later July when a month of summer desiccation has spend soil moisture bank account. These sources are less proficiently adding back to the air. 

I'm just wondering if July 20 is climate high temperature... but if the HI climate is actually a tad before that because we may get better combinations of DP with sun and source in the ends of Junes to something like July 10.

The exception perhaps being those of near the shoreline, where we get that moisture advecting in off the water later in July and August. My PWS is no stranger to 80 dews in July & Aug...but a bit more rare for June. 

56 minutes ago, Spanks45 said:

3-5 for most of CT, we take that considering our largest storm here is 4"....sad season for sure 

still better than the past 2 years here. I have more snow this year than the past 2 years combined.

Actually just measured 1.8 pleasant surprise.
I am 2 miles north of the Fairfield boarder.

just over 1/2" here...now above freezing. lame. not really a surprise, mesos weren't really trending in our favor yesterday evening. 

SECT jackpot 

Didn’t expect that to become my biggest event in nearly 2 years. 3.2” was the total here.

55 minutes ago, ineedsnow said:

New orleans will probably have more snow than parts of SNE had all winter by the end of the day.. crazy!

Hell not just this year. There's a large swath along the Gulf Coast and the SE states that will have eclipsed my seasonal totals from each of the past two winters too. Happy for the weenies down there...but this shit is getting old man. 

Just shy of 1.5” here. My drought of 4”+ snowfalls lives on, but no real surprise there. 1/29 will be 3 years since my last snowfall of 4” or more.

20 hours ago, The 4 Seasons said:

I have 5" for Clinton from that one from the pns it says trained spotter 1W Clinton not sure if that was you or not. Amounts really tanked immediately east of there in the 2-4" range right along the shore. 

5" definitely wasn't my report. But now I vaguely remember seeing that and thinking to myself there's no f'in way. Either the trained spotter was measuring on grass without a board or the cutoff for that event really split the town. It's not like I'm right on the water either...I'm 3-4 miles inland and up a small hill...but sometimes I still feel like I'm it a bit of a relative hole, convinced trees sometimes mess with my measurements more than I think they should.

34 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

Less than 4” in the Feb 2024 miracle?

The difference between a HECS and BECS in 2020s SNE! 

3" of wet slop from that one per my notes...temp 32-33 the entire time.

1 hour ago, WinterWolf said:

Let’s get us a couple inches Saturday afternoon…nothing wrong with that…the big dog was a mirage, was all just fantasy and never met to be.  

I will literally take anything measurable at this point. Going on 3 years since I've had a snowfall of 4" or more (1/29/22 was the last for me). This has been the most miserable stretch I've seen in the 18 years I've been here. Monday's little surprise felt like a blizzard for those few hours.

I really held out hope today would give us a little surprise on the north fringe. Managed 0.6-0.7"...pretty much ties for my biggest event of the season.

27 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

I never really liked Hammonasset. It's been some years since I've been but its beyond crowded. Not a place if you're looking for relaxation. 

It's tolerable on a weekday or in the evenings. Clinton is up to $75 on weekends for non-residents now I believe...and snack bar not operating this summer. If you don't have a lot of gear and don't mind a walk...you can go to Point Bluff State Park in Groton and it's about a mile or so walk to what's typically a nearly deserted stretch of beach. 

9 minutes ago, CT Rain said:

It's amazing how quickly things tend to decrease once you get east of Guilford. My parents had 7.5" in Guilford only 2 miles from the Sound. 

yeah I was surprised by that too. For many years I thought as long as you were west of the river along the shoreline things tended to work out pretty good in marginal situations. Last few years have been rough though, definitely have become a snow hole just like NL county. Watching the radar, seemed the best banding pushed just north of here after 7:30am or so...and we lost a couple critical hours. By the time we got back into some decent returns temp was up to 32.7 and it was all over. Crazy that literally a degree colder and it could've been a completely different story here it terms of totals.  Seeing CC verify warning criteria also stings. 

5 minutes ago, The 4 Seasons said:

really? there is a 5" report from Clinton at 210PM but might have been more inland you must be right at the beach?

I'm a few miles inland. But another mile or two NW could've been all it took to grab another couple inches. Maybe if someone was using a snowboard and cleared it mid-way...that could've helped too. But I never went above 3" on any surface I tried measuring on. 

Only 3" here near the shoreline. Torched BL really killed us. Not really terribly surprising...but still disappointing. Over 2 years (1/29/22) since last warning event and counting. At least this one put us over last year's pitiful season total.

Measured 2.3" here this morning and got a quick walk in before the changeover. It's been freezing drizzle since 9am. Temp has crept up to 29.5F. Rumor is roads are quite slick, so no school was the right call. Expect to flirt with freezing before temps drop again later this afternoon.

5 hours ago, Sey-Mour Snow said:

CT knows how to jack rainfall .. unreal .. another 1.5 to 2.5" likley with iso 3 in the favored rainforests 

It's absolutely ridiculous. And the models seem to have no problem nailing it 5-days out. Yet if there's snow involved...models can't even get it right within 12 hours. We're a magnet for heavy rains but repel snows like we're the new Mid-Atlantic.

3 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

 

I was just gonna comment on that -

COD appears to have changed their algorithm.  Particularly in the lower levels - I'm not sure that is intended or if that is an artifact of a 'bug' in the rendering, but I kind of like it.  If studying the loop of that image, you can clearly tell by behavior that is highlighting the RH fields trapped below some 900 or so mb inversion.   Pretty cool ... 

I also came just to see if anyone had commented on the satellite presentation this morning. I don't recall ever being able to see multiple distinct stratus layers in visible imagery like that before. 

We were supposed to leave first thing in the morning tomorrow to go to PA to visit my son at college. Just called an audible about an hour ago and let my wife know we needed to leave tonight or risk driving thru flooding rains or canceling altogether, neither of which was going to be an acceptable option. So plan is to make it to her sister's in W NJ tonight to get us to the other side of this incoming firehose.

2 minutes ago, binbisso said:

This would be awful tomorrow morning for the am commute. Latest hrrr. This is only through 9 AM tomorrow morning.