powderfreak

First rain showers of the storm. Ground not wet under the trees… we might get there though.

That’s hard to mentally compute those winds at stations like CON, HFD, ALB… like what?

Made it past 2” in scattered heavy downpours it looks like.

Partly cloudy up north.

I haven’t had any precip, sky cover wasn’t even thick at sunset, ha. Thank god it’s not winter; this would’ve been tough. Instead, decent weekend outside so far.

Theres a reason a lot of folks just like to use ASOS and official stations, ha.

I guess that’s where I got caught up. They are correct for sampling 2-meter wind speed. They are just boring; like that’s the speed the wind is 6 feet above your yard. Same with temperature. We don’t like that and want to sample the free air above treetop exposed wind because it’s more sexy. The one part of it I can square is that the force that would cause tree damage is the wind at canopy top level. Like knowing what wind speed at that 80-100 foot level above ground starts tree damage would be important. It’s sort of like tarmac temps/winds vs wooded area temps/winds. Pros and cons to both sitings. The weenie set up is temp close to ground and wind 100 feet overhead.

I 100% understand what you are saying, you are trying to estimate the wind above treetop height, right? To me it’s like saying your temperature is 35F on a night the station says 45F… but saying “well if the trees weren’t there and it was open to the sky above, I’d have radiated more.” Do you live 100 feet up above the canopy? I feel like that caveat is important to mention.

I don’t want to step in the middle of this, but why would the temperature be accurate but the winds not? Like that’s likely the wind speed in your yard just like the temperature, no?

My parents in Woodstock, CT… Damn so many across a wide area seeing the same thing.

My sister just sent this from south coast of Long Island, she lives on a canal emptying to the Atlantic, should be a good ride there.

Awesome day… 36F to 76F in the valley, still low 70s up at the mountain here.

That clears it up… old man petting his wife.

That poor kid last year that had the tree kill him while on the physical playground at school outside Boston during a windy day… that stuff is why.

Had another frosty car and lawn this morning.