powderfreak

Just rotting at 46-55F for days now it seems. Still mist and light rain. Only 0.20” water but spitting drops more often than not it’s felt like.

The air quality indices recorded from the southern tier and central NY, into NE PA, NJ, NYC, LI, SW CT are on another level. Like it was known that it would be smoky, but that "over-performed" today in very populated areas. Cancelling local sports, outdoor activities, even the Yankee game. The Syracuse Airport in NY went from 5:40am to 12:10pm without visibility going above 1.00sm in smoke! Binghamton was 1.00sm or lower from 10:30am until 1pm. NYC ASOS at 2.00sm or lower from 12pm to 8pm! Almost 3 hours of 1.0> visibility at 3/4sm. That type of sustained visibility reduction moving through the atmosphere as a smoke cloud has some awesome novelty. The path of the densest smoke was like tracking a heavy snow band moving through the northeast. Whole thing dropped across Lake Ontario and rode the outside boundary of the ULL. Huge aerial coverage. Pretty interesting day.

I will say it is something a lot of people have been talking about. My family doesn’t care about weather but the family chat from upstate NY, downtown NYC, Long Island, etc saw more activity today than probably any other day, even Christmas. People are fascinated by it.

Looks like NYC is taking the brunt of it, along with adjacent areas and still back towards the southern tier of NY. BGM has been 1-1.5 mile vis all day long.

Most weather discussions on here you’d think NNE was in another world .

I’m not sure how she gets from point A to point B to be honest.

She’s not far from the BGM airport, just lower down around 1,000ft. I sent her the BGM NWS tweet and she was like yup. End of world feel.

My sister in the Binghamton area just sent this. Said everything is orange, like a California wild fire is one town over. All school sports cancelled and kids can’t go outside at area schools.

After looking at those CNY photos that looks like a crisp fall air mass lol.

Flow came around NW and now it’s our turn. 47F at the ski area and heavy drizzle, soaking mist. We we’re doing ok on the east flow but now with NW it’s raw and damp.

Day 4 or 5 of this ULL influencing our weather?

It’s like the evening golden hour at 8pm… but middle of the day.

Yeah who knows. Also when discussing western US fires, we are dealing with conditions that are foreign to us so it’s hard to visualize. I remember the documentary detailing the sparks had the grass immediately next to the entrance to the shopping plaza. Santa Ana winds in CA sustained at 40mph, gusting 60mph through residential areas at like 6% RH and vegetation just looking for a reason to ignite… probably takes a lot less than we think. People talk about it happening and I can’t comprehend it in their terms… like see sparks or cig butt go sideways in gale winds and 4 seconds later an entire tree is on fire and spreading at 40 mph. The neighborhoods that have fire suppression systems are wild. Like the equivalent of sprinklers in a building… but outside and everywhere. When I was out in LA area it was like what are all these pipes running through brush everywhere? Ohh, it’s a fire sprinkler system.

Most often it’s campfires, BBQs in a park where coals are extinguished on a windy day. Cigarette butts out car windows blowing into roadside dry grasses. One of the largest California fires was witnessed starting by a lowered like Honda Civic (or one of those types) bottoming out while pulling into a Wal-Mart… sparks from the under carriage blown in 40mph winds ignited the grass and forest next to the lot.

I keep saying it’s bound to happen eventually but last week we almost had a heat wave and maxed at 93F… so it’s been here.

82F at BDL? Kev’s station would be like 75F. It’d be like me using BTV max temps.

Think 80s in the hills?

Have had 0.01” during that time back here.

41F. Looks like SLK had their second consecutive June freeze at 30-31F.

55.5F was the warmest temp for DIT since 5am Saturday morning? Nothing wrong with calling a spade a spade. Not a good June weekend and model temps ended up being pretty good overall.

BTV AFD mentions record low 925mb temp on the GYX sounding. “.NEAR TERM /THROUGH MONDAY/... As of 941 AM EDT Sunday...A rather chilly night last night acrs northern NY, where skies were clear and winds decoupled, allowing SLK to drop to 27F, one degree away from tying the record low for the date. In addition, have noted some snow in the obs atop Mt Washington this morning, and a record low 925mb temp of 1C observed on the Gray, ME sounding for the date, while we make the turn in less than 3 weeks.“

Looks like we got down to 37F at MVL. Local PWS at 36.9F. SLK at 28F lol.

That’s what passes for “sunny breaks” on this forum?

Sutton actually has some great snowfall records but they use their base snowfall and it’s in CM. But one can see the past few winters have been lacking compared to the big run from 2016-2019. Their 2015-16 winter is crap like everyone’s. Just out of curiosity, those guys didn’t see a big boost this year over the previous years… matches what I’ve got for Mansfield as a run of meh-serviceable but below normal a bit.