powderfreak

Man this place is a trip. Every day hearing about how it doesn’t rain from some folks, please just rain, anything…then it does exactly what they want (rain!) and the minute they find out some other area got more it’s back to woe-is-me.

Ha it did read a bit like “I was lucky but also unlucky.” Modeling takes it all into account. They are short duration heavy rainers just scatter shot across the area.

Sounds like a well needed drink. Modeling was fairly decent all things considered with convection and the variability it seemed.

Meteorology for the win? The back and forth from two hours ago is even funnier now.

If anyone “deserves” it… you do. Nice. Edit: Lol see you weren’t done there. There’s a month of rain.

There is something satisfying about seeing the models and Mets beat the emotional crew’s fear forecasting.

What’s all the stuff on OKX radar south and east of Long Island?

To associate the above media with real obs, this downpour put down 0.23” at my station… less than I expected, as radar pegged 0.50+ as possible. Never large amounts, but frequent watering.

I’m heading down at the end of the month and Labor Day Weekend, will be interesting to see the water level at the dam. The old railroad track berm was almost all exposed across the entire body of water in July, can’t imagine now.

Jim! Haven’t heard from him in a while. He was a poster on the forums back in the day. Amazing photographer around the MWN area back when he would post. I think he was a Mt Washington forecaster for the observatory back then?

It’s convection is what I think. Someone gets 1-3” and someone gets a quarter inch. Haven’t looked at it to be honest. Had some damage with that storm in town, heading home there’s some trees and wires down. You know it’s Stowe because it’s Mass and NY plates, ha.

You know as I think about it, maybe trying to find the lack of rain is consistent with trying to find the most exciting weather/damage. There is a vibe on here at times where it feels like folks are sort of rooting for dry because it’s more interesting. A half inch of rain per week right now is like getting a 2.4” and a 3.8” snowfalls that melt immediately but ruins futility….everything is dead already, fires burning, everyone “worked so hard” for it, might as well secretly hope it continues and see how damaging it can get?

Stein has you beaten down. I can’t imagine you asking Will or Scooter this hypothetical in a winter storm. You usually are wondering where the jackpot zone might be and how much. Or where the highest wind damage will be… never wondering where the least damage might be.

I know most will be happy to hear the daily Stowe rains are here. Bone dry on the mountain but huge downpour for the village, and I’ve seen several cloud to ground bolts to the valley floor. Doesn’t even rain on the mountain anymore, only to keep the village grass as green as possible.

There’s no way those charts with hours of dews would support a humid summer (at least relative to normal). I don’t know where one finds those but entering like mid-July they were bottom barrel for high dews. Second half of July definitely helped with hours above 65F dews. No mixing out up here. Looks like most away from the ocean are seeing dews in the 50s down in Mass now. We know FIT is too low, but mid-50s. Up this way it’s more humid and can see the moisture pooling NW in the St Lawrence River Valley towards Montreal.

Interesting. Yesterday was our driest with dews hitting the 40s like BOS on Friday.

Been an enjoyable one for sure. 90F here yesterday off 51F min. Huge dry air diurnal swings. Today looks like we pump some brief dews ahead of the shortwave. No more 25% RH.

You hope we get a gust similar to the breeze seen 5-10 seconds into that Cedar Rapids video. That is sadly what many in the NE US term severe winds.

Someone needs to post the hours above 70F dew maps relative to normal to clear up some confused folks.

Whoops. 90F lol.

90/48 with 24% RH. The low dew summer.

Given the Vikings’ diet, one might assume there was an abnormally high amount of methane being farted into the atmosphere back then.

I’m getting my 1600s tropical storms mixed up.

I thought the stains inside Hezekiah’s knickers showed 1616 was stronger than 1635?

Nice man. Love those days ha.