powderfreak

Just been an insane summer for SNE high rain rates.

It pains me to say it, but the higher dewpoint/moisture/PWAT air does seem to help the vegetation thrive. Regular rainfall, more clouds, etc and the vegetation goes nuts. Forest, garden, lawn. I do miss the desert warm air that seemed to be around the first half of the warm season up here as a personal preference, but it has it's benefits.

You have that way with people, it spawns discussion like this . I'm only at 16" since May 1st and I think like 10 of those inches came in the past 5 weeks. May/June and even into early July were real dry up here. I was watering the garden every day and weather never got in the way of being outside. Since mid-July I haven't watered it once.

It’s bad everywhere. I got smoked by them at a campfire on Saturday night in CT and then this evening walking the dog in Stowe it felt like I needed a hazmat suit to keep them out. Look down at your legs and find like half a dozen of them working on you at once.

37” seems reasonable to be honest. The localized nature of the torrential rains… I mean there are like 3-5” next to under 1” in some of these. And that’s over months time. Even in Stowe just in August alone there are 3-4” differences in some PWS.

Bookend season snows maybe? You never know.

See it’s stuff like this that is part of the “storm threats” envelope and certainly noteworthy. The flooding where parks, ball fields, swings are under water; I’m a big fan. I know Tippy has a fetish for it too, ha. Good stuff but doesn’t seem to be totally ruining property?

It's just been hot, humid, and had some tropical blue skies for a time early this evening. Just completely removed in parts of NNE.

Add me to the no car guy list, but I like the logic of "noise and markings" that no the other wheel assembly has is the culprit. Stuck caliper would be my guess, it probably seems to happen when cold because you are at slower speeds usually starting out. We've all been there. Caliper and break pads, they are usually a combo of both.

Nice, that's the first sub 10K snow I've seen yet. Barely sub 10K feet but it counts. The Utah ski areas saw some 11,000ft snow earlier this week. I love that climate when you can be like 75-80F or snowing in August.

That was my family’s opinion when I left CT too… glad and thankful it was less than what might have been possible. Still enough power outages to be “a storm” though. I’d assume most homeowners down there are happy with as little damage as possible. I can definitely see the weather hobbyists disappointment too. I still think every tropical system from Texas to Maine gets overhyped, not necessary a bad thing, and someone gets boned out of a good storm, but they continue to show how complex they are with so many different threat types. Models handle them quite poorly too.

How much is an insurance deductible on a boat? No idea what cost of damage is or anything regarding insurance on a boat… obviously that money is fairly significant but is it something most boat owners would do again next week if the same scenario happened again? How rough does it have to get wind/seas to cause big issues to marinas?

October and April are winter months, the ones in between are the real question marks.

I mean they use the same models as everyone else does, we saw the large spread. 48 hours ago there was definitely a higher impact chance. I still think “over-warn” in these cases is better than getting caught with pants down. Especially in multi-faceted events where you can have flooding, surge, wind, tornados, etc. And it was a Sunday so it’s not like all schools and businesses closed up for 1-2” of snow like when a nor’easter whiffs on a Tuesday in December. There really was not much risk here that I see in over-warning. Boy cried wolf syndrome doesn’t seem to be a thing because the next time people will take it seriously too it seems… at least history has shown over-warned events don’t lead to less preparation next time it seems in any type of weather.

At least 85F at MVL. Like Mt Ascutney on 91 northward was like a beautiful summer day on the drive up. Grabbed the dog and headed up the hill.

Sub-.500 since the All-Star Game. Like an evenly split winter. One half epic, one half shit. Back up north now, was there a storm somewhere?

I still regardless of actual wind speed, damage and power out is still just as impactful. Seems enough without power in CT that it was an impactful system.

Yeah not surprising. I still am in shock with how much debris can come out of trees with 20+ gusts. Would’ve thought they were stripped already from all the events in the past decade. The scud aloft was absolutely flying though. Reminds me of those 925mb wind progs shared on here…. Watching leaves gently sway at 5-15mph while it’s like 40kts sustained at like 2,000ft.

I cannot believe the amount of small limb debris on the roads around here… wind felt like it might have gusted to 30mph and there’s small twigs, branches and crap everywhere on the roads. These trees just want to drop stuff.

Yup I totally get it. If I lost power for 7-10 days from a weak TS, I’d still be a bit hesitant.

I sort of get it from what Ryan said… CT has seen some ridiculous power outages for what models had as rather mundane storms. Hearing the amount of days some posters have been without power in recent years… It would be easier to lean towards hype. Judging by what everyone around here says they are expecting to lose power if there are 40mph gusts, ha.

Engagement party yesterday. Heading back today. Will be back in a week for something else too. That rain band was torrential, it knows how to rain here it seems this summer.

That on the Davis? I was thinking maybe 15mph on the hill in Woodstock so far. Torrential rain right now though.

The Red Sox were obviously distracted by hurricane prep tonight with 5 errors. You can tell the players were wondering more about latest model guidance for Henri than playing baseball.

Nice evening in NE CT. Probably time for an evening swim. See all sorts of trees ready to take those power lines out too, ha.