powderfreak

I've never seen you so down on interesting weather outcomes... hopefully you regain your mojo this winter. Would hate for a model to be showing a windy nor'easter snowstorm and have you scoff at it. Just wouldn't be the same with you poo-pooing every possible system. We'd have to send you to Taunton.

That looks nice for the areas that need it most now. Just fun to see that coastal low progs.

Gotcha. It’s not about an even percent error it’s basically when it rains hard it records high. Sometimes I do notice that on the PWS network I guess... night before you see all these totals that seem higher but then CoCoRAHS comes out in the morning and it’s generally lower than the vibe you get from the Wunderground maps/networks.

Just got home to an additional 0.14”, I think it was all from one final burst of showers late morning. Storm total 2.85”.

I feel like that's much more normal than the other way around... the electronic tippers seem more prone to being on the high side though Dryslot in the last post proved not always. It makes sense though in big rain events if you consider it as a percentage of error, right? In lighter events you may only notice a very slight difference, but as you magnify the rainfall the difference between the two will grow. @dendrite is the expert on these things but if that's say an 8-9% error, in a lighter rain event that's only the difference of 0.50" vs. 0.54", which may not be as noticeable?

Yeah that weekend is usually too late as it is, this year that long weekend might as well be in November.

No I do the morning report part-time and my buddy Andre does it the other days. It's complicated, ha. I work for the resort still, full-time year round. I do many different things, it keeps me alive to be flexible. Food and Beverage is the only department I haven't worked in basically... marketing, operations, facilities, etc. I'm no one-trick pony which has seemed to help me navigate the transition of companies. Now I'm in Rental/Retail Operations management, taking advantage of lots of product gear testing, chatting with reps, etc.

Nope I moved out of there, just part-time contract work with marketing. Marketing and Sales was moving further away from skiing and I need to get out daily. I bounce around, currently in Rental/Retail Operations. Just sell marketing photos and measure their snow on the side.

BTV’s daily climate map through 7am... more fell in the eastern side of this map after that time. Most models did pretty well in this area with widespread 2”+ amounts.

Bye bye leaves.

No bueno for winter. It definitely wasn’t steady Eddie.

I cracked my outer Stratus one winter with ice, had to get a new one. My fault, it was frozen with ice and I dropped it by accident on the porch. Thing shattered with a frozen hockey puck in the bottom.

GFS seemed more stable too... the EURO was going east and west with a lot more variability it seemed. Hard in that regard to say exactly what the Euro had as the past two days were all different it seemed, lol.

The Stratus that they all use (that’s what I use) has a massive over-flow basin... that thing can take like a foot of rain.

Yeah I don’t get why they do it, Dendrite knows more about those stations but I know several local PWS in the area that seem fine in light to moderate events but then in any torrential rain they seem to tick upwards real fast. The Vermont Electric CO-OP has one that in most rain events seem ok, maybe a tad high, but then in a heavy rain event they rise much faster than others for whatever reason. Another one in Johnson and one in Hardwick always stand out around here, this morning they are about an inch higher than neighbors. Like you said there’s no weird spikes, just gradual increases but the rain rate is always higher. Wait till tomorrow and see what that guy at 1800ft reports, it definitely poured hard after 7am.

Like Will said, rain does weird things sometimes, especially in the automated gauges during heavy rain... I sort of know the ones around here that stand out. Easiest thing is buy the $37 Stratus that CoCoRAHS uses or advises and it’s a very easy check then... it’s either in the bucket or it isn’t lol. I wish the Davis stations had a reservoir to catch the rainfall so you could go back and manually check it too.

Yeah that lines up with the precip estimates... the area around Pinkham Notch was in the max on radar.

Best product on Amazon lol. https://www.amazon.com/Stratus-Precision-Mounting-Bracket-Weather/dp/B000X3KTHS/

Yeah for sure, paid attention to that. Those precip estimations can be tough when centered right over the peaks like that. Looks like 6,200ft had 1.94” at 8am. Phin’s on the road west of Gorham, the max is over MWN. I don’t doubt Phin himself, he’s just saying what his station has, lol. Maybe it is over 3”, just stood out at first glance is all.

Yeah that Cocorahs map looks fairly uniform on the whole, not gonna lie. You have even a basic garden gauge to check against?

Wow that’s crazy, your observer neighbor came in with 1.31” this morning! What a gradient.

4 different hourly periods last night included more rainfall within each hour than the entire rest of September combined here, lol. That’s hilarious to me.

Berkshire’s and western Mass looks to have done well:

Yeah that was some impressive state wide rain in VT. Just heavy rain all night ripping straight up the length of the state. Any drought done. September rainfall went from record low to probably within 1 SD of normal lol.

2.73” and still raining hard. September monthly rainfall will end up not that bad after only 1/3rd if an inch until last night, lol.