powderfreak

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.

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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.

It has been pouring all night. Stowe and Waterbury PWS are all showing storm total of 1.5-2.0” as of 4:25am. MVL has put up back to back hours of 0.48”, so 0.96” in last two hours. Pretty soaking rain. Nearing 2” with the real heavy stuff down near ALB about to rotate up here...we’ll see what happens.

There is a lot of moisture building down south in the Carolina’s and mid-Atlantic. Looks like it’s going negative tilt like Coastalwx mentioned... rotating bands a bit westward as they move north down near ALB and eastern PA.

1.81” now. Berkshire’s getting some water.

Man, upper CT River Valley getting smoked. Littleton, Dalton, NH areas with several stations over 1.0” already in that minor “preview” of what comes later. They are showing some efficient rain rates... if you can get 1+ in the bucket before the main event, could be decent totals in that CT River Valley watershed.

Cold air seeping in, which I find odd given the frontal position. 77F this afternoon to 55F now.

Pretty solid slug training over itself along I-91 along central/northern VT/NH line.

HRRR slowly shifting the rain axis back east. Might help DIT with his lawn and Phin with his well on that axis.

Yeah it’s done. Can see through the forest now in the backyard. Just yellows and orange but the deep red is gone and many leaves down. The entire process took about a week in total from change to peak to leaf drop.

Water from the sky now.

All moving N to NE... looks like it’ll miss, right? lol