powderfreak

Would it ever factor into your forecast wording or how serious your "storm prep" message is to viewers/public? The ease at which certain events that don't appear all that damaging elsewhere, might lead to bigger issues with the CT grid? I won't lie, whenever I go to the NE corner and adjacent areas, even the main state highways have very tall trees growing right on lines/roadway at a rate you don't see in VT or eastern NY. Can't really say for Mass, but CT just has a very dense tall forest overhead vibe that's aesthetically pleasing on windy country two-lane highways. It's easy to imagine how tree damage can lead to big issues when those tree crowns are over the powerlines everywhere.

Yeah, no thanks on no power in the winter. Especially since it's like pitch black out at 5pm. Don't under-estimate a few extra hours of daylight in the evening during a summer outage. But for sure as far as pipes freezing and such... I mean we don't use AC that much but I'd rather be uncomfortably sweaty if it came to that over pipes freezing. Seeing your breath inside (when it's actually light enough to do so) and wearing jackets, hats and gloves doesn't sound all that appealing either.

86F max here, closed it up tight when out during the day, now rain cooled air and fans pulling that in through the screen doors is working fine now that I've set up an early bear alarm system if he tries to get on the porches. Might need AC tomorrow though.

Some good thunder/lightning with this storm. Rain won’t be much, maybe quarter inch but a drink for the garden.

Ha! That’s happened at Stowe Mtn Lodge, but I think the valet got to him quick. He was hitting the loading dock there under Over Easy and wandered to the front of the hotel, ha.

Hopefully before that, ha. They are like large raccoons. They'll steal food off your deck, from your car, the dumpsters, anywhere they can get it.

It's incredible. "That's all you've got?" Their strength is really impressive and they aren't dumb. Nothing short of cementing these things shut will keep them out of it.

These bears are god damn savages. There's no stopping them. This was what a friend tried to do on advice of the Game Wardens. We got hit twice yesterday alone. Up at the mountain they removed a door, hinges, and the door frame right off a building to get to compost.

I mean I'm only half joking, mostly joking, but I still think it's a consideration given recent history... we keep thinking all the weak trees have been taken out, going back a decade ago, but then another event hits and CT gets crushed with power outages. For a meteorologist right now down in CT, it seems like it would be difficult to give the message if you think the power outage impact could be much more severe than the recorded wind speeds might suggest. Conveying this type of society interruption from the storm... like what would we or the public have said if a Met was talking about widespread week long power outages from Isaias 24 hours ahead of time? How many folks would've even considered that.

I've seen some rough comments towards teachers lately on social (but social media comments in general is a dumpster fire) but I never realized how many parents think of school as child care almost more than education. I mean it makes sense as I just never thought about it that way, but even in my hometown suburban Albany area, comments on remote schooling are like "I pay these high taxes so you will take care of my kids during the day, the education is a bonus. If you can't watch my kids then what's the point?" The overall tone was more like even if my kid's teacher is great, and he/she learns everything they are supposed to in 3rd grade remotely from home, I am not paying for that because I'm not getting child care out of it. It has to be incredibly stressful for families right now.

You have to wonder if the next time BOX issues a High Wind Warning or something, do they issue different statements for RI/MA as one and then CT as another... putting wording in with the CT advisory that sounds more like Katrina is coming "Winds may gust to 60mph, resulting in widespread power outages and critical grid failure. Be prepared to be without power for up to a week."

His second time through our yard today, this time he stopped at the Dumpster. Didn't seem to find what he wanted. The craziest part is when he's in the dumpster with the lids closed, he seems to be very quiet so you have no idea until his head just pops up and out to look around for a bit. Next year we will need a bear proof dumpster for the first time in a decade living here.

80/58 Damn near perfect for summer.

Crazy. I mean it gets to be a big deal at this point to still not have power from Tuesday. Did anyone call for “extensive and extended power outages” from the met community with this storm? This one will be memorable for the people of CT. With modeled low level jet, when do we believe it (vs plenty of cry wolf scenarios) and do we grasp how easily the electric grid can be interrupted?

That would make more sense, it seemed like a stark contrast from the rest of the state.

Looks like they are chipping away in DIT's area of N/C CT, Tolland County looks to have the biggest improvements. Also must be working hard and focused on clearing up that zone from Wallingford to Trumbull. That's still a lot of outages for 4+ full days after the storm.

Good find. So it wasn't manual. Still hard to believe 1.23" in 1 minute and only 2.84" in a 50-minute period. I would've expected a bigger 1-hour total from a storm dropping 1.23" in 1 minute. _____ "It is hard to imagine how an accurate measurement of precipitation over a 60-second period can be made. However, the U.S. Weather Bureau conducted several exhaustive studies of the Unionville, Maryland claim to 1.23” in one minute on July 4, 1956 and determined it to be accurate (see for the Monthly Weather Review summary). A recording rain gauge: A Friez Universal Type with a 12-inch capacity, dual traverse pen, and 24-hour clock gear on a chart drum was used to make the measurement. It had good exposure and measured a storm total of 3.60” between 2:50 p.m and 11:30 p.m. with 2.84” of this falling in a 50-minute period between 2:50-3:40 p.m. The minute that ostensibly measured the 1.23” total occurred around 3:22-3:23 p.m. Here is a copy of the trace:

I thought it was a liquor control board issue that you had to sell food to serve alcohol? I thought that was a general rule of getting a liquor license... the idea being you can feed a drunk some food to try to make him less drunk, ha. I remember when I worked for a hotel here in VT they were doing restaurant renovations but in order to continue selling booze at the bar they had to at least have pre-made sandwiches on site. Looked very unappetizing but filled the rule of needing food to serve alcohol.

Oh yeah never really thought about 1” in 1 minute. That seems tough outside of pouring a bucket of water in the gauge. And I’m with you, if it was manual there’s no f’ing way someone was going out there every minute to check. I was just thinking the 1” in 5 minutes and 6” in 35 minutes observations from yesterday line up. I can’t fathom 35 minutes of that amount of rain. We feel pretty good about getting 1” in 35 minutes, much less half a foot.

There was a poster in the Philly thread yesterday with like 6” in 35 minutes or something obscene like that...in the middle of those storms. His photos looked like you could kayak his backyard.

Sounds like my family in Woodstock are still out and were told maybe by Monday. That area though has to be low on the priority list compared to like Kev’s neighborhoods, pretty rural with relatively lower number of customers.

That’s wild! 25 yards wide and 50 yards in length but enough to rip a roof off a house and destroy the supporting walls on second floor if I’m reading that right? Talk about incredibly unlucky for that homeowner.

3 straight days with comfy temps and dews in the 50s. Doesn’t feel like summer 2020. Low of 50F and a high of 80F with mid-50s dews. Chamber of Commerce approved.

Yes! If you want to see a bear just come sit in the middle of Stowe for a while. Won’t see them in the mountains but the funniest thing is I haven’t seen a deer this entire summer but see a bear several times a week or see that it’s been around. This could be the same bear at Alpine Mart, I’m only like 1/2 mile from there up the Rec Path by Sushi Yoshi. We are all certain they are just playing connect the dots between the businesses/restaurants around here. Every dumpster is just mangled, all the garbage cans along the Rec Path and those parking areas are emptied by bears daily. The town and state are now starting to take it more seriously, as the Game Wardens pretty much told us there’s not much to do except make their experience as negative as possible and to call them if a bear tries to gain entrance to our residence, lol. Other than that, enjoy the stray bears. 10 years here and never had a bear, this summer they are like stray dogs in a European city. My concern is what happens in future years when these youngsters become 350 pound adult males and come here for food.

Yeah the CT trees are very tall and extremely top heavy. Like the tree canopy is 80 feet up a relatively skinny hardwood trunk.