powderfreak

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.

Surprised it took that long in Florida... I’d think you’d want most lines below ground too in residential areas of Florida.

Sitting in my living room getting some work done and the corner my eye sees this big black mass move right past the screen door. This guy moved walked within 10 feet of where I was sitting, like he was just wandering the outside of the building. The dog went apesh*t like she does and he started jogging away from us. He comes by daily at this point, but man, middle of the day and he was literally feet away from me through the screen door again.

They are game changers! Huge step up from CoCoRAHS.

That clip at 30 seconds is insane. How they survived that and kept filming. The pressure wave just rips through there.

Here's the link: https://vortex.plymouth.edu/myo/sfc/pltmap.html

Yeah I would’ve though cell towers would last at least a week if there’s a power outage. I mean losing cell service and data in two days after a big storm/event seems like a terrible idea. So many people rely on that, it’s almost life and death as landlines disappear.

Any luck?

Just saw Ryan’s post on FB about the CT cell phone towers starting to go dark as many only have two days of emergency battery back-up. Yikes. Society without working cell phones is like anarchy.

I think in the past Alex has said he’s near where I think that RT 302 marker is at the mouth of Bretton Woods. Thats an insane set up for very cold mins... bottom of the river valley but elevated at 1500-1600ft... with close terrain rises to over 2,500ft on all sides, draining cold air into that pocket. If you want to see summer frosts, that’s one of the best looking geographic set-ups you’ll find for massive radiational cooling. I bet the minute that little valley goes into the shade around sunset that open flat river basin drops 10 degrees in minutes. Even people living up those small roads up at 1,800ft probably don’t see anywhere close to the temps that pool just a few hundred feet lower.

His spot won’t be beat for rad cooling. He’s I think a little higher than you but right along a river bottom. Hes got like the SLK set-up... which is high elevation but at the bottom of a valley. Your photos look like you’ll have a more mid-slope climate. I bet the bottom of your hill or where the road is down in that valley between you and the Presidential's there was well into the 40s last night. Any stations to compare to down there? Even where I am and MVL, we can be at least 10F cooler at 750ft than 1,500ft base of the ski resort on clear/calm nights. 1500ft here is more mid-slope and stays mixed.

75/52 Mostly sunny. These are the days @PhineasC saw in the brochure.

My parents were telling me last summer the power crews did a whole bunch of work near them on like RT 197 I think... basically clear cut like 20-30 yards on each side of the road. Just straight wide open now. Sounded like the sun finally reached the road for the first time in decades.... but also sounded like that one stretch took them like weeks to do.