CT Rain

Have you turned on your window units?

Meh

Sort of answers its own question. There's always a snow hole from KGINX to KGON.

Remember the 24"-36" NYC got in this years January blizzard?

What a toaster bath

I wonder how much liquid BDL managed.

Hartland CT is probably the best spot. Norfolk is good too but real estate is very expensive there.

Yeah I recall an event in the late 90s where we had accumulating fluff just east of HVN on a WSW wind.

on SE winds off Block Island Sound!

YOu don't take a joke very well!

BDL still averages 49" so you're probably the same. That's not bad. I'm just under 45" in WeHa.

lol - who would possibly be skeptical about a 72 hour forecast for record shattering snows?????? And jeez... 1 comment about OES and you get all bent out of shape.

? I probably was as un-debby as it gets about the October snowstorm.

He also benefits from inserting his ruler into the snow at less than 90 degrees.

Yeah - we actually see the downslope issue a bit more up along the Mass border near Springfield then we do in the Hartford area. It's not a huge thing unless we have a really ripping ENE flow. It's normally fairly negligible. On storms where we're kissing the northern end of a shield of snow... or even a decent deformation band... the northerly ageostrophic dry drain can be lethal here.

I feel like a lot of what Kevin attributes to upslope is really just other factors that benefit elevated locales. For example, on a storm with NE flow... occasionally drier air in the boundary layer will advect south (locally chanelled flow too) down the CT River Valley resulting in a dearth of snowfall from Greenfield Mass to Hartford. When ORH is 24/22 and HFD is sitting at 27/18 it's time for me to tie the noose and jump off the Bulkeley Bridge. That's not downsloping... but it is Kevin doing better because of elevation and avoiding the northerly dry drain. That's a much bigger issue for MBY than downsloping unless it's some really effed up storm like 12/92 or that awful retrograde storm that totally sucked in 2014.

Imagine how well the Tolland hills did on the epic SE flow Westerly ocean effect snow storm that Ginx lived through!

What a dumpster fire that storm was for us. The worst part of it was that the reason we got screwed wasn't even a good one... I could see downsloping, dry air draining down the valley, or even pinging too fast... but that odd standing wave pattern was just absolutely brutal.

I would have preferred 45F and sunshine than live through that storm again

How's the other parameters besides Kp look?

KMWN 230150Z 30014KT 40SM FEW/// FEW010 FEW150 SCT200 07/06 RMK TPS LWR FEW050 HZ DSNT ALQDS AURBO

Awesome shot - Did you get this in Dutchess Co?

Are Bz and Kp related? For example will a positive Bz hurt the Kp or are the 2 indicies unrelated?

What is Bz? Why is it important?

I saw that... though Kp has dropped from 8 to 7 in last update.