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I don't know spring 2001 just seems like psychological warfare to me now. I would be gearing up for golf season and 3/31 there is still 32" on the ground at GYX. More than 20" on the ground until 4/9, and there were still patches of snow until 4/21.

Scooter asking "you got any more of those, uh, winter storm warnings?"

Those were the glory days of snow forts in the driveway. And '94 I could skate to school without falling through the crust on the snow after those Feb ice events.

This is New England masquerading as OK during the warm season. If you squint hard enough those could be 7+ lapse rates.

Much like the Patriots, we just play better when there is snow in the air.

There are a lot of buns being tossed in this thread...

Not anymore. MFL has taken over on backup within the last hour.

Each of those points should be 15 or 30 minutes apart, meaning that would be 30+ foot rises in time scales well under an hour. And it doesn't look like it is missing data (like CIAP4 which went from 10 AM to 5 PM without a report). So just to my eyes that looks like bad data. Something could easily be jammed in the sensor (much like ice in the winter can produce similar results).

Most gauges work based on the pressure water exerts on them internally (typically pushing a gas bubble through a tube inside the gauge). That relates to water level and streamflow. The actual transmission of the data can be done from a safe distance/height from the water source, and can be done through solar energy and satellite, so the loss of electricity is not always a problem.

I don't know if they are using the same IFWS that we do up here, but if that's the case it is a pretty sensitive instrument. Rogue gusts and drop outs are not uncommon.

It's not really the speed that's the problem, it's power to the system.

Yeah, I don't think Irma and Maria are just delaying happy hour for a couple of days. There is devastation in some pretty impoverished areas. A poorly timed jog with Maria could bring the eye dangerous close to relief efforts in the Virgin Islands. STT already gusting to 43 kts in fact.

Yes: http://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/09/world/hundreds-feared-killed-by-puerto-rico-mud-slide.html

We had a real nice paster last December. I worked that evening and watched the rain/snow line move inland early in the event. It got to about the Turnpike around here and held with rain for an hour or two. Then it crashed back to the coast and we pounded +SN for a few hours after. 6-10" of heavy, wet snow stuck to everything. Might as well have just set a bomb off between GYX and PWM, with all the trees and wires down. People are still cleaning up the broken limbs around their yards.

Sweet cloud cover here.

I'm aware, and I'm not shocked either, just corroborating the CAR forecast with obs from this past weekend. Katahdin is almost exactly 1,000 feet lower (6,288 vs. 5,267).

The rangers swear there were some rimed flakes mixing in Friday night up there. And given how dry it was and with lows dropping into the 30s, I wouldn't be shocked if there was some frozen spitting in there.

MOS is working about as effectively as April around here. Or maybe our forecasts are about as effective as April. We keep saying 80 but we blow through that to like 85-86 with these big diurnal ranges.

Light jacket when you tee off, shorts/t-shirt by the time you hit the turn.

I think it was September 2014 we were able to see curtains on the far horizon from GYX with a Kp of 6. I may be confusing the date though, because we have been remarkably lucky to see several from GYX since I started working here.

I mean K index isn't always the tell all either. A good proxy for sure, but sometimes the ACE data can tell a better story. The May event was between a 5-6 and the aurora was a brilliant show around here for those that didn't have clouds. I know at GYX we've had some blah 7s, and amazing 5s (like October 2013 that peaked at a 5).

Right on 27. I'm pretty excited about it, if only for the duck at the Village Inn.

There were back to back events there. The July 4-5 derecho, then on July 6th a squall line blew through from eastern NY/Canada. That July 6th one really ripped through the area N of ALY to the Lakes Region with big wind. I mean it's not totally uncommon for a derecho/MCS to persist a full day. Many times they can go through a diurnal weakening before convection re-fires from the MCV. Now surviving 24 hours into New England usually takes something more special. Like EMLs and 70+ dew points. It also looks like we're going to be neighbors, at least for parts of the summers. My in-laws just got a new camp on Long Pond in Belgrade. Pretty sweet views to the west, so I anticipate I'll be weenie-ing out on a few storms in the coming years.

Check your PMs.

Holy crap, I'm looking back to see how many warnings GYX issued that day (9) and see that we only issued 37 for the whole year. For reference, BOX issued 84. A routine year is in the 100s now. County based warnings did play a role in that though. Still, 37? We've had single events get most of the way to that number before.