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CAD is lacking, but a blue bomb is not out of the question. Even some valley locations are close. Bufkit for places like LEB and HIE have some hours of isothermal paste that's like 2"/hr. Might be a little too torchy for the Monadnocks, but farther north could be a 1000-1500 ft birch bender.
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I mean they aren't even the same budget bins, so it's not like it could be used either way. NCEI is in NESDIS and repairs come out of the NWS budget. The bigger problem is that we can't get a full budget passed, and so continuing resolutions default to previous funding levels. So even under normal inflation our budget doesn't keep up, and the first and foremost thing to pay for is manpower and keeping the lights on. So repair work gets tighter and tighter, model development work suffers, etc.
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Sneaky little system Mon. Quickly developing low kind of cuts off the LLJ for GYX, but HRRR is developing a little stinger that may clip the Cape. And Downeast should rock, might even be trying to model some gravity waves in there.
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We're one Sandy away from a regional mesonet!
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It's pretty comical how thin the supplies are sometimes. Like the whole radar service life extension program (SLEP). We had like two extra pedestals for the whole country, so we leapfrogged teams around the nation refurbishing. Give CAR the spare pedestal, refurbish theirs, give it to GYX, refurbish GYX's old pedestal, give it to BTV, etc.
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Well there are more sources than just NWS CLI sites. And even dozens of climate sites running warm or cold will be washed out by the shear number of observations (plus you have some ASOSs running warm, others running cold also washing out).
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Not if you like Morch and 50% of your seasonal snow before Thanksgiving.
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The global climate dataset is more complicated than just ASOS, but the climate section of the NWS website is almost all ASOS. There are a handful of climate observations that are manual obs (for instance the Gray observation is taken here at our office which has no ASOS).
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It's not that we don't care, it's that we can only do so much. The only reason ASOS exists is for FAA flight purposes, and they don't care about temps, so the tolerance is like +/- 2 degrees. So if temps are still falling within that range the equipment is not malfunctioning and not in need of repair. With the budgets being they way they are, we definitely can't go replacing equipment that isn't in need of it. Then if an ASOS does break, it's more likely it will just be down until a replacement part arrives.
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After more than 50 years of observing for us, Dennis and his wife have now both passed. As is the story with many of our coops, I'm not sure whether they can be replaced. I certainly wouldn't expect any observations this winter.
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Bunch of mountain men trying to hang themselves from moose antlers up in The County.
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I don't think there's really a particular time of day run that leads to wild solutions, it's just the nature of a single run deterministic model. You're bound to get a wound up storm every now and then, but the reality is it's just one of 30 to 100 ensemble members.
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That's the ticket. Cut so far west we dam instead of torch.
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Very different from Pittsburg INT AP
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Pretty good trend that direction since yesterday. Even if one of the ops burps and drops a bunch of QPF, the ensemble members are gradually slipping away.
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I can add sample points to everyone's lat/lon to make sure I draw the coastal front around them.
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Lots of toasters being moved to the vicinity of the bathtub in January 2015.
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It's close on normals, only about 1 inch more (10.1" to 9.4") in December. But really if you punt the first two weeks of December and the last two of March, that's your season.
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I think that timing makes sense for a Christmas Grinch storm.
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We all know about how Roger Williams was kicked out of the Mass Bay Colony after the great meltdown during winter 1635-36.
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Forgot to put my own snowboard out this morning. I have to stop working midnights, it's turning my brain to mush.
