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It looks like some big numbers are coming to the I95 corridor (pockets of 3+ inches--iso 6-7"?). Digital Storm Totals from DIX and OKX are too low this Wednesday evening in s NJ. Already 1/2-1.2" amounts in parts of southern Ocean County(see attached weather underground). Look at the radar loop and you can see if that intensity comes overhead, torrential rain will occur. Long ways to go. HEAVIEST rainfall may come in two bands---one at sunrise NJ-LI, and then 3P-10P for ne NJ-CT/LI and extreme se NYS with good frontogenesis probably yielding some 1.5"+ amounts in 1 hour. 952P/9

Some of new 12z/9 guidance is in: This may be a fairly serious brief and small areas of short fuse FF for parts of NJ/NYC area, Thursday, keeping in mind previous FFG. 12z/9 SPC HREF 24 hr MAX rainfall potential. It's increased somewhat in NJ. I see 7" flagged here for 2 successive cycles in ne NJ. We'll see what happens. ICON/GGEM are pretty decent as well. 226P/9

Jut added last nights 00z/9 SPC HREF 24 hour Max rainfall graphic ending 8PM Thursday. Legend decodes the 8 member ensemble attempt at prediction.With a PWAT of 2.3"...these numbers are possible, if thunderstorms occur. Something to monitor tomorrow. Also, added the probability of 2" or more of qpf per the 00z/9 NAEFS by 8PM Monday...showing a50+% chance of 2+" on LI (back up from a few days ago). mPING may be helpful tomorrow. 931A/9

Have attached relatively high 6 hour FFG, plus the first week of Sept departure from normal rainfall, and the ~Aug 30 NAEFS 52 member D8-14 pattern that suggested near or above normal rainfall along the east coast for week two of Sept, that was posted on p2 of the Sept thread... with a cooler pattern nations midsection abutting a warmer than normal western Atlc temperature pattern. Now we're in the shorter term and modeling consensus has increased the front end of the probable two part R+ episodes -Thursday- and Sunday-Monday(13-14). 00z/9 model guidance is suggesting widespread showery conditions Thursday in the NYC forum, with some thunder. PWAT may rise to 2.3". Have seen a little ensemble guidance suggesting max rainfall of 5-7" in eastern NJ and possibly near NYC. There is enough wind that one or 2 clusters of thunderstorms might produce a wet microburst of severe weather in NJ or even LI on Thursday. My expectation is that everyone in the NYC forum receives a minimum of 1/4" and then in NJ/LI there should be several reports of 3+" with isolated 5" possible. Some of the showers may creep into the southern part of the NYC forum late this afternoon or evening but the main show is Thursday-Thursday night. There could be a couple of leftover showers leftover after daybreak Friday on LI. Normal rainfall in our area for a week period in September seems to be around 1-1.1" though our climate specialists may have other differing information. In any case, have not added Sunday-Monday to this topic... that too could be pretty heavy, though 00z/9 modeling has a slightly less extensive band of 2" PWAT over our area and a couple of models have most of the convection to our east. Would like to see the GGEM operational on board for Sunday. 726A/9

Good morning this Labor Day 2020, Yesterday: no showers late afternoon evening s of I84... a few just n of I84 in se NYS and sw CT. No thunder per lighting archive. The week from Tuesday through Monday the 14th. Less chance for 2+" rains (near out above normal qpf), per the Rockies cutoff slowing and opening up late, but not yet a done deal for less. This coming Wed-Thu, and Sunday and Monday still may see significant qpf production around here. We seem to be more on the northern edge of decent qpf but some room for modeling error exists. PW rises to near 2" with pairs of days. Any showers outside those 4 days would appear to be an unexpected bonus. 634A/7

For next week: No change in overall modeling posted from the NAEFS since Sunday the 30th, supported by other forum participants looking at varying guidance. It's looking like normal or above normal QPF for much our our area between Tue and next Monday the 14th. With PWAT near 2" late Tue through next weekend... some places will have 2+" inch totals... conceivably much heavier, but, overlapping daily or every other day rains are not guaranteed and so no numbers offered above 2" at this time. Sunday (tomorrow) not only has a decent shower threat along and north of I80 in the afternoon, there could be low top isolated thunder. 3P/5

Pending any more data... there was 1 report of SVR in our NJ part of the forum last evening (added graphic) and added the CoCoRaHS 24 hour totals ~6A/3-6A/4

Next week continues of interest, as it appears the ensembles are slowing the central USA trough and building a strong ridge along the e coast...with lots of southerly component. 00z/4 NAEFS reflects... showers develop Monday night or Tuesday (inverted trough early-mid week) and continue intermittently through Monday the 14th. Presuming some days will be rain free... Haver added a week long graphic that now has an ensemble 40-50% probability of 2" Long Island. It's also becoming a little clearer, that one axis of heavy precip will be west of the Apps, and another along the USA east coast with a relatively low qpf expectation between. Finally-Sunday the 6th...still to me looks like isolated or sct showers about the NYC forum area per KI pooling in weak WAA? 1023A/4

Looks like no svr: despite helicity. Max rainfall I think was just s of NAM axis as posted in this topic. I see spotty 1.5" plus in that axis. Probably just didn't have enough CAPE, instability.

I'll be away for a large portion of this time frame so creating a possible avenue of posts, IF SVR materializes. Have seen a few models with a separate more northerly strong shear zone near I78 to southern LI early tonight. Added a couple of graphics. This matches the SPC D1 Slight Risk. While I think most of the SVR will be south of our forum, needed to cover for a possible potent developing event. You'll know by 7PM what's moving through and/or near KABE. Keep alert on your radar data. IF a supercell develops...real good chance of 1-3" in 30 to 60 minutes. Again, low prob for our area but could not ignore some of the modeled guidance.

Poured here in Wantage between 11P-2A but wifi power interruption prevents accurate accounting. At least 1.1" at that time and Digital Storm Total shows some nr 2" amounts around here in nw NJ. No topic on SVR today, at least not yet. Most of the activity in our forum should be 6P-midnight with the bulk of svr just s of of our forum. If any SVR, think it's mainly Ocean County. Not enough CAPE imo. Will rereview early this afternoon. As an aside, many talking about rain free weekend...not so sure about Sunday. Seems like more clouds and a pooling of KI across our area. My guess there will be a couple of showers around in the afternoon. Monday is the warmer beach weather day (safely distanced). Trough evolution central USA next week seems more positively tilted but Wed--Fri, should rain decently in parts of our area with potential for 2" totals somewhere. 652A/3

So, I'm aware of the watch just to our sw. I expect a combo of the HRRR and HRDPS to handle timing-coverage. RE: SVR? I doubt in our area but cant rule it out. My guess is a broken line of showers with embedded thunderstorms... a few of which will produce .25 to 1" of rain in 1 hour and maybe a G40-45 MPH. These storms should be decaying as they enter NYC 1A-3A Thursday. Will reevaluate Thursday evening, around 645A Thursday. May post again, if its surprisingly big here in Sussex County toward 11P-mid tonight. Otherwise... this is my last post of today.

Just a brief note to ensure all know mPing has returned this afternoon. We'll need to reload the app (delver then add). Its is valuable information-ground truth check on radar. It works. Apparently it returned last evening.

Is it true... mPing has returned? I think it has... here is a twitter report. NOAA NSSL @NOAANSSL · 1h Get your phone ready - mPING is back! Download the updated app to report the #wx near you! Already have the app? Redownload the app for the latest updates. https://mping.nssl.noaa.gov

1.00" in Wantage NJ so far, since 5AM. No SVR topic planned, so far. SPC D2 afternoon update said this about it's Marginal for our area. ...Hudson Valley into Southern New England... There may be some potential for strong/gusty winds to occur north of the more robust convection across the Mid-Atlantic Thursday evening/night. Low-level warm advection would be the main forcing mechanism. However, most 12Z guidance does not suggest strong storm development across the Hudson Valley into southern New England late in the period. Have therefore trended the Marginal Risk southward a bit, but still including the NYC metro and far southern New England in case convection develops a little farther north than currently forecast.

0.97 so far... since 5A. Not well modeled. Surprised HRDPS missed this on its very short term forecast.

Wantage NJ... 0.69" so far since 5A.. beneficial!

Wantage NJ 0.54" so far 5A-8A. Definitely valuable rainfall.

Good Wednesday morning all: welcomed rains here in far nw NJ since 5A..so far 0.37". No topic on the SPC D1-2 marginal risks parts of our area next two days: You're welcome to add this as a topic. Aside from a wet Wednesday morning in far nw NJ/se NYS /CT, I see a band or two of heavy showers/tstms sometime after dark both this evening and Thu evening, but EC modeled CAPE continues meager in our area; so if SVR makes it into our forum area, my expectation is only a couple of reports, mainly western/central NJ. Still time to add asa topic if model favorability improves. On next week: I added a 00z/2 NAEFS prob of 2" or more of the entire period. This is a decent ~30% chance, a week in advance. EPS only has near normal anomaly next week while the GEFS is definitely wetter than normal. This far in advance, at least our trough-ridge position is favorable for qpf... but the targeted, repeat episodes is uncertain and should be focused along the quasi-stationary boundary, and upslope regions- which could be a little to our west? 720A/2

Modeling via the ensembles continues to suggest next week (7-14), will provide us near normal qpf, maybe above normal interior a below eastern LI? Several events and somewhat depends on position of a possible quasi-stationary front the eastern seaboard. This as per several graphics posted from various members the past two days. One thing that from my perspective will be less evident than in summer... heavy convection, due to shorter-cooler days. So, I think we're going to need a boundary to help us out, aside from the upslope interior mountain ridges. If it ends up the flow is southerly, rather than southeasterly, then we have more opportunity for LI/CT to see some decent showers from the lift of the southerly flow over the landmass. Lots of unknowns. Regarding the SPC depicted D3 marginal severe for our area this Thursday... holding off as a topic at this time. It is late in the season, and the EC does not have enough CAPE-KI, in my opinion, til evening. The winds aloft - modeled and discussed by SPC will be in place, but the CAPE-KI are slower to arrive in our forum than the 06z/1 GFS models. Otherwise...seems like periods of showers-drizzle the next two days (today-Wednesday). 657A/1

Saw the several posts today on the longer range: I agree... looks interesting. Adding the NAEFS D8-14... thats' been consistent for a couple of days now... how it evolves is unknown (pieces for northern stream, or maybe cutoff something down in TN?) What this flags for me is a southerly component and potential for increased rainfall. Maybe most of it will be Apps west? I'll guess maybe a little closer to normal for most of our area, than what we've experienced since Isaias. This outlook would be for September - week two.

So in summary, I'm pretty sure tropical moisture made it at least into the extreme southern part of our NYC forum, per attached radar and CoCoRAHS rainfall Fri-Sat (3"+ extreme south part). The EC and UK were far too strong on the remnant Laura holding together across the Apps and may have contributed to some of the high bias in forecasting the resultant rainfall (disappointment for many of us I78 northward). Our part of Wantage NJ had less than 1/2", even including the 27th! I do think it was worthwhile to follow Laura's potential impact on our area, appreciating model guidance in its various deficiencies and strengths. We do know there were flood warnings near PHL and in the Delmarva for this storm...fairly close but not close enough. Our

Hi! Here is a very good summary of supercell path through CT by Dr Anton Seimon with supporting guidance etc from NBC Met Ryan Hanrahan. I post this because this event, for late August was pretty substantial and especially for parts of CT. SPC did a good job capturing a fairly high end event. This is my last on the 27th... but I wanted you to appreciate the discussion and additional information. The appended images would need to be inserted into the discussion below... but if you take a moment, you can see some value added. B Back on Thursday, while many on this list were tracking the progress of TC Laura through Louisiana, a strong supercell thunderstorm tracked from south of Albany southeastward across Connecticut to Long Island Sound. Major damage was registered in several towns in Connecticut, and the NWS has confirmed an EF-1 tornado track with an 18-km path, and more widespread damage along a broader path from a series of microbursts. The severe weather potential was amply recognized in SPC Outlooks and Discussions leading up to the event, and the localization of the most severe threat to a narrow corridor was especially well represented in guidance from convection-allowing NAM operational runs. Here is one NAM guidance product, courtesy of the College of DuPage, from the 18 UTC run on 26 August; the most severe damage occurred close to 20 UTC (4 pm EDT), so 26 hours after model initialization. The 12 UTC/27th run 18 hours later maintained this high-end supercell scenario in time and place. The o The overall setup of a supercell tracking along a surface warm frontal boundary under seasonally strong northwest flow has striking similarities to an even stronger event from 10 July 1989, which produced a 100+km track of forest blowdown in Connecticut culminating in an F4 tornado at Hamden. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Northeastern_United_States_tornado_outbreak The NBC meteorologist Ryan Hanrahan offered a meteorological overview of the setup on Thursday: https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/weather-news/on-ryans-radar/august-27-tornado-event/2325826/ There are some remarkable images and video sequences that have been posted on the Internet. Ryan’s Twitter feed provides a good collection, including the screen-grabbed image below of the advancing mesocyclone as it reached Long Island Sound at Madison. Be sure to view this dash cam video from a driver caught in the rain-wrapped mesocyclone in North Branford at 4:10 pm EDT: Be sure to view this dash cam video from a driver caught in the rain-wrapped mesocyclone in North Branford at 4:10 pm EDT: https://twitter.com/Eweather13/status/1299326159423930370 The National Weather Service office at Brookhaven NY (OKX) surveyed the damage yesterday and posted findings on the tornado and microburst damage. https://nwschat.weather.gov/p.php?pid=202008290246-KOKX-NOUS41-PNSOKX There is ample evidence from KOKX radar Doppler velocity scans that the wind field in southwest quadrant of the mesocyclone circulation, augmented in a ground-relative sense by the storm’s rapid southeast motion reached hurricane force along an axis several km wide. The Radarscope screen grab below from 7-8 minutes after the assessed tornado dissipation time shows a conventional signature of a high-precipitation supercell with inbound pixel values of 42 m/s: this corresponds very closely in time and space with the video linked above.

Just saw the HRRR peel the bow echo southeast toward PHL instead of to near Toms River late today. So I could be mistaken on my previous post. I did see EC parameters and it looks quite robust Saturday, even predawn, for big rainfall producing thunderstorms...possibly in several bands...not only Ocean County to eastern LI, but maybe something near or just nw of EWR-HVN. EC dewpoints rise to the mid 70s midday Saturday.

Early CoCoRAHS reports. Digital storm totals were over 3", nearly 4" in a part of CT. Included one sample WXUNDERGROUND. Graphic of yesterdays svr wx reports. 825A/28