ct_yankee

Sweet little supercell in MA, at least for a few scans. The MA cells are interacting with warm front/boundary, and also each other... Many splits but some definite spin in places. Too bad it looks like it will all congeal. Still, I don't think you could call this a bust.

Slight risk extended into parts of CT... I think they did it just for you, Wiz.

It's making my brain hurt trying to figure out which way that should be rotating.

Did they extend the watch and then trim it back again? I could have sworn I saw it covering almost all of CT a few minutes ago but now it only covers the northwestern corner.

This is very underwhelming. I don't get the extended watch either. Good old New England, never disappoints, which is to say it almost always does. I always have zero expectation for these events, and once in a great while I'm pleasantly surprised. Not today, tho. So it goes. Edit: and we might have a spin up in VT as I post this. Yep, that figures.

Nam sounding for central MA friday 21z:

I also wondered if there wasn't something screwy with radarscope so I looked elsewhere, specifically at SPC mesoanalysis, but there was no warning box there either. If there was a glitch I think it goes further than just radarscope.

Oh FFS, President Sharpie didn't just say that there was a chance of Alabama getting hit, he specifically said they were going to be hit "harder than expected", something no weather map or model was indicating at the time, in fact the trend was exactly the opposite. After a presidential statement like that, BMX was absolutely correct in setting the record straight. And you know it.

So, does anybody still believe that the NWS/NOAA would never ever let politics dictate a weather statement, as was being professed on this board a few days ago? To be clear, I didn't think so then... But now? It's just f'n pathetic.

Some people appeared to be arguing it's real... But it's so hard to tell on here who's trolling and who's being serious...

Regarding that "satellite image", it is indeed sort of a fake. If you look closely you can see that the water is just basically photoshopped (figuratively speaking) into the image, the waves are not breaking where they should be, etc, etc. What they did is use a sat to figure out where the new water (new coastline?) currently is and then made an image that looks like a photo but actually isn't. It's an "artist's conception" kind of deal except the artist was probably a computer algorithm and the position of the water is probably spot on. It is NOT a satellite photograph! Ya gotta be careful these days about what's real and what isn't.

I've been thinking about the fact that there's been no sign of an ERC with Dorian. Everybody's been looking for that all day, but there's been nothing. Very weird. I'm thinking somewhere there's a painting of the hurricane, a picture, as it were... And if you look very closely and carefully at the picture of Dorian, there you will see the Eyewall Replacement Cycles. Only on the picture, while Dorian the storm sails on blissfully and forever unchanging. Well, it's a theory. I do like the name.