jm1220

The Oct 2011 snow was a lot of white rain east of the city that stuck in spots when it came down heavier but what happened a year later was obviously beyond any compare here. The early November snow after Sandy would've been awe inspiring on its own since there was up to 8" even on the coast. That it happened a week after devastation was practically apocalyptic, and seeing the heavy snow piled on people's flooded out belongings and wreckage of homes. Some places started to get power again only for it to go off again for several more days, and of course those with no power/heat were in worse straits. For a week after Sandy my mother and I hung out near a stove for heat in a part of Long Beach that didn't flood, heating tap water we couldn't drink. We had to walk to City Hall every day for printed updates and listen to a radio for news. Hard to even describe how bad it was. And anyone with a working car had to wait on line for hours for gas.

Ehh. Not east of the city or anywhere near a coast.

Congrats Philly.

We’ll crash fast outside the city-winds are pretty calm and dewpoints around 30. I’m pretty confident many drop into the 30s again and maybe near freezing (of course outside the city).

Down to 42 here. We cold.

I don’t even pay attention to their winter outlooks. They just put climo Nina or Nino up and use that. They shouldn’t even waste their time if they do no other research. Like we saw the last couple winters there are plenty of other factors that can override ENSO.

9/10 of these fizzle out west of here. That’s life living in a place that juts out into the ocean. Didn’t help that we had the showers earlier that kept it from heating up.

Storm went maybe 2 miles north of me. Maybe 20 second shower here.

Velocities to around 40mph in the storm approaching the Bronx. Maybe decent but nothing severe. Since it’s breaking up most of us probably end up with a few showers. The rain earlier today probably ruined our setup for now. Never really cleared out here.

Depends how high the snow levels get. If we have subtropical/warm origins events all the time, Lake Tahoe for example might be wet a lot of the time and you have to go to the high slopes to see much.

Can't be worse than the odds of hitting the 100K slot machine in Atlantic City under all that snow.

Ended up wetter than the split-shafting models had but thankfully nothing like what we would’ve seen if Isaias remained a coherent system like Ida. I think it’s a given the next 4-5 months will be stormy here so time to get used to it. Hopefully 2-3 of them in winter can be snow.

TS Rachel phasing in with the western trough pumped the ridge over the Plains.

Definitely some heavy rain inland on the E upslope flow.

Some models hinting at a shaft/split-screw area between heavy rain in PA and offshore. Should be decent rain NW of us given upslope moist E flow.

If we had gusts over 115, IMO it was definitely Cat 2 as it came ashore.

Yep I’m glad the N Gulf finally caught something of a break with this one. Laura, Michael, Ida etc were horrific and broke the pattern of rapidly weakening N Gulf storms as they come in. Of course 2 are dead and hundreds of thousands are suffering with power out and other damage so hopefully things are running again soon.

N Gulf hurricanes that come this way sometimes “wake back up” over our area like Ida which caused more deaths here than anywhere but this won’t be one of them. You can already see it’s sheared apart and won’t be a very coherent system here. Probably a general 1-2” rain like most models are showing.

NHC had it at 105mph when it came ashore, so it wasn't major.

What was expected ended up happening just a few hours late, which NHC mentioned as a risk for more intense landfall. My guess is a low end Cat 2 verified in the end. We’ll see in the AM how the damage looks. The surge I’m sure was severe but may have missed Destin just to the east so maybe a slight “win” there.

115–120mph velocities not far offshore south of Pensacola. It’s elevated where the radar beam samples it but still rough impacts incoming shortly.

Yep, I'm looking out my window at it 1000 miles away.

Isaias outflow clouds

Yep, southern eyewall clearly being eaten away. But the north side is still clearly in beast mode and trying as best it can to wrap around.

GOM hasn't had any significant tropical activity this year so the waters are quite warm. That helps.