jm1220

They desperately need the rain/snow there and especially in the SW. If any good systems can make it there in this Nina year it would be a great thing. Usually Nina winters are wet/cold in the NW where it’s not as needed.

Torrential rain closing in on I-35 with Blanco County estimating 5” rain. It’s Flash Flood Alley in that area for a reason. I remember Patricia’s remnants in Oct 2015 causing the heaviest rain I’ve ever seen in my life in Austin when I lived there. Parts of the city near the airport had I think close to 15” of rain. Not too long before the area had the insane May 2015 floods which devastated Wimberley, San Marcos and other towns on the Blanco River. This won’t be nearly as bad thankfully but Pacific tropical remnants can cause plenty of havoc along I-35.

Bringing the south shore gunk up with me.

The SE flow will make this worse in places vulnerable to upslope on those winds. Pretty deep moist flow will be riding up those mountains and squeezing out heavy rain. Central PA especially in for a drenching along with probably the Poconos/Catskills.

Ridge over troubled waters pattern possibly.

Hopefully we’re finally taking steps down in the daily temps. Also hopefully the end of the humidity-early this week was putrid.

Definitely shows the influence of the SE Ridge here too. Luckily for us we’re in the contrast zone between that and the colder Midwest temps, and can take advantage of later blooming Miller B’s.

NHC broke out the A word. Annular?

De Blasio can’t be gone soon enough. Spineless is right and also a liar to claim that this was unforecasted and meteorologists dropped the ball.

Wow. Reminds me of what my town looked like after Sandy.

Wow. Horrendous that most deaths from Ida will likely be in this area. Goes to show how water is by far the deadliest aspect of any storm.

I wish there was a way we could capture all this water we keep getting here and ship it out west to where it’s needed and they’re dealing with one of their worst droughts on record.

For how much rain we had last night, it feels absolutely awesome outside now, even chilly.

This is freshwater flooding that while still tragic isn’t as bad as saltwater flooding for property/equipment/electronics. There wasn’t an 8+ foot surge that inundated every coastal area. The subways won’t be shut down for weeks in many cases. There are places that had catastrophic effects from this but calling it “another Sandy” or worse is hyperbole.

This isn’t as bad as Sandy but it does look catastrophic in some areas. The problem as always is flooding here. NYC is surrounded by water on 3 sides and we have so much underground infrastructure that floods in a situation like this. Tragically my thought that our death toll might end up higher than the South’s from Ida looks like will verify.

Terrible. I wonder if there’s a listing yet of rain amounts areawide? Radar for me estimates about 6.5” total.

These Gulf storms often have a Part 2 in this region where they hit Atlantic moisture and dump again. Allison and Camille and now Ida.

Reminds me of the remnants of Hurricane Patricia in Oct 2015 when I was in Austin. Parts of the city had 15” from that mostly falling that morning. That’s still by far the heaviest rain I’ve ever seen. It probably beat the rain rates in this storm even. That reminded me of the Aug 2014 event in Islip.

Tragically it sounds like there are fatalities already. Might be the case that there are more up here than down in LA.

Central Park 3.15" in one hour. About 7" total now. Thankfully in NYC this is about done now but an absolutely insane 2 hours.

Big totals in the NW corner of Suffolk too. I'm at about 5.5" per Radarscope but 7"+ just west and north of me.

That still gets them to about 7" total. Thankfully rain is about over there.

Looks like 4-5" per Radarscope.

Heavy rain again here but looks like the worst is over outside of central/eastern Suffolk. Radar estimating I'm at 5" or so now. Maybe I can make it to 6".

Hate to even imagine if the fatalities up here will be higher than those down in LA from Ida.