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I don't know if if hit 32 in Manhattan but they are getting flurries and I have noticed they seem to get snow some years before the first official freeze.

Snow shower here.

14 minutes ago, NEG NAO said:

heavy snow band moving over Chicago as of 10 am

Unusual for them to get Lake Affect but wind is just right.

1 hour ago, uofmiami said:

29.9 in Muttontown & 30.3 in Syosset this morning. Did Nassau have any freeze or frost warnings issued? 

No, they usually lump Nassau in with the city. I questioned the NWS about this and the reply was that they look at the over all picture. Another words some of Nassau (mostly eastern and northern areas) may have frost but most of it won't. The larger area that won't is southern, southwestern and western Nassau that is more urban. I don't know why advisories have to stop at county lines.

30 degrees with frost

37mph my maximum gust. No rain, just enough to wet the ground.

14 minutes ago, FPizz said:

For official rain at my place, I have a cocorahs gauge.  I always like to compare it to the station one.

Good idea, I used to have one but it cracked after years of use. Never replaced it but they are good.

2 hours ago, uofmiami said:

I only have VP2 stations with fans, the rainfall amounts do get a tad higher in heavier rainfalls.  I replaced my older station in Syosset that had tipping to the spoon one, still occurs. Maybe it’s where the siting of station is, as Muttontown one doesn’t seem to do it.  I also wanted accurate wind along with temps, so have the sensors separated with anemometer on the roof above to a tripod pole grounded for lightning.  Scientific sales website has good pricing for Davis, since Davis seems to be expensive compared to other brands.

Scientific sales is where I have bought a lot of my weather equipment. They are cheaper than Davis. I use my vantage vue for rain and temperature and wind readings are separate  about 30 ft . in the air.

4 hours ago, IrishRob17 said:

With the Vue I also noticed that issue common with home weather stations where it downpours the rain totals were a bit high. Did you notice that at all? Both those issues were annoying to me so I saved up and got the Davis Vantage Pro2 and haven looked back since both those issues went away. As a result, there’s a period of 6 or so years in my records where I have to take the high temps I recorded with a grain of salt, it’s evident in my records. 32 for the low here earlier, 34 now under gray skies. 

Never noticed a rainfall issue. The vantage pro2 is the best because you can separate the wind and temperature. Radiation shield also much bigger on the pro2 and you can get the fan for it.

60 my high today after a low in the mid 30s

16 hours ago, IrishRob17 said:

I had a similar issue with the Davis Vantage Vue, maybe 2-3 degrees higher under certain sunny conditions. It had the shield but it was small and not fan aspirated. 

I had the same with the vantage vue. When the sun hit it directly it would read about 2 degrees higher than when totally in the shade.

39 peak gust here yesterday

After a slow start, ended up with 2.17 inches.

 wind gusting to 37mph

5 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Highly doubt winds are close to that.

Yea would seem unlikely at ground level

I doubt you find anything on the coast near landfall. Mandeville should be in the eyewall or just east and I believe it is somewhat elevated, bad scenario.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov6mC9CdGVE

26 minutes ago, eyewall said:

I assume anything in the core will not remain online at all.

I posted one near Mandeville about 50 minutes ago.

25 minutes ago, NoCORH4L said:

Anyone have any good live feeds from near the landfall locale?

I found this on you tube, Mandeville Jamaica

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov6mC9CdGVE

Fortunately for Jamaica the extreme winds only go out about 8 miles from the center. Kingston the capitol may not get into any hurricane force winds but strong tropical storm force winds seems likely. Of course everything depends on eventual path.

38 the low here, no frost

Would not be surprised to see my first frost tomorrow morning

Would not be surprised to see my first frost tomorrow morning

39.1 my low

1 hour ago, IrishRob17 said:

Once stations got wireless I got much more interested in getting my own station, plus where I was in life at the time. I do remember putting my old Weather Monitor II on two different roofs in the late 90's and early 00's, not the best move to have the entire station up there but live and learn. Its much easier all around now. I remember you giving me pointers on how to connect to my computer and then that got even easier with the Davis WeatherLink Live.

I had a weather wizard III. About a year or two ago I actually bought another weather wizard III on eBay just to get the anemometer.  It works with the vantage pro2. I saved about $100

1 hour ago, doncat said:

I'm 65 now....I have written records that began uninterrupted when I was 13. I think ive been doing this since maybe 10 years of age or maybe younger. Come to my house and see all my weather equipment I've purchased over the decades...my basement looks like a weather museum lol.

I have numerous Davis weather equipment. I used to have a heathkit, which I built, and a weathermax weather station. Sold both of those.