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Ha ha... Could be a situation that overcomes. It'll be interesting to see how that plays out up that way.

Have to check the Oxbow NWS site ( again... about 2 1/2 clicks from here) to see if maybe it clipped them but we just had our best gust a few moments ago.. Easily 50 mph, and an uptick from anything in the prior hours of this thing. It's also coinciding with a bit of bump in temp. 62/60 now

Completely unrelated ... ( haha) still, this is quite similar to what I recall the radar looking like that fateful morning of Dec 23 1997 ... when it was between 22 and 29 F west and north of I-95

yeah, I caught your sentiment on that last hr. Thing is, ...I'm noticing - fitting with theory ... - that the shore-point/coastal exposed sites are having trouble with higher end wind gusts. The obvious/most likely cause of that is this air mass has thermally exceeded the SST's in the bite waters and surrounding the horn at this point in the season. In other words, created a cooling inversion etc. I'm wondering if PWM is going to be "protected" some by that?

Like I said, ... there may be a history there that is contentious? I am not in defense of either side and don't really have any awareness to begin with, and don't care to be involved. The principled approach of evaluating one's forecasting technique, if/when the technique is not successful, IS SCIENCE. period. not open to debate. that's the only point I was making - hence the kernel of value in the this 'edbugg' poster's comments.

You're missing the point in lieu of being angry - got it... I won't push any buttons. Wasn't the intent. I'm out

Next 2 ...3 hours may see some sporadic gusts over 55 mph ... anywhere N/E of this line

New highest I've seen

The winds are slackening pretty abruptly ... collocated with that back edge on vis sat/loop racing N. Obs along the western end of L.I. saw winds decrease from routine gusts to 40-45 mph, down to 25 very quickly as that brightening passed in. Hang on in CT! It'll probably be over by 11 am S, and 2pm up near the Ma Pike.

Great Lakes are definitely modulating that aspect of the air mass in this sort of trajectory -

Yeah, I'm wondering about the flooding at this end of Rt poopie ... The Nashua River was way up in the back water above the research dam along the Harv/Ayer line just after that last event so the region may be primed.

61/59 at the Oxbow site ( about 2.5 mi as the crow flies from here). Max wind 27 mph gust, so far. 2.20"/24hr. That's probably more than less what is expected out this system for this interior region. But I will say ... in the decades of my Met life living between the Waltham/Lowell/Ayer/Acton region, I've see southerly gale December systems that rank way beyond this. I've seen legit 55 mph gusts from these kind of ordeals, a lot of times over years. This is not one of those. This may change over the next 2 or 3 hours ... but looking around area obs ( and I've provided sources to objectively demo this) I don't get the impression that's happening. We'll see.

Dry slot brightening is moving swiftly N ... NY area/western LI appear to be 'bacon' now ('BKN' ) when observing hi res vis satellite this hour, and it's about to enter S. CT.

Ah, unfoooortunately ... there is a kernel of value to his/her post, though. (firstly, there may be a history between that particular poster vs the consensus that I don't wish to broach, so tfwiw) All forecast efforts should be evaluated. No issue with that nested sentiment. If a trend of failure is/or can be objectively proven to be so, stop whatever philosophy that is being used in the materialization of the forecasting. That's just good science. I didn't read anything particularly sloppy - like 'not lucid' - nor personally attacking but again, if there is some 'greasy' history to that where I'm not aware, oh well -

"environmental woke-ism" has ruined those types of walls for me. I used to think they were aesthetically pleasing ... but now? Every time I see them they just look like big plastic artificial poison. I mean at least the plastic in the Pacific ocean can perhaps be remediated but what's going to happen with those big sheets of the shit erected in bulk. We're deliberately creating a disposal problem for future generations - right? And what is the 'micro-plastic' mass they are contributing. Not sure with all the shit that's being exposed about the plastics industry and the toxification that's materializing/caused by it: why is the practice of deliberately creating bulk tonnage of the stuff even allowed. But ... if that stuff is not part of all that concern, fine -

Yeah, so far this appears to be a "standard" sort of wind event - fitting into climatology for these southerly Dec gales. GRR's obs site density isn't too bad, https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/map/?obs=true&wfo=grr Not sure if these are "official" per se, but they are carried by NWS so -

Until they realized it was a Really Really F*n Shitty Ass model idea

Same here yet still nary a flood

Nothing rip and reads holiday glee like pixel showers that look like Bahama June bullets on radar

This winter has looked like crap for years

Could this denude the precious fragile young bases right off the mountains

Oh, but it’s completely normal in an El Niño December

Only when tagging on the circumstance gets so miserable it becomes funnier to impugn than it does the prospect of ‘eternal’ waiting Not all of us actually covet the bullshit we post. Haha

It all depends on the lapse rates. - the wind field off the deck is reasonably confident. The ability to mix down? That is rarely so in our climatology for a myriad of limitations. So you kind have to begin there and start adding offsets as they are implicated by modeling. Knee jerk shrugging it’s not happening in eye rolling doubt is not one of those offsets.

Day after xmas and this exact same storm yet again... what is this, ths 4th iteration of this ?