bristolri_wx

Looks like it's about to pour here shortly.  Dark and gray and a little breezy...

1 minute ago, metagraphica said:

"There's more than anecdotal evidence..."  Then proceeds to provide only an anecdote. 

I should have put an also somewhere in there, but writing fast, at work, mutlitasking.

The family is anecdotal evidence.  But there is non-anecdotal data that suggests the anecdotal data, is not anecdotal.

Is that better? 

58 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

My grandparents put C/A in their home in the mid 70’s…I was 7-9 years old, and I knew then that that was for me.  When I was in my teens and had to swelter all night on the many hot and humid nights at home…I absolutely hated it.  It’s no different now..except I have C/A and love it, and it would be an absolute necessity if I was buying a place imo.  That’s the only point I was making.  

I'll tell you straight up I think you're wrong for dismissing the data.

There's more than anecdotal evidence that shows the last couple of decades have been more humid in New England than previous years.  I have family members with roots in agriculture/farming who have noticed differences, and they aren't necessarily buyers of the global warming theories.  But they do know the climate is different than it was when they were farming several decades ago.  Not just humidity - in their location, but more wind as well, on normal summer days.

YMMV I guess...

17 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

The world is flat

and a vampire.  At least according to Billy Corgan.

Enjoy the next 5 days.  Temps get dicey starting on 4/20...

Best winter since 2014-2015 here.  March is always hit or miss in this area, so I'm not going to deduct major points for it.  It was cold, it was snowy, and Christmas wasn't ruined by some cutter that brings 55 degree temps on Christmas Eve/Day (even though there wasn't any snow otg here). You take what you can get.

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Euro weeklies show above average temps the first 10 days of April... back end of that could be wet though.

12 minutes ago, dendrite said:

2015-16 winter incoming

Light Snow/graupel/rain 34

On 3/2/2026 at 11:10 PM, tunafish said:

Sup with the hundredths values?  

0.01 is the numerical indicator for “trace” on the spreadsheet. You can’t enter trace on a spreadsheet without it breaking the auto-sum functionality…

5 hours ago, The 4 Seasons said:

Someone said 64.9 in Bristol and i wrote it down, now i dont know if it was Bristol, RI or CT, and i cant find it. If you see this let me know.  

I don't remember saying anything, but according to my table I'm at 64.9 for the season in Bristol, RI

https://newenglandsnowfallrecords.blogspot.com/

25 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Today would have been near or over 70 if we hadn’t had snowpack like this 

925 mb temps are about 40-45 degrees, so doubtful.

15 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

I'm fine if we're done...blizzard let down absolutely gutted me...kind of want to move on.

Your area will eventually jackpot again - this one wasn't just in the cards.  Your overall seasonal forecast was pretty good with what the generalized weather ended up being for our area.

It's almost fantasy baseball season.  Enjoy the other things in life!  My dynasty league is hitting season 20 this year...

Spring is in the air.  The yard stick was at 36" after the storm, and we are down to 14".  Lots of sun and melting last few days...

March looking toasty on the Euro weeklies...

7 hours ago, The 4 Seasons said:

Still doesn't work, i tried a bunch different sizes from 47 to 45 to 37 to 25mb none of them worked. I tried one from the Jan 25-26th storm that was 18mb and that went through fine. So theres some threshold maybe around 20mb that it doesn't like for some reason.

It's all good, thanks for trying. Ill be putting it up on the site anyways, just wanted to post it here

Here's the one that went through, 18.2mb 

I've been converting the radar loops from GIF to MP4 files using Handbrake.  It's free.  You set the GIF file as the "Source" and then I use the preset "Social 25 MB 5 Minutes 360p60".  Seems to take the largest GIF's and get them below my rather low attachment limit size.  You can play around with the presets to see which one works best for what you want to post.

GIF's are very inefficient for showing motion graphics, they just happen to be an open standard that's been around forever, so if you don't have a file size to worry about they work, especially since it's easy to take one still image and make it a frame in a GIF.

3 hours ago, CoastalWx said:

Glad you guys got in those. Everyone wants to jack, but I hate seeing people get porked. It's no fun. Only one who enjoys that might be Ray.

It's nice to not be in the snow hole for some of these bigger storms.

4 hours ago, NeonPeon said:

My best guess was 28 or so at the end, Newport ap says 32 but that's Middletown basically, and also tends high.

It's the all time storm for me living here, 14 years. It's storms like this that make me love the winter here. The floor is low, as we've seen in the last years, but the ceiling is high, and dramatic. 

What did you see around Bristol for downed trees?

In my tour around town yesterday I didn't see much wind damage. Downed branches, not downed trees. The trees weren't plastered as much as in 2013, and my power never went out. I also found the wind here impressive but not crazy in the context of Newport. They were also very straight line. 

 

Haven’t left my street yet. No downed trees in my immediate neighborhood.

31" Bristol, RI

Updated Public Information Statement with Snowfall Totals and Wind Gusts is up:

https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=box&issuedby=BOX&product=pns

Heh - gusted to 65 MPH here as well in the AM.  Looks like my 30 burger holds up to the spotters in my area. Amazing.

To paraphrase Jim Morrison - just broke on through to the other side.

Going with 31”. Hard to gauge but measured a few spots and subtracted some pack.

21 minutes ago, TheSnowman said:

The Other Strange thing - I Shoveled a path at 11am.  In the 9 Hours SINCE 11am, I have 1.25” on that path.  And that’s with help from the winds giving it fake measurements with snow from the side.  

To Confirm it, My Snow Depth went from 22” to 23.5” (Again, 10” OTG was before the storm with a hard crust that is in tact).  13.75” Compact Total at best, which is Confirmed again by what I see.  That’s not29, and The 6 hour measurements weren’t 20 either.  

Does it just Refuse to Snow over me?  It’s been going on since 2020.  

So I know everyone is saying “CORY YOU HAD to get 24”!  Smithfield and Attleboro and Pawtucket got 26-30!”

But I have Zero Proof that I got more than maybe 19”.  You guess shouldn’t be Furious with me; you should be Happy I’m not saying “I got 30”!!  Woo Look at Me!  I’m Awesome!” LYING to you all.  

I know @JACKASS and @bristolri_wx will think I’m “An Insufferable D-Bag” whether I Lie or I complain about the truth of 60% of My Tiny State having The #1 Storm All-Time and it being blah 3 Miles away, even If I go give them a free concert in their driveway.  

Now a storm like this Very well may Never happen again in my lifetime, And I couldn’t even pull 20 in it.  MEANING the next time I Do get 24”, it’ll be a more Normal storm duran where everyone from Will to Kevin to Ray gets 36+.  This storm JUST 10 miles north would have completed and fixed Every Gripe I have had the past 11 years.  And it euros have been years before I complained hard again.  Now I better just live in Northern Japan next winter.  

Oh Right, and there’s chance I get a criminal record tonight when I go out driving.  Because EVERYONE ELSE got 24”-36” and we have a Communist Government “No Civilians Allowed On Roads!” apparently even though the Governor is a long time friend.  But Insurance worry is Insurance worry.  Not to mention making sure to look like We’re in Need of Help to the Feds.  

Again; here’s the video from 11am, and it’s almost Unchanged since then.  

 

 

Cleanup commencing. Above my waste.

Another 30-35 dbz band incoming here... insanity... 

1 minute ago, sophware said:

It's so weird. I'm on the other side of the bay from you and it's light powder. Vinny from Cranston has a similar observation. This is how people get in arguments years later about what the storm was like, lol.

I'll be honest, I'm only judging based on whats close to the house.  Sometimes that's denser because it melts a little from the heat leaking out and making it settle.  I'm actually hopeful it's more powdery so I can try and cut through it with my very undersized snow thrower if I chop it down appropriately.