WxWatcher007

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Radar actually looks pretty good out in western CT. Someone might get smoked today.

Wow. Ten years ago I was sitting in a law school orientation when all of a sudden the ground shook. I looked at my cup of water and it was vibrating like Jurassic Park. Still surreal lol.

Just responded. Thanks. No real damage. Though one of our main roads is covered and idk about the nearby homes because it was getting dark. River has come up about another half foot since that video and the flow increased by 600cfs. Wish it were daylight lol.

Here in EH? Labor Field.

We had two top ten floods last month and this blows them away, both in height and flow. Crazy.

Top 5 river flood event taking place here in town. The river went from 3.42ft 24 hours ago to 11ft tonight. Gauge height beats 1955.

Top 5 river flood event taking place here in town. The river went from 3.42ft 24 hours ago to 11ft tonight.

The Today Show reached out to see if I'd give them one of my videos to use, but they wanted to use it across NBC platforms forever. When I told them they'd have to pay for a license like that, they deleted the request. They know better.

Dang. I should have reached out. Definitely wanted to catch the wave action.

Yeah--I haven't looked until now, but that looks like the one to watch.

Did I never change the thread title to acknowledge Henri's former status as a hurricane? Oops

This is WxWatcher007 reporting LIVE from home! The hurricane streak of 30 years in New England will continue, as Henri weakened on final approach and kept strongest winds right at the coast. Normally I don't chase unless there's a hurricane, but with it being so close I made an exception and went down to the RI coast, just south of Westerly to intercept the "core". About a half mile from the beach I had to turn back as flooding on roads became widespread. Shortly after the roads became impassible so I made a good call to stop. I caught the strongest winds in Westerly and intersected the heaviest in CT on the way home. Overall a decent chase. Definitely nerve wracking when driving through roads that are passible but clearly starting to flood. I go for the wind, not the water. The Boston Globe and Weather.com reached out to use some of my footage, and it's good to see my chaser rep continue to go up lol. Finally, soon it'll be time to talk tropical again. The guidance is hinting at development in the NW Caribbean or southern Gulf in a week or so, and as @poolz1 posted, a very active peak of the season is coming. I'll be putting out my peak season forecast in a few days. Enjoy and thank you all for your support!

That's one of the things I love about tracking tropical. I've been doing it since I was a kid and while you have a lot of data available to you, sometimes it's more chaotic. I will say though, the intensity forecast from the NHC wasn't that bad. I think at their peak they had a 90 mph storm, but when it struggled after the shear the forecast went down to I believe 80 mph. We knew it'd weaken on final approach and it did. Globals were not nearly as good with intensity. I thought there was about a 20% chance of Henri overshooting the forecast when I saw that cyan ring on MW yesterday, but it could never fully close off an eyewall. While you can be steady state or gradually intensify with a partial eyewall, it's very hard to be a significant TC without a fully formed eyewall. I'm usually hurricanes or bust but because it was so close I went down to RI to chase. Wish I could have gotten to a beach.

If a CV monster walked through the door we'd still have some posters downplaying, complaining, and calling bust as the the Great Hurricane of 2024 obliterated power grids and sea walls

Hard to not be IMBY centric when most of our passion for wx comes from experiencing it. It's just something to live with here. But on a global scale, winds fell short. Decaying TCs are like that. I thought the duration of the event would compensate for the weakening but it didn't in the wind category. Rain TBD for some areas.

Glad someone inland verified at 45 lol. Drove down to Misquamicut and had to stop short of the beach. When the core was coming in the flooding was everywhere. Looks like everything down there got shut down shortly after I turned back as roads became impassible and I watched the center come in through Westerly. Good wind, but the best stuff would have been right on the shore. Got a low pressure reading of 994.5mb in Westerly. Drove back through SE CT and intersected the center again. Very heavy rain. I-91 in Wallingford closed to flooding and Rt 2 in eastern CT closed as well.

Getting smoked out there.

Why stop when it clear works for him

Radar is great but always helpful to get these center fixes on final approach. Doesn't mean much in the whole scheme of things with impacts but good for the s out there.

3-5" radar estimates in parts of Jersey. Crazy water there.

Extrapolated pressure 986.4mb on that pass, so it's holding for now in terms of pressure.

Center definitely looking more ragged on those latest radar frames. Recon about to make another center fix.