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Shades of Hugo... the hurricane hunters weren't expecting that kind of intensity going in, with a lot less technology at their disposal in those days. And nearly died.

Not really. Just got back and it was totally meh there. I literally saw a guy show another guy the never forget tipped over lawn chair meme, which apparently was new to both of them. Decent gusts on mountain tops way inland and good rains in Palm Springs.

Can't upload the loop but this was BOX closest scan of the cell near Scotland. This is not the same as the cell that hit Scituate fwiw, and the velocity loop did not really show the couplet very well. Not sure if OKX might have seen something. But as I mentioned a few days ago, I thought this was the best organized cell of the day, at its peak.

Honestly I felt in reviewing the data that Scotland had the best looking storm of anyone yesterday from a radar perspective. The Scituate tornado was a strong embedded spinup behind the leading edge but Scotland had borderline supercell characteristics.

Same out here in Eastham

So the little couplet on the top is shown right over Byron Randall Rd where that TOR damage is. Nice timing for the BOX lowest base velocity sweep. Not your classic EF2 sig, but it is indeed there. Low LCLs and strong winds ftw. The red spot below at the intersection of 14 and 116 is just folding, not a couplet. Maybe an area of slightly higher localized gusts.

Typically SD water is notably warmer than in LA. 61 seems unusually cool... will be no worse than Coast Guard beach tomorrow. Edit- Coronado was 69 today, Torrey Pines 70

In this neck of the woods it's been absolutely the least impactful season in terms of wind I can recall in 20 years. We were due for a dud. Congrats to S CT, Cape Cod, and SEMA though. You love to see it. I'll take the under, but certainly impressive regardless

word to the wise... after it rains in SD you want to not swim in the ocean for a couple days. Bacteria and pollutants really spike, but after about 48-72 hours or so it's back to normal. Because of the heavy rains inland , including possible thunderstorms even after the TS passes, there could be a lag. You might consider waiting til end of the week to hop in. I'm heading out myself on Friday, but think we should mostly be good by then. Maybe check out Balboa park and walk around Little Italy on Thursday instead of hitting the beach?

We've been hugging it for years Severe, winter, tropical... you name it we hug it.

perfect camping weather, and we camping

Ours are too. It's a good sign for more hickory saplings at any rate.

Strolling around in a business suit this evening, NW breeze, late summer sun. Still green, for now.

Awesome stuff. Seems like it's within the margin of error or close.

All the coops in the Pioneer valley are between -3.5 and -4.5. Ashburnham coop is also -3.5.

Great post. Depending on the azimuthal sampling volume, a function of the distance from the radar, you might well be averaging in potentially high ZDR oblate raindrops along with the debris. So you would expect a ZDR drop relative to the surrounding regions of the thunderstorm, especially the FFD but maybe also within the RFD, but maybe not getting near zero. Even legit hail cores in the northeast I think are pretty often contaminated by rain and ZDR stays higher compared with hail storms you might see on the high plains or something. Probably if you had a high LCL tornado classically formed on the tail end of an RFD and away from the rain shield you would indeed see ZDRs of 0 however so the theory is correct.

Sweet structure on that thing. Amazing how they retain it right til their dying breath. Reminds me of 2012.

Helluva way to run an Augdewst

Just did a sampling the PWS sites around BDL and they're all in that 51-52 degree range, so I guess there really was some local difference between there and further north and not a sensing thing.

Thanks. I dunno what I would have expected, but I note 47 at KLEB, 47 at KORE, 47 at KCEF, and then 52 at KBDL. CEF and BDL are 18 miles apart. Could be that random N @5kt wind I suppose. Or a sensor difference.

Are you aware of any known biases of ASOS temperature gauges relative to AWOS gauges in radiating conditions? It seems odd to me that BDL would be 5 degrees warmer than CEF when the temperatures were otherwise so uniform (based on the AWOS/PWS data) around interior New England, and BDL really should not be a UHI.

47 here too. I think CEF set a record low with 48, albeit not a climo site. BDL somehow didn't get below 53.

Soapy water in the shop vac works also

empty their carcasses into the garbage I guess