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1 hour ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

ORH temps seem to follow mine pretty closely, maybe a degree or two warmer some days.   Similar elevation.     I know they don’t radiate well though so maybe their lows on rad days are too low?

Also spitballing but it seems like the BN temps this month occurred mainly in cool overcast/rainy days and in weak CAA in the wake of departing systems with breezes up.  Makes sense they'd overperform in that case compared to if we had a bunch of calm radiating nights with big fake cold anomalies.  Up until yesterday morning we hadn't had a frost at my house, which is a bit later than normal.  But it's not like it's been torchy for the most part either.

39 minutes ago, TauntonBlizzard2013 said:

Yeah obviously it’s more economical in more densely packed areas, but it should start somewhere. I agree, tough in rural areas.

However, you’d think issues and maintenance once it was installed would be significantly less than current values. I mean.... how much money are we spending every time we get a storm like this or someone crashes into a pole, etc etc. can’t be cheap.

Might pay for itself In the long run 

Nothing to prevent your town from doing it on their own, such as was done in the picturesque village of Woodstock, VT.  Helps to have some Rockefellers to pay for it, like they did. But there's always prop 2 1/2. 

29 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Belichick is really going to hate meteorologists now. He probably got word of 5-10", practiced all week with a soaking wet ball and wind mills, and game time ends up 5mph with a scattered sprinkle.

Eh all that practicing for rn+ will probably serve him well come week 16 @ home just before Christmas

We're grateful for the warm weather   Please support your local farmers, we are very lucky to have them.  

To take nothing away from Castlerock but I also will usually keep to Mt. Ellen on a powder day.  I do feel that Sugarbush shortchanges operations there however, and I became quite frustrated at them last year.  Never runs the Inverness Chair...  Makes very little effort to get anything open if there is any kind of wind delay, even as it subsides... Seems to let the North Ridge chair go down and stay down for extended periods, even though mid mountain is virtually unskiable if you have to do the runout every time.  I hope things improve over there because the terrain is outstanding and there are pockets of untouched super deep snow to be found days after most other things are tracked out.  It's a gem.

10 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

If we keep up our good run a bit longer, I may have to start bumping everyone up on that map, lol. 

I have recorded 361" in the 6 years at my current location, quite close to your 60" contour.  Not a long sample but it's been spot on.

1 hour ago, powderfreak said:

This weekend is looking chilly for sure, but Sunday looks downright cold in NNE.  

Daytime temp anomalies of a solid 15F below normal with max temps struggling to get into the mid-50s up here.  

NW flow is probably a downslope dandy along the coastal plain but the upslope zone looks up to 15-20 degrees colder.  

18z Sunday 2-M temps on the GFS and NAM.  No precip just CAA...brrrr.

Perfect hiking wx, breezy and cool, folks walking around town with a little bounce in their step, stoked. 

36 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

 

Some debate ongoing on NWS Chat on whether that vid is legit

Cape Cod vacation camping trip FTL.  At best we're talking strong onshore flow, chaotic waves, and highs in the 60s.  At worst, misery mist.  Ugh, we scramble for alternatives.

1 hour ago, codfishsnowman said:

Has anyone really excelled at it this year? Thinking the March Alabama/Georgia outbreak and that one busy week in the plains back in the spring are the winners so far for 2019....

 

North Texas was nutso this spring, granted with no very strong tornadoes.  Typical Nino conditions really.

1 minute ago, CoastalWx said:

But the CG from 40 miles around though....

It has been very frequent I will say that

3 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Belchettown cell doesn’t seem like anything special. Was stronger in Amherst.

Agree I haven't seen much that has me concerned here on the UMass radar

5 minutes ago, CTValleySnowMan said:

Man this is one hell of a good light show

This

Strengthening now... A single clap of thunder too.  Awesome looking system, someone might well get hail we were oh so close

Visually very impressive TCU but ever since it was over the Berks it hasn't looked great on radar.

BOS did not record precip yesterday and may go down as missing

31 minutes ago, dendrite said:

idk what to tell you. Every few years I pull off a 0.10-0.12"/min. Either last year or the year before I recall a 0.14", but I'd have to go digging. I've never had anything this high...nevermind 2 straight minutes of it. You know how random this stuff is. I've had storms drop 2-3x this total with a 1-min max of like 0.10", but it ends up raining for 45 mins at 4"/hr.

 

Looked up the record hourly rainfalls for some sites and found one from 2015 for CON. They pulled a 0.19" in 1 min...0.47" in 3mins (more than me) and 0.73" in 5mins.

 

Do you know how they calculate the 21"+/hr rain rate you mentioned?  .17" in 1 minute projects to 10.2"/hr which seems more reasonable, while still extreme.  Granted within the minute it could fluctuate but not sure if they take the nearest 2 tips or something and calculated the rain rate that way.  

Your somewhat protected spot (relatively speaking) may be better equipped to measure heavier rates than a windy wide open airfield, and may compensate for climo differences in TX with respect to moisture.  The .63 in 1 minute I measured was almost certainly erroneous for some unknown reason but the minutes before and after were roughly on par and seem plausible.  I regret casting doubt on it in retrospect!  

Over 2.5" now, coming off about the same on Saturday.  

1 hour ago, dendrite said:

And yes...keeping the funnel full of water will get you way more than 17 tips in a minute. I've tried it way back when goofing around. It tips about once every 2s. I think I had 30-35 tips. The Davis max spec is 96"/hr, but I have no idea how they get that. Even doubling my rate gets you about 35 tips. You'd need about 75 tips to achieve that. I'm not sure I could tip it that quickly with just my hand.

Thanks.

As an aside, I have been receiving one minute data from 5 Davis gauges scattered across DFW airport for about a year now.  A quick check revealed only 17 minutes (combined) where a gauge reported over .1" in a minute.  All but 3 were .12 or less.  On 9/22/18, 3rd wettest day at DFW airport all time (>8"), at the same gauge we had .14 and .19" in a three minute span.  And in between... .63".  Otherwise the gauge data looks perfectly normal and have never had any other outliers like that.  

Hard to explain this sort of thing in sensor data.  Inclination is to toss, but I guess you never know.

Anyway in the midst of the gauge discussion, we've been having some seriously heavy duty CTG and pounding rain here too.

17 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Matched the stratus exactly. If anything, I usually miss a few tips in heavy rates with over 1”, but I’ve been meticulously calibrating that tipper. Maybe I missed a few due to splashout, but gained a few because of the wind and it somehow balanced out? No clue. Close enough though.

I will say, I’ve never seen it rain as hard as it did in those few minutes. Lots of minor tree damage around and a few large branches between here and down toward Winnisquam high school.

Could just be a time thing... A few minutes of good tips recorded with the same time stamp? That is known to happen with various data loggers. I'm not sure you could record 20"/hr rates if you had the hose hooked up based on the size of the intake funnel.  And even if so splashover would be off the charts.  Not sure rain rates like that exist.

12 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Jesus H how is that real lol. Do you have a different rain rate sensor or is that standard?

Probably some erroneous tips being recorded. 

14 minutes ago, radarman said:

Yeah definitely took on a more ominous look in Southampton, approaching Easthampton.  Brief velocity spike, but magnitudes have come back down. 

63MPH atop Mt Tom