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    Dec 5/6th major coastal/ west Atlantic cyclogenesis ...?

    in New England

    Posted

    6 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

    ughhhh where the hell is the 18z GFS? This past like year has been freaking awful with NCEP/NWS products. Horrific page loading issues, displaying previous maps, incorrect graphics, numerous issues with running models. HOW CAN THERE BE SO MANY ISSUES???? I can't stand technology...it's so great yet nothing but a piece of junk. then issues other places too...COD, had problems loading bufkit profiles from PSU...WTF IS GOING ON???????? FIX THINGS

    I might be way off base here, but doesn't the 18z gfs usually not start rolling in til 430ish.  Maybe my sources are just slow? 

    The 2020-2021 Ski season thread

    in New England

    Posted

    12 minutes ago, PowderBeard said:

    No update from Wildcat or Sunapee in a while which is ridiculous, Cannon says this weekend is doubtful, Loon and BW are pretty immune to wind holds. I would say the only options that are open will be good to go. I'd be eyeing Sunday River.

    Hoping to break the ice here this weekend but just so much uncertainty with respect to the storm and operations, pretty hard to make a plan.  I'm thinking it'll be skins and the Taconics at this juncture.  Guess we'll see.

    Dec 5/6th major coastal/ west Atlantic cyclogenesis ...?

    in New England

    Posted

    33 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

    I like using the 3km once we are inside of 24h. Sometimes it catches a trend before that, but hard to trust it further out.

    Yeah.  For complex, synoptic scale upper-air interactions at range I think the hi-res is often a net negative... Not inherently of course, mainly because sampling and parameterization errors can propagate more easily.   Don't get me wrong, I love the nammy as much as anyone, but this would not be the type of event I'd give it too much weight, at least not yet.

    Fall Banter and General Discussion

    in New England

    Posted

    44 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

     Local town utilities are the way to go.

    Holyoke Gas and Electric maintains a fiber ring and operates as an ISP around the city.  It's a pretty cool place to tour.  You get to observe ops for a 33MW hydroelectric dam, a large solar installation, a municipal telecom, and a fish lift.  

    Plus electric and internet is dirt cheap, lowest in the state, and more than 90% carbon neutral.  

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    Texas/New Mexico/Louisiana/Mexico Obs And Discussion Thread Part 8

    in Central/Western States

    Posted 

    000
NOUS44 KFWD 252255
PNSFWD
TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-261100-

PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
455 PM CST WED NOV 25 2020

...NWS DAMAGE SURVEY FOR ARLINGTON TORNADO EVENT ON NOVEMBER 24...

.ARLINGTON TORNADO 11/24/20...

A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVED ACROSS NORTH AND 
CENTRAL TEXAS DURING THE EVENING OF NOVEMBER 24, 2020. MOST OF THE
DAMAGE WAS ATTRIBUTED TO STRAIGHT-LINE WINDS, HOWEVER, AN NWS SURVEY
CREW DETERMINED THAT AN EF2 TORNADO STRUCK PORTIONS OF ARLINGTON
JUST BEFORE 9 PM. 

RATING:                 EF2
ESTIMATED PEAK WIND:    115 MPH
PATH LENGTH /STATUTE/:  5.0448 MILES
PATH WIDTH /MAXIMUM/:   150.0 YARDS
FATALITIES:             0
INJURIES:               5

START DATE:             11/24/2020
START TIME:             08:51 PM CST
START LOCATION:         1 E DALWORTHINGTON GARDENS / TARRANT
COUNTY / TX
START LAT/LON:          32.692 / -97.1472

END DATE:               11/24/2020
END TIME:               08:58 PM CST
END LOCATION:           3 WNW GRAND PRAIRIE / TARRANT COUNTY / TX
END LAT/LON:            32.7204 / -97.0684

SURVEY SUMMARY:
AN EF-2 TORNADO MOVED THROUGH ARLINGTON PRODUCING MOSTLY EF-0 AND
EF-1 DAMAGE, BUT A SMALL AREA OF EF-2 DAMAGE WAS FOUND. THE
TORNADO BEGAN NEAR WEST MAYFIELD ROAD AND SOUTH BOWMAN ROAD WHERE
FENCE, SHED AND TREE DAMAGE WAS FOUND. THE TORNADO TRAVELED
NORTHEAST FROM THIS LOCATION CAUSING MINOR TREE DAMAGE.
SIGNIFICANT ROOF DAMAGE TO SEVERAL STRUCTURES WAS NOTED ALONG
COLORADO LANE. THE TORNADO THEN CROSSED SOUTH COOPER STREET AND
DAMAGED A BURGER BOX FAST FOOD RESTAURANT, SAFELITE AUTOGLASS
STORE, AND SEVERAL WAREHOUSES IN THE AREA. THE TORNADO DAMAGE IN
THIS LOCATION AND ALONG COLORADO LANE WAS AT EF-1 INTENSITY.
THE TORNADO CONTINUED ALONG AN EAST-NORTHEAST TRACK WHERE IT SOON
IMPACTED THE WATERDANCE AND MIRAGE APARTMENTS. CONSIDERABLE ROOF
DAMAGE WAS NOTED AT THESE COMPLEXES, BUT THE MOST SIGNIFICANT
DAMAGE OCCURRED AT THE WATERDANCE APARTMENT COMPLEX. LARGE
SECTIONS OF THE ROOF WERE RIPPED OFF OF TWO BUILDINGS, RESULTING
IN AN EF-2 RATING AT THIS LOCATION. FROM THE APARTMENT COMPLEX,
THE TORNADO WEAKENED AND TRAVELED NORTHEAST FOR A FEW MORE MILES
BEFORE DISSIPATING NEAR EAST PARK ROW DRIVE AND CARTER DRIVE.
SPORADIC TREE, SIDING, FENCE, AND SHINGLE DAMAGE WAS NOTED TO THE
END OF THE PATH. THE MAXIMUM WINDS WITH THIS TORNADO WERE AROUND
115 MPH. 

EF SCALE: THE ENHANCED FUJITA SCALE CLASSIFIES TORNADOES INTO THE
FOLLOWING CATEGORIES:

EF0...WEAK......65 TO 85 MPH
EF1...WEAK......86 TO 110 MPH
EF2...STRONG....111 TO 135 MPH
EF3...STRONG....136 TO 165 MPH
EF4...VIOLENT...166 TO 200 MPH
EF5...VIOLENT...>200 MPH

NOTE:
THE INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS PRELIMINARY AND SUBJECT TO
CHANGE PENDING FINAL REVIEW OF THE EVENTS AND PUBLICATION IN NWS
STORM DATA.

$$

JLDUNN
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    Fall Banter and General Discussion

    in New England

    Posted

    5 minutes ago, BrianW said:

    Elon Musk's starlink satellite service just went live for beta users. It looks like its only active pretty far north but some NNE's can currently get it. People are reporting some incredible speeds around 100-200 mbs.

    This is going to bring some big competition to home wired internet. At my place I only have one option with Comcast. I know some places up north are still using slow dsl connections.

     

    https://satellitemap.space/indexA.html

    That's pretty sweet, thanks for posting.

    Interesting to have a big fat pipe but really long latencies.

    December 2020 Discussion

    in New England

    Posted

    I know it's been mentioned dozens of times here already, but LOL if that STJ wave train on the GFS comes to pass in a legit nina.  Just glad we're in the obs/nowcasting business and not the forecasting business.    That's a helluva tricky business.

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    Fall Banter and General Discussion

    in New England

    Posted

    6 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

    I do not eat any seafood. The smell and taste makes me nauseous. I caught a catfish with my grandfather on Lake Hopatcong in NJ where u spent every summer at their house as a kid. My grandfather skinned it and we ate it for dinner after my grandmother who was an unbelievable cook , fried it up for. I can remember this like it happened two minutes ago. I took one bite and swallowed and gagged immediately and threw up. Seafood to me is nasty. Enjoy it though to those that like it 

    If you don't care for it fine but hopefully you've tried it again after choking down that blown out catfish.  That's like saying you don't like beer because you puked after slamming a Milwaukee's Best pounder in high school.

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