CoastalWx Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 I'm watching waves of fog right now coming in. At times the vis improves, but then these clouds come flying in and vis drops to almost 1/4sm. It has improved slightly since I've been home, but it's still rather foggy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tropopause_Fold Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 The GFS was an utter fail this weekend. It had surface temps in the 70s ripping into SNE on Monday...lol. That's really bad for 48 hrs out. It's not like this was a sneaky mesoscale feature like a backdoor front. It just crapped the bed with this CAD signal. Even today, the NAM had the warmfront through BOS this morning based on wind direction, but it's stuck in a more classic climo spot right now. once those euro runs starting hitting hard on the idea of the big 1030-ish HP shifting southeast out of canada toward the maritimes...it was game over. no impetus to drive that warm front north against that feature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tropopause_Fold Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 I'm watching waves of fog right now coming in. At times the vis improves, but then these clouds come flying in and vis drops to almost 1/4sm. It has improved slightly since I've been home, but it's still rather foggy. we were stuck in that earlier in the week but today's had higher ceilings / better vis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 we were stuck in that earlier in the week but today's had higher ceilings / better vis. Winds are rather steady from the ne here. That front is going much farther nw. I'd be happy if this were winter..lol, but it's getting old now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tropopause_Fold Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 Winds are rather steady from the ne here. That front is going much farther nw. I'd be happy if this were winter..lol, but it's getting old now. considering what last week was like...this has been a pretty brutal stretch. and really the weekend wasn't great. it was better but... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Torchey Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 What is up with these bands dissipating as they come north, had some rain for about ten minutes got home and the band has shrunk in coverage by 50%??? stable air? subsidence? weenie force field? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ineedsnow Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 seems like we may get a ton of rain tonight!! http://www.weather.gov/sat_tab.php?image=ir MORE CONCERNED WITH THE BAND ACROSS NJ AND APPROACHING LONGISLAND. THIS BAND IS TIED TO A STRONG VORT LOBE ROTATING AROUNDCLOSED LOW OVER THE OH VLY AND UP THE EASTERN SEABOARD. STRONGUPPER LEVEL JET WITH THIS FEATURE WITH RRQ OF JET PROGGED TO MOVEACROSS NEW ENGLAND THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. PWATS UP TO 1.5INCHES IN PLACE ALONG AND AHEAD OF THIS VORT LOBE ALONG WITHSTRONG THETA-E ADVECTION.WHILE NONE OF THE 12Z MODELS ARE CAPTURING THIS HEAVY RAINFALLVERY WELL IN THEIR QPF FIELDS AT 18Z...HOWEVER THEIR MASS FIELDSSUPPORT THE AREA OF HEAVY RAIN. ALL MODEL GUID OFFER MODEST FORCING INTHE FORM OF MID LEVEL Q-VECTOR CONVERGENCE MOVING OVER THE AREA00Z- 06Z. AS MENTIONED ABOVE ADDITIONAL ENHANCEMENT WILL BEPROVIDED BY RRQ OF UPPER LEVEL JET. THE WILD CARD WILL BE THEEXTENT OF CONVECTIVE ELEMENTS EMBEDDED IN THIS BAND AS ITTRAVERSES NORTH AND THEN NORTHEAST TONIGHT. ALL MODEL GUID SUGGESTDEEP LAYER OF MOIST ADIABATIC LAPSE RATES WHICH SHOULD SUPPORTEMBEDDED CONVECTION WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAINFALL IN ASHORT PERIOD OF TIME. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhoon Tip Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 once those euro runs starting hitting hard on the idea of the big 1030-ish HP shifting southeast out of canada toward the maritimes...it was game over. no impetus to drive that warm front north against that feature. yeah - lol - i can remember at least one run where I saw the first frame of building high and didn't look at the rest of the run in disgust. I was right not to, it would seem. Yuck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhoon Tip Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/18/tick-tock-goes-the-doomsday-clock/?hpt=C1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 18z NAM is hitting the rain shadow at the midpoint between BDL/IJD/ORH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 SSHhhh..don't tell Ginx..it's all east .04 for the day only 2.96 to 5.96 to go to make your range, it's a field goal for CT, South and East Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 Precip. Distribution today is reminiscent of Boxing Day blizzard,CT major screw zone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ski MRG Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 Actually not a bad afternoon here on the west slope of the Berkshires thanks to downsloping on an easterly flow. Some sunny breaks and temperatures approaching the mid-60s. Had some showers earlier this morning and last night before the partial clearing. I bet the east slope is cloudy and quite a bit cooler with perhaps some light rain or drizzle. The exact opposite tends to happen with a west or northwest flow. Interesting how topography can impact the weather around here depending on the wind direction. Wow Mitch, I can't believe you saw the sun. We were in pea soup fog and sheet drizzle all day at 2k. My ride home featured low vis and some heavier showers. Haven't seen the sun in days. Just murk day after day after day. Beats a torch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ski MRG Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 Misty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted May 18, 2011 Author Share Posted May 18, 2011 Wow Mitch, I can't believe you saw the sun. We were in pea soup fog and sheet drizzle all day at 2k. My ride home featured low vis and some heavier showers. Haven't seen the sun in days. Just murk day after day after day. Beats a torch. You enjoy Big Macs I see... Fog coming up Rte 2 today was about as thick as I have seen it. Really dense stuff in some spots (esp. where it climbs in Westminster/Gardner) so I had to ease up on the gas. What is this sun you mention? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhoon Tip Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 Welp - sensibly this has got to be the worst day of the set so far for this part of interior Massachusetts. Definitionless sky ... totally smooth and devoid of any definition beyond uniform gray, with persistent 1/4 to 1/2m vis in BR/FOG. 50/50, unrelenting, with no variance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ski MRG Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 You enjoy Big Macs I see... Fog coming up Rte 2 today was about as thick as I have seen it. Really dense stuff in some spots (esp. where it climbs in Westminster/Gardner) so I had to ease up on the gas. What is this sun you mention? ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted May 18, 2011 Author Share Posted May 18, 2011 It rained. It had been raining for seven years; thousand upon thousands of days compounded and filled from one end to the other with rain, with the drum and gush of water, with the sweet crystal fall of showers and the concussion of storms so heavy they were tidal waves come over the islands. A thousand forests had been crushed under the rain and grown up a thousand times to be crushed again. And this was the way life was forever on the planet Venus, and this was the schoolroom of the children of the rocket men and women who had come to a raining world to set up civilization and live out their lives.. ... The rain slackened still more. They crowded to the huge door. The rain stopped. It was as if, in the midst of a film, concerning an avalanche, a tornado, a hurricane, a volcanic eruption, something had, first, gone wrong with the sound apparatus, thus muffling and finally cutting off all noise, all of the blasts and repercussions and thunders, and then, second, ripped the film from the projector and inserted in its place a peaceful tropical slide which did not move or tremor. The world ground to a standstill. The silence was so immense and unbelievable that you felt your ears had been stuffed or you had lost your hearing altogether. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ineedsnow Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 saw the sun for about 5 minutes today! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted May 18, 2011 Author Share Posted May 18, 2011 ? See OT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted May 18, 2011 Share Posted May 18, 2011 Lets move this to a new thread, this is way long Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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