Brewbeer Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 Temps have dropped to the low 60s here outside Springfield. Nice breeze and much lower humidity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 This weather is like one big valium pill since June. I can't wait for a good ole fashioned nor'easter. Anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 Ok so pro Mets who tell us summer runs June 1 to September 1 are now able to proclaim today was the hottest day of the summer? ??? Can't have it both ways boys and girls. Summer is June 21 to September 21 in my hood, always has been You know as well as anyone that does not make for neat record-keeping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 This weather is like one big valium pill since June. I can't wait for a good ole fashioned nor'easter. Anything. Concur. You've been even drier than I've been. If not for the remnants of the TC in early July, I'd be right there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 Can feel the DP difference this AM. Delightful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 This weather is like one big valium pill since June. I can't wait for a good ole fashioned nor'easter. Anything. It's like that most summers...though this one might be even more boring than usual. Not long now though until the changes are really felt and we get that first true blast of autumn air. You can see things starting to change quickly up to the north...some pretty cold airmasses starting to form. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 It's like that most summers...though this one might be even more boring than usual. Not long now though until the changes are really felt and we get that first true blast of autumn air. You can see things starting to change quickly up to the north...some pretty cold airmasses starting to form. Looking forward to it. I can't remember a summer this dull, locally...and like you said...it's normally dull. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 .48" of rain overnight. Nice day shaping up. 65/64 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeus Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 Looking forward to it. I can't remember a summer this dull, locally...and like you said...it's normally dull. Personally, I just want something cold enough to kill off the bugs to arrive. Until then, I cannot go outdoors to be with nature. I am too... delicious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 I was going back looking at the reanalysis of Carol and Edna. Man 1954...what a summer for Kevin. Damage galore from two Cat IIIs. Edna was more for extreme SE MA and the Cape. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 1954 also had Hazel. It was not huge in SNE but it did bring big winds to SW CT. Epic year for the east coast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weathafella Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 I was going back looking at the reanalysis of Carol and Edna. Man 1954...what a summer for Kevin. Damage galore from two Cat IIIs. Edna was more for extreme SE MA and the Cape. And Kevin...suck it! I remember both storms vividly including the damage to my house. And Hazel was an amazing wind fest. All within 2 months of each other as I was starting 2nd grade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 1954 also had Hazel. It was not huge in SNE but it did bring big winds to SW CT. Epic year for the east coast I know it. What a summer. Maybe Steve has the ancient Indian core sediment files for other storms prior to 1700. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 And Kevin...suck it! I remember both storms vividly including the damage to my house. And Hazel was an amazing wind fest. All within 2 months of each other as I was starting 2nd grade. I can't even imagine the hype and media if something similar were to happen again. Their heads would just spontaneously explode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 Tolland was outside the core 60 gusting to 70 from what I have read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weathafella Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 I can't even imagine the hype and media if something similar were to happen again. Their heads would just spontaneously explode. The day before Carol I was running around my yard like an average 7 year old when I noticed the hasta plants on the side of the house practically getting uprooted in wind gusts. My mother and friends were sitting around and when I pointed out the wind she commented on a "hurrycane" not far away. The next morning with torrential rains I observed the beech tree in our front yard piling into the house. I was impressed but not scared. Shortly afterward Edna and then Hazel. After Hazel passed....a storm that I observed the top half of railroad double wire polls blowing down the street a mile from the tracks....I wanted to ride my bike with baseball cards in the spokes held together with clothes pins for the motor sound...lol. But I think I wanted to feel the backside NW winds of October in my face. My mother didn't want me to go fearful of "loose trees" but I prevailed and write today 60 years later in good health. Hazel was a cool storm in that we had serious winds but not much rain as the low center went well west. Still, KNYC had a wind gust of 113 mph. What a great weenie year that was capped by the Giants winning the WS in that prolonged summer of 1954. After experiencing that at such a tender age I started expecting it every year. Kind of like weenies coming of age in 1995-96 only to realize decades later how rare that is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 We've had a lot here as well. I love those giant chunky ones this time of year. We've had lots of bats after sunset too. I still can't shake the mosquitos off of me though. A Therma cell will keep them away, We use them at all our campfires Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 It's like that most summers...though this one might be even more boring than usual. Not long now though until the changes are really felt and we get that first true blast of autumn air. You can see things starting to change quickly up to the north...some pretty cold airmasses starting to form. Leaves are starting to change up at the ski resort...there are the stressed trees even in the valley that have been changing like everyone has noted, but today with the overcast the more wholesale changing is becoming visible at like 2,500ft up to the spruce line at 3,500ft...particularly on Mansfield's northeast facing slopes where the sun sets at like 3pm. West slopes seem to lag behind every year as they get more sun during the late afternoon at peak heating. I'm up at the picnic tables now and it's 53F with 25G35...feels like fall. 1.72" of rain at home yesterday evening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 I can't even imagine the media sh*tshow of a 113mph wind at KNYC today, Fella. That would be nuts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radders Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 Leaves are starting to change up at the ski resort...there are the stressed trees even in the valley that have been changing like everyone has noted, but today with the overcast the more wholesale changing is becoming visible at like 2,500ft up to the spruce line at 3,500ft...particularly on Mansfield's northeast facing slopes where the sun sets at like 3pm. West slopes seem to lag behind every year as they get more sun during the late afternoon at peak heating. I'm up at the picnic tables now and it's 53F with 25G35...feels like fall. 1.72" of rain at home yesterday evening. What's your prediction on when peak fall foliage will be for the lower elevations this year? I would expect things to be slightly ahead of schedule given the summer we have had, but I guess it depends on what happens in the next 2-3 weeks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 I can't even imagine the media sh*tshow of a 113mph wind at KNYC today, Fella. That would be nuts. It is still the highest wind recorded within NYC proper. Pretty amazing considering how far west Hazel was during that gust...detached LLJ FTW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 What's your prediction on when peak fall foliage will be for the lower elevations this year? I would expect things to be slightly ahead of schedule given the summer we have had, but I guess it depends on what happens in the next 2-3 weeks... No idea yet...but it's almost always sometime in the first like two weeks of October. It carts slightly but it pretty much always hits peak in that window. Columbus Day weekend is often the end of it, the mountains are definitely past peak by then, but the village can still have decent color. I just remember a lot of folks get disappointed on Columbus weekend as the miss it by like a week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forkyfork Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 fri and sat look similar to yesterday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 Saturday will be the worst day I think, but probably not as hot as yesterday around here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 Looking forward to it. I can't remember a summer this dull, locally...and like you said...it's normally dull. Been that way at my place since the beginning of April - some brief excitement in July with the tornado warning, but since that whole system was a miss, that just added to the meh-ness. At my NNJ home, Hazel was by far the most powerful of the 1954 trio, and one of only two instances where buildings were plastered with shredded leaves. The other was a June 1975 SE gale in eastern Maine, but it was tearing apart nice tender young things, not the end-of-season leather. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian5671 Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 Saturday will be the worst day I think, but probably not as hot as yesterday around here. any thoughts on rain/frontal passage Sat? IMBY, but our block party is that day-sure to get questions on whether to move to Sunday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 any thoughts on rain/frontal passage Sat? IMBY, but our block party is that day-sure to get questions on whether to move to Sunday Looks like typical aftn shwrs/tstms I think. 12z GFS was a bit faster with fropa, but my guess is aftn timing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneypitmike Posted September 3, 2014 Author Share Posted September 3, 2014 Looks like typical aftn shwrs/tstms I think. 12z GFS was a bit faster with fropa, but my guess is aftn timing. How about up to the Bartlett area? I'll be heading there for the weekend for some hiking and house-hunting (hence my eagerness to get a NH snowfall map) Another COC day--great stuff. 74.2/61. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nittany88 Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 No idea yet...but it's almost always sometime in the first like two weeks of October. It carts slightly but it pretty much always hits peak in that window. Columbus Day weekend is often the end of it, the mountains are definitely past peak by then, but the village can still have decent color. I just remember a lot of folks get disappointed on Columbus weekend as the miss it by like a week. Yeah and probably a week earlier for the NEK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 First frost for the Upper Midwest next week on Euro and GFS. But it never makes it east as we stay AN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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