August Discussion/Obs

[Damage In Tolland]

17 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Imagine what it’s like to have 5” on the month?

I feel soaked at 2”. He’s making love to his sump pump at 5

[CoastalWx]

3 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

I feel soaked at 2”. He’s making love to his sump pump at 5

Just in and out of a rubber gasket. 

[CoastalWx]

Hopefully more of these from Tblizz.

"pelt fest….. warmer guidance definitely won out here…. Didn’t expect sleet at 7am"

[Sled]

Just caught a helluva lightning storm somewhere over baltic-ish area

[TauntonBlizzard2013]

17 minutes ago, Yb24 said:

Live in Raynham. Can confirm probably a bit more than your estimate. Hasn’t rained this much since we moved here from lovely Brockton.

Sweet. Thanks. I’m going to get a gauge to back up my electronic stuff. Hate guessing.

[Sled]

Maybe franklin

[SouthCoastMA]

Fri Night/overnight Saturday has potential

[dendrite]

We trace

[kdxken]

5 minutes ago, dendrite said:

We trace

Got me.

 

[dendrite]

1 hour ago, backedgeapproaching said:

Not in real time, I had to manually turn the little screws/bolts a turn or so. Trial and error like you said, but get a stratus so you can compare rain events.

I would check with dendrite first before you do anything..lol.

Basically below:

• Each counterclockwise movement of the stops by one flat of the hexagon raises the stop and hence increases the rainfall recorded by the gauge by approximately 1% (per flat). So one complete revolution of the stop would cause roughly a 6% increase in recorded rainfall. (Raising the stop – ie a movement in the +ve counterclockwise direction – decreases the weight of rain needed to cause a tip of the buckets and hence a given rainfall amount generates more bucket tips and thus a higher rainfall reading);
• Each of the two stops must be adjusted by an equal amount (and obviously in the same direction);

 

@CoastalWx

Yeah this. You’re underreporting so the screws need to come up (lefty loosey) for the tipper to tip more often. Make sure the gauge is level first and you raise the screws on each side an equal amount. I’d definitely do it in smaller increments at first and try to only compare in larger events. Make sure there’s nothing interfering with the tipper being able to tip (spider webs or gunk) and make sure the cone hole isn’t plugged up at all either. 

[CoastalWx]

I’ll try that I guess.

[dendrite]

Conway getting trained on right now. 

[Typhoon Tip]

Kevin may be about to put up a .5 from that cluster plodding along N CT

[Ginx snewx]

1.34 today 2.18 2 day  My wife working in Pomfret said the school boiler room flooded, they had nearly 5 there.

[Typhoon Tip]

You guys ever notice when watching these IR loops on these convection days, the cloud tops seem like they are always lime green with some lemon yellows over New England  ?

Seldom do our towers reach the exulted heights of blood red with gnarly black cores like all the other talented, cool good looking  regions. Even MT is cooler than us short bussers. 

Meanwhile we’re posting how we’re getting hammered this and destroyed that hyperbole. I feel like these are the most popular 8th graders.  But hey .. maybe there is less correlation between Sat presentation and ground truth. 

[TauntonBlizzard2013]

Another round for drenched in Tolland 

[Sn0waddict]

9 hours ago, Sn0waddict said:

Interesting looking storm south of old saybrook.

Having a tough time posting the link but Heidi Voight shared a video on Facebook that shows it did indeed produce a waterspout.

[40/70 Benchmark]

1 hour ago, CoastalWx said:

Hopefully more of these from Tblizz.

"pelt fest….. warmer guidance definitely won out here…. Didn’t expect sleet at 7am"

I pray.

[40/70 Benchmark]

3 hours ago, SouthCoastMA said:

I may buy a stratus gauge too. I'd like to see how far off my mounted ambient rain gauge is, if at all

I bought one last January...seems lethally accurate.

[dendrite]

FFW near Bethel, ME now…dual pol estimating 4-5”.

[powderfreak]

2 hours ago, CoastalWx said:

Just in and out of a rubber gasket. 

The irony will be at the end of the summer when some posters have more total rainfall than up here.

I’m at roughly 1.75” for August (not home to see todays but local PWS is .27”).

It’s rained on at least 10 days this month, for only 1.75”.  TauntonSoggy2013 probably had that in about an hour today.

All joking aside, you have to imagine vegetation responds much better to frequency than total water. I know we talk about lush green up here but the total water the last 45-60 days isn’t anything to write home about.  I guess 0.10-0.20” every other day or three is enough to keep things lush even if it’s only like 2-2.5” per month.

[CoastalWx]

1 hour ago, TauntonBlizzard2013 said:

Another round for drenched in Tolland 

You’ve had more than him. 

[WxWatcher007]

One more from today.

 

[OceanStWx]

13 hours ago, tamarack said:

With 103 reports, high end for Maine cocorahs, top is Hollis Center with 4.19".  2nd place is Buxton at 3.95".  Both towns are inland York County but #3 at 3.64" is Kennebunk.  Next is Standish, southern Cumberland, with 2.39".  I've no idea where the 6-7" was measured.
Had RA 9P-3A for 0.54" here, would've loved 3 times as much but no complaints, as the 2 cocorahs observers in Farmington had only 0.22".

 

13 hours ago, CoastalWx said:

Probably near Waterboro. 

Yeah Waterboro, Lyman, Alfred. At least a half dozen gauges that I saw.

[40/70 Benchmark]

.04" today after .22" yesterday....

.54" on the month....we drought. 

[dendrite]

23 minutes ago, 40/70 Benchmark said:

.04" today after .22" yesterday....

.54" on the month....we drought. 

Hoping to pull a hundredth from this

[DavisStraight]

Just lost power, ironic now that the tstorms passed, someone might hit a pole nearby.

[Torch Tiger]

[BombsAway1288]

Now that the fun is over, when do we start getting those late summer cool nights going? 

[STILL N OF PIKE]

1 hour ago, BombsAway1288 said:

Now that the fun is over, when do we start getting those late summer cool nights going? 

Euro says day 10