May 2025 Obs/Discussion

[CoastalWx]

22 minutes ago, ineedsnow said:

chase day?

Probably not. Is it ever a chase day in SNE?

[Typhoon Tip]

6 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Probably not. Is it ever a chase day in SNE?

you can't anyway.   You're too obstructed from ground truth in every direction. If not an elevation blocking view it's forest or trees in general ...and if not trees, it's church steeples.  Maybe you could photo a steeple, digitally turn it upside down, doctor it up a tad and call it a day - hahaha.  hell, they call 'em the 'finger of god' anyway.

[weatherwiz]

What I usually do around here is basically find an open field or like a golf course. But it's not technically chasing, I don't chase after the storms...usually get to a spot before the storms get there. But this is why I love BDL...offers a great view on the western horizon. When I go elsewhere in the region...NY or PA then we try and pick a location within a radius where things look "good" and just hope and pray something comes close by lol. 

[Damage In Tolland]

5 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

What I usually do around here is basically find an open field or like a golf course. But it's not technically chasing, I don't chase after the storms...usually get to a spot before the storms get there. But this is why I love BDL...offers a great view on the western horizon. When I go elsewhere in the region...NY or PA then we try and pick a location within a radius where things look "good" and just hope and pray something comes close by lol. 

You sit in McD parking lot lol

[weatherwiz]

Just now, Damage In Tolland said:

You sit in McD parking lot lol

That's where I used to sit at BDL but there is a lot next to the hotel (always forget the name of it) close to the McDonalds which is even better for viewing because you're farther away from that building on the airfield that is a bit across from the McDonalds.

[CoastalWx]

6 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

You sit in McD parking lot lol

Or serving franks at a little league game.

[CoastalWx]

Only time I've ever seen anything with some visibility is by the water. You can see CBs 70+ miles away. One nice thing about an old girlfriend who lived at the beach lol. Storms were awesome when it's so open. Even ltg 10 miles away makes it seem it's right at your house.

[Lava Rock]

0.35" overnight with some decent thunder around 4am.

[weatherwiz]

Wasn't expecting a great deal of sun today but can't wait to at least get some and warm it up a bit. Pretty warm aloft so once we get some heating temps will jump. 

[DavisStraight]

34 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

What I usually do around here is basically find an open field or like a golf course. But it's not technically chasing, I don't chase after the storms...usually get to a spot before the storms get there. But this is why I love BDL...offers a great view on the western horizon. When I go elsewhere in the region...NY or PA then we try and pick a location within a radius where things look "good" and just hope and pray something comes close by lol. 

I have a spot a few miles from my house, its on top of a high hill and you can see for miles, when I go there's usually 3-4 other people up there for the same reason.

[dendrite]

Stein happy. 0.45” rain and 0.01” bird poop. 
 

 

[Typhoon Tip]

I suspect all weather dweebs had their chosen vantage points and would return to them, like a bear remembers a meal, when  ever conditions qualified as an opportunity to eat in the specter of the clouds.

Mine was the Coldwell Bankers/Insurance parking lot.  It wasn't terribly huge, but Acton is one of those used to be forest townships typically found E of the Worcester Hills and west of I95;  scoured out over 150 years of white man cometh farming and cow paths, turned eventually into single story shopping plazas separated by two-lane roads. There's still modestly wooded neighborhoods like all townships of this ilk, but that's not too ideal for dweebing.   There were fields over by Acton/Boxborough Regional High School... Baseball and football complexes.  Tennis courts etc.  That town gentrified straight from 1960 provincial town Americana conservatism,  right to self-righteous yuppification through the 1980s and '90s... replete with ultra competitive socially abusing rich shit assholes.  Imagine a "Beverly's 90210" clone, only uncensored reality.  The town actually built a parking lot for the high school students ( high school students!).  On any given day ...one might see a BMW SUVs parked out among the other vehicles that no mere Junior in high school has any business sniffin' the interior of... Little oligarch larvae.  I dunno.  But it's a helluva lot different than when I was there hiding, lest risk ridicule for standing in fields watching TCU's poke up over the tree-lines ... waiting passionately to hear distant thunder murmurs.  In other words ... kind of off-limits. 

I used stand there, arms crossed, in the old Coldwell parking lot, sometimes for up to an hour...  I came to be known by the employees, too. Like, omg? What a dork... You ever think back to a time or place or event whence you were a part, and just seethe in private embarrassment?  But one time someone emerged from the front of the building and as they passed by, she said, "We see you out here; what are looking for?"    I had to laugh... I explained that I was a Meteorology major, the college I was attending ... prefacing the response regarding observing the thunder clouds.   That actually made me feel a lot less self-conscious about being a creepy figure just loitering around outside their office windows...  haha.  She actually took interest and sidled up next to me and started looking at the features I was pointing out to her.  Quite validating actually.  I wasn't just a chapter out of a J.D. Salinger novel. 

I don't do that for every day crispy TCU's anymore.  You get older and the art of it is reused.  But, I do upon occasion stop and gawk if there's suspicion for rotation or just exceptional circumstances in general. 

[weathafella]

Was awakened by loud thunder.   Fortunately sleep reclaimed me post bangers.

[ineedsnow]

1 hour ago, CoastalWx said:

Probably not. Is it ever a chase day in SNE?

I've actually seen some damn good storms doing it.. and 6-1-11  one of the best storms I've seen in Northampton then coming home from that storm the Springfield tornado 

[Modfan2]

1 hour ago, weatherwiz said:

That's where I used to sit at BDL but there is a lot next to the hotel (always forget the name of it) close to the McDonalds which is even better for viewing because you're farther away from that building on the airfield that is a bit across from the McDonalds.

You should be getting feedback here for good elevated locations to track. I will give 3 near me although my part of SNE is where Storm come and die.

RT 31 Dresser Hill in Charlton Mass, just prior to the food stand) great view looking west.

RT 31 in Dudley Ma, at the water tower looking S and E 

RT 49 in Sterling CT near the Ekonk Hll Farm, great view N and W

[Cyclone-68]

Last night about 5am was a nice mini event. Gave me just enough juice to keep me happy for a few days.  Hopefully something transpires tomorrow even if likely to be non severe 

[kdxken]

When the hell is it going to warm up? Just reached 60

[tamarack]

No thunder here, reported 0.17" at 7 AM.  Currently in a small patch of moderate RA and upper 40s.

Spring signs - inch-long sugar maple and hophornbeam leaves though oak/ash still asleep.  Less pleasant - fetched 2 deer ticks day before yesterday as I was measuring the trees I've tracked biweekly May-Sept since 2012.

[Typhoon Tip]

2 hours ago, weatherwiz said:

What I usually do around here is basically find an open field or like a golf course. But it's not technically chasing, I don't chase after the storms...usually get to a spot before the storms get there. But this is why I love BDL...offers a great view on the western horizon. When I go elsewhere in the region...NY or PA then we try and pick a location within a radius where things look "good" and just hope and pray something comes close by lol. 

Your sky's gotta be glowing at least now looking at high res vis loop.

We may actually scour out prior to the real warm front moving through over the course of the next several hours ... but, if that happens the high intense sun will then process the shit out of the prefrontal inversion and we may see a "frontal leap" up to a bicycle ride S of Brian where it stalls until next spring

[QCD17]

27 minutes ago, Modfan2 said:

You should be getting feedback here for good elevated locations to track. I will give 3 near me although my part of SNE is where Storm come and die.

RT 31 Dresser Hill in Charlton Mass, just prior to the food stand) great view looking west.

RT 31 in Dudley Ma, at the water tower looking S and E 

RT 49 in Sterling CT near the Ekonk Hll Farm, great view N and W

There is a farm on Rte 66 in Columbia, right near the Hebron line, which I've always thought would be a great place to storm watch from, as it has a great view to the west.  But it's obviously private land and I'm not sure they'd be excited to have people pulled off the road on their property.

[Typhoon Tip]

[WxWatcher007]

2 hours ago, weatherwiz said:

What I usually do around here is basically find an open field or like a golf course. But it's not technically chasing, I don't chase after the storms...usually get to a spot before the storms get there. But this is why I love BDL...offers a great view on the western horizon. When I go elsewhere in the region...NY or PA then we try and pick a location within a radius where things look "good" and just hope and pray something comes close by lol. 

 

58 minutes ago, ineedsnow said:

I've actually seen some damn good storms doing it.. and 6-1-11  one of the best storms I've seen in Northampton then coming home from that storm the Springfield tornado 

Yeah it’s doable, but it’s hard stuff. Terrain and chase infrastructure are horrible. It’s more risky to chase out here than the Midwest. 

More open spaces like NY can be good though if you’re in the right spot. 
 

 

[CoastalWx]

Not wedged here, just need junky mid level shit to get out of here.

[SouthCoastMA]

mid 60's and pokes of sun, more humid

[Typhoon Tip]

4 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Not wedged here, just need junky mid level shit to get out of here.

Temp ?

I've been monitoring this site all morning ( provided by the Grand Rapids MI NWS ) and you can see/get a feel for where the warm frontal erosion axis is...

Looks at glance like it's hung around NYC but judging by sat/vis loop ... you wonder if we'll get a processing leap when/if the skies improve. 

[CoastalWx]

3 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

Temp ?

I've been monitoring this site all morning ( provided by the Grand Rapids MI NWS ) and you can see/get a feel for where the warm frontal erosion axis is...

Looks at glance like it's hung around NYC but judging by sat/vis loop ... you wonder if we'll get a processing leap when/if the skies improve. 

My winds are SW. I feel like we just need the sun. 65/60.

[Typhoon Tip]

13 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

My winds are SW. I feel like we just need the sun. 65/60.

we'll be hosed here until the last physical second the cold is allowed to hold out.  I've noticed that in these fudge-packed labored warm lube jobs that that N. Middlesex and western Essex counties up here will slab cold even when PSM in NH is S at 14 F temperature jumps.  

[ineedsnow]

I wish I knew how to post a video of this on here.. tons of rotation with this storm in Hubbardston last year.. you can almost see a funnel in the main cloud  pretty sure it was tornado warned to.. this is just after that but didn't have a pic of the velocity 

[ineedsnow]

Another spot I love going is Market Basket in Athol.. hard to tell by this pic but you get pretty good views

[Lava Rock]

1 hour ago, kdxken said:

When the hell is it going to warm up? Just reached 60

46.8F. Quit your bitchin