Ju-ply 2026 Obs and Disco - Kicking it off with heat, humidity, and ... severe?

[Chrisrotary12]

2 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

Damn Canada. Why can’t you rake your forests!

[vortex95]

10 hours ago, wx_observer said:

Looks like GOES 18 is being used as a fallback?

https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/operations/goes/status.html

https://usradioguy.com/news/goes-19-in-safe-hold/

We have plenty of redundancy up there for GOES satellites.   Heck, there are even satellites up there launched over 15 years ago that are still operational and in use  GOES-15, launched in 2010, was the GOES-W satellite until 2018.  Then this satellite ownership was transferred to the DoD, and redesignated EWS-G2, and now sites at 62E.  So worse case if GOES-19 failed, we could move other satellites to take it place.
 

[vortex95]

1 hour ago, Damage In Tolland said:

What a torch summer !

 

See how even a small temp bias can make all the difference when it comes to historical rankings?  Looking at the past few months, BOS temp is running around 1 F too warm.  So remove that bias, and BOS so far this summer is #5 warmest or higher.  Non-trivial difference.
 

[vortex95]

Thick smoke was no inhibitor for the nasty training storms in cntrl NJ today.  And look at that CG density even zoomed up!  CoastalWx: "WHY CAN'T WE GET THAT HERE!?"
 

[vortex95]

21 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Already 63° and clear

Chilly!

 

[kdxken]

1 hour ago, Damage In Tolland said:

That’s been the biggest issue/ complaint of the majority of posters here and they refuse to change or fix it . My guess is it would be would cost them to upgrade so they’d rather not do it 

Only Boomers.

[kdxken]

So simple a literal monkey can do it.

 

[Lava Rock]

Power back. 7hrs

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[tunafish]

"These stupid board settings won't let posters upload full pictures and the admins are too cheap to fix it!"

Several posters proceed to upload a multitude of full-sized pictures. 

Too perfect.

[OrangeCTWX]

87F in Washington DC at 1am. Gotta imagine the smoke is playing a part in that?

[CoastalWx]

4 hours ago, OrangeCTWX said:

87F in Washington DC at 1am. Gotta imagine the smoke is playing a part in that?

Smoke doesn’t act like a blanket like clouds do 

[Damage In Tolland]

Congrats S coast tomorrow night. That has RI/ SE MA flooder written all over it.

[powderfreak]

8 hours ago, vortex95 said:

See how even a small temp bias can make all the difference when it comes to historical rankings?  Looking at the past few months, BOS temp is running around 1 F too warm.  So remove that bias, and BOS so far this summer is #5 warmest or higher.  Non-trivial difference.
 

What about Blue Hill and PVD?  It seems to lend credence to one ob when there are others supporting it to some extent, no?

[CoastalWx]

1 minute ago, powderfreak said:

What about Blue Hill and PVD?  It seems to lend credence to one ob when there are others supporting it to some extent, no?

Blue Hill is probably the best metric you can use. It’s been a torch so far. 
 

I looked at BOS. It’s drifted a little warm over the last year but nothing like it did back in 2018. I’ll keep an eye on it as we head into the cold season. That year Logan would report ZR at 34.  

[dendrite]

53.4°

Frigid

[dendrite]

1 hour ago, CoastalWx said:

Smoke doesn’t act like a blanket like clouds do 

Maybe they’re literally on fire?

China interfering with smoke physics?

[Damage In Tolland]

Still some smoke out there thankfully 

[CoastalWx]

39 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Maybe they’re literally on fire?

China interfering with smoke physics?

Just unsubstantiated claims and no evidence?

[CoastalWx]

Skies clear but can smell smoke.

[Chrisrotary12]

A++ morning

[weatherwiz]

Nastiness moving through tomorrow night. Probably some violence western areas 

[SnoSki14]

10 hours ago, vortex95 said:

See how even a small temp bias can make all the difference when it comes to historical rankings?  Looking at the past few months, BOS temp is running around 1 F too warm.  So remove that bias, and BOS so far this summer is #5 warmest or higher.  Non-trivial difference.
 

They are setting records with relatively moderate strength ridging. When/if one of those 600dm+ ridges parks over this area they will blow those margins away. 

[kdxken]

2 hours ago, dendrite said:

53.4°

Frigid

 

[Go Kart Mozart]

36 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

Nastiness moving through tomorrow night. Probably some violence western areas 

Thread?

[weatherwiz]

2 minutes ago, Go Kart Mozart said:

Thread?

may fire one up after 12z 

[Ginx snewx]

1 hour ago, CoastalWx said:

Skies clear but can smell smoke.

 

[dendrite]

33 minutes ago, kdxken said:

 

38° at SLK

[tamarack]

13 hours ago, CT Valley Snowman said:

Power back on here at 7:10 PM.  I hit a couple of détours trying to get back to Flying Pond on 41  from Farmington due to downed trees and wires.  

Genny shut down 8:40 PM, 3rd longest run since it was installed in 2020, though 94 hours lower than Dec 2023.  My wife had to switch lanes a couple times on Rt 2 coming home from Farmington, but no detours, just dodging tree tops.

Any of those tall pines around Flying Pond get blown down?  Couple years back, Maine Cabin Masters had to do a full rebuild on a camp near Flying after several big ones smashed it on Dec 18, 2023.

[WxWatcher007]

12 minutes ago, dendrite said:

38° at SLK

38 at SLK and 48.8 at WXW2. 

[Typhoon Tip]

12 hours ago, vortex95 said:

Thick smoke was no inhibitor for the nasty training storms in cntrl NJ today.  And look at that CG density even zoomed up!  CoastalWx: "WHY CAN'T WE GET THAT HERE!?"
 

 

Heh... looks pretty clear via the higher res vis images I looped that the convection down there fired off in the region below the axis of denser smoke. In fact, probably the training ran along the temperature gradient between N NJ where it was denser, vs where more sun/sfc heating was realized.