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

[dendrite]

He’s just trolling now

[Damage In Tolland]

2 minutes ago, dendrite said:

He’s just trolling now

What do you think you’ll end up with ballpark estimate?

[dendrite]

1 minute ago, Damage In Tolland said:

What do you think you’ll end up with ballpark estimate?

0.78”

[Damage In Tolland]

You wonder with all the arrows if Ray is Contentwxguy 

[Damage In Tolland]

1 minute ago, dendrite said:

0.78”

I’ll put you at 1.27

[CoastalWx]

59 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

I’ll put you at 1.27

I still think he’ll get a decent drink. Although he can’t hate me for a 5 mile STD error. 
STD being Stein Deviation 

[WinterWolf]

1 hour ago, Damage In Tolland said:

You wonder with all the arrows if Ray is Contentwxguy 

Rays arrows are straight, not curved like that guys.  Content must have Peronies Disease. 

[wxeyeNH]

2 rounds of showers/thundershowers now through.   One earlier and one more recent.  Total .86" so far.  Looks like the heaviest rainfall for storm totals will be SW of me.  I will be happy if we end up 1-2".   

[tiger_deF]

I’m over it. It feels like there was a better chance of getting lightning from one of the blizzards last winter out east than this pithy severe season. Bring on the Fall!

[Prismshine Productions]

Parking lot flooded at work for a bit earlier

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[vortex95]

15 hours ago, CoastalWx said:

Still some disagreement, which is no surprise with these cold season synoptics in the warm season. I do think someone’s gonna get dumped on, especially if we have these little embedded meso lows to enhance the rainfall locally.

Something that *really* stands out for this event and why I think 10"+ is likely in some spots.  Let's see if @CoastalWx and @WxWiz know this excessive rainfall rule of thumb! 

CAPE for a nor'easter is outstanding, esp. for New England.  The entire time for much of cntrl and srn New England, the values are 500-1000.  These are *ideal* values for maxing rainfall rates and droplet collision/coalescence for high rainfall efficiency.  Warm rain process rule.  The CAPE provides additional lift on top of the synoptic-scale lift, but it is not too strong as to push a lot of drops above the freezing layer or at least above -40 C where spontaneous freezing occurs.

So look out!

Also, w/ CAPE present, it is going to be windier, esp. inland, b/c of good mixing of the BL.  And likely a lot tstm activity for a Nor'easter.  This happened on Oct 23-24, 2014.  A lot of tstms and I recall it was windy from the NE even before the rain moved in b/c BL mixing was excellent.  Up to 6" of rain from this event (does CoastalWx recall it?).

[vortex95]

6 hours ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Life threatening ? So much hype 

"Life-threatening" -- most inclement wx is life-threatening in some way.

Why not just "dangerous?"  That is all-inclusive for being injured and a fatality.  Yet we see "extremely dangerous and life-threatening" in the same line en masse now.  Superfluous wording and redundant.  More is not always better. 
 

[vortex95]

5 hours ago, CoastalWx said:

Like that scene in war of the worlds when the bodies are floating down the river.

Or in "Team America: World Police!"  F-yeah!!!!

[vortex95]

5 hours ago, CoastalWx said:

Actually, the 18 nam  was kind of what I pictured yesterday, but I know it’s the nam lol. But it kind of shows you what I was sort of envisioning.

 

I find these events very difficult to predict, you gotta look at synoptics and sort of climatology and try to figure out where the best rain would be and not knee jerk model to model or run to run.

What about the warm front position!!!!  You were all over that and dogmatic last event! LOL.

[WxWatcher007]

2 hours ago, SJonesWX said:

what does this map even mean? Like, there is a slight ~15% chance that I get excessive rainfall? what is excessive? And yes I know it is going to rain

just seems stupid to me

15% chance of an area within 25 miles seeing rainfall that exceeds flash flood guidance. Kind of similar to SPC outlooks of having a certain percentage chance of seeing severe within 50mi or whatever it is. Flash flood guidance varies depending on recent rainfall (among other things, probably). 
 

Caveat is moderate risk on rainfall is not the same as a mod risk for severe. When I see a mod rain risk it’s noteworthy but not uncommon. A high risk is serious though—they almost always precede catastrophic flooding somewhere within the zone.