2 years ago today, August 18, 2024, a day Oxford CT and surrounding areas will never forget. I remember looking at the radar in amazement but with the realization that this was going to be a flooding disaster in the hardest hit areas.
I thought yesterday pretty much performed as expected. Slight risk over central and western areas where there were some warned cells and a few towns got hit hard while most of us did not. It's just not easy to get widespread severe around here. Most of the time, you just need to get lucky.
Probably off to a slow start and not expecting a very good retention year given the high probability of warmer temp anomalies, but I think we have our chances. And there could be a couple of big boys that help out with the snowfall anomolies, even in a overall hostile regime. That's my early take.
AI says normal is only like 18-20 at BDL which may be a bit low. At least thats one thing we can hang our hats on here in this pit, hitting 90 more than anyone else in the region.