NeonPeon

Agreed with that.

If you draw a line through the middle of RI as far as its longitudinal boundaries, it won't split the state in half in terms of land mass either, because the state isn't a square. Luckily? Glacially, the bay already does that, and it does a serviceable job of splitting the population, since almost nobody lives in the Northwestern half of the west bay. I've been living here for over decade, and I've never heard anyone speak about east and west with regard to RI other than in terms of relation to the bay. Perhaps this is something that people on the west bay do, but people on the east bay don't. Which would only underscore the valid distinction, haha. I don't think Charlestown is in the best place for this, but you're in a good spot and don't have to fret the P-type as is our wont. Enjoy the snow over there. I feel like early January snow is almost a bonus here.

If I get 4 inches of snow it'll smash all of last season! I'm just hoping it's not too clumpy to sled on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Bay_(Rhode_Island) Narragansett Bay divides the state of Rhode Island into two parts. The term East Bay refers to communities on the east side of the bay, including Bristol, Warren, Barrington, Tiverton, Little Compton, Newport, Middletown, Portsmouth and Jamestown. The term West Bay refers to communities on the west side of the bay (the mainland), such as Warwick, Cranston and East Greenwich. Jamestown and the towns on Aquidneck Island are sometimes known as "The Islands" along with Block Island. Mainlanders are welcome to go edit their own personal truth!

A semi autonomous collective.

Yes, we are really arguing petty semantics about geography, that's about 10% of what this board does, near as I can figure it. I'm not really that invested, however, you are wrong. The east bay is Little Compton, Tiverton, Bristol, Warren, Barrington, and Riverside.

Yes, both by pedants and very large bodies of water. I'll leave you to determine which I am.

Yeah, the western side of the bay...?

East Greenwich is eastern RI?

Newport is almost never in a good spot. It's at best in the worst spot of a good spot.

Last "winter" after we got about 2.5 inches of snow, I resolved to buy one of LLBeans extra large commercial grade snow tubes in a quite fetching red plaid. It of course didn't snow any more than that all winter, and the thing got massively back ordered. It arrived in October this year, and was one of the more willfully hopeful things I've ever purchased. I am happy to have enough snow to sled on with my kid. That's it. It's mostly for me honestly. The kid just makes it socially acceptable.

Have they? It seems like the ceiling is lower and the general idea of a decent storm hinges upon some tenuous latish development with a pretty decent east/west cut off, and a hooking low. That best case scenario could easily go badly. Particularly where we are!

What? It gets made up with lovely mild summers. Isn't spring just ceaseless fog and mud for you, or is that just down here? Spring is my least favorite season. I never liked spring... anywhere in the US really.

I'm definitely smelling some hot air.

Gross.

This thing hasn't had the same center for an entire 24 hr period, it's just a washing machine with a brick in it. Fascinating to see, each time it relocates it's less and less far away as it becomes more and more symmetrical. Also, on radar, this thing is so so confined. It's a pretty dry, pretty small halfacane, thankfully.

It's really fascinating to be able to watch on radar. This center seems a lot more stable and stacked, but it's not got enough time to digest that dry air, I wouldn't think, as its running out of water. Edit: and as I say that, that central center is collapsing and its trying again out west. Wobbler.

Everyone I know got water in their basement. That said, everyone tells a housing inspector the water in their basement is unusual, surely. Oh, this? It's practically a swimming pool down here, surprised the place is still standing!

Doesn't sound off to me. They got absolutely pummeled with the two feeder bands, worse than I did on the first, about the same on the second, but didn't get the lull that I got, so they rained for an additional 3 hrs.

So, over 6" here apparently. That's with hours of no rain in the middle of the storm. I woke up with my kid at 2, and haven't been back to sleep. Kept the basement dry bar a puddle and finally had an opportunity to diagnose where the tiny leak in my roof is coming from. Now I'm going to get my chimney removed, but I think I got off lightly. Also, I demonstrated some real wishful thinking in how I was looking at things, but not in how I behaved. It's hard to look at the scenes west of us at 2 am, with cars floating and airports flooding, and not want to at least check the basement a little. The second line of storms that came through also surprised me, I knew I'd get hit at the beginning and end, but the most intense was in the middle. The heaviest rain I've ever seen. Unremarkable wind, but for how unstable it was, during the heaviest line with all the lightning. Lots of verticality to the wind. Wonder if someone got a microburst.

Just finished mopping the meh.

Yeah, I'm going to file this and my earlier comments under be careful what you wish for. Still happy we got a break.. but, It is lunacy right now. Torrential rain, and eratic wind, like, totally calm then a downdraft and raining sideways for seconds. The wind woke me up and I looked at the radar to find the tornado icon. I can tell it hasnt rained too much so far, but if it does this for a couple hours, it's still a lot of rain.

That cell heading toward new Bedford is just ugly.

I've been pouring, but there's less consistent rain already now. The bands will be building where I am, with heavier and lighter rain as they move through, but there will be more consistent rain north and west, as modeled, no? The one feeder band seems to be just missing to the east too. Some of those cells look gnarly.

My fieldstone basement and I have never been happier to welcome the screw zone. More lightning. I think the worse cells will pass to my east then this is over for me