BrianW

What a great mid summer week coming up...

What a night on the shore to kick off labor day weekend. BDR 67, HVN 69, and GON 65 at 10 pm. Low of 59 here.

Nice day down here on the water. BDR 79 HVN 79 GON 78

BDL's top 5 warmest September's. 1961 68.7 +3.9 2015 68.5 +3.7 1971 67.7 +2.9 2017 67.6 +2.8 2011 67.5 +2.7 Here is Sept 1961 and 2015

You should see the amount of electricity/energy being used in the south central region. AC's running 24/7 and its still in the 80's inside is a common theme there. I read in TX the average kwh consumption for some has been like 2500-3000 kwh a month this summer. The US average is around 750 kwh/month. That area has also consumed a record amount of natural gas reserves and the south central gas reserve is close to the lowest on record.

What a summer for lawns.

And a 70.8 avg dew for August...

Nice to see another old ash being saved. Any idea on the age? I've been treating my 125+ year old green ash since the borer arrived around 8-10 years ago. It might be even older than that. It shows up on the 1934 Fairchild aerial survey of Connecticut as a good sized tree. I also used my neighbors ash tree that was smaller and removed and I counted 119 rings to try and compare to get a rough age. This picture was from the spring when it first leafed out.

YTD departures HVN J +10.9 F +5.1 M +4.1 A +5.1 M +.8 J +.3 J +4.1 A +1.1 GON J +10.1 F +4.8 M +3.5 A +4.4 M +1.1 J +.2 J +3.4 A +.8

HVN 56.4 gust

Tons of outages just north of there in Plainville/Bristol. Anyone have any wind reports from that area?

176 lighting strikes a min according to lighting maps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955_Connecticut_floods

Is this legit? Lol

How much rain on Fishers Island this month? Was out on Block Island last week and it's crazy how green the lawns and everything is. I think they had like 9 inches of rain last month and I think they had like 3-5 again this month.

I'm in Narragansett and the amount of lighting in those storms has been absurd. Sounds like a firework finale. Lighting maps has been 100+ strikes a min in that area.

What a night ahead.

82/78 and full sun here in New Haven.

Upton liking Southern CT for tornado development. A line of thunderstorms entering N central PA is fcst to weaken by CAM`s as it moves east into the Appalachians, followed by a new line of storms developing this afternoon over ern PA and central NY and moving SE into the area. Expect this line to move through from about 17Z-23Z, crossing the NYC metro area between 19Z-21Z. Main threat from these storms will be damaging winds via large MLCAPE up to 2000 J/kg per NAM, momentum transfer of 40-kt mid level flow from aloft, also via steep low level lapse rates and inverted-V soundings. There is also a low- end tornado threat inland, more so across southern CT where models show potential for enhanced lift beneath the right entrance region of an upper jet streak to the north, while hodographs show veering low level profiles supportive of rotating storms during the afternoon, and where low level vorticity could be locally enhanced via channeling of sfc wind up river valleys and via possible sea breeze interaction closer to the CT coastline.

What a truly special summer. Couldn't draw up a better one. We might not experience this again in our lifetimes..

Reminds me of my summer in Santa Monica 27 years ago. I went "skiing" in the morning and hit the beach in the afternoon but never left the beach...

I'm 2 towns west of there and have had 9.24 inches of rain this month.