snowman21

$4 per year per taxpayer for everything NOAA does is a ridiculous bargain. It's stupidly cheap. NOAA's budget is $6B out of the $5.9T total spend. We're talking 0.1% of the budget and 0.4% of the federal work force.

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Gusting to 50 down here. 52 and 55 mph gusts at HPN and LGA as well. Guess the big gusts are too isolated to warrant a wind advisory.

And wind. Lots and lots of wind.

Still have a couple days before TV mets have to commit to that. For now they can just say cloudy with a chance of snow and mention the possibility of something bigger.

Yeah that's about what we have. Decent sized fluffy flakes coming down with vis about a mile maybe a shade under.

TBF to the road crews, OKX still saying only a 20-40% chance of light snow this afternoon as of their 1202 update even though it's been snowing steadily across all of their CT zones for the last couple of hours.

Did anyone's barometer reach 31 inches? Looking to see if any stations got to 31, some stations in NJ got to 30.98. Mine was just shy - never seen it that high before! Looks like MSS got to 31.01.

Look on the bright side: at least sunsets are getting later now. It's by seconds per day, but we're on our way to more mugs and jugs and margs and oyster shucking on the beach

The eastern eyewall is already east of the mouth of Tampa Bay longitude wise. As someone said above, this looks to make landfall between Sarasota and Venice in the next hour or so.

929 mb / 145 mph as of 8 AM EDT update

Looks like the new forecast takes it up to 185G225 at 6z tomorrow before the weakening trend begins.

925 mb / 160 mph on the 11:55 EDT update.

Yes. Sorry, 155 mph max sustained.

933 mb / 155 mph as of 11 AM

Looks like as soon as it crossed 92°W around 13z it turned due east.

First frost is the first low temperature at or below 36°F.

Average first frost date at BDL was 9/30 from the 1971-2000 normals, 10/4 in the 1981-2010 normals, and now 10/6 with the 1991-2020 set, so a shift of 6 days later over the last 20 years. Probably similar pattern at every station.

Enjoy that extra month of growing season if you're in northern New England I guess.

The ASOS record began in 1996 and exists primarily for air traffic safety. For example, if the RVR, vis, CHI, wind, or pressure sensor (especially class 1 stations if any still exist) goes bad, it's getting addressed pretty quickly. If a temp, hum, or precip sensor drifts, it'll get fixed whenever because it's not critical to aviation. A lot of the disputes here are less about siting and more about suspicious measurements. The climate record even at the first order sites are mostly stitched together through time anyway using nearby stations and differing equipment since the climate records go back before airports.

ASOS isn't really there for climate record keeping, so if a temp or humidity sensor goes wonky no one cares if it's close enough which is problematic for people that care about the integrity of the climate record.

Meteorologists can't even figure out what's gonna happen in 6 hours let alone 2 weeks. 3 PM NWS forecast for tonight: mostly clear. 6 PM NWS forecast: mostly cloudy. LOL. No one has a clue. You could go back to last Sunday's forecasts that showed partly cloudy/sunny forecasts for this past week and we all know how that worked out.

Front just came through... there goes the taste of spring.

Feels like spring this morning waking up to fog and 56°.

If I were his neighbor I'd appreciate how nice he keeps the yard.