Tatamy

Have some wind reports to share from Fire Island from tonight’s event: Fire Island Light 46 mph Fair Harbor 46 mph Atlantique 40 mph Point of Woods 40 mph Cherry Grove 40 mph Fire Island Pines 35 mph These gusts all occurred around 10 pm. It is amazing that these stations are still up and reporting after this event.

The cell that popped near Allentown a short while ago dropped a quick 0.96” here. No strong winds or CTG lightning with it however.

I have a station mounted at my brother’s house at Cherry Grove. It gusted to 26 mph at 8pm. It’s mounted slightly below the roof line so it does not get the full exposure to the wind. Based upon how it is set up I would estimate actual winds gusted to 40 mph there at that time.

Shelf cloud from earlier with the second round of storms.

Lots of lightning just to my SW as the next batch of storms approaches.

I think the storms over Allentown will head to the city First round of storms were good rain producers - rec'd 0.67" with that round which is reforming in western and NW NJ. Lightning was minimal here but saw a nice shelf cloud as it arrived with a wind gust to 20 mph. Skies darkening here as the second round gets going near Allentown and heads our way.

I think it weakens. But that is a ton of rain over PA. Hopefully we don't get into that because it would be flash flooding. It's only moving around 20 mph. Plenty of rain out here today with on and off convection. Nice shelf cloud with the latest feature that moved through about 7:15pm. 1.10” on the day. NWS has a FFW for my area.

I mounted mine on a shed. I grounded it with an 8’ 1/2” copper grounding rod purchased from HD and connected it with #6 coated stranded copper wire.

Correction - the picture I posted earlier was taken at the Patchogue Marina. This storm put down pea sized hail over at Fire Island Pines. You don’t hear too many reports of hail on Fire Island.

I am not disagreeing with you on the WU wind meters. That is why I compared it to a Weatherflow. I also have a Davis but I can tell you that the Weatherflow uses a technology that better measures wind speed. We had a severe storm here on Saturday. The Ambient measured 23 mph. The Weatherflow measured 32 mph. These instruments are about 4 feet apart.

There is a WU station in East Northport that recorded a wind gust to 35 Mph as the storm approached just before 3pm. It is an Ambient station. I have an Ambient and a Weatherflow close to each other here and knowing the enhanced capability of the Weatherflow to measure gusts I would argue 50 - 60 mph. My brother lives in East Northport between Clay Pitts and 5th. In any case his street looks like a war zone with tree damage at least as bad as what you received.

This was taken at the Patchogue Marina.

I swear it was close to putting down a waterspout but I wasn't far enough east to stay drive so I went back to my car This is another view of the approach of that cell that you posted earlier.

I would go with 2/78 and 1/16. 2/78 was especially dramatic with high winds and low near zero visibility’s for hours on end along with 30” of snow. 1/16 also brought 30” of snow with very high rates. As dramatic as Boxing Day was its most significant impacts were felt in eastern NJ and places to the north and east of there in the region. We only had a couple of inches from that one here.

I live in the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania. We had a snowstorm on 11/15. Similar to this situation the models were showing heavy amounts for my area. The FV3 consistently showed 10”+ for me for 2 - 3 days prior. The Mets blew them off. The model outputs were contaminated by sleet they said. We were forecasted to get 1-3” by the NWS office. On the 15th as the storm was getting underway at 12pm and I was out on my back deck photographing the arrival of a wall of snow we were upgraded to a WSW. By 6pm we were at 8 1/2” of snow before we changed over to sleet. We picked up another 1 1/2” by the next morning to bring the storm total up to 10”. The bottom line is those who are blowing off these model outputs do so at their own risk. The FV3 proved to be correct. Many many people spent the night out on the highway because they could not get home.

Looked at the traffic map this evening and there is a lot of heavy traffic going south down through VA on I-95 and I-81. I am guessing that this is in part related to the eclipse. Hotels all over SC are booked in anticipation of this event.