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January 26-27 Storm Disco/Obs III


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wow danbury ct ...snow band strenthening (albeit not for that long prob)

poster down in brandford ct is getting HAMMERED ...heaviest stuff on radar now

starting to get a tad heavier here....very low visibility.....i think some dark green's /yellow are gonna settle nearby soon. prob over milford/hopkington.

RED FLAG....OMG this is gonna miss us to the SE.

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Ok here's a technical measuring question for the experts, one I don't know the answer to.

In your situation where you have snow banks, mounds and everything else...would you need to measure on the top of them or on a snow board to get an accurate reading? Otherwise, if you measure in the troughs on a cold windy night isn't that going to contaminate high?

I've always measured on the high ground, flat surface. Maybe I'm doing it wrong. In fact I think I am doing it wrong because I measured 1.5 where the NWS employee measured (within a few miles) 3.5 today...so I'm pretty sure I'm using an Ocean State Job Lot ruler.

That's why I went all over but the shots I took were representative of it. I did it in the middle of the driveway cleared several feet away from the banks, on stuff that was not cleared in the lawn, in the cleared lawn, on a piece of crappy wood in the uncleared end of the driveway, etc. But the pics were easy to take on those surfaces since they were closest to the house and the camera was getting soaking wet. I usually take a bunch of different spots with different placements and average them out. It was surprisingly clustered near 7 even with the wind (outside of drifts directly against said banks and mounds and such). The wind has also died down somewhat from what it was earlier which can only help everything.

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ISP has some issues

METAR KISP 270556Z 02025KT 1/2SM R06/3000V4500FT SN SCT003 OVC008 M01/M03 A2949 RMK AO2 SLP987 SNINCR 1/9 4/009

METAR KISP 270656Z 02025KT 1/4SM R06/1800V2200FT +SN BLSN BKN003 OVC008 M01/M03 A2950 RMK AO2 SLP988 SNINCR 5/019 P0013 T10061033 $

The totals don't add up right.

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heavy snow in south windsor ct . I think totals will be between 11 inches to 17 inches or more by morning .

WHERE WILL THEY PUT ALL THE SNOW FROM parking lots and streets .

Yeah the plow drivers certainly have their work cut out for them...hopefully they are wearing their seatbelts, roads are bad.

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ISP has some issues

METAR KISP 270556Z 02025KT 1/2SM R06/3000V4500FT SN SCT003 OVC008 M01/M03 A2949 RMK AO2 SLP987 SNINCR 1/9 4/009

METAR KISP 270656Z 02025KT 1/4SM R06/1800V2200FT +SN BLSN BKN003 OVC008 M01/M03 A2950 RMK AO2 SLP988 SNINCR 5/019 P0013 T10061033 $

The totals don't add up right.

Yeah that is bunk. I'll ask my friend...he is a part time observer at ISP.

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I can't wait to see the 2 a.m. CT DOT obs. They are frequently the most consistent and accurate we have in this state.

I actually find them to be horrible...they are somtime great and then sometimes they are pathetic. They usually match my Union obs about 50% of the time in reasonable value, which means its a coinflip for me...maybe they are better further south.

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I actually find them to be horrible...they are somtime great and then sometimes they are pathetic. They usually match my Union obs about 50% of the time in reasonable value, which means its a coinflip for me...maybe they are better further south.

maybe the union one is funky but in general I find them very good.

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Wiz you may have been low. Just saw 8.5 suffield and 10.6 new britain.

Anyway I wish I was back home in Guilford. My parents are getting crushed tonight!!

Yeah I definitely think I was...it's starting to drift bad and I had trouble bending down and such. I might just go back out at 2:30 AM and try again.

I thought I just saw lightning but I guess not.

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I actually find them to be horrible...they are somtime great and then sometimes they are pathetic. They usually match my Union obs about 50% of the time in reasonable value, which means its a coinflip for me...maybe they are better further south.

Yeah this...

Really weakening over by me now. Ah well.

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