New feature on climate records?

[ag3]

Synoptic setups for all 6"+ storms.

Never noticed this before. Not sure if it's a new feature or just never noticed.

Amazing info.

http://www.erh.noaa.gov/okx/climate/records/sixplussnow/nycsixplussnow.html

[NorthShoreWx]

Good stuff...got me reading papers and googling some of the references. Can't believe I've never come across this one before looking at causes for local precip maxima over central LI...very cool stuff:

http://www4.ncsu.edu/~seyuter/pdfs/ColleandYuter2007MWR.pdf

The Impact of Coastal Boundaries and Small Hills on the Precipitation Distribution

across Southern Connecticut and Long Island, New York

...The vertical extent of the circulation over LI for the

hills and differential friction effects is consistent with

that of a gravity wave. These waves were generated by

either stably stratified flow perturbed by the hills or by

the upward motion induced by the frictional convergence

at the coast (Fig. 14c). The hill circulations are

somewhat more robust with height than the differential

friction, thus suggesting that the hills were a slightly

more dominant wave forcing.

I've touched lightly (and unscientifically) on this stuff in a couple of places on my website, but this is a careful case study analysis of a particular precip event in 2004. Alas it was a rain event on southerly winds which isn't as interesting to many of us as you know what