OKpowdah Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Yo Scott, ice out on lake winnie was declared at 930 this morning. New record! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Yo Scott, ice out on lake winnie was declared at 930 this morning. New record! Yeah I saw. Posted about it in the NNE thread. I was a little surprised it took this long to melt...lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CapturedNature Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Yo Scott, ice out on lake winnie was declared at 930 this morning. New record! Looks like Joe's Pond is still in the game: http://joespondvermont.com/iceout.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OKpowdah Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Yeah I saw. Posted about it in the NNE thread. I was a little surprised it took this long to melt...lol. Lol yeah same. I guess it was the lack of wind, so protected areas held on long Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clinch Leatherwood Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Just broke through 60 here, should be one of the better days of this stretch here today without the wind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 What a difference a few miles makes...it was 50° here which is actually 2° higher than my 28 year normal high for 3/23! I'm still waiting for my forsythia to fully bloom. I see a lot of budding activity and full blooming ones elsewhere, just not here. Mine are in full bloom as are the azaelas. They both opened yesterday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhoon Tip Posted March 23, 2012 Author Share Posted March 23, 2012 Sunday's return to seasonal cold rains will be sensible misery after having "suffered" a full week's worth of utopia weather. That is the down side of these type of extreme events - they have to end at some point. Just like last winter's big 40-day snow machine. It was a lovely ride, but when it ended, it was never quite enough. There's always something left out there. In that case, I wanted to beat my own personal snowpack record of 35" on the level, set back in 1995-1996. As it were, I tied it at some point during mid to late January, right about the time the denying arrival of pattern decay started melting the snow pack as fast as it arrived. So we stagnated depth where I reside, for about a week to 10 days; then it became more bluntly obvious in early Feb that it was over - though collectively, this reality would be forcibly unrealized until perhaps circa March 10, when the erosion of seasonal change finally penetrated the lies we told our selves. Perhaps one day we will receive a snow event of such magnificence that I would receive 36" inches from that single event, and would not thus have to be multi-event reliant in getting there. It seems over the years, over the decades (I am not old enough to say), that it is harder to maintain a snow pack, than it is to just get lucky and be force-fed one all in a single dose. There reasons for that could be many; they may be related to background GW (regardless of blame - don't go there), causing too many warm incursions that disrupt; it could be just that 40N is no guarantee on sustaining inter-event cold and/or subsequent warm events, even during the coolest regimes. Who knows. But I have lived within 600 ft of sea -level much of my life, and have yet to exceed 35". Obviously, there is some luck involved, as to whether you happened to live in the Worcester Hills, December 13, 1992; or, just northeast of Providence RI, February 8th, 1978; or just west of Detroit, MI, on January 29th, 1978. There were a lot of blizzards in 1978. But if you were not happened to be collocated in those comparatively small jack-pot zones (And yes, March 1993 stands alone as a freak show event), it does statistically prove difficult outside of the mountains to get those mega packs in place. That was all a digression, perhaps a last feebled gasp of resentment for having endured what is in my estimation the 2nd worst winter performance in the history of my days. Going forward, I get the impression that the first two weeks of April are going to be a bit anomalously volatile relative to normal spring vagaries. The NAO is rising after being negative, right as the PNA spikes, during an extended era of plaguing progressivity background characteristic to the overall circulation system. That leaves all kind of cut-off maelstrom potentials, as well as intra-weekly temperature variability that may be extreme. The other option is that by pure chance, deconstructive interference as small intra-continental scales could mute the potential - but that would be chancy muting of the volatility to the flow. The MJO is also blasting into Phase 7 in the upper echelon of the wave's energetic potential. It's rankable in the top 20 event. There has to be a time lag there; unsure if it is a matter of days or weeks, but one must exist when considering wave physics is a differential process. It takes time for event to ripple down wind and "force" events to transpire. I would say more so than mere seasonal probability/climatology alone, once we have arrived upon April 12th or so, it is really over at that point, regardless of what happens up to that ~ point in time. Beyond that, I suspect the end of April goes pretty warm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 I agree with early April possibly being volatile. Ridging out west and into AK may make this possible. They'll be times of warmth and times of colder wx it seems. The MJO is certainly not going to impede this, with it trying to go into P7-8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ineedsnow Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 65.2 dews are low feels great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctsnowstorm628 Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 59F here. Chilly! Fire danger is through the roof with sustained northerly winds gusting to 20kts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hazey Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Well the party is over here. Just a chilly 57F wih a gusty wind. The 86F recorded yesterday is the highest temp ever recorded in Nova Scotia in March and might possibly be the highest recorded temp in March for anywhere in Canada. Need to do some more research on that but if true that is just stunning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Well the party is over here. Just a chilly 57F wih a gusty wind. The 86F recorded yesterday is the highest temp ever recorded in Nova Scotia in March and might possibly be the highest recorded temp in March for anywhere in Canada. Need to do some more research on that but if true that is just stunning. I only see 27C? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hazey Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Another factoid. It was 84F here on Oct 3,2011. With the 84F recorded on March 21,2012 that be another record for the shortest amount of days between >80F readings in NS ever. A historic event for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clinch Leatherwood Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Best day of the stretch here. Up to 66 in the last ten minutes as winds lightened. Should be a nice 70ish day with lighter winds, feels great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hazey Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 I only see 27C? Cooltap reading at Lake Major (just outside the city) recorded 86F. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Cooltap reading at Lake Major (just outside the city) recorded 86F. I was looking at CYHZ. Is that station some sort of ASOS? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hazey Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 I was looking at CYHZ. Is that station some sort of ASOS? I believe so. It was posted on our local weather forum. I'll provide the link when I get it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Another factoid. It was 84F here on Oct 3,2011. With the 84F recorded on March 21,2012 that be another record for the shortest amount of days between >80F readings in NS ever. A historic event for sure. Internationional Torchfest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctsnowstorm628 Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 LOL at Comminicut Light in RI reporting 62F water on March 23! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherMA Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Perfect day today, top 3 day of the year. 71/33, doesn't get better then that. Tomorrow won't really be that bad but its back to reality Sunday and onward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 LOL at Comminicut Light in RI reporting 62F water on March 23! LOL, what the skin temp? That water is not that warm...even off of VA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctsnowstorm628 Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 LOL, what the skin temp? That water is not that warm...even off of VA. LOL air is 61F, water is 62F. Quonset Pt. is 55F as well! LMAO. Water sensors are at 2ft under I believe, and with no upwelling thats what happens. They'll be 48-52F by later this weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clinch Leatherwood Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 LOL, what the skin temp? That water is not that warm...even off of VA. I was in the Atlantic yesterday here off Plymouth all I can say is if I'd gone all the way in I'd be at the doctors right now having my nuts redropped. It can't be 44/45 with the upwelling winds on the western shores. Probably warmer today though. Probably the nicest day of the stretch here, 72 wonderful degrees with very little wind, bluebird skies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clinch Leatherwood Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 LOL, what the skin temp? That water is not that warm...even off of VA. I was in the Atlantic yesterday here off Plymouth all I can say is if I'd gone all the way in I'd be at the doctors right now having my nuts redropped. It can't be 44/45 with the upwelling winds on the western shores. Probably warmer today though. Probably the nicest day of the stretch here, 72 wonderful degrees with very little wind, bluebird skies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Torchey Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Incredible day here, perfect way to end this incredible run of weather. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radarman Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 76.5 for the high today. Bunch of college kids wasted money going to Mexico this week. They could've got drunk and laid around in the sun right here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowman21 Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 Dailies (monthlies)... BOS +27 (+10.6) BDL +24 (+11.4) PVD +23 (+9.4) ORH +30 (+11.8) Also, as far as I can tell, these monthly departures have never been seen at any of the four climate sites through the first 23 days of any month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#NoPoles Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 i was browsing the SE banter thread, people posting about seeing fireflies for a few weeks now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
codfishsnowman Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 Dailies (monthlies)... BOS +27 (+10.6) BDL +24 (+11.4) PVD +23 (+9.4) ORH +30 (+11.8) Also, as far as I can tell, these monthly departures have never been seen at any of the four climate sites through the first 23 days of any month. Mindboggling and if there had been just a bit more a westerly component to the southerly flow this week in the ct river valley those numbers would be even higher I wonder where will end up by month's end after the cold spell, hoping we can torch good here for one more day today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ineedsnow Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 no fireflys here yet but when you go by ponds and swamps there as loud as ever at night i was browsing the SE banter thread, people posting about seeing fireflies for a few weeks now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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