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Yup and all of those reports are not serious. We really should reserve warnings for life threatening weather. 4-8" of water on a road (in places that typically flood, mind you) is not dangerous.

Over warning continues.

Well this is the warning, seems appropriate not excessive

AVOID FLOODED

ROADS. THE WATER MAY BE TOO DEEP TO ALLOW VEHICLES TO CROSS SAFELY...

OR THE ROADWAY MAY BE UNDERMINED. TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN!

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Well this is the warning, seems appropriate not excessive

AVOID FLOODED

ROADS. THE WATER MAY BE TOO DEEP TO ALLOW VEHICLES TO CROSS SAFELY...

OR THE ROADWAY MAY BE UNDERMINED. TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN!

Why not an urban/small stream advisory? Seems to me this is what that advisory is for.

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Flood advisories hoisted for eastern areas.

FLOOD ADVISORY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA
447 PM EDT SAT JUL 28 2012

CTC015-MAC005-009-017-021-023-025-027-RIC001-003-005-007-009-282330-
/O.NEW.KBOX.FA.Y.0025.120728T2047Z-120728T2330Z/
/00000.N.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
WINDHAM CT-NEWPORT RI-BRISTOL RI-MIDDLESEX MA-WORCESTER MA-NORFOLK
MA-PROVIDENCE RI-WASHINGTON RI-ESSEX MA-PLYMOUTH MA-KENT RI-BRISTOL
MA-SUFFOLK MA-
447 PM EDT SAT JUL 28 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A

* FLOOD ADVISORY FOR...
ALL OF RHODE ISLAND WITH THE EXCEPTION OF BLOCK ISLAND.
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF PROVIDENCE...WOONSOCKET...SMITHFIELD...
CRANSTON...WARWICK...AND NEWPORT.
MUCH OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS.
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF BOSTON...LOWELL...FRAMINGHAM...
NORWOOD...FOXBOROUGH...AND ATTLEBOROUGH.

* UNTIL 730 PM EDT

* AT 437 PM EDT MODERATE TO OCCASIONALLY HEAVY RAIN AND A FEW
THUNDERSTORMS WAS OCCURRING OVER CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS AND
NORTHEAST CONNECTICUT. 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN IN AN HOUR CAN
BE EXPECTED AS THESE STORMS MOVE TO THE EAST AND IMPACT RHODE
ISLAND AND EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS. THIS COULD CAUSE FLOODING OF
ROADWAYS AND MAY CAUSE SMALL STREAMS TO APPROACH BANKFULL.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

&&

LAT...LON 4188 7179 4189 7168 4233 7156 4270 7162
4269 7090 4244 7095 4241 7098 4235 7097
4233 7101 4233 7098 4145 7117 4146 7120
4154 7122 4147 7124 4145 7131 4145 7141
4149 7141 4135 7148 4137 7157 4131 7182

$$
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Why not an urban/small stream advisory? Seems to me this is what that advisory is for.

I'd rather see the flash flood warning for truly life threatening flooding with rivers out of their banks and rising... roads washed away... serious flooding.

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I'd rather see the flash flood warning for truly life threatening flooding with rivers out of their banks and rising... roads washed away... serious flooding.

12" of water under a railroad bridge doesn't qualify. In fact all the towns listed in the LSRs and where we've seen tweets from we've spoken to police and fire and they've been very "meh"

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True, understand what you mean now. yea flood advisory is much more appropriate.

Yeah I'm all for telling people that there may be urban flooding and to avoid places where water covers the road but we really need to do a better job of getting warnings out for the truly dangerous/life threatening events by not getting stuck with the boy who cried wolf syndrome.

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Yeah I'm all for telling people that there may be urban flooding and to avoid places where water covers the road but we really need to do a better job of getting warnings out for the truly dangerous/life threatening events by not getting stuck with the boy who cried wolf syndrome.

KFS syndrome?

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Looks like a pretty large error in the BOS CLI for today...they list BOS high as 79F at 11:47am, but the temp at 11am was 68F, and then it was 68F again at 12pm. It rose to 73F at 2pm which was the 6 hourly high reported at 18z...then the next 6 hourly high at 00z was also 73F.

So it appears an input of 6F too high for the BOS high today.

Something is wrong there, but BOS appeared to be a legit 77 at the morning 5z so the error probably is only 1 or 2F. The 79 may even be correct, but it didn't happen just before noon like you mentioned.

My colleague at the office took care of this error this morning. The CLI was reissued at 1127 AM with 77 as the high at 1254 AM.

Thanks for catching this, Will.

--Turtle

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My colleague at the office took care of this error this morning. The CLI was reissued at 1127 AM with 77 as the high at 1254 AM.

Thanks for catching this, Will.

--Turtle

No problem. I actually missed the midnight high originally, but the 11:47am time stamp of the high is what caught my eye initially.

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BOS monthly departure has been in a tailspin...Scott might actually win the bet between with him and LL about a +2.0 departure. They will be down around +2.5 after today and down to around +2.2-2.3 after tomorrow.

If the NWS point and click for BOS is correct, they will end the month around +1.8

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BOS monthly departure has been in a tailspin...Scott might actually win the bet between with him and LL about a +2.0 departure. They will be down around +2.5 after today and down to around +2.2-2.3 after tomorrow.

If the NWS point and click for BOS is correct, they will end the month around +1.8

The pattern seems to be gradually evolving to one with more blocking, with troughiness pushing up into a West Atlantic ridge and leading to a humid, moist regime.

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Tomorrow could be a solid 4-7F temp bust type day. Forecast is upper 70s, but onshow flow and threat of clouds/shower could keep us quite a bit lower.

Euro op/ens are fairly wet and raw tomorrow with NE flow. MOS is LM70s for most of the interior, but U60s to near 70F wouldn't shock me.
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I'd rather see the flash flood warning for truly life threatening flooding with rivers out of their banks and rising... roads washed away... serious flooding.

Irene flash flooding with cars being flipped by muddy torrents, bridges completely gone, houses swept down what are normally ankle deep streams....that sort of stuff.

I completely agree with Ryan. Too many FF Warnings and not enough Urban Flood Advisories to cover the pavement induced ponding of water on roads.

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Shorter term, may I recommend the new CFS thread in the NYC subforum. And maybe my comments yesterday in the NYC banter thread.

I know tropical chances in any given year for NYC/LI/SNE are rather low, but not even August, the 26º SST isotherm almost to ACY, water temps mid 70sF South of Long Island, and now maybe the trough a bit further West, well, I am hoping to be lurking a lot in the NYC and SNE subforums.

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