EasternLI Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Hi all hope everyone is ok. I read this thread quite often since a lot of times my weather is closer to what happens in SNE than what happens in NYC. I just want to say thanks to the great mets of this area, outstanding job (as usual). A lot of damage down here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radarman Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 As far as ASOS stations go, that 67MPH in BED is very impressive. Conversely, maxes of 47 in Taunton and 52 in Chatham are surprisingly low. Makes you realize how strong severe criteria winds actually are, which is something to keep in mind when hollering about why a t-storm isn't warned in the summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 My post mortem on the storm: Every bit as bad as imagine for the south coast of RI/CT and back into NYC/LI. Winds were less than what I thought (and most other mets) for the Cape and Islands...and this seemed to be the case too based on posters from SE MA. Perhaps the inversion held a little tougher there than modeled because the models there looked very impressive. We saw what the winds did on the south coast when the inversion began to erode a bit...lots of 60 knots and higher gusts from GON/BID over to BDR where they gusted over hurricane force...and then the LI gusts were even more impressive. Over the interior, the storm performed close to what I expected. ORH got 54 knots...I thought maybe they had a shot at 60...but overall pretty close. BED had 58 knots and sustained winds around 40 knots for a time which for them is actually very impressive. Interior NE MA seemed to get a little mini maximum there as we saw good winds up into LWM too and decent damage reports out of there. Surge was even worse than what was predicted in a lot of spots on the south coast. We knew there was massive potential with the size of the fetch on this storm, but some of the measurements were eye poppers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Having a hard time finding much news from Ct coast. I would imagine horrific. Have you got any info to share Sultan, LL? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 And don't forget the icestorm in the interior. after losing power for days in that storm due to all the limb and tree loss, havent lost power since - including Irene and the halloween storm. I credit that storm as the reason - have barely lost more than a limb here or there since - even the halloween storm was minimal damage impact here. Yeah for the areas that got the ice storm...there was hardly a limb left that wasn't super strong. If a limb can survive an inch to an inch and a half of ice on it, tropical storm force gusts aren't going to bring them down...mostly just the weakened ones since then...or trees that were infected with the asian beetle between '08 and now. I've seen a few uprooted trees...so areas where the ground gets soft, its vulnerable...but not many "snapped" limbs or trees since that storm around here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 My post mortem on the storm: Every bit as bad as imagine for the south coast of RI/CT and back into NYC/LI. Winds were less than what I thought (and most other mets) for the Cape and Islands...and this seemed to be the case too based on posters from SE MA. Perhaps the inversion held a little tougher there than modeled because the models there looked very impressive. We saw what the winds did on the south coast when the inversion began to erode a bit...lots of 60 knots and higher gusts from GON/BID over to BDR where they gusted over hurricane force...and then the LI gusts were even more impressive. Over the interior, the storm performed close to what I expected. ORH got 54 knots...I thought maybe they had a shot at 60...but overall pretty close. BED had 58 knots and sustained winds around 40 knots for a time which for them is actually very impressive. Interior NE MA seemed to get a little mini maximum there as we saw good winds up into LWM too and decent damage reports out of there. Surge was even worse than what was predicted in a lot of spots on the south coast. We knew there was massive potential with the size of the fetch on this storm, but some of the measurements were eye poppers. Yeah I was surprised too about the Cape, Will. I wonder why since gusts performed about as expected from Washington County RI through SW CT. Big lull in the winds in the Valley... inversion held tough here... though I did lose 2 pieces of siding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 The winds across NE MA definitely got a boost from the convective nature of those showers. I was impressed how bad the conditions were driving home. Those gusts in BED seemed to time well with those heavier echoes. Pretty cool. I, too, thought the winds on the Cape would be a bit better. MVY gusted to 59kts so respectable....but I thought the Cape could push 65kts. Interior NE MA can get winds if it works out right. They do OK when we have a strong easterly LLJ. Overall though, not sure this makes it into the upper echelon of impacts across this area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 As far as ASOS stations go, that 67MPH in BED is very impressive. Conversely, maxes of 47 in Taunton and 52 in Chatham are surprisingly low. Makes you realize how strong severe criteria winds actually are, which is something to keep in mind when hollering about why a t-storm isn't warned in the summer. Wow that is pretty low. Even way up here near the Canadian border my local ASOS at MVL had gusts of 48mph and 49mph. Good to know we saw gusts similar to some SE MA stations, lol. Lost power for good around 9pm and that was it, came back on during the night though. Really rocked up here between 9pm-12am last night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Torchey Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Tree devestation is much worse than Irene. Many fires, and structural damage. Fairfield beach is a war zone going to try and get down there later. Some siding blown off and one tree down very lucky. It was 90 minutes of hell in an otherwise tame event Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Tree devestation is much worse than Irene. Many fires, and structural damage. Fairfield beach is a war zone going to try and get down there later. Some siding blown off and one tree down very lucky. It was 90 minutes of hell in an otherwise tame event LOL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian5671 Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Having a hard time finding much news from Ct coast. I would imagine horrific. Have you got any info to share Sultan, LL? Pretty bad--In fairfield at least the surge topped the 1992 Dec Storm. Numerous trees down. I have power, but I'm in the minority. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Tree devestation is much worse than Irene. Many fires, and structural damage. Fairfield beach is a war zone going to try and get down there later. Some siding blown off and one tree down very lucky. It was 90 minutes of hell in an otherwise tame event With the exception on 90 minutes... best fall ever rolls on! And yes I have noticed that near the beaches... maybe within 1-2 miles of the shore damage is worse than Irene in terms of wind. Inland Irene seems to have been worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
free_man Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 I am surprised at those low wind numbers on the cape. glad i wasnt hanging at chh. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Man... West Virginia is getting my dream NW-flow upslope storm. Record low pressure off to the northeast with CAA and deep layer NW flow into the mountains. The Weather Channel was just in Snowshoe, WV and it looked awesome...wind and snow. They are breaking out the winter weather experts, too, and trying to explain the upslope phenomenon. Anyway, still dumping in the upslope region of the Central Appalachians... Boone... North Carolina snow in October has to be a little rare. Watch the blizzard as far south as Asheville, North Carolina... http://cams.appstate.edu/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 LOL, despite my town's waterfront destroyed....it was a good day!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CT Rain Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Pretty bad--In fairfield at least the surge topped the 1992 Dec Storm. Numerous trees down. I have power, but I'm in the minority. Yeah I see some pretty bad pictures from Fairfield Beach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 I am surprised at those low wind numbers on the cape. glad i wasnt hanging at chh. lol I think CHH site always reports wind too low, you watch the next time we get a storm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Torchey Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Pretty bad--In fairfield at least the surge topped the 1992 Dec Storm. Numerous trees down. I have power, but I'm in the minority. Ten feet of water in the seagrape. They are still flooding with this next tide. Nobody allowed past old field road. Our friend just texted its an absolute ****ing war zone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 One of the more ridiculous radar images we'll ever see... snow under the low and cold air wrapping into it, with rain on the warm easterly flow. Very cool. Just think if this tracked a ways north and came into the Canadian maritimes and New England was getting hit hard with snow now... Just move that NW flow CCB hundreds of miles north and interior New England has another October snowstorm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hooralph Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 How did everything turn out in your neighborhood? I haven't ventured outside our front door. Last night looked up and down the blocks and nothing more than branches down. We only ever had power flicker and never felt a gust that made me say "wow." CPK's highest gust was 62 and that feels about right (I'm .6 miles from the obs station). Don't know why it seemed so relatively weak here. Sheltered? Building built like a fortress? I'm optimistic the Central Park treepocalypse I feared didn't happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian5671 Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Ten feet of water in the seagrape. They are still flooding with this next tide. Nobody allowed past old field road. Our friend just texted its an absolute ****ing war zone 10 feet? wow. The Beach road must be toast then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORH_wxman Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 I think CHH site always reports wind too low, you watch the next time we get a storm. Yeah CQX is often low, its somewhat sheltered...the old CHH (when it was called CHH even for the wx obs) was much better for winds. I remember in Noel, we had handheld readings of like 70mph but CQX had a max gust of 58 or something. Just offshore, the buoy had 84mph. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Local winds around this part of New England... I was actually impressed up here with the winds yesterday evening. Took a while to ramp up but between 9pm and midnight it was ripping. The MVL ASOS down the road maxed out at 55mph (extremely impressive for that ASOS, probably the highest I've ever seen from them), but the only 72mph at the top of Mansfield was surprising. We must've had good mixing if the winds aloft weren't that much worse than the gusts we were seeing in the valley. ...LAMOILLE COUNTY... 8 NW STOWE 72 1205 AM 10/30 MOUNT MANSFIELD MORRISVILLE ARPT 55 1219 AM 10/30 ASOS Call me impressed if a storm land falling in central/southern New Jersey can cause 50+ mph winds up here near the Canadian border. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N. OF PIKE Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 powder it's not that rare for boone to get snow in the 2'nd half of october. i have been looking at the high mountain cams for years. almost always snows by oct 20 there, but not like this (obviously) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Seeing all this just makes it even more scary to think what will happen it a Cat 3 comes up the coast, especially if it's during the earlier part of fall when the trees are fully leaved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowman21 Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Ten feet of water in the seagrape. They are still flooding with this next tide. Nobody allowed past old field road. Our friend just texted its an absolute ****ing war zone Sounds like Old Greenwich. Disaster down there. We were lucky in this neighborhood as far as surge goes, but plenty of trees down and almost no one has power. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavisStraight Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 litchfieldlibations, on 30 October 2012 - 10:14 AM, said: Tree devestation is much worse than Irene. Many fires, and structural damage. Fairfield beach is a war zone going to try and get down there later. Some siding blown off and one tree down very lucky. It was 90 minutes of hell in an otherwise tame event Just saw a video of Long Island on TWC, large trees breaking like toothpicks in the heavy rain and strong winds, unbelievable damage on LI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugarloaf1989 Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 No damage to my property despite the 80-90mph wind gusts. Irene did more damage here, but that was a direct hit. I feel bad for the folks dealing with the loss of life and property damage further south and I wish all a speedy recovery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frazdaddy Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Has anyone heard or seen anything from Darien or the 5 mile river rd? I have family there and have not been able to reach them since yesterday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawnmov Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Just want to send a shout out to all the mets for their analysis over the past week or so. The threads were incredibly informative. Hearing about the lack of damage in my neck of the woods here vs. what was expected. I can only think that between Earl, Isaac, Irene, last year's October snowstorm, etc., that mother nature has pruned off so much of the weak stuff that it saved us in this storm. Just a theory. Anyway, thank you all again. I don't post much but lurk from time to time. Great stuff here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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