Potential Record Breaking Cold Sunday/Sunday Night---Late Nov Discussion

[Damage In Tolland]

Something is severely flawed with that grid.

you wouldn't believe the amount of trucks they have had trimming trees all summer and fall and even now. They hacked up a few on my property. Complete buffoons. Trimming back a few branches spending 19 million dollars and it does nothing. There's a reason we're called Damage In Tolland

[ORH_wxman]

That month for the Quad Cities. It must've been a mess, 32" of snow is a yearly average there.

 

 

 

I like the stretch of December 7th through the end of the month seeing one day above freezing...and that one day was 33F. Also the 4 max temps in the single digits.

 

I suspect pond skating was safe pretty early that year.

[CoastalWx]

Now that is seasons in seasons type numbers. Wow.

[HoarfrostHubb]

Wintery appeal in Iowa

[OceanStWx]

Now that is seasons in seasons type numbers. Wow.

 

When the hounds decide to let loose there is nothing to stop them out there.

[dendrite]

18z MAV has 0F for CON tonight. Seems a little aggressive, but CON only needs 1-2 hours of lighter winds to drop a quick 5F+. I'll take the over.

[ORH_wxman]

One more thing sticks out that month...almost all the QPF was snow it looks like. Maybe some ZR on the 15th?

[powderfreak]

You guys??

Don't you often refer to your thoughts on here as "we"? He's just grouping you in with them like you group all of us into your posts

[Ginx snewx]

What a Patriots weather disaster, must be a team of southerners, cold fumblitis

[CapturedNature]

Word is that substation and transmission line damaged today is pretty significant. Those poor folks with no heat and power in Tolland, Stafford and Willington . They say may not be fixed till tomorrow am. Tolland High and Middle school both have no power

 

Power came back on about 30 mins ago.  I'm not sure how much of that was storm related but NU needs to get it's act together in terms of communication.  90% of the current power outages in the state were because of it and no one knew anything about the work or the fact that they were close to fixing the problem.  Especially on a night like tonight, they should have done a better job communicating.

 

Currently 17° under clear skies.  Stars were awesome while the power was out...still are, but we loose a few being close to the center of town.

[ice1972]

you wouldn't believe the amount of trucks they have had trimming trees all summer and fall and even now. They hacked up a few on my property. Complete buffoons. Trimming back a few branches spending 19 million dollars and it does nothing. There's a reason we're called Damage In Tolland

It's not just in tolland....the state has been going crazy everywhere....just last week i came up 91 from Meriden to Rt 9 and there were a ton of trees down along both sides....all bundled up waiting to be hauled....so stupid cuz there's no power lines there....seems like random cutting....they did it along 84 in west hartford all the way down to Cheshire too....nuts....not well planned if you ask me...

[HoarfrostHubb]

What a Patriots weather disaster, must be a team of southerners, cold fumblitis

Never seen it with these guys. URI would do better

15.8F/1

[CapturedNature]

Something is severely flawed with that grid.

 

Thank you for saying that.  I have been asking for years why the same systems affect CT more than other states given the same conditions and despite the investigations following Irene and the October storm, no one asked that question.  What is different about our grid?

 

Having said that, this was an outage at a substation and I don't know how that could be weather related.

[Ginx snewx]

Thank you for saying that. I have been asking for years why the same systems affect CT more than other states given the same conditions and despite the investigations following Irene and the October storm, no one asked that question. What is different about our grid?

Having said that, this was an outage at a substation and I don't know how that could be weather related.

mechanical things do break

[weathafella]

Just a Monster Cowboys win.!

Winds still ripping but not quite as strong. 17.9

Congrats. My giants didn't deserve it. Romo was money on that last drive.

Witches titty night.

[CT Rain]

Thank you for saying that.  I have been asking for years why the same systems affect CT more than other states given the same conditions and despite the investigations following Irene and the October storm, no one asked that question.  What is different about our grid?

 

Having said that, this was an outage at a substation and I don't know how that could be weather related.

 

It was a downed transmission line that feeds a substation in Willington. I imagine the transmission line issue was wx related. 

[weathafella]

MET has 66 or BOS Wednesday.

[CT Rain]

28F at BDL is the 8th coldest max temp in November since 1949. A bit more common than once a decade kind of cold. 

[CapturedNature]

mechanical things do break

 

It was a downed transmission line that feeds a substation in Willington. I imagine the transmission line issue was wx related. 

 

I work in IT and understand high availability and that things go down but if I had two data centers that experienced similar volumes and affects and one had racks going down more than the other, I might start looking at why and with the question, what's different. 

 

Thanks Ryan for that info - that's more than CL&P is reporting when I called.  They said it was an issue at the sub-station but they had no information on what the status was.  Power was restored to the sub-station about 30 minutes later but apparently no one knew that it was close to being restored.  In my line of work we communicate during downtimes so we can get the word out what is happening and when we expect service to return so it just seems odd to me.

[CoastalWx]

mechanical things do break

So now 40kt winds bring down main lines. Things do break, but they break frequently under CL&P.

[donsutherland1]

With an 11 pm reading of -15°, Mt. Washington has now set both the lowest maximum and minimum temperature records for November 24. The old lowest maximum was 1° set in 1956. Mt. Washington's high was around -4° (midnight figure). The record low temperature was -13°, also set in 1956. That figure has now been surpassed.

[Ginx snewx]

So now 40kt winds bring down main lines. Things do break, but they break frequently under CL&P.

of course you ignored all the outages in RI and WMA, no agenda

[Ginx snewx]

With an 11 pm reading of -15°, Mt. Washington has now set both the lowest maximum and minimum temperature records for November 24. The old lowest maximum was 1° set in 1956. Mt. Washington's high was around -4° (midnight figure). The record low temperature was -13°, also set in 1956. That figure has now been surpassed.

historical Nov day

[CT Rain]

historical Nov day

 

8 lowest mean temp for November since 1949 at BDL. Once in a decade kind of cold. 

[CoastalWx]

of course you ignored all the outages in RI and WMA, no agenda

A tree limb falling is different. We had them in MA too. It's nothing against the public so not sure why the defense.

[CT Rain]

A tree limb falling is different. We had them in MA too. It's nothing against the public so not sure why the defense.

 

It was a tree that fell on a transmission line - not sure why trees are close enough to transmission lines in the first place. It's one thing if it's a distribution line but transmission lines are another deal. 

[CoastalWx]

It was a tree that fell on a transmission line - not sure why trees are close enough to transmission lines in the first place. It's one thing if it's a distribution line but transmission lines are another deal.

Yeah that shouldn't be. Well good thing Moosup power and light know how to do things right.

[iceman56]

9 degrees here in Bretton Woods, NH with light flurres and about 3" of snow on the ground.     Wind chill -59 on MWN last I looked - I'm about 7 mi. away.

[Clinch Leatherwood]

Something is severely flawed with that grid.

There are places in Bristol county going on 7 hours with no power fwiw

[CoastalWx]

There are places in Bristol county going on 7 hours with no power fwiw

Well there are outages scattered all over and winds may have been a bit stronger there. Definitely was some good wind.