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Flood warning on the Kennebec

 

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WGUS41 KGYX 211410
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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY, MAINE
1010 AM EDT TUE APR 21 2015

...The National Weather Service in Gray has issued a flood warning for the
following rivers in Maine

  Kennebec River At Skowhegan affecting Somerset County
  Kennebec River At North Sidney affecting Kennebec County
  Kennebec River At Augusta affecting Kennebec County

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Do not drive through flooded areas, it is impossible to know if the road is safe
for travel. Turn around, dont drown!

Stay tuned to developments by listening to NOAA weather radio...or your favorite
local media outlet.
 

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Haha similar to the UP of Michigan.

 

It only further supports my claim that BTV's recent warmth has been enhanced by some local changes in landuse or instrumentation placement...or both.

 

I remember a debate about this a while back...but this winter is about as obvious as ever. I mean, even a warm-biased BDL sensor was able to generate record cold this winter.

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Is there a meteorological reason for that? There are a lot of 1s and 2s in the northern tier up through NH and ME.

EDIT: I see Will just gave his best guess on answering this.

 

 

Yeah my guess is local changes in land use...or if they moved the sensor. The ASOS sites do get moved sometimes to a different location on the airfield. This could definitely affect min temps a lot.

 

There was a case at SEA where they built a new runway and they had to rearrange the land there. When they were done, their temps had a big spike compared to before the construction. These cases are fairly rare, but they do happen.

 

I'm not sure what's changed at BTV...someone would have to do a thorough investigation to account for all the variables. But my best guess is something localized there since it is so different from all the other stations.

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LOL...look how much BTV sticks out like a sore thumb for any place within 400 miles of them.

 

I'll take it. 

 

It does have a longer period of record than any other in the BTV CWA (by quite a bit) so that could be part of it at least locally. 

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Yeah my guess is local changes in land use...or if they moved the sensor. The ASOS sites do get moved sometimes to a different location on the airfield. This could definitely affect min temps a lot.

 

There was a case at SEA where they built a new runway and they had to rearrange the land there. When they were done, their temps had a big spike compared to before the construction. These cases are fairly rare, but they do happen.

 

I'm not sure what's changed at BTV...someone would have to do a thorough investigation to account for all the variables. But my best guess is something localized there since it is so different from all the other stations.

 

It's present location should actually be the coldest of its locations! It used to be down at UVM in Burlington itself, now its farther away from the waterfront!

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It only further supports my claim that BTV's recent warmth has been enhanced by some local changes in landuse or instrumentation placement...or both.

I remember a debate about this a while back...but this winter is about as obvious as ever. I mean, even a warm-biased BDL sensor was able to generate record cold this winter.

Yeah something is going on there.

It's gotta be the overnight lows. The wind there never goes calm. Like ever. As soon as you go east into the mountains and the sites that radiate well and it's coldest start to the year ever.

In the summer BTV can actually have a night with a low near 80F with 20kts out of the south...the stuff Blizz dreams about at BDL. Where it's 80/73 at 2am while MPV/MVL are 67/67.

I should see what BTV WFO thinks about it.

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