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Damage In Tolland

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NYC/Long Island haven't seen a nor'easter produce major coastal flooding AND heavy snow (1 foot+) in a long, long time. The last one may have been Feb 4-7, 1920.

NYC/LI were spared major flooding in the blizzard of '78 because it bombed ESE of LI, and winds were mainly from the NNE and N. The March 1993 storm had very strong ENE winds but the storm moved too fast to allow the water to really pile up in LI Sound.

In my experience, in order to produce major coastal flooding in NYC and LI, the wind direction generally needs to be ENE or E.

1978 produced severe coastal flooding in many places on LIS. Was some of the worst (outside of 92) in many locations.

92 would have done it had it been just a hair colder.

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I hate to ask the how much in my backyard question but you guys are all down south and I can't see the Euro maps. Dentrite said maybe .10" in Lebanon and someone said 12" in MHT. Does the QPF get up to the White Mountains for the ski areas. Im in Ply NH and just reading between the lines maybe .25" here? If anyone that has the QPF maps I would really appreciate if you could look for our area. Thanks Gene

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I would say you all better hope this occludes further north than Norfolk because I can't recall when SNE got in the bulls eye for snowfall with a low cutting off that far south. It seems like some lucky quirk that the ECM manages to pull heavy snow that far north of the low. I think you need this thing up to at least DE Bay.....

Let's have it stall south of LI. That'll work.

Congrats to most of you!

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Eastern Mass will get crushed by this beast....I live 400 feet from the Atlantic side of Hull Mass..We had historical flooding here in Hull with the bliz of 78 along with 2feet of snow...drifitng...I see Taunton pulling out all the stops on this by tomorrow morning....gotta prepare the public for this... would love to see the qpf on this for eastern mass...gonna be huge! also the ocean is rather high right now with current minor to even moderate coastal flooding that occured yesterday in Scituate Mass... serious stuff folks...

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1978 produced severe coastal flooding in many places on LIS. Was some of the worst (outside of 92) in many locations.

92 would have done it had it been just a hair colder.

The best tide records in CT are at the Stamford Hurricane Barrier.

1992 nor'easter - 10.1'

1978 blizzard - 9.8' (4th highest tide in almost 100 years)

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I hate to ask the how much in my backyard question but you guys are all down south and I can't see the Euro maps. Dentrite said maybe .10" in Lebanon and someone said 12" in MHT. Does the QPF get up to the White Mountains for the ski areas. Im in Ply NH and just reading between the lines maybe .25" here? If anyone that has the QPF maps I would really appreciate if you could look for our area. Thanks Gene

I'd say that's about right Gene.
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Less likely, but it could get pulled in too fast and give us driving pingers.

I'm pretty optimistic, but this could still slide SE...even if it phases. I think its silly for people to be almost guaranteeing that we get crushed at this time range...thats all.

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