Tropical connection NYC forum area Sun-Wed, 8/2-5/20- Tropical Storm Isaias

[Parsley]

3 minutes ago, psv88 said:

How’d you make out?

6" of rain. Gusts to around 50mph between 1-2 pm.

Some neighbors had flooded basement, luckily not me.

[psv88]

5 minutes ago, tiger_deF said:

Now that Isaias is moving out would you all say this busted under, over, or roughly as predicted?

Over performed 

[NJwx85]

I would say this storm was near the higher end of my expectations. Western sections had more rain than expected but we missed out on the tornado threat. I'm glad about that, but you don't get these setups too often and it would have been really something if it had materialized. 

[justinj]

Lost power at work I’m smithtown 

[psv88]

5 minutes ago, eduggs said:

Two lessons learned (hopefully):

1) 60 mph+ wind gusts are very damaging.

2) Be suspicious of modeled 60 mph+ winds away from immediate shorelines.

Hurricane force gusts in Suffolk. FRG is 6-7 miles inland and gusted to 78

[NJwx85]

Here at work we have five trees down, including two apple trees and a large pine tree.

[Big Jims Videos]

Amazing how many people came up to us between 6 and 9 am and said "fake storm". 

Definitely the strongest sustained winds I've stood in with gusts in the mid 60s.  

What stood out was the difference in temperature.  Once the storm got going it was warm and humid then halfway through the temp dropped 10 degrees in a few minutes and when the winds shifted back to the west it rose again.  

The freakiest thing and I mentioned this on air was the smell of trees and vegetation in the air. Since we were on the beach we didn't have a lot of vegetation around.  But the winds out of the west brought the smell of trees all the way to the beaches, something I smelled only after Irene and Sandy and in tornado damage in Florida.  

[SnowGoose69]

ISP still gusting to 70 mph

[s2sailorlis]

fairfield ct now.  50% of town without power. 

[Nibor]

21 minutes ago, Big Jims Videos said:

Amazing how many people came up to us between 6 and 9 am and said "fake storm". 

People are insufferable. 

[Rittenhouse]

Downtown Brooklyn

 

 

[allgame830]

When do you think the winds will die down? 

[SnowGoose69]

2 minutes ago, allgame830 said:

When do you think the winds will die down? 

Another 2 hours probably.   You have to go south of a PHL/MJX line to see gusts really stop.  The lowering sun angle and less mixing may help somewhat 

[MJO812]

Alot of trees and branches down in my area

 

Wicked storm

 

[uofmiami]

46 minutes ago, tiger_deF said:

Now that Isaias is moving out would you all say this busted under, over, or roughly as predicted?

As predicted. 60-80 mph gusts happened on LI and the damage/outages is what one would expect.  If anything busted it was precip on the East side of storm. 

[psv88]

2 minutes ago, uofmiami said:

As predicted. 60-80 mph gusts happened on LI and the damage/outages is what one would expect.  If anything busted it was precip on the East side of storm. 

Pseg Li hasn’t updated in hours. 

[SnowGoose69]

Just now, psv88 said:

Pseg Li hasn’t updated in hours. 

This always happens.  They change the updates to once per hour because the site gets overloaded otherwise.  My guess is 150-200K are probably out

[Rtd208]

Numerous trees and wires etc. down in my town. Winds gusted above 60 mph for sure.

Picked up 0.89" of rain for the day.

Very impressive storm wind wise.

[Rjay]

4 minutes ago, uofmiami said:

As predicted. 60-80 mph gusts happened on LI and the damage/outages is what one would expect.  If anything busted it was precip on the East side of storm. 

I never thought there would be much on the east side.   Models did a good job.  

[lee59]

Just in my immediate neighborhood, which is not a wooded area but typical suburban neighborhood, I have 9 uprooted trees and numerous large branches down. A couple streets impassable.

[psv88]

10 minutes ago, SnowGoose69 said:

This always happens.  They change the updates to once per hour because the site gets overloaded otherwise.  My guess is 150-200K are probably out

Not even once per hour. Not for 2.5 hours...

[SnowGoose69]

Just now, psv88 said:

Not even once per hour. Not for 2.5 hours...

It was also funkily updating even when it was working.  I know quite a few people who are out and were out at 1-130 and it never showed them having no power even when it was still updating

[tdp146]

1 minute ago, psv88 said:

Not even once per hour. Not for 2.5 hours...

It’s saying 95k out as of 4:46. If that’s correct that’s really good. Sandy was 900k and even March 2010 was 250k. Maybe it is because we have lost all the biggest trees over the years like was said. Maybe the more aggressive tree trimming and “hardening the system” helped?.. but then again that might be giving too much credit to PSEG. 

[uofmiami]

15 minutes ago, Rjay said:

I never thought there would be much on the east side.   Models did a good job.  

Didn’t most have on average .50 for coast?  I only have .13 here in Syosset & .25 in Muttontown for storm. 

[SnowGoose69]

2 minutes ago, tdp146 said:

It’s saying 95k out as of 4:46. If that’s correct that’s really good. Sandy was 900k and even March 2010 was 250k. Maybe it is because we have lost all the biggest trees over the years like was said. Maybe the more aggressive tree trimming and “hardening the system” helped?.. but then again that might be giving too much credit to PSEG. 

I think the majority of the strongest winds were in a corridor of Nassau to West Suffolk.  It seems less outages and damage occurred near the Queens/Nassau border and east of FRG

[Nibor]

 

[jm1220]

1 minute ago, uofmiami said:

Didn’t most have on average .30 to .50 for coast?  I only have .13 here in Syosset & .25 in Muttontown for storm. 

I think even Fay had more rain here. The feeder band was spotty in this area and obviously any steady rain was west of the city. 

[Allsnow]

Thankfully we didn’t loose power here. I’m ready to clean up and get back in the boat!

[uofmiami]

2 minutes ago, SnowGoose69 said:

I think the majority of the strongest winds were in a corridor of Nassau to West Suffolk.  It seems less outages and damage occurred near the Queens/Nassau border and east of FRG

Lots of trees down in Great Neck. Also PT/Wx in Douglaston said trees down on parked cars by him. 

[Allsnow]

It was definitely a bit drier then I expected along the coast. I would have thought feeder band would have produced better rains. The tor threat was largely a bust around the metro as it never materialized. 
 

That being said, the rain was impressive in eastern Pa and the wind did not disappoint us. (Unless you took those wind maps as gospel)