TalcottWx Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 40 minutes ago, CoastalWx said: Early April event was taking off my roof. But this was good. At least locally. Was convective so some areas did well and others no. Last October was way worse. We moved our kids from their bedrooms. Sounds like PYM county did well. Maybe if was April. I'm awful with memory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TalcottWx Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 5 minutes ago, CoastalWx said: But meh!! Mehminster! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan11295 Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 I agree the this event was underwhelming ORH east in interior Mass pretty much but 50 mph gusts is what guidance was showing for this area. But that is fine with me. With still 3.5M customers without power on the eastern seaboard some people are going to be without it for a while. Certainly would not call this event a bust for New England as whole. People have to remember some were expecting this to degenerate into a naked swirl off Florida and it turned into a Cat 1 NC landfall and a bit of a mess for the northeast corridor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 Kinda lame at how easy it is to lose power up here with 40mph+ winds. 0.23” rain. I’d rather have what upstate ny had. Inches of rain and heavy electricity. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 2 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said: In summer? When was that? Did I write summer? What does the the date have anything to do with what the outcome is? An hour of gusty winds is nothing extraordinary here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 Mega impressed by this Danielson ASOS lies in a valley surrounded by trees. About 7 miles from me Windham County... 1 NW Danielson 56 MPH 0404 PM 08/04 AWOS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mips Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 Power lost for 2-3 minutes The grid might be stronger out here (?) than it was when I lived in North Andover MA where the power would go for a day during every other summer thunderstorm. Wind is still blowing, but it has never gotten as strong as April storms were. Intermitent rain drops that have you wondering whether it was rain or bird spit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorEastermass128 Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 Nothing here. Just a pleasant breeze cooling the house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StormSurge Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 I spoke too soon. Pretty wild couple of hours from 4 to 6. Power is back, ready for the next one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torch Tiger Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 maybe a 45-50mph gust. One lone gust Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 Looks like the Mount Washington peak wind in the past two hours has been 107kts/123mph! That's impressive for summer up there. KMWN 042248Z 12068G85KT 1/16SM SHRA FG VV001 13/13 RMK PK WND 120107/09 The current observation of 79G96 is pretty solid, lol. KMWN 042348Z 13079G96KT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 Just now, Baroclinic Zone said: Did I write summer? What does the the date have anything to do with what the outcome is? An hour of gusty winds is nothing extraordinary here. Oh didn’t realize you only had an hour of meh winds. Seems AEMATT didn’t get hit this time, models showed it though. Summer winds are a different animal for damage at 60 mph, plus they sound cool with leaves and all but still nothing beats the howls of a NW nighttime deep winter blow 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 Just now, Ginx snewx said: Mega impressed by this Danielson ASOS lies in a valley surrounded by trees. About 7 miles from me Windham County... 1 NW Danielson 56 MPH 0404 PM 08/04 AWOS Yeah that's solid for an open air field even in a low elevation. Being in a forested neighborhood would probably slow it down but tree top gusts were probably 50-60mph fairly widespread in E.CT it seems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxeyeNH Posted August 5, 2020 Author Share Posted August 5, 2020 Just checked again about our power company NH Electric Coop. Of 88,000 customers 36% do not have power. So it might be a long wait for me. Just took a quick ride down my hill to Newfound Lake level. Quite a difference in the amount of branches and debris up here verses 500 feet below. Winds are calming down now. Interestingly I had several gusts to 40mph but peak gust of only 42mph so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 Just now, Ginx snewx said: Oh didn’t realize you only had an hour of meh winds. Seems AEMATT didn’t get hit this time, models showed it though. Summer winds are a different animal for damage at 60 mph, plus they sound cool with leaves and all but still nothing beats the howls of a NW nighttime deep winter blow Peak gusts were from 4-5 pm. 60mph would have been a whole different animal for sure but it takes a unique storm to get that here. Jan 2005 blizzard was one of them. Peak gust was 50 here. Most gusts were 30-40mph. Rained for about 15min. 0.14”. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 1 minute ago, powderfreak said: Yeah that's solid for an open air field even in a low elevation. Being in a forested neighborhood would probably slow it down but tree top gusts were probably 50-60mph fairly widespread in E.CT it seems. My experience is the most damage is on the sides of hills around 500 ft, of course that’s where I am. Lol but over the years the greatest damage around here corresponds with 400 to 600 feet especially when wind is from the se. Free ride off the ocean piles up against the sides of the hills like a wave hitting a sand castle. Just my observation. Seeing that pit hit 58 and PVD 60 tells me we probably hit 60 plus. Seemed like it judging by tree motion and bending. Glad we were dry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 What was really insane and everyone had to see it was the cloud speed with that LLJ when the sun came out. I have video but it doesn’t do it justice 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 Just now, Ginx snewx said: My experience is the most damage is on the sides of hills around 500 ft, of course that’s where I am. Lol but over the years the greatest damage around here corresponds with 400 to 600 feet especially when wind is from the se. Free ride off the ocean piles up against the sides of the hills like a wave hitting a sand castle. Just my observation. Seeing that pit hit 58 and PVD 60 tells me we probably hit 60 plus. Seemed like it judging by tree motion and bending. Glad we were dry Sweet micro-scale observations man. I love that stuff. In the end the actual gusts doesn't matter, 54 or 62 or whatever. Once over 50mph its all strong wind. Glad you guys got a sweet wind storm out of it. Do you have power? My cousin on Long Island just showed me his estimate for restoring power by PSEG is 1:30pm on August 7th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianW Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 CONNECTICUT ...FAIRFIELD COUNTY... BRIDGEPORT 68 330 PM 8/04 NOS-NWLON GREENWICH 67 230 PM 8/04 CWOP BRIDGEPORT AIRPORT 62 233 PM 8/04 ASOS BRIDGEPORT 55 215 PM 8/04 CWOP DANBURY AIRPORT 49 221 PM 8/04 ASOS ...MIDDLESEX COUNTY... 2 WSW CHESTER 52 435 PM 8/04 AWOS DURHAM 40 237 PM 8/04 CWOP ...NEW HAVEN COUNTY... LIGHTHOUSE POINT 66 328 PM 8/04 WXFLOW BETHANY 64 208 PM 8/04 CWOP WATERBURY AIRPORT 60 158 PM 8/04 AWOS NEW HAVEN AIRPORT 56 353 PM 8/04 ASOS MERIDEN AIRPORT 54 356 PM 8/04 ASOS EAST HAVEN 44 145 PM 8/04 CWOP NEW HAVEN 43 230 PM 8/04 CWOP ...NEW LONDON COUNTY... GROTON AIRPORT 58 537 PM 8/04 ASOS NEW LONDON; CT 52 530 PM 8/04 NOS-NWLON NEW LONDON 40 413 PM 8/04 CWOP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdxken Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 1 hour ago, Damage In Tolland said: Lord have mercy. Ripped 65+ for about 90 mins in pulses. Worse than Irene here Wow! you must be up really really high. STEM topped out at 38mph https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KCTTOLLA31?cm_ven=localwx_pwsdash 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 Had a gust to 37 mph, Lights flickered but still on so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 Just passed 2.00” rain, about what models showed. It’s nothing excessive but it has been a much better soaker than I expected in terms of lacking runoff. It’s been raining since 7am, just a steady drenching rain, heavier at times. The heavier echoes around here were moving so fast they never really seemed to sit over one spot for long, keeping the flood threat down in the mountains and allowing vegetation to soak it up. If you are going to see 1-4” of rain across the BTV CWA, generally this was the way to do it for a soaking that isn’t all runoff and flash flood. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 Also relatively cool, raw day but with dews. 66/65 currently. High of 68F. First max in the 60s in a long time. Inside temperature is 66F just from open doors, coolest it’s been in a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
backedgeapproaching Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 28 minutes ago, dendrite said: Kinda lame at how easy it is to lose power up here with 40mph+ winds. 0.23” rain. I’d rather have what upstate ny had. Inches of rain and heavy electricity. I'm in that camp. Storm played best I could asked for here- --2-3" of rain, occasional gust, but almost no damage and all trees are upright and lights still on. Somewhat related, we had power crews from out of state limbing up trees over power lines for like 4-6 weeks this summer throughout whole town, helpfully that helps moving forward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monadnocks Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 We've got our power back! Mind you, it was just after we refilled the generator. And it might be good that we refilled it; we just had a pretty good gust blow through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lava Rock Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 Gust to 33. 0.61" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OceanStWx Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 30 minutes ago, powderfreak said: Looks like the Mount Washington peak wind in the past two hours has been 107kts/123mph! That's impressive for summer up there. KMWN 042248Z 12068G85KT 1/16SM SHRA FG VV001 13/13 RMK PK WND 120107/09 The current observation of 79G96 is pretty solid, lol. KMWN 042348Z 13079G96KT They are calling their obs in now (internet is down in the valley) but they said 128 knots peak gust. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 Meh, Lets get to 174 kts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 20 minutes ago, powderfreak said: Sweet micro-scale observations man. I love that stuff. In the end the actual gusts doesn't matter, 54 or 62 or whatever. Once over 50mph its all strong wind. Glad you guys got a sweet wind storm out of it. Do you have power? My cousin on Long Island just showed me his estimate for restoring power by PSEG is 1:30pm on August 7th. No genny humming, looks like a long one, ugh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 7 minutes ago, OceanStWx said: They are calling their obs in now (internet is down in the valley) but they said 128 knots peak gust. They keep any type of summer wind records up there? Pushing 150mph is pretty sweet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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