September Discussion Thread: Bring the frost; kill the bugs.

[ORH_wxman]

4 minutes ago, tamarack said:

Least snowy of my 23 winters here.  In fact, least snowy since 1973-74 in BGR, my 1st full winter in Maine.  And a December that might retain the #1 spot for mild temp for the rest of the century even if warming were to continue apace thru 2100.

Wonder how many sites in NNE have had their first frost. Of the 107 sites with published frost/freeze probabilities, 33 of them have passed their average first frost date based on the 1981-2010 normals.

Median date for 1st frost here is Sept. 19 and we haven't yet dipped below 40.  Maybe we frost week after next - only 2011 made it thru Sept w/o a frost here.

Pretty good chance many in NNE get their first frost between 9/25-9/30 if models are close to correct. 

[bwt3650]

Fall heading in right on schedule.  September to me is a summer month, period.  Whether it's 10 above or 10 below for the month, highs of 70-75-80-85...its all warm to me.  Fall has always been October/November with temps in the 40s-60s, and it looks like that's where we are headed.  Next stop, late Oct first snow watch.

[Baroclinic Zone]

Managed a +6.1F yesterday.  

[Damage In Tolland]

The way all these “brokeback” air masses have been modifying on models as we get close in and then verification.. you’d figure the same will happen late next week. Not to say there’s not a few days of low-mid 70’s and nights in 40’s, but with warm Great Lakes acting as modifiers.. tread on any bitter  shots with caution 

[powderfreak]

Yeah I would definitely hedge against any bitter cold shots too, it is only September.

[weatherwiz]

4 hours ago, kdxken said:

Enjoy the swan song.

High pressure then establishes itself over
Southern New England Sunday into midweek, with above normal
temperatures, low humidity and dry weather. A cold frontal
passage around Wednesday night or Thursday ushers in a cooler
autumn-like air mass with below normal temperatures for late
next week into early next weekend.

Definitely going to be the first "cool blast" of the season but I'm not so sure we really see "below-normal" temperatures during that period...I think we'll see temperatures closer to avg...some areas may come out a tick below an some probably a tick above 

[CoastalWx]

Bitter?  

[weatherwiz]

I know fall is coming...

I saw a wolf spider on my bathroom floor this morning. I was standing drying off and I saw something crawling at the bottom of the sink...stupid wolf spider. Even without my glasses I could see it. I was scared because it was only a few feet in front of me so while I was doing my hair I was keeping a close eye on it...which was tough b/c I didn't have my glasses on. In the three seconds I looked at the mirror to get the cute styling going, I looked down...done. I pick up a piece of clothing that I wore yesterday that was on the floor and shook it...IT RAN INTO MY CLOTHES. Not sure if I killed it but there is a little portable heater thing in the bathroom...I picked it up and dropped it on the spider...hopefully the leg of the heater got the spider but I did not see it crawl anywhere after that. WOLF SPIDERS DON'T BELONG IN THE HOUSE

[powderfreak]

First blue spec on the GFS at 180 hours out in NW ME.  

[weathafella]

May have to end my shorts season after the upcoming week-at least as a 100% default.

[HIPPYVALLEY]

17 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

First blue spec on the GFS at 180 hours out in NW ME.  

Mangled flakes on the deck of the abandoned gondola lodge on top of Sugarloaf.

[HIPPYVALLEY]

18 minutes ago, weathafella said:

May have to end my shorts season after the upcoming week-at least as a 100% default.

I usually make it until mid October with the daily shorts.

[dryslot]

64/53, Men in suits out everywhere.

[Baroclinic Zone]

Just now, dryslot said:

64/53, Men in suits out everywhere.

Tack on 2F and 11F and that's where I'm at.  Still gross out.

[kdxken]

1 hour ago, Damage In Tolland said:

The way all these “brokeback” air masses have been modifying on models as we get close in and then verification.. you’d figure the same will happen late next week. Not to say there’s not a few days of low-mid 70’s and nights in 40’s, but with warm Great Lakes acting as modifiers.. tread on any bitter  shots with caution 

Likely the Great lakes above normal sst's will keep us above freezing through most of the winter.

[WeatherWilly]

This is me when people tell me Fall weather is coming

 

 

 

 

[Typhoon Tip]

1 hour ago, weatherwiz said:

Definitely going to be the first "cool blast" of the season but I'm not so sure we really see "below-normal" temperatures during that period...I think we'll see temperatures closer to avg...some areas may come out a tick below an some probably a tick above 

... If it happens ?

Obviously that question is built in and you likely intend for that - just sayn'

But, we have been dealing with late mid range amplitude biases for a month in model behavior... Ridging and troughing for that matter.  If/when factoring in, I wouldn't be surprised if the "cool" ends up being more "shot across the bow"

And no .. this now is getting "synoptically lucky" with BD pull ins off the Labrador ...that doesn't count as the latter.  We got this all July and get this on the surface of the sun in this shit hole geology

[mreaves]

41 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

First blue spec on the GFS at 180 hours out in NW ME.  

Chase up to Bosebuck?

[dryslot]

9 minutes ago, Baroclinic Zone said:

Tack on 2F and 11F and that's where I'm at.  Still gross out.

Those 60's dews you can keep.

[Torch Tiger]

1 hour ago, Damage In Tolland said:

The way all these “brokeback” air masses have been modifying on models as we get close in and then verification.. you’d figure the same will happen late next week. Not to say there’s not a few days of low-mid 70’s and nights in 40’s, but with warm Great Lakes acting as modifiers.. tread on any bitter  shots with caution 

NNE will have a few bitterly cool mornings, but nothing in the cards for us

[dryslot]

2 minutes ago, mreaves said:

Chase up to Bosebuck?

Close to Pittsburgh as well on that map, Probably need a side by side to get there.

[tamarack]

4 minutes ago, mreaves said:

Chase up to Bosebuck?

Parmachenee FTW.

[weatherwiz]

5 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

... If it happens ?

Obviously that question is built in and you likely intend for that - just sayn'

But, we have been dealing with late mid range amplitude biases for a month in model behavior... Ridging and troughing for that matter.  If/when factoring in, I wouldn't be surprised if the "cool" ends up being more "shot across the bow"

And no .. this now is getting "synoptically lucky" with BD pull ins off the Labrador ...that doesn't count as the latter.  We got this all July and get this on the surface of the sun in this shit hole geology

Also depends on what we're defining "cool blast" as but you make a strong point. Just looking at 850-temperature anomalies, they don't really deviate much from the "average" behind the cold front. In this warming state of climate if we're going to see below-average temperatures...like solidly below, I'd like to see a rather anomalously cold llvl airmass. Also we should note...the extent of the air behind it is really dependent on how deep that low becomes near Hudson Bay. But given what the airmass looks like now...diurnal heating will likely somehow find a way to get most places a few ticks above-average. 

This cool blast though will likely be better defined regarding overnight temps than daytime temps. 

[CoastalWx]

13 minutes ago, WeatherWilly said:

This is me when people tell me Fall weather is coming

 

 

 

 

It’s coming for a period anyways. Wet your Willy to that.

[weatherwiz]

5 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

It’s coming for a period anyways. Wet your Willy to that.

don't wet it too much...might freeze 

[Typhoon Tip]

2 hours ago, ORH_wxman said:

Pretty good chance many in NNE get their first frost between 9/25-9/30 if models are close to correct. 

Isn't that some 2-weeks behind schedule ?   Poking around the web for 'average date of first -' it's hard to tell though.  Even sciency URL stops tend to white-wash ( no pun intended ) around a smear of times frames related to regions.  I guess there's no way to be that discrete about the when-frost metric - ha!

But it seems most agree, the midriff elevations of the Green/Whites back through the Adiron's, and up amid the NW chunk of Maine in general, are espoused as September 15...

With the remainder of "New England Oct 1,"  I am not a big fan of couching Willmantic CT with Manchester NH but it is what it is...

[Typhoon Tip]

24 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

Also depends on what we're defining "cool blast" as but you make a strong point. Just looking at 850-temperature anomalies, they don't really deviate much from the "average" behind the cold front. In this warming state of climate if we're going to see below-average temperatures...like solidly below, I'd like to see a rather anomalously cold llvl airmass. Also we should note...the extent of the air behind it is really dependent on how deep that low becomes near Hudson Bay. But given what the airmass looks like now...diurnal heating will likely somehow find a way to get most places a few ticks above-average. 

This cool blast though will likely be better defined regarding overnight temps than daytime temps. 

Not a bad take there, no -

heh, in fact, it's almost like, 'well yeah'

It sort of goes along with that "flop direction" aspect I was musing about the other day - and have since it become more evidenced to be warmer, dating a few years now.  

It's interesting though, because the talking point was surrounding the tendency for modeled 'marginal' snow/rain events to tend verify more liquid rather than frozen/freezing, when some 20 years ago they tended to verify the latter. 

Maybe that tendency should be not just observable in model verification vs event profile/characters with ptype, but noticeable in the general bath of temperature management.   Honestly, as obvious as that that seems now that I think about it, I haven't actually looked for that.   Maybe when modeling a 'less than certain' cool versus neutral air mass, the verification tendency will 'flop' toward more neutral.

But I guess in stricter terms, if that were/is the case ...neutral impies climo, and it would be the "first" september air mass, either way, that wasn't bootlegged off of Labrador rectal spew -

[powderfreak]

22 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

Isn't that some 2-weeks behind schedule ?   Poking around the web for 'average date of first -' it's hard to tell though.  Even sciency URL stops tend to white-wash ( no pun intended ) around a smear of times frames related to regions.  I guess there's no way to be that discrete about the when-frost metric - ha!

But it seems most agree, the midriff elevations of the Green/Whites back through the Adiron's, and up amid the NW chunk of Maine in general, are espoused as September 15...

With the remainder of "New England Oct 1,"  I am not a big fan of couching Willmantic CT with Manchester NH but it is what it is...

Adirondacks…

 

NE Kingdom of VT…

 

Central VT…

[tamarack]

Hope this year isn't like 1983 in Fort Kent - got nearly 2 weeks into Sept without going below 40 then pow! 25° on 9/14.  (Forecast had been u30s.)  Could've played bocce with the green tomatoes.  (Then had measurable snow in 8 different months, my 61" snow stake was overtopped and had 5,715 SDDs, more than 1,300 above 2nd place.)

[weathafella]

49 minutes ago, tamarack said:

Parmachenee FTW.

I admit to googling that location...