Monitoring a potential important TV to East Coastal storm: Jan 17

[ariof]

7 minutes ago, CT Rain said:

It's really an ISO issue since Eversource is out of the generation business.

They are extremely worried about what will happen if we get a prolonged cold snap - we actually had a call with them earlier this week about it. 

Since a lot of it is a nat gas issue they should probably be everywhere they can telling people that if it gets real cold to turn the heat down to 60. No need to bust pipes, but if enough people went from 68 to 60 it would save a good deal of gas which could be put back into the electricity system. Doubt they'll try that, though. Now, if a few prissy folks on the Cape and Vineyard hadn't been tilting at windmills for the last two decades, we'd have a lot of extra generation power offshore for much of the cold events.

[HoarfrostHubb]

11 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

 

I am assuming some of that is wasted as sleet

[Ginx snewx]

1 minute ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

I am assuming some of that is wasted as sleet

Who knows 18z has limited data

[mreaves]

3 hours ago, Hoth said:

I remember feeling intensely jealous of Albany for much of my childhood, so they must’ve done well in the 90s. 

I don’t recall ever hearing someone say they were jealous of Albany. 

[HIPPYVALLEY]

2 minutes ago, mreaves said:

I don’t recall ever hearing someone say they were jealous of Albany. 

Or Bennington or Brattleboro or Keene or Plymouth

[HoarfrostHubb]

4 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

Or Bennington or Brattleboro or Keene or Plymouth

I used to think Keene was a snowy spot.  Boy was I wrong 

[SeanInWayland]

5 minutes ago, mreaves said:

I don’t recall ever hearing someone say they were jealous of Albany. 

Speaking as someone who grew up there, and now lives in Boston, it's actually a pretty nice place. Unless you want to live in a really big city like NYC, it's got almost everything you would want in terms of culture and access.

And as for the snow, I always found that the area that got the least snow was NE of Albany, say between Hoosick Falls and Greenwich. They often got shadowed something fierce.

[mreaves]

Just now, SeanInWayland said:

Speaking as someone who grew up there, and now lives in Boston, it's actually a pretty nice place. Unless you want to live in a really big city like NYC, it's got almost everything you would want in terms of culture and access.

And as for the snow, I always found that the area that got the least snow was NE of Albany, say between Hoosick Falls and Greenwich. They often got shadowed something fierce.

I was just kidding. I’ve haven’t spent a lot of time there. Now Albany, GA I have more experience with and believe me, nobody has ever been jealous of that place. 

[Sn0waddict]

2 hours ago, Amped said:

That looks nasty.  Probably widespread power outages again for CT. This time MA and RI don't miss out.

Those are always overdone. And no leaves on trees helps. 

[ORH_wxman]

19 minutes ago, mreaves said:

I don’t recall ever hearing someone say they were jealous of Albany. 

Before I knew snow climo I used to always think they got way more than ORH did. I didn’t start figuring it out until maybe when I was about 13 or 14.  I had thought the same thing for Springfield too but the December 1992 and March 1993 storms both made me figure it out…but back then prior to internet, I hadnt realized Albany got screwed in Dec 1992. I didn’t read about it until a few years later. 
 

 

[eduggs]

18 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

I used to think Keene was a snowy spot.  Boy was I wrong 

When you're near the coast, a lot of the TV weather snow maps give the impression that whatever city is far off to the NW frequently gets the most snow.

[Baroclinic Zone]

34 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

@RUNNAWAYICEBERG From Stapleton to me to you bro 

 

Dig into some old school blues if you like this.

[eduggs]

19 minutes ago, SeanInWayland said:

And as for the snow, I always found that the area that got the least snow was NE of Albany, say between Hoosick Falls and Greenwich. They often got shadowed something fierce.

Spot on. Horrible shadowing off Mt. Equinox and the southern Greens. Totally different story 10 miles south of Hoosick Falls. Lots of relatively unknown microclimates.

[HIPPYVALLEY]

3 minutes ago, Baroclinic Zone said:

Dig into some old school blues if you like this.

Buddy Guy, Albert King, Otis Rush for starters. 

[backedgeapproaching]

24 minutes ago, SeanInWayland said:

Speaking as someone who grew up there, and now lives in Boston, it's actually a pretty nice place. Unless you want to live in a really big city like NYC, it's got almost everything you would want in terms of culture and access.

And as for the snow, I always found that the area that got the least snow was NE of Albany, say between Hoosick Falls and Greenwich. They often got shadowed something fierce.

Hoosick Falls one of the worst snow spots around..sneaky awful. 

[SeanInWayland]

2 minutes ago, backedgeapproaching said:

Hoosick Falls one of the worst snow spots around..sneaky awful. 

I think I really became aware of it in 1977-1978 (my last year in HS). We had a bunch of Noreasters that year and it seemed like every single time Albany got 10-12", and Hoosick Falls got like 3-5".

[Damage In Tolland]

12 minutes ago, Baroclinic Zone said:

Dig into some old school blues if you like this.

Very reminiscent of Stevie Ray Vaughn 

[Torch Tiger]

7 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

Buddy Guy, Albert King, Otis Rush for starters. 

The video was a pretty stiff blues shuffle, very "white" lol

[Damage In Tolland]

5 minutes ago, Torch Tiger said:

The video was a pretty stiff blues shuffle, very "white" lol

But man.. does that song jam.. you can’t help but Bob your head and jam 

[Torch Tiger]

2 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

But man.. does that song jam.. you can’t help but Bob your head and jam 

 

[dryslot]

Standards have got real low when a storm thread turns into a banter one.

 

[Damage In Tolland]

8 minutes ago, Torch Tiger said:

 

Even Forky who listens to The Human League , George Michael , REM, and the B- 52’s and songs like Rock Lobster .. likes this stuff. Fantastic 

[HIPPYVALLEY]

2 minutes ago, dryslot said:

Standards have got real low when a storm thread turns into a banter one.

 

Still a while before 0z runs rolling.

 

[WinterWolf]

3 minutes ago, dryslot said:

Standards have got real low when a storm thread turns into a banter one.

 

Right? Holy smokes this storm blows and it’s not gonna be here for another 2.5 days. What a shit show. 

[dryslot]

1 minute ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

Still a while before 0z runs rolling.

 

If the Nam doesn't count then yes.

[HIPPYVALLEY]

Just now, WinterWolf said:

Right? Holy smokes this storm blows and it’s not gonna be here for another 2.5 days. What a shit show. 

Oh, it’s definitely going to blow on the coast.  40-50mph I would imagine. 

[HIPPYVALLEY]

1 minute ago, dryslot said:

If the Nam doesn't count then yes.

I would say it can’t get much worse on the NAM but we still need to get the mix line up to Phin. 

[Greg]

13 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

I would say it can’t get much worse on the NAM but we still need to get the mix line up to Phin. 

Based on the way this thing is looking, even poor Phin won't be all snow. I've seen something like this before.

[dryslot]

2 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

I would say it can’t get much worse on the NAM but we still need to get the mix line up to Phin. 

Why? it wasn't already?

[ariof]

53 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

I used to think Keene was a snowy spot.  Boy was I wrong 

I've made the drive over 101 from Peterborough to Keene many times. Often green grass on either side and a foot of snow up the hill. The microclimates of 1000' of elevation in southern/central New England are very real. There's also the northwest-of-the-Whites snow hole. It's colder there, but anything with an easterly fetch gets dried up.