New York state 24-hour precipitation record
Unbelievable! A preliminary all-time New York state 24-hour precipitation record has been broken today at Islip MacArthur Airport with 13.26 inches of rain as of 9:30AM besting the previous record of 11.6 inches at Tannersville, New York over August 27-28, 2011 (Hurricane/Tropical Storm Irene). Here’s the dual-pol storm total estimated rainfall as of 8AM via NWS New York, NY. Remember again…turn around, don’t drown.
Read MoreMore thunderstorms and flooding
I would say “another day, another thunderstorm” but we get multiple events in a matter of hours lately. We’re well past water capacity in a number of areas in the Chautauqua-Allegheny region as flood advisories and flash flood warnings are already posted in places getting even more heavy rain now. Lightning is flashing intermittently as I type this. Stubborn and “stuck” patterns are becoming more and more common thanks to climate change and our jet stream. We need a trough in the west and a ridge in the east soon please. Be safe out there and remember…turn...
Read MoreRTPI gardens as rain arrives
I took this photo a few hours ago at RTPI as clouds moved in, the wind picked up and humidity rose. It’s going to be another wet few days for our region as the insects were already hunkering down for a tough stretch again. We wish we could send it to our friends out west.
Read MoreHailstones
With all this talk about severe weather lately I wanted to show everyone what some real hail looks like. I collected these stones from my yard after a storm in Connecticut (really) in October (really!) a couple of years ago. These are not the uniform, smooth, rounded and typical hailstones we routinely find in severe storms. They look like something that came out of a Midwest or Great Plains monster supercell. The “severe thunderstorm” that dropped these in the middle of a quiet, cool afternoon was technically that but not a drop of rain fell, no lightning was seen and thus no...
Read MoreSevere tornadic thunderstorm: six years later
The best – or worst, however you’d like to classify it – thunderstorm I have ever directly been impacted by and experienced fully happened six years ago today on August 7, 2008. As a weather nerd I will never forget that date. As a human being who values his life I will always remember what it was like to feel a tiny taste of the true power of the atmosphere. I was living in Stratford, Connecticut, a coastal town, and after a relatively typical warm, humid August day we entered the evening as I kept an eye on a large cell moving very slow to the east/southeast further...
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