[wavehunter007]

Originally Posted by 7 Wishes

This from OKX's Facebook site today:

Interesting write - up on Hurricane Carol.


To this day if you talk to many of the old timers on the eastern end of Long Island and coastal eastern Connecticut/Rhode island - they will tell you that Carol was every bit as bad as the Great 1938 Hurricane on September 21st.

Carol still holds the record of producing the highest wind gust ever recorded at an official NWS site on the East Coast (north of Florida) at/near sea level - 135 MPH Block Island, Rhode Island.

[7 Wishes]

Originally Posted by wavehunter007

Interesting write - up on Hurricane Carol.


To this day if you talk to many of the old timers on the eastern end of Long Island and coastal eastern Connecticut/Rhode island - they will tell you that Carol was every bit as bad as the Great 1938 Hurricane on September 21st.

Carol still holds the record of producing the highest wind gust ever recorded at an official NWS site on the East Coast (north of Florida) at/near sea level - 135 MPH Block Island, Rhode Island.

Though the 1938 hurricane produced an incredible 186 mph wind gust at Blue Hills observatory just outside of Boston (however, that is not at/near sea level, though it is right near the coast):

Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Another interesting note about Carol is that Edna struck just east of the same area only 12 days later.....

[jp03]

Not a very good forecast today.. In fact last 2 days rain forecast a bit overblown for most of the area..dont you think?

[7 Wishes]

Originally Posted by jp03

Not a very good forecast today.. In fact last 2 days rain forecast a bit overblown for most of the area..dont you think?

Actually they predicted "scattered" and that's pretty much what it was. In terms of CT, looking at the moving maps, Litchfield County got quite a few today. And there was one nice sized one mid-afternoon in the Greenwich-Stamford area.

[jp03]

Originally Posted by 7 Wishes

Actually they predicted "scattered" and that's pretty much what it was. In terms of CT, looking at the moving maps, Litchfield County got quite a few today. And there was one nice sized one mid-afternoon in the Greenwich-Stamford area.

Said 50 percent (NWS and weather channel).... i dont think we saw anywhere near 50 percent coverage..

That said, tomorrow will tell the story.coverage should be greater.

[htfdcolt]

Originally Posted by jp03

Not a very good forecast today.. In fact last 2 days rain forecast a bit overblown for most of the area..dont you think?

Not from my standpoint...yesterday was a TOTAL washout here in the Farmington Valley area.

[jp03]

Originally Posted by htfdcolt

Not from my standpoint...yesterday was a TOTAL washout here in the Farmington Valley area.

Sure..but that and Litchfield CT were the only places to see rain really. I will take it back. Northern Fairfield saw not a drop but thats not out of ordinary with a 50 percent chance..

[clutchrider]

Today we got a nice storm in Wallingford. Lasted a good half hour plus and was rumbling with downpours. Parts of North Haven even lost power. But the sticky air is what's killing me. I went from windows open with the fan on and now I'm back with A/C like it's July all over again.

[wavehunter007]

Originally Posted by 7 Wishes

Though the 1938 hurricane produced an incredible 186 mph wind gust at Blue Hills observatory just outside of Boston (however, that is not at/near sea level, though it is right near the coast):

Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Another interesting note about Carol is that Edna struck just east of the same area only 12 days later.....

Yes, over the years that 186 mph wind was often said to be one of the strongest wind gusts in a tropical cyclone ever measured in the USA or the Caribbean. Of course it changes things that it was recorded at 700 feet in the air. I thought I read the sea level corrected speed would be 140 mph - still quite strong. Block Island also had a gust of 133- mph in Donna in 1960....and the 1944 Hurricane had a sea level gust of 150-mph at Cape Henry, VA, though there is some who think it was an error.

No doubt , Carol was a monster of a Hurricane. In terms of storm surges, only Hugo (1989), the 1938 Hurricane, and Hazel (1954), are known to have produced a higher storm surge on the East Coast since 1900 (above Florida).

[Cambium]

Yeah, kinda bummed didn't see a drop yesterday after 2 cells were moving in this direction. The storms were pulsing yesterday all day long. Meaning they would build up within 1 hour, drop rain and thunder in one area, then pulse back down and weaken and disappear.

Dewpoints VERY tropical in the mid 70s! This morning at 71°. MUGGY!

Moving on to later this week.. Here's what NWS Boston has to say. It will feel very nice.

422 AM EDT MON SEP 2 2013

WEDNESDAY INTO THURSDAY...
COLD FRONT WILL BE WELL OFFSHORE BY WEDNESDAY ALLOWING FOR LARGE
SCALE SUBSIDENCE. A WEAK SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE WILL TRY TO PUSH
INTO THE REGION ALLOWING FOR DRY WEATHER AND COOLER DEWPOINTS FOR
WEDNESDAY. THIS SHOULD MAKE UP FOR THE DAMP HOLIDAY WEEKEND. THE
FIRST CANADIAN COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH LATE WEDNESDAY INTO
THURSDAY AS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE PUSHES THROUGH THE LONG
WAVE TROUGH. A LOT OF DRY AIR IS IN PLACE ACROSS THE REGION SO
HAVE LOW CONFIDENCE IF ANY PRECIPITATION WILL OCCUR AS GFS
ENSEMBLES HAVE LITTLE TO NO QPF. THEREFORE KEPT LOW POP FORECAST
AND MENTIONED ONLY ISOLATED SHOWERS AT BEST. COOLER AIRMASS BEHIND
THE FRONT WILL DROP TEMPS TO THE MID 40S TO LOW 50S...DEF A FALL
LIKE AIRMASS.


FRIDAY INTO THE WEEKEND...
TEMPERATURES WILL MODERATE BACK ON FRIDAY AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS
ACROSS THE REGION. SECOND CANADIAN FRONT WILL PUSH THROUGH THE
REGION OVER THE WEEKEND. TRENDED TOWARDS THE MORE AMPLIFIED
GFS...WITH THE FRONTAL PASSAGE ON SUNDAY. HOWEVER BECAUSE OF
UNCERTAINTY KEPT THE MENTION FOR SATURDAY AS WELL. REGARDLESS
EXPECT ANOTHER FALL LIKE COOL DOWN BEHIND THE FRONT.