[KEVIN_224]

Scattered power outages? HA! It only set the current state record for power outages. It eclipsed the previous mark established only two months earlier by Hurricane Irene.

No wet snow or fringe effects from a hurricane tomorrow. Just more clouds and chance for drizzle or light rain. Oh joy!

[Cambium]

Ok guys... here we go... As we descent into winter and the new time changes; shots of cold air are starting to show up.

Enjoy this whole warm week.
1st shot will be this weekend. Doesnt last long. 1-2 days?

Next one could be a bigger one but its 10 days away. Firgure around Nov 7th. That one should bring the widespread hard freezes.

[7 Wishes]

Originally Posted by Cambium

October 2010, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, and now 2019 ending above normal. I just dont get it with Fall and Octobers. I dont get it with Below normal Marchs either. So odd. #NoFall

While I am not at all saying it is "you know what" this time since you can correctly argue the Marchs, ironically until this decade it was Septembers and Octobers that were consistently below normal compared to the past while most of the other months were consistently above normal. It's one reason why NYC went 78 years without a 90+ degree day in October.

In this case I think it is just the weird vagueries of weather. Going back to those 90+ degree October days, it's just as weird that 4 of the 5 times it happened before (in NYC) was all in a brief period from 1937 to 1941 where every year in that span but 1940 had a 90+ degree October day (and the previous one was just only a decade before in 1927). Or how 1908 had an unusual amount of 80+ degree lows in NYC (including 2 lows of 84 that is still the record though it has been tied several times since 1995) that (due mostly to modern urban heat island effects) has not been even remotely approached until the post-2000 era.

[Cambium]

March 2013, 14, 15, 17, 18, and 2019 all below normal.

[Cambium]

6:30am October 29, 2019.

Groton: 52°
Bridgeport: 52°
Hartford: 51°

Kansas: 10s
Oklahoma: 20s





We cannot get cold when the Jet stream is like this. The Southern plains gets it.

[WouldLoveTo]

Wow at OK i the 20s!!

Snowtober: we went out to eat lunch and couldn't believe how much snow had fallen in that short time. I don't remember what we did the rest of the day, maybe it was a late lunch. I lost power early so I packed up to spend the night at his place, my dogwood was already not looking good. I have gas heat but it was nice to have lights for the night too. Couldn't get in touch with my parents in the morning as their newer phone system ran on power, and came back up to the dogwood bent over as far as it could go, and a ton of branches broken off my maple (took years for that to recover).

I didn't get power back until the following weekend, just before the deadline of NU offering a decent credit for no power. I wasn't a member of the forum then, but that's about the time I really started following Cam's posts!

[htfdcolt]

Originally Posted by WouldLoveTo

Wow at OK i the 20s!!

Snowtober: we went out to eat lunch and couldn't believe how much snow had fallen in that short time. I don't remember what we did the rest of the day, maybe it was a late lunch. I lost power early so I packed up to spend the night at his place, my dogwood was already not looking good. I have gas heat but it was nice to have lights for the night too. Couldn't get in touch with my parents in the morning as their newer phone system ran on power, and came back up to the dogwood bent over as far as it could go, and a ton of branches broken off my maple (took years for that to recover).

I didn't get power back until the following weekend, just before the deadline of NU offering a decent credit for no power. I wasn't a member of the forum then, but that's about the time I really started following Cam's posts!

Nothing but unpleasant memories! Power was out for a full 9 days (from Sat evening to a week from the following Monday). Although looking back, we were lucky to be able to find and afford to stay in local hotels. A bit of a stay-cation for our child, who had school days off the whole time, and invited her friend(s) to sleep over at the hotel and/or play in the pool! A few memorable "morning after" pics attached from West Hartford...

[clutchrider]

I remember Trick or Treat being cancelled when we lived in East Haven, but I joined a fb group and we shared addresses so the kiddos could still get around in their costumes for candy.

[Cambium]

Originally Posted by clutchrider

I remember Trick or Treat being cancelled when we lived in East Haven, but I joined a fb group and we shared addresses so the kiddos could still get around in their costumes for candy.

Yup, I never heard or seen that happen. Crazy time. 2010-2012 we were wondering why these big storms were happening so much. 8 yrs later we figured everything is cyclical. Just an active time for us. We had major blocking in the North Atlantic with Jet stream dipping to the Southeast.

Past few yrs Southeast has been roasting because there has been a blocking high there, We can't get extreme storms in the Northeast if the Jet stream doesn't dip in the East


A picture I took from Danbury the next day says it all. Tree on car & wires, vehicles stranded, and a snowpack still around with clear skies... in October.

[Cambium]

50s today... Not bad.


Wow! Euro says entire Southern Canada will be below normal with a frigid airmass and northern tier U.S including us. Time to stack the firewood on the deck. This will be a shocker if it happens. We haven't been in the mid 20s yet I think?