If the coastal got going sooner........
CLA,
This was a very close to a big one for the lakes region. Downeast Maine should get a widespread 12"+.
If the coastal secondary got going a bit sooner, there would have been 12" to 18" at the lake, maybe more. But by 10:00 last night, to me it was not happening. It deepened around midnight as you noted with the 44017 bouy report. Although pressure at 44017 was dropping before midnight, it was not dropping fast enough to support the models. It would have been great to have 44025 operational so that we could better see where the secondary center really was, but it has been out-of-service for almost two months now. This is a significant blind spot.
My projections are for the Weirs area and the storm was about what I expected here. I was expecting 7" to 8", the high end of the 5" to 8" range I projected the afternoon of November 30th. Thanks to the secondary for holding the cold air aloft and preventing what would have been a significant and wide-spread ice storm in the lakes area.
This should be a great winter weather-wise. The last two were a bit boring, at least until last Valentine's Day.
Great work from you and BT regarding the efforts for a weather thread. It would be great to have.
his is one of the most interesting places to live weather-wise with so many factors to be considered. Great to see more posts from Rose. She is very knowledgeable. I use her idea about the Mount Washington auto road for seeing what is happening at the mid-levels very frequently. It is like having realtime soundings.
R2B
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