We interrupt this regularly scheduled dry season program to bring you this special tropical storm report. Nicole heading toward Florida!! There will be more bulletins over the next 2 days or so, till it is done in Florida. Then, we will return to our regular dry season program!! Laura T., did you read this article? The good news, there will be no impact on Election Day. Voting was going ahead as planned. Hopefully, Punta Gorda does not get too much steady rain & wind.
Election day was great although I got mine out of the way when the polls first opened. The predicted rain we can handle without a problem I just don't want even minor tropical winds due to all the tarps on roofs and missing windows. Still it is better than another hurricane. I hope the east coast doesn't get it too badly as I know even a Cat 1 can be a killer.
A Cat 1 is what it MAY become. It is on the way to that. The worst of the rain and wind is due for the Eastern coast of the state. I did my voting between 7 and 8 this morning, after getting up after 4 A.M. to watch streaming eclipse coverage online of the red moon. It was one of the most beautiful total lunar eclipses I have ever seen!! It was too cold for me to want to stand outside and go watch the eclipse. It was 39 at the time of the eclipse. Just 2 days ago, it was a record 81, beating a 75, the old record was in 1948. That makes it the first 80-plus degree day ever on November 6th in Syracuse. Notably, this 81-degree high was recorded at the AIRPORT, and the 1948 reading was recorded in downtown Syracuse!! Of course, back in 1948, downtown was not quite a built-up as it would soon be in the 60s. So, maybe it was a degree or so cooler on average back then perhaps, compared to today; but still, it likely would be warmer downtown than at the countryside where Hancock Field now is. Still, the 81 on Sunday is quite remarkable, as it missed the all-time latest 80-plus day by just one day, November 8th!!
Wow, that is quite odd for that far north. I always hated it though when we got high temperatures this late in the year as it always dropped like a rock. I remember in my teens going to work one day when it was around 70 with sneakers and a windbreaker and it had dropped to the 20s and had 6 inches of snow by the time I got off. No front wheel drive so I got stuck three blocks from home. Not fun. I always had a change of clothes and boots in the car after that throughout the winters and left my arctic sleeping bag in the trunk until April due to us often getting late blizzards.
Do you remember what year that was? That's quite a drop, like 50 degrees? I remember a time in January 1992 when it was 56 in the morning here in Syracuse. It was windy, and thunderstorms were not too far southeast of Syracuse. A VERY strong system was so severe that there was an unheard-of tornado watch for the Catskills.........in January!! Hours later, after a very strong windstorm spawned by the Arctic front, the power was out at our area for a few hours, and rain changed to a fine grainy snow, blowing snow, and it dropped 42 degrees to 14 by around 10:00 at night. In April 1980, around April 25th, it was 90 in Chicago, late-day thunderstorms and a sharp coldnfront. The next day, they were having a blizzard and 30 degrees!!
It was before I moved to Florida the first time so somewhere between 1971 and 1975. I don't remember the exact temp but I was wearing summer clothes with sneakers and had a windbreaker in my car but wasn't wearing it in the morning. Hadn't checked the weather report as I was almost late for work.
Maybe if you had put the radio on when you were leaving home, or if you had put the TV on in the morning, you might have heard of a forecast of a major storm and major temperature plunge. I take it that it likely was a spring storm, and there may have been a heavy thunderstorm or two with the cold front, followed by perhaps an initial plunge of perhaps 20 degrees in the first half-hour, and maybe another 10 in the next half hour; then maybe another 10 to 15 over the next hour. That would include rain changing to sleet and then heavy snow; some of that I imagine might be thunder snow. It could have been at LEAST 4 inches an hour. Had you heard of a forecast of a major storm like that, perhaps you could have stayed home, and had fun watching all those wild weather changes, LOL!! How long were you stuck in your car? How did you finally get back home? I was an avid radio listener much of my life. Had I heard about such a storm, I might have stayed home. aIt sounds like the day WAS a good day to do that; Michigan can be known for their wild severe spring weather, just like the Chicago storm of 1980, LOL!!
We interrupt this regularly scheduled dry season program to bring you this special tropical storm report. Nicole heading toward Florida!! There will be more bulletins over the next 2 days or so, till it is done in Florida. Then, we will return to our regular dry season program!! Laura T., did you read this article? The good news, there will be no impact on Election Day. Voting was going ahead as planned. Hopefully, Punta Gorda does not get too much steady rain & wind.
Election day was great although I got mine out of the way when the polls first opened. The predicted rain we can handle without a problem I just don't want even minor tropical winds due to all the tarps on roofs and missing windows. Still it is better than another hurricane. I hope the east coast doesn't get it too badly as I know even a Cat 1 can be a killer.
A Cat 1 is what it MAY become. It is on the way to that. The worst of the rain and wind is due for the Eastern coast of the state. I did my voting between 7 and 8 this morning, after getting up after 4 A.M. to watch streaming eclipse coverage online of the red moon. It was one of the most beautiful total lunar eclipses I have ever seen!! It was too cold for me to want to stand outside and go watch the eclipse. It was 39 at the time of the eclipse. Just 2 days ago, it was a record 81, beating a 75, the old record was in 1948. That makes it the first 80-plus degree day ever on November 6th in Syracuse. Notably, this 81-degree high was recorded at the AIRPORT, and the 1948 reading was recorded in downtown Syracuse!! Of course, back in 1948, downtown was not quite a built-up as it would soon be in the 60s. So, maybe it was a degree or so cooler on average back then perhaps, compared to today; but still, it likely would be warmer downtown than at the countryside where Hancock Field now is. Still, the 81 on Sunday is quite remarkable, as it missed the all-time latest 80-plus day by just one day, November 8th!!
Wow, that is quite odd for that far north. I always hated it though when we got high temperatures this late in the year as it always dropped like a rock. I remember in my teens going to work one day when it was around 70 with sneakers and a windbreaker and it had dropped to the 20s and had 6 inches of snow by the time I got off. No front wheel drive so I got stuck three blocks from home. Not fun. I always had a change of clothes and boots in the car after that throughout the winters and left my arctic sleeping bag in the trunk until April due to us often getting late blizzards.
Do you remember what year that was? That's quite a drop, like 50 degrees? I remember a time in January 1992 when it was 56 in the morning here in Syracuse. It was windy, and thunderstorms were not too far southeast of Syracuse. A VERY strong system was so severe that there was an unheard-of tornado watch for the Catskills.........in January!! Hours later, after a very strong windstorm spawned by the Arctic front, the power was out at our area for a few hours, and rain changed to a fine grainy snow, blowing snow, and it dropped 42 degrees to 14 by around 10:00 at night. In April 1980, around April 25th, it was 90 in Chicago, late-day thunderstorms and a sharp coldnfront. The next day, they were having a blizzard and 30 degrees!!
It was before I moved to Florida the first time so somewhere between 1971 and 1975. I don't remember the exact temp but I was wearing summer clothes with sneakers and had a windbreaker in my car but wasn't wearing it in the morning. Hadn't checked the weather report as I was almost late for work.
Maybe if you had put the radio on when you were leaving home, or if you had put the TV on in the morning, you might have heard of a forecast of a major storm and major temperature plunge. I take it that it likely was a spring storm, and there may have been a heavy thunderstorm or two with the cold front, followed by perhaps an initial plunge of perhaps 20 degrees in the first half-hour, and maybe another 10 in the next half hour; then maybe another 10 to 15 over the next hour. That would include rain changing to sleet and then heavy snow; some of that I imagine might be thunder snow. It could have been at LEAST 4 inches an hour. Had you heard of a forecast of a major storm like that, perhaps you could have stayed home, and had fun watching all those wild weather changes, LOL!! How long were you stuck in your car? How did you finally get back home? I was an avid radio listener much of my life. Had I heard about such a storm, I might have stayed home. aIt sounds like the day WAS a good day to do that; Michigan can be known for their wild severe spring weather, just like the Chicago storm of 1980, LOL!!