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Awaiting the churning fury of Hanna's lashing bands of rain
By adamg on Sat, 09/06/2008 - 9:30pm
It was looking pretty ominous this afternoon over Rte. 9 in Chestnut Hill. But by early evening, it was pretty calm off Hough's Neck in Quincy:
As night (and a light rain) fell, there were about a dozen surfers in the water at Nantasket Beach. But the waves weren't all that big:
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A half hour after I posted this
It was pouring here in Roslindale.
Here too.
The wind has not been as bad as I thought.
Some rain
I know it hasn't quite reach here yet (last location listed is just south of Long Island), but other than a band of rain or two I haven't noticed anything at all.
The winds are still being listed at around 60 mph max speeds and the wind probability is holding at Tropic Storm strength (39-74 mph) over the next 12 hours. It's just weird because there's nearly no rain behind the "center" any more. Are we going to get the rain we got...then suddenly some wind and then gone?
That'd be one of the weirder tropic systems I'll have ever seen.
booo
i've seen cars driving through puddles throw up more water than this. What a let down...
It isn't even here yet
You think this thing is going to take a couple of hours? This is just the start. The rain we got earlier was pushed up here by the storm, not a part of it.
Tropical storms aren't nearly as speedy as hurricanes. It will likely still be raining when we wake up - last I checked, the center of the storm wasn't due until about daybreak.
Unless it turns around, it
Unless it turns around, it will be gone long before daybreak. When I posted that it was clear on the radar that we were not even going to see "yellow", let alone "red". And the green is running out too. Nothing but drizzle
4 Hour Change from Earlier Map
When I checked Weather Underground last night, as we were getting torrential downpours, the latest track had the center of the storm just north of us at 6am Sunday ... now that location (in hindsight) is for 2am Sunday (the "TS" at the start of the sequence):
Nope
I woke up at 7, and the sun was shining.
the 100 mile radar always
the 100 mile radar beats the 3000 mile projection diagram every time.....
it moved NE from NYC, then seemed to hang a left at 395 and passed west of here. It might have been a nice storm in Framingham, but here in downtown Boston it never did anything more than drizzle (out my window, anyway) it was not worth staying up for, sadly. At least the humidity broke....
I wish
I wish some storm would come and actually kick our asses.
I'm getting soft.
Twittered
I twittered that exact thing a few days ago when Hanna was first predicted to come up here.
I never really got a lot of Big Ones in Maryland, but it sure seemed like I saw some really serious storms quite a few times down there and after 8 years up here...nothing that I can think of.
I don't want a tree in my neighbor's roof or anything but at least make me believe I'm watching a life-size version of The Tempest.
Seriously. I could work
Seriously. I could work from home, given the power stayed on, and I wouldn't feel like a survivalist freak for considering buying freeze-dried meals.
3 am
Well, around 3 am it finally got here. The wind started to kick up a bit...but nothing in the neighborhood really looks like it's about to fall down or jump out of the ground.
Oh well.
Yup.
While we didn't get a great deal of flooding or anything like that, last night's rain was rather torrential, and the wind was howling.
Um
Um, what am I supposed to do with all these candles and canned goods?
I never eat canned goods!
Thanksgiving is coming
And that always means food drives!
Save them
You might need them for the Blizzard that Could Be Bigger than The Blizzard of '78!