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

By adamg
Sat, 09/06/2008 - 10:46pm

It was pouring here in Roslindale.

Here too.

By Anonymous
Sat, 09/06/2008 - 11:15pm

The wind has not been as bad as I thought.

Some rain

By Kaz
Sat, 09/06/2008 - 11:34pm

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

By pierce
Sun, 09/07/2008 - 12:15am

i've seen cars driving through puddles throw up more water than this. What a let down...

It isn't even here yet

By SwirlyGrrl
Sun, 09/07/2008 - 12:37am

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

By pierce
Sun, 09/07/2008 - 2:34am

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

By SwirlyGrrl
Sun, 09/07/2008 - 10:52am

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):

[img]http://icons-pe.wunderground.com/data/images/at200...

Nope

By Ron Newman
Sun, 09/07/2008 - 7:25am

I woke up at 7, and the sun was shining.

the 100 mile radar always

By pierce
Sun, 09/07/2008 - 11:37am

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

By JimboJones
Sun, 09/07/2008 - 12:41am

I wish some storm would come and actually kick our asses.

I'm getting soft.

Twittered

By Kaz
Sun, 09/07/2008 - 12:48am

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

By stygmata
Sun, 09/07/2008 - 1:51am

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

By Kaz
Sun, 09/07/2008 - 3:55am

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.