Wet Forest - Formerly Known as Dry Forest

[Boyd]

Running on the genny now, kind of a pain to get that out and setup, had to go out in the pouring rain to run the cable to the generator outlet on the side of the house. Looked like there was already two inches of water in the wheelbarrow. The Atlantic City Electric app already knew about the outage, was surprised to see that only about 1300 homes are down in their whole service area, thought it would be more. They estimate 11:00 PM restoration. We'll see... we had a short outage awhile ago and their estimate was right on target.

Surprisingly warm outside - about 55 degrees. Was chilly in the house, so I built a fire in the stove. Probably gonna get too hot now!

 

[Boyd]

The really heavy rain is in a line from North to South starting around the southern Virginia border and up Chesapeake Bay. That seems to be trending inland so far, hopefully it will stay to our West.

https://boydsmaps.com/nexrad/#8/38.3216/-76.5754

 

[Boyd]

Guessing the "narrow line of intense showers" is the one in my screenshot above, headed our way later tonight.
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URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ
745 PM EST Tue Jan 9 2024

Inland Sussex-Delaware Beaches-Western Monmouth-Eastern Monmouth-
Ocean-Cumberland-Atlantic-Cape May-Atlantic Coastal Cape May-
Coastal Atlantic-Coastal Ocean-Southeastern Burlington-
Including the cities of Georgetown, Rehoboth Beach, Freehold,
Sandy Hook, Jackson, Millville, Hammonton, Cape May Court House,
Ocean City, Atlantic City, Long Beach Island,
and Wharton State Forest
745 PM EST Tue Jan 9 2024

...HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM EST WEDNESDAY...

* WHAT...South winds 35 to 45 mph with gusts up to 60 mph
expected.

* WHERE...Portions of southern Delaware and central and southern
New Jersey.

* WHEN...Until 4 AM EST Wednesday.

* IMPACTS...Damaging winds will blow down trees and power lines.
Widespread power outages are expected. Travel will be
difficult, especially for high profile vehicles.

* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...The damaging winds are expected to occur
this evening, and these could be locally enhanced with a
narrow line of intense showers later tonight.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

People should avoid being outside around trees. Use caution if
you must drive.

 

[Teegate]

So far today 1.28 inches.

 

[Boyd]

Power back on again, only out for an hour. Still running on generator until I think I can trust it! AC Electric just sent me an e-mail saying they detected my power is out and it is expected to come back on at 2:00 AM. Their app also says it's out but will be back on at 11:00 PM. They seem to be confused. Just glad it is on now, regardless!

[edit]Back on the line, recharging backup batteries. Generator is off but still on the porch, ready to restart if needed. It's getting even warmer - 57 degrees outside now. About three more hours to finish that big map export, then I can shutdown the computer for the night.

 

[Boyd]

That line of intense rain is about to sweep over me. It's about 600 miles long from North to South. If the same movement continues, looks like it will move East and be offshore before long. Another 6 hours to go before the high wind warning is over though (4:00 AM).

Also, I went out for a walk before the rain, around noon. Thought there was a piece of dirt on my pants but it turned out to be a tick - first one I've seen since August! Had to look closely, didn't look like a tick at first - pretty large diameter, very black color and quite thin. Also moving very slow.

 

[Boyd]

Wow, that thing was intense, rain was really pounding down hard, I'll bet we got an inch from it. Just moving past me now.... looks like it's headed for you Bob!

 

[bobpbx]

Wow, that thing was intense, rain was really pounding down hard, I'll bet we got an inch from it. Just moving past me now.... looks like it's headed for you Bob!

I could not resist standing outside and waiting for it. I have a video of it I'll try to youtube it in the morning.

 

[Teegate]

It is 4:06 AM and 52 degrees, down from the upper 50s when I went to bed. I woke up at 1AM and it was quiet.

 

[Boyd]

As soon as that narrow line passed me, everything calmed down. Was very dramatic, suddenly the wind stopped and it was quiet. The whole thing was over much sooner than I expected. Waiting for the sunrise to see what everything looks like. Think we got quite a bit of rain. And the next one is coming on Friday!

 

[RednekF350]

We lost power at 7:30 last night in P'town but I was I was out at a gun club function in a restaurant in Berlin. My wife called me and said our newly acquired dogs were losing their minds because the smoke alarms and CO detectors were chirping. I headed home and straightened things out and had a nightcap with the wife and dogs by light of an oil lamp.

Power came back on around 3:00 am which I was very glad to see. I didn't have to wheel out the generator and deal with the ordeal of running extension cords through the windows.

Couldn't have asked for better outside temps for a power outage in January. Our house was still 68 degrees with no heat when the power came back after more than 7 hours.

 

[dragoncjo]

The storm went out like a light switch. It’s was really blowing and then just nothing but dead silence.

 

[Boyd]

And the next one is coming on Friday!

They already have a new briefing for this one

https://www.weather.gov/media/phi/current_briefing.pdf

Will be looking at the rainfal totals when published later today. But, based on my wheelbarrow (has always been pretty accurate), I got 4 inches or more of rain last night! Here's what they are forecasting for Friday. Wind looks about the same but less rain.

 

[imkms]

Stats for 1/9/24

City	State	Eastern Time	Source	Daily Temp Max	Daily Temp Min	Daily Dew Point Max	Daily Dew Point Min	Daily RH Max	Daily Min RH	Daily BP Max	Daily BP Min	Daily Precip	Daily Wind Max	Daily Wind Max Dir
▼ Atlantic City Marina	NJ	2024-01-09	SafetyNet	57	41							2.00	52
▼ Basking Ridge	NJ	2024-01-09	Mesonet	57	21	57	19	100	98	30.45	29.13	3.13	24	S
▼ Berkeley Twp.	NJ	2024-01-09	Mesonet	58	22	57	20	98	81	30.44	29.21	3.18	53	SSE
▼ Cape May Court House	NJ	2024-01-09	Mesonet	57	27	57	26	100	76			2.23	25	WSW
▼ Cedar Bridge	NJ	2024-01-09	USFS	57	32	56	25	98	69			2.83	46	SSE
▼ Charlotteburg	NJ	2024-01-09	Mesonet	53	22	53	20	100	90	30.42	29.20	3.61	24	SE
▼ Cherry Hill	NJ	2024-01-09	Mesonet	59	27	58	25	100	80			2.06	31	S
▼ Columbus	NJ	2024-01-09	Mesonet	59	24	59	23	99	74	30.43	29.11	2.18	52	S
▼ Cream Ridge	NJ	2024-01-09	Mesonet	60	23	58	23	100	78	30.41	29.13	1.98	51	S
▼ Dennis Twp.	NJ	2024-01-09	Mesonet	57	26	56	24	98	70			2.82	50	SE
▼ East Brunswick	NJ	2024-01-09	Mesonet	59	25	57	23	97	76	30.46	29.18	1.99	49	SSE
▼ Egg Harbor Twp.	NJ	2024-01-09	Mesonet	57	26	56	25	100	77			2.19	38	SSW
▼ Fort Dix	NJ	2024-01-09	USFS	59	31	58	25	100	66			2.53	52	SSE
▼ Fortescue	NJ	2024-01-09	Mesonet	55	32	55	29	100	78	30.45	29.12	2.20	56	SW
▼ Greenwich	NJ	2024-01-09	Mesonet	57	28	57	25	100	75			2.01	38	SE
▼ Hackettstown	NJ	2024-01-09	SafetyNet	53	20					30.43	29.08	2.96	26
▼ Hamilton	NJ	2024-01-09	Mesonet	59	24	58	22	99	81			2.14	31	SSE
▼ Hammonton	NJ	2024-01-09	Mesonet	59	25	57	24	99	84			3.09	44	SSE
▼ Harvey Cedars	NJ	2024-01-09	SafetyNet	56	36							2.18	45
▼ Haworth	NJ	2024-01-09	Mesonet	56	25	55	22	98	83	30.43	29.21	2.25	37	S
▼ High Point	NJ	2024-01-09	Mesonet	49	24	49	18	100	76	30.40	29.20	2.04	24	E
▼ High Point Monument	NJ	2024-01-09	Mesonet	48	24	48	21	100	70			1.27	38	E
▼ Hillsborough-Duke	NJ	2024-01-09	Mesonet	59	20	58	20	100	88	30.43	29.10	2.69	43	SSE
▼ Holmdel	NJ	2024-01-09	Mesonet	57	27	57	24	100	74			2.15	34	NNE
▼ Hopewell Twp.	NJ	2024-01-09	Mesonet	58	21	57	20	100	92	30.47	29.12	2.57	43	S
▼ Howell	NJ	2024-01-09	Mesonet	57	22	57	21	100	77	30.42	29.18	2.39	44	ESE
▼ Jersey City	NJ	2024-01-09	Mesonet	56	26	56	25	100	67	30.42	29.18	1.79	48	ESE
▼ Kingwood	NJ	2024-01-09	SafetyNet	56	20					30.44	29.07	2.97	26
▼ Little Egg Harbor Twp.	NJ	2024-01-09	Mesonet	56	31	55	31	100	72	30.45	29.21	1.90	56	S
▼ Little Falls	NJ	2024-01-09	Mesonet	56	27	55	24	100	83	30.46	29.22	3.14	26	ESE
▼ Logan Twp.	NJ	2024-01-09	Mesonet	58	29	57	25	100	83	30.44	29.07	2.16	64	S
▼ Lower Alloways Creek	NJ	2024-01-09	Mesonet	57	34	57	29	100	74	30.41	29.08	2.30	60	SE
▼ Lyndhurst	NJ	2024-01-09	Mesonet	55	29	55	29	100	79	30.48	29.21	1.36	47	ESE
▼ Mannington Twp.	NJ	2024-01-09	Mesonet	59	28	59	27	100	80	30.43	29.08	2.30	58	S
▼ Mansfield	NJ	2024-01-09	Mesonet	60	26	58	23	99	74			2.15	40	SSE
▼ Moorestown	NJ	2024-01-09	Mesonet	60	26	58	24	100	80	30.43	29.10	2.57	53	SSE
▼ Mullica Twp.	NJ	2024-01-09	SafetyNet	57	25							2.95
▼ New Brunswick	NJ	2024-01-09	Mesonet	59	25	58	24	99	77	30.45	29.17	2.12	41	SE
▼ North Haledon	NJ	2024-01-09	Mesonet	55	25	55	24	100	81	30.43	29.29	3.33	27	SE
▼ Oceanport	NJ	2024-01-09	Mesonet	56	26	56	24	100	70			2.54	46	SSW
▼ Oswego Lake	NJ	2024-01-09	Mesonet	58	25	58	24	100	81	30.41	29.16	2.34	47	S
▼ Parsippany	NJ	2024-01-09	SafetyNet	55	29							2.98
▼ Pennsauken	NJ	2024-01-09	Mesonet	60	29	57	25	96	78	30.45	29.11	2.23	54	SSE
▼ Pequest	NJ	2024-01-09	Mesonet	56	18	55	16	100	78	30.43	29.06	2.64	26	ESE
▼ Piney Hollow	NJ	2024-01-09	Mesonet	59	24	58	22	100	83			2.68	32	S
▼ Pittstown	NJ	2024-01-09	Mesonet	56	29	55	22	103	69	30.38	29.08	3.02	38	SSE
▼ Point Pleasant	NJ	2024-01-09	SafetyNet	56	29							2.52	36
▼ Ramsey	NJ	2024-01-09	SafetyNet	54	23					30.42	29.21	3.49	24
▼ Red Lion	NJ	2024-01-09	SafetyNet	59	25							2.21
▼ Sandyston	NJ	2024-01-09	Mesonet	51	16	51	15	100	77	30.42	29.12	1.85	21	SE
▼ Sea Girt	NJ	2024-01-09	Mesonet	57	28	57	24	99	70	30.40	29.15	2.54	57	SSE
▼ Seaside Heights	NJ	2024-01-09	SafetyNet	56	35								55
▼ Sewell	NJ	2024-01-09	Mesonet	59	26	58	25	100	80			2.11	37	SE
▼ Sicklerville	NJ	2024-01-09	Mesonet	59	25	58	23	100	80	30.40	29.10	2.53	37	SE
▼ Silas Little	NJ	2024-01-09	USFS	58	26	57	22	97	75			1.95	48	SE
▼ South Harrison	NJ	2024-01-09	Mesonet	59	30	57	25	99	76			1.96	53	SSE
▼ Stewartsville	NJ	2024-01-09	SafetyNet	57	24					30.41	29.05	2.66	27
▼ Toms River	NJ	2024-01-09	Mesonet	57	26	57	26	99	73			2.95	32	SSE
▼ Upper Deerfield	NJ	2024-01-09	Mesonet	58	26	57	25	100	81	30.43	29.12	2.20	62	SSE
▼ Vernon Twp.	NJ	2024-01-09	SafetyNet	52	30			100	77			2.15	54
▼ Vineland	NJ	2024-01-09	Mesonet	59	25	59	24	100	77	30.43	29.10	2.42	56	SSW
▼ Wall Twp.	NJ	2024-01-09	Mesonet	56	27	56	23	100	70			2.73	36	SSE
▼ Walpack	NJ	2024-01-09	SafetyNet	52	15					30.40	29.01	2.12
▼ Wantage	NJ	2024-01-09	SafetyNet	48	21			97	84	30.41	29.17	1.77	17
▼ West Cape May	NJ	2024-01-09	Mesonet	55	32	55	32	100	78			2.29	44	SSE
▼ West Deptford	NJ	2024-01-09	Mesonet	61	25	58	23	96	75	30.45	29.11	2.17	44	S
▼ Woodbine	NJ	2024-01-09	Mesonet	57	24	57	22	100	76	30.43	29.12	2.46	45	S

 

[bobpbx]

Watching that red line on the weather apps made me wonder what it looked like when it came in, so I stood outside and watched it. Oddly, when I first went out, it was raining lightly, but the trees were thrashing back and forth due to the heavy wind. But about 8 minutes before the line hit, everything calmed down, even the light rain, and it seemed to get a little lighter out. Then, when the red line came in, the rain came in sheets, like a giant had a hose with a spray nozzle, and was waving it up and down, like you would do when rinsing a car off after soaping it down. The weird thing to me, the trees were not thrashing around as much as before, it's like the air disturbance was now well above the tree line. The video goes black because the street lights went out temporarily.

 

[Boyd]

 

[this_is_nascar]

In my area, this last storm had higher winds, but not so much on the ground. What I mean by that is that if you looked at trees that were 20 and 30 ft tall, the branches were blowing almost sideways, but standing on the ground the wind was pretty negligible. I haven't had winds here like that in quite a while that I can remember.

 

[bobpbx]

This was predictable. I used to live in Presidential Lakes, and I've seen the water cross the hard road in New Lisbon.

 

[Boyd]

Sort of "deja vu all over again" around here. The road I mentioned below was closed for quite awhile, maybe a drainage pipe collapsed? They just re-opened it the day of this storm, went down there the next day and it was closed in a different place, with police blocking the road due to a fallen tree with downed powerlines. Zig-zagged over to the other road mentioned in the post below. It was flooded again at a low spot with rising water from the swamp. Would have turned and gone back, but a car that was braver than I was coming in the other direction. Watched him go through and it was less than a foot deep, so I chanced it.

Some flooding around here, just now I had to backup several hundred feet and turn around to avoid going through some deep water that was flowing fast across a small (paved) road. Went about a mile to the next road and it was also flooded by the same stream!

 

[Boyd]

Haha, just drove by there again out of curiosity. There's a big pine tree leaning across the road, supported by a sagging powerline but it's way up in the air, so no problem driving through. A policeman is just sitting there in his car and watching today but not stopping people. Guess the crew from the power company has their hands full elsewhere.

Further down the road, the place they repaired is passable with water going through a new pipe. But only a temporary fix, filled with crushed rock that looks to be partially washed out again.But things really aren't bad around here, I'm sure there are places North and East of here with more problems. And here we go again tomorrow!