ORH_wxman

This is great....my son was outside on his bike and I didn't need to put sunblock on him with the thick clouds. Wasn't raining and was plenty of warm still with the higher dews. I'd be grumpy if I was going to the beach in this, but otherwise, give me more of this.

91 at BDL, 74 at ORH, and 71 at BOS, lol

Interior is def drying out a little bit. ORH down to 59F dew. GHG up to 72F with a SE wind though. Scooter throwing a party on his front lawn. Lol

It’s muggy but not horrific. Early this morning seemed muggier than it is now. There are some nasty dews hugging the coast though. PVD over to the cape in the 70 range and even up toward GHG and BOS. Scooter will be happy...glad we dont live there.

Yeah it’ll prob level off in the 90-91 range at the ASOS stations. Won’t be one of those days where it keeps rocketing to 95-96 by 3-4pm.

Yeah. It’s pretty much all trees here. A little tougher to hit 90 than an open area. It should make it though in the next couple hours.

Up to 86 here now. Trying to make a run at first 90F of the year. Should at least eclipse our seasonal high of 87 set earlier this month.

First they steal DIT's snow, now they steal his heat.

Hovering near 80F at the moment....running about 2F cooler than yesterday at this point. Still pretty muggy though.

NNE (esp Maine) blowing away the competition

Massive losses in area from the dipole pattern that just happened.....we now only trail 2012 for lowest area on this date. 2007 and 2010 (and to a lesser extent 2016 and 2019) lose huge area though over the next week, so the question is whether we can stay in the top 3 or top 5 as the weather goes to a reverse dipole over the arctic basin.

Yeah I remember you hated it like 2 years ago. Lol. If I had a pool or lived near the beach I might embrace the dews more but give me 80/55 any day. Not like the kids can’t play outdoors. My kids were outside all during this stretch of 73/40 weather too. My 4 year old cant get enough of outdoors.

Yep. I’ll even be fine with 85 if dews stay in the 50s. You can do both pool and non-water outdoor activities in that. 85/68 is useless if you aren’t at the beach or pool.

This stuff is garbage. Give me yesterday all summer.

First time I skied at Jay PEak, I understood why they get destroyed by upslope more than any area....I looked to the north and northwest into Canada and it was flat as a pancake.

AWT.....

Fozz brought the Mid-Atlantic climo with him last winter. He gets the blame. We can blame Phineas if 2020-2021 sucks.

Yeah he moved up in like late winter 06-07 (when interior MA up into NNE was on a huge rally in the 2nd half of that winter)....then he gave everyone '07-'08 and '08-'09....I think he moved back before the dud '09-'10 winter? He basically probably lived in SE NH during one of their snowiest 2.5 years on record.

80/53. We take.

Yeah maybe there....around here it has made some colder nights but the daytime highs are still driving the departures slightly positive. We haven't had any of those 52/47 type days yet with onshore flow and drizzle.

Lack of precip this month has also helped keep it above normal....we almost always have an ugly onshore linger low that keeps us in the 50s a few days....haven't had anything close to that this month.

Yeah I'm a huge fan of December snow....which is why I couldn't rank last season an F. We had pack here for like 27 out of 31 days and 27" total. That is an excellent month. Would have been better without that hideous cutter around 12/8-12/9 but at least we refreshed right after that with a 5-6 incher. I'm still waiting for a Dec 1995 though....basically where we run the table in December. Those are hard to get. All of our recent good Decembers that had big events before Xmas had black marks on them....2007, 2008, 2013, 2017, 2019...2009 was ok, but even that had the ugly cutter right after Xmas. Latitude is really important in December though....moreso than other winter months including March.

Nice. Yeah your spot is gonna have a crazy gradient from just a few miles away. You’ll even have quite a bit more than Gorham center I’d bet on many days. Berlin is a pit for snow...they might literally average half your snowfall. Prob 80-90ish but it increases quickly heading south.

The microclimate extremes didn’t occur to me until I was much older in college. I sort of knew about them in high school in my own area but I still assumed a place like BTV was far superior to the ORH hills for snow until I started driving up there sometimes during winter. There were a number of times they had bare ground or very very thin cover when I left N ORH with 6”+ OTG. That’s when I realized the retention aspect there was pretty weak because I knew they averaged about 10” more per season. Then I’d drive east into the mountains and the snow would go from almost nothing in Williston or western Richmond to being totally buried within a few miles. It was crazy. I didn’t realize microclimate gradients like that were common there.

I'm also wondering if we're finally going to change the PAC up a bit....all that heat in the eastern PAC to the north of ENSO region (like off coast of Baja and CA) is eroding more than most recent years. Still not there yet, but something to track