powderfreak

I’m down in Bedford for the weekend but it was raining in Stowe when we left this morning. Not much rain on the drive, just some mist at times. Looks about right for a Saturday.

That’s 12z too… the 18z is even drier.

Max of 64F today, sun, breeze. 63/39 currently.

ORH at a 35 DP. Little pocket of very dry air over highly populated areas… EMATT.

BOS at 75/37 for 25% RH after 10pm is awesome. That’s a warm, dry, well-mixed breezy vibe. Mediterranean.

High of 73F with low dews, and beautiful. 63/44 right now in the waning light. Going to miss it being this bright at 8:45pm.

“Man dressed in bear costume locks himself in vehicle, then destroys it” would be a much more catching story .

We’ve been seeing a ton of bear break-ins around Stowe. They are getting into vehicles and even homes (all by opening doors). I wish I could post videos… there’s two ring camera scenes of bears walking up to front doors in Stowe and just turning the handle and walking inside. They have mastered car doors with an incredible efficiency. 7 cars got broken into last night in a condo complex. The most startling one was at a local hotel, a bear broke into a car by opening the door, but then the door shut behind him. Locking him in the vehicle. The front desk got calls at 2am about a horn honking outside in the parking lot. They find a bear in there honking but it absolutely totaled the vehicle on the inside. He was trying to remove the door panels to get out. They ended up popping the trunk and it barely got over the back seat and out.

If I can't be near the mountains, I think I'd want to be near the ocean. The power of the water and just knowing it's there, I've always been fascinated by the ocean. I definitely do not have the money for it, ha, most folks don't. But there's a reason why many of the Stowe crowd head to Nantucket for their summers. Only 0.27” of rain today. Haven’t had to water the garden once since planting.

It's a solid New England tourist town... and for a reason too. It can get too busy but the natural environment between the Spine and the Worcester Range helps lead to that mountain town vibe. If you are used to the Lakes Region of NH though, I don't think it's any busier than that. Plenty of restaurants and breweries. Mansfield and Smugglers Notch is fun geography too.

It’s a Ray “Mooseknuckle Village” location for sure.

Looks like a weak tornado touched down late this afternoon in Beekmantown, NY just near I-87 in Clinton County (Plattsburgh, NY area). There seem to be a variety of videos of it... weak spin up but looked legit in videos. Line came off the Adirondacks and must’ve hit some low level veering in the western Champlain Valley to spin one up.

Getting a quick lap in between the synoptic rain and storms later.

8pm Sat to 8am Sun looks good for outdoor activities there . Its like surgically positioned during the overnight hours.

+ crack. It’s raining again, too. Awesome.

Hope it’s electric.

I can’t imagine living there and not being near the water. Strong hell no to interior Florida.

73/51 Back in the sweet spot for temps/dews.

It was a smoky blue tint hazy day. There were some clouds around the mountain, but the view was smoggy. The Mansfield ridgeline is 2 miles long from above where I'm standing to the high spot across there, and even that view was hazy. The 5-6 mile visibility seemed about right. Eventually the clouds filled in.

The smoke today was real bad here. MVL ASOS didn’t get a vis above 5-6sm all day long. Sure, it’s not as bad as that episode of 1-3sm we all had last summer (or two summers ago?)… but it was an extremely noticeable haze all day obscuring the mountains.

We got some clearing but all that did was cause low level ground fog from the earlier rain. So we lost the clouds overhead and replaced them with ones in the bottom 30 feet.

We stayed dry all day until now. Torrential rain and thunder just moved in. One of the best Saturday’s in a while included low vis haze/smoke/air quality alerts when not raining, followed by torrential rain at 5pm. The bar is very low.

I’m destroyed with bites. My ankles itch just writing this, ha. They’ve been bad up here too.

No thunder up here… just a 0.49” stratiform rain over 3 hours. The mosquitoes will enjoy it.