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He’s just messing around. Got us engaged and chatting, ha. I find his particular hilltop climate fascinating to be honest.

I wonder how far from the coast that extends… like 10 miles? Less? Seems like all the airport ASOS’s have except BOS and PVD? I guess ORH probably hasn’t too.

1,100ft here and frozen solid nightly. Narrow it down to like 950ft to 1,025ft . Lasts a long time in the shade.

Phenomenal stretch of days. Hard freeze starts in the 20s and goes to 60F under cloudless skies. It is crazy how this time of year there can still be frost in the shade at like 11am despite it closing in on like 50F outside.

39F at home 1,100ft while it’s 52F at 1,900ft across the ridge.

Yeah these dry air masses with no vegetation left growing and leaves falling off trees… temps just swing up and down so easily. Lost 20 degrees in just over 90 minutes with the sun going down. 68F at 4:55pm to 48F at 6:35pm.

These are special days. Very hard freeze last night, lawn so white it looked like it snowed, with a low of 26F. Then pop a 70-burger this afternoon, driving around in shorts and a T-shirt with windows down. 44-degree swing from hard freeze to sliders and windows open. Even shorts weather up at 3,000ft right now.

Frosty cars when taking the dog out for her final walk. It seems like we will be getting a steady diet of radiational nights even if thicknesses are high. Large diurnal trends this time of year.

31F at 7pm on this ancient device. Time for a real one. Both local PWS also 31F though too.

2015-2016 last Super El Nino... run it back?

Yeah, ADK, Bretton Woods… just one of those things. Toll Road open to the summit, lol. I said no way that thing would open today, figuring an inch or so on road and we close it immediately once any frozen road surfaces. 20F up there and just rime ice. 32F base area.

Nice! We only had snow grains here and a bunch of rime ice up high. Mansfield snuck through with no snow.

Summits hitting freezing now, 43F here with gusty NW winds. Getting pretty good mixing down the eastern slope with CAA.

36F at 9:30pm. Getting to be that time of year.

That sounds great.

Trough looks more positive and progressive… really going to limit cold side moisture.

2.13” in Stratus from yesterday. 49F

Insane sounding for mid-October.

Absolutely ridiculous cold for midday on Saturday on some of these runs. 18z struggling to get to freezing.

Caught this guy enjoying the foliage…

Good AFD from BTV… A cold front will sweep through the area Friday night sharply lowering temperatures 10 to 15 degrees from Friday evening to Saturday morning. Temperatures will likely dip below freezing for most if not all locations across the area with only those near Lake Champlain and immediately near the St. Lawrence River staying above freezing. As temperatures fall, snow levels during the day Saturday will also lower to 500-1000ft agl, with a transition to snow above 1500ft agl, and a rain, wet snow mix, in elevations between 1000- 1500ft agl. A few mixed in flurries cannot be ruled our even in the Champlain Valley, though temperatures will be marginal in the mid to upper 30s. Some snowliage appears likely with ensembles denoting nearly 100% chances for purely snowfall in the Adirondacks and Northeast Kingdom. Rain and snow showers will taper off Saturday evening as the system pulls away to the northeast. 850 mb temperatures Saturday night will be remarkably cold for this time of year in the -9 to -11C range Saturday night supporting temperatures in the 20s for most of the area, including the entire Champlain Valley. Pockets of teens will be possible in the coldest hollows of the Adirondacks and Northeast Kingdom as surface temperatures anomalies will be 10 degrees below normal. Temperatures will slowly moderate back towards seasonable normals to start next week.

This would do it.

I'll be honest, the traffic never bothered me. It's like 4-6 days out of 365... foliage is the worst like what we just went through, but you know when its coming and can navigate it. I generally find those things overblown but people lose their minds with social media photos and stuff of peak events. Whatever, its the price you pay for living where everyone wants to visit. For us, it really was the characteristics of the town and where we were changed over time. I don't want to go on an AirBnB rant, I've used them and they serve a great purpose. I'm also not someone who wants to tell someone what they can and can't do with their property. However, we used to have a bit more of a community in the area. Local families lived in our townhome area, we had local young professionals (we lived next to a couple Inntopia developers for up to a decade, F/B Director at Trapps, etc), there were people living nearby, dogs, kids and it felt different. Now, we've seen most of them leave and units turned into straight AirBnB rentals with new folks every weekend. Strangers wandering around, usually respectful, sometimes not, but it's just different. It was like living in the middle of a hotel operation. Cleaning crews rolling in around 11am after folks checkout of neighboring units. The vibe changed drastically over the past decade from one of like community to just living in the middle of vacationers. Units used to be owned by people, now the HOA even just has units with LLCs listed as contacts and it's like, what are we doing? I loved the location, the Rec Path, the river, but as getting older, we stopped going out so being walking distance to like Piecasso became less important. Going to the bars with friends and walking home was fun a 12 years ago, ha. But overall, it was more just having strangers around all the time, people on our porch looking in because they are lost and forgot where they rented for the night, just things that come up when living in the middle of one of the biggest AirBnB battles in the state of Vermont that's raging between the town Selectboard and residents right now.

Rain?

Got to play the Mountain Course at Stowe last week for a fund raiser. It’s usually the only time of the year I get out on this exclusive track. Honestly, it’s a sort of comical course in terms of difficulty because there’s zero margin for error. Don’t hit the fairway or even if you do, it might skip off a cliff or into the unfindable fescue.