powderfreak

I won't lie, I see no one getting tussled over frosts this fall. Every morning you seem to be the driver of the fake cold narrative, but I again understand, you are growing your vegetables getting up each morning seeing 15 posts about people with ice, 28F, dead vegetation, etc. In the afternoon, you don't seem to care as much if BDL is 71F and you are 66F, it feels normal even if the heat is fake. Honestly, we've had some deep freezes, even as low as 20F at home at 1,100ft this past week... but I'm not sure 1,800ft has gotten below 30F once, lol. The mid-slopes have been staying warmer. It's just how it is in high pressure patterns.

It's not a hot air mass either though. Why don't we call it fake warmth? Every air mass a cold one if you go up high enough.

I wrote the same thing as the bolded. It can be hot at one point and cold at another point, all in 24 hours. Or is the argument that we just take the average temperature? Like the average temperature is 60F, but it's 30F at night and 90F by day. That average temperature is fairly useless in that scenario... it hits 60F for 15 minutes at like 10am and again at 6pm.

In your example, I'd argue its cold at night and hot during the day. If you are sleeping out in the desert, you really don't care why it is what it is. So you are saying it's fake cold and fake heat? I also get it from the standpoint of you living on a hill top... people saying its cold and you are still growing vegetables. That's going to get a response that this isn't real. I mean, I can be standing up at the picnic tables and it's breezy and 55F while it's frosty and 28F in the valley almost 4,000ft below... its just weather, that's how it happens. It's been happening in mountain valleys since the dawn of time... whether it's in Yellowstone or Jackson Hole, or in a hollow of CT.

This is such a weird discussion, lol. No one is saying it’s deep cold. But when your car is frozen solid in the morning and you are scraping ice or warming it up, it’s just a weird way of phrasing it. As Tip said, temperature is temperature. When there’s CAD or icing, no one is like well it’s fake cold because it’s warm at 9,000ft.

Everything I see is fake. Fake cold from radiational cooling, fake snow from upslope or lake effect. Not even sure what’s real anymore.

Will Atlanta see a frost before you?

Those are like June lows up there in Tolland.

Yeah I saw that… the AI has been flagging that period for a few runs. Not necessarily cold but something interesting.

GEFS look cool heading into mid-November.

I’ll say I’ve been fringed in a lot of SNE storms but that’s the only one I’m still jealous of. We got 1.5” lol. What a remarkable event.

Had you hit 32F or lower in 2011 before the Rocktober snowstorm?

That’s kind of wild. FROPA through here, some decent NW gusts.

It’s kind of crazy how it won’t mix out. Still upper 50s at 1500ft and upper 40s down in Stowe Village PWS spots. MVL holding at 48F too. Even some spot 60F above 1,200ft.

Up to 57F now lol. My drive to work went 38F to 46F back to 34F over 8 minutes and then up to 53F over the next 8 minutes.

Last night was the sharpest inversion yet. Below freezing in the valley but like 20F higher (50F) like 500ft above. It’s 30F at MVL but 55F (!) at 1,500ft.

23F to 65F today at MVL locally. That’s how you do an October day.

Temperature is temperature. Oddly satisfying way of explaining it, ha.

I had two Honda Pilots make it 200K+ with the usual maintenance. A 2002 and 2013. Got them used and they lasted a long time at various points in my life, but both succumbed to rusted frames by 240K miles.

Ensembles aren’t great for cold but it can change. Nino’s typically struggle early on as a baseline too. Not trying to add to the fire, but I do agree with you that getting anything sustained below normal is going to be a big uphill battle this November. Nothing about this screams that Canada is loading up with cold.

You struggle to frost, I struggle to get rid of frost. Wonder if we can go the whole day. 11:38am and half the yard still looks like this. North facing cold hollow, going to preserve snow well if we get any this winter. Thats the midday sun here, lol. Yikes. Wonder if it’ll crest the trees in another month.

Nothing wrong with a long growing season, embrace it. “Dig” into the local climate and take advantage of it. Your elevation storm will come at some point, maybe even more likely in a Nino winter where fresh cold air could be harder to come by.

There’s always ball busting on here, but honestly don’t think anyone tries to make you feel bad for missing out… I mean you get great joy out of using your air conditioning as much as possible, think of it like that. Some folks don’t understand it. 30F

Brisk like with wind? Dead calm here and radiating already at 37F.

Stick season.