powderfreak

I tested positive for Lyme recently. Been on course of antibiotics for the past couple weeks prior to the test results, which take some time. Symptoms started with a week long fever (peaked at 102F), headaches and joint pain. Rash was present. Extreme fatigue at times. Blood work showed everything was fine except my liver enzymes were through the roof, fighting some infection. It all started 3 days after I walked through the high brush to bring the dog to that snow patch back on the solstice, ha. Luckily think it was treated early so should be good.

BTV had a chilly night at 75F lol. Better than almost 80F all night.

Quick quarter inch with some loud thunder.

No joke, it seems like there’s 3 buzzing you at once for 2 hours. They thrive in this 70F dew, warm/sunny, stagnant air.

The Sox just needed to get their best hitter off the team to find their full potential. Never a dull moment so far with this team in terms of emotions. From smashing the TV to flying high while enjoying mid-summer baseball. We'll be smashing things again soon, but a fun ride right now.

I won't lie, I always put you more in the ORH climate relatively to normal than BOS. Or at least as much as some of the other area posters in that zone of SNE. I'll have to look up where Southborough is again relative to like 495. I guess you aren't at 1,000ft and you aren't on the ocean, so split the difference between the two sites?

One thing I've noticed is the deer flies have been absolutely relentless up here. We used to not really have them or at least they weren't this ferocious. I remember when I moved up here thinking, wow this is really nice compared to say the woods/hills of northern CT in Woodstock where they would eat you alive. Now you go hiking and the whole time you are getting buzzed by deer flies. It feels like the CT Hill climate of 15 years ago, ha.

Up here too. The mountain valley radiator sites are getting crushed. Burlington doesn't radiate to begin with, so the departures aren't as big but still +3. Morrisville-Stowe ASOS... +5.2 Montpelier ASOS... +4.9 Saint Johnsbury ASOS... +4.8 Burlington ASOS... +3.1 Getting +3 to +5 in the peak warm season months is absolutely crazy. Winter has higher variance so you can get the +/- 5s or whatever, but summer variance used to be 1-2 degrees from normal and that's it.

I’m surprised it doesn’t tell us what 3 hours of the day it will precipitate.

Maybe we are all just used to it because we’ve seen it for decades. No one on here will say BOS is indicative of the entire New England area… we usually note it in winter. None of this seems earth shattering that BOS is a different climate, it’s been like that for decades. Just like if we were in a pattern with cooler air aloft and in the north, no one is using MWN as a judge of the SNE climate either.

Do you want them to be hotter? You sound so disappointed. The ones running lower anomalies are on the ocean or closer to maritime air. That has less variance. They don’t radiate anyway. Its ok if it’s not an absolute furnace everywhere.

Low of 70F… +15. BTV hasn’t been below 77F tonight. That’s a tough night if you don’t have A/C. Nocturnal storms and clouds, and away from the cooler maritime air mass up this way.

You can toss overnight lows all you want, but it’s why everyone in the SNE hills, NNE, mtns, ME coast is installing A/C these days compared to 10-15 years ago. I get why folks often want to toss those temps once you’ve given into artificial cooling and are tucked soundly in bed next to the hum of a cooling source… but there’s been a “real feel” effect and you see it with every mini split or AC install that wasn’t there a decade ago. People used to get through summer with windows open at night. The warm mins have had a real societal impact.

Remember when we used to spend weeks arguing with DIT about 57-58F at the ASOS’ and 61-62F on his Davis… whether it was humid or not because it hovered around the magical 60 line on these graphics? Its like we’ve +10 the dews in a decade.

Humid evening. 81/70

Tough crowd here lol.

Creemee to milkshakes in seconds. Just feels like the new normal more and more every summer.

84/72. Man I love when the dews are 22 degrees warmer than the average low, ha.

There’s no way that’s accurate in VT and upstate NY is there? I’m at like 7” since June 1.

Ha, I mean BOS and BDL are +3.2. Its been a warm start to the month.

High of 88F here, HI got to 91F. Average high of 79F. +4 start to the month.

86/63

It was that Powder Magazine article in 1995 and he was featured in others in the late ‘90s that tuned me into him as a kid. They always used to reference him in the skier’s periodical of record. Good find!

Got absolutely f*cked a little while ago on Spruce Peak above 3,000ft in the core of this. Dime sized hail and the heaviest rain imaginable… had to be 3”/hr stuff. Route turned into a muddy torrent. Still was able to submit the hail report to BTV during it, hiding out in the entryway to the patrol building . That shit hits differently at that elevation. Thunder and lightning gives you pause.

They have been renovating it for the past two summers. 9-holes at a time. The back 9 is this summer's project and right now is all dirt and some new sod. This has to be washing that dirt away... I still can't remember this type of gradient with 2"+ and counting here and 0.16" a mile SSW in the heart of the Village.