powderfreak

Part of me thinks you just like high dews and say you don’t care about heat because it’s what your backyard does well. Heat is largely a fail, big diurnal swings are a fail, can’t mix out low RH, compressional warming or radiational cooling, but those elevated NE CT forests can crush the humid 12-degree diurnal swing between 70-82F with the best of them. That’s pretty much the Woodstock climo too. Temp just lives in that zone.

Interesting. Up here yesterday max was 73F while normal is 79F (-6)… mins were up but day averaged -3F. Today I think we snuck up to 72F (been holding upper 60s to low 70s). But it’ll be another -6 or -7. BTV is third day below normal, past two were -5. Not huge but we are stringing together a few actual below normal days. Step down seems to be CVT to CNH?

Yeah I think there was a weak shortwave swinging through providing some deeper layer ascent above the topography.

I want western mountain winters. It’s either dumping snow or it’s high pressure sunny and 40F. It gets cold to precipitate, but then the sun comes out. Also like a mid-Atlantic sun angle in CO to UT to Tahoe… not as dark as NNE. Here it seems to be dark and cold then warms up to precipitate.

I mean 48F and rain at the picnic tables under the cold pool with orographic showers is pretty far the other way too for the last day of July. Jacket and colder than I’d like up here. Hard to find a middle ground. It’s either torch and humid or deep trough.

I think it’s age. There’s a reason why people head for better sunnier places the older they get. It’s not a coincidence a variety of folks on here are all having the same response as they age. We all were like teens or 20s when we first got on the weather boards in like early 2000s.

Yeah my wife has been saying those same things as she gets older, lol. Like if it’s not going to be a solid winter it’s just a very long period of gray skis and darkness that gets old after 6 months a year.

Yeah that’s Stowe CC right next door.

We kid and joke but even if I was living where you are I’d prefer 80/50 all summer like Will/ORH. The mountains don’t have much to do with it to be honest, just the activities that folks do out-of-doors from biking, tennis, golf, pickle ball or whatever… watching your kids at a park or playground has to be nicer yesterday than when it’s 90/72. Walking around Boston, even a backyard BBQ gathering without a pool. Yesterday already gave me that brief autumn feel which was hard for the body and mind to not think about darker days, and fading light. It was sort of weird, had that like going back to school feel when you were a kid with a cool breeze. Funny how visceral some the weather can be. Can totally appreciate just wanting the vibe though… over trying to say heat and humidity is preferred because of the off-chance you get too close to the edge and fall into Boston Harbor, and you won’t be cold when you climb out.

lol love how you get a nice day and the only redeeming quality is it’s good for manual labor .

Yeah it’s nice to sprinkle a couple refreshing air masses in from time to time. Also had a nice post work hike… lowest amount of sweat in a while. Though I was getting used to the total soaker hikes with dews of 70F where it feels like sweat is coming out of every pore on the body. Sucked while doing it but felt oddly refreshing afterward, like the body just gave itself a reset.

August 1st looking like a crisp afternoon. 4pm Temps on Tuesday…

Today was a beauty for any activity outside except swimming; tons of opportunities for adventure without chaffing.

56F, feels great having the windows and doors open.

Yeah that’s my type of month. 96F to 35F on the extremes. Huge diurnal ranges. Looks like Stein was alive and well then too. Bet that was a beautiful month.

Full on horror show if you hate nice weather.

For whatever reason one of my earliest memories of my father is him hitting a nest with the push mower and just taking off in a dead sprint past our living room windows. Don’t know if I ever remember him moving that fast again, ha. Mower sat there for like a day in the middle of the yard.

You walk outside on an absolutely gorgeous day and just get irately angry that it’s so pleasant out?

Then it’s back to 6 months of November weather masquerading as winter.

Wind chills below freezing are a nice change of pace for the top of the Gondola crew.

Gentle 0.40” synoptic rain today. Been a dry 24-48 hours so glad the ground can stay soggy.

Warm evening/night… only the Mtn valleys are dropping below 70F.

It’s getting to the point where the tell-tale sign of someone in too deep or too far gone is that they cannot see, recognize or acknowledge the bias in their preferred media, news, science, people telling them how to live their lives… folks look at it like a team sport and follow that compass blindly. That’s how we go down this societal path. 72/66… last day in the period. Front comes through here with dropping dews around midday.

Yeah that’s what I thought and the soundings show. RH though does increase with height, as the temp falls faster than the dew with height. I think some mistake dews for relative humidity… if the valley is 32% but say a hilltop is 40%, it doesn’t mean the dew is higher up there. The low level temp lapse rate is steeper and causing the increase in RH.

Do dews really max out at elevation? I guess I don’t follow how dews are higher the further up you go. RH is higher but are the actual dews increasing with height?