powderfreak

Can charge triple if you add an old train doing laps to the mix too. Or even just a tractor pulling a trailer of hay for people to sit on.

It’s big business. They go Bar Harbor/Acadia to North Conway to Bretton Woods/MWN to Stowe to Lake Placid, NY then down to Lake George to Manchester, VT or the Berkshires (Williamstown or Stockbridge) and then back through Lakes Region of NH. Talk to a few dozen leaf peppers and half of them will hit a combination of those locations, without fail.

Yeah I’m with you. That’s why I hike the hill with my dog. No people and on my own in the quiet. I’m just saying there are clear economic principles at play in these things. Working and living in a resort town you realize the amount of wealth around the Northeast is staggering. The Notch Road is free (also a zoo)… Gondola would be a toss up but no matter what price point there’s 2K+ people looking to get on it a day in foliage.

Supply and demand. I’ve been getting notifications the thing is parked out and one up/one down within an hour of opening every day. Economics says that price will keep rising given crowd levels, ha.

83F MVL 84F BML 82F SLK 82F HIE Been a helluva few days for the NNE mountain valley sites. We seem to do spring and autumn torches best relative to normal.

79/61 yesterday at 12:10pm… 79/61 today at the same time.

It was hot inside yesterday evening after 87F and dews into the 60s. Temp was higher in many spots up north than they were in August. But if I was dealing with window units then they’d be out and I’d be fine. But flip the switch, cool and dry it out while eating dinner and the evening.

This is a high-end anomalous air mass, at least in NNE. Record warmth from Adirondacks/Whiteface to Greens/Mansfield to Whites/Washington. So it's obviously a torch at the H85 level. I'm a nerd and love seeing the elevational differences in different situations. The lower levels this time of year seem to be the hardest to mix out... surface inversion hard to mix out in some drainages/valleys? The spot that mixes the deepest aloft wins the surface temperature award? The elevated mountain valleys going the same temps as the larger low valleys. At full dry adiabatic rates, some of these temps would bring 90+ under 500ft. Some high-end heat in the Adirondacks. The fact that 2000ft in elevation was warmer than any day in August for a couple day stretch seems noteworthy.

Yeah we turned it on up here this evening. ASOS dews got up to 64-65F around NNE this afternoon. It was a summer day.

Actually, looking at the highs in NNE, interesting that most spots are clustered so close despite elevation differences. Shows that regional topography matters more than elevation? SLK is almost 1700ft and hit 86F… must be the high peaks region of the Adirondacks helping mix the atmosphere. Mountain slopes maximizing valley compressional warming? It seems like it doesn’t matter if you were at 300ft or 1700ft, the high temps would be about similar. 87F BML (1,160ft) 87F MVL (730ft) 86F SLK (1,660ft) 86F BTV (330ft) 85F MPV (1,160ft) 84F HIE (1,050ft)

Hoo Lee Fuk. MVL here locally hit 87F. Period of record is short but if 86F set BTV’s going back to 1882…. a degree warmer at MVL is mind boggling.

This is like a parallel universe.

The myth seems much more prevalent the lower in snowfall climo you go. Like no one in NNE ever talks about October snows mattering or not. Definitely just a low sample size voodoo thing for lower snow climo areas on the forums.

MWN hit at least 61F… October all-time high is 62F. It’s close.

BTV 86F. All-Time Hottest October temperature (at least back to 1882).

12:35pm today is 81F at MVL… yesterday 77F. 4 ahead up here. Its an absolute torch.

Long weekend punted for the peepers. Will be great color saturation in the low clouds and precip darkness, but as far as being outside to see it, this isn’t it.

Hot and foliage.

82F in the valley, and even record highs up on Mansfield. The warmth was in contrast with the foliage. It was summer vibes.

Ha I even hooked my wife on it. Never liked it cold at night for sleeping but with the mini split we just click the remote and start dumping outside 50s into the room. It’ll be like 53F in the room after midnight lol.

79/59. Feels like summer.

That map looks more realistic. Traveled to the Champlain Valley this evening and the foliage was lagging sharply from Waterbury onward to BTV. Lots of green. But it is coming. The color just enveloped Stowe from the N/NE… it will keep moving out into the north/central New England valleys, and then southeast in SNE toward the coast. Higher elevations first.

The Wasatch in Utah is such a snowy place. Love that we get a view into it these days. Live web cams and stake cams weren’t a thing back in the day. Had to wait for the RSN photo of the day. Resort Sports Network on TV at various resort towns filled the need for local and regional conditions info, weather, events, advertisements. There was no cellular and very limited internet (wired, dial-up)… so you had to get your info from a TV, snow phone recording, on a limited basis. Now we can just sit on our couches and watch it snow thousands of miles away. https://fb.watch/nrbfHEOaj6/?mibextid=97WSwf

It's coming along. Peak within the next 7 days. Need a good cloudy, darker day to really get the colors to pop. They always seem a bit washed out in full, bright sunshine. 76F today for the high, now 52F.

The leaves are on fire all the sudden. Approaching peak rapidly. No matter the year or weather… first 10 days of October is the time every year.