powderfreak

It’s like in winter, have a huge January and everyone gets 30-60” of snow (July’s 10-24” rain), it’s cold and active pattern… folks start wanting to run it back in February. But there’s a brief break. Just a “couple days before it comes roaring back” it’s said, next thing we know it’s after a week… then 10-12 days we’ll get back into it… by mid-month for sure. Everyone would be bailing and in full panic if it was supposed to be a few day break in a pattern, that’s now 10-14 days.

lol, a Great Lakes trough is great and all but it’s only one part of the puzzle. If it’s elongated across New England it’s not going to do anything close to how July went… with the GL trough encountering serious resistance from ridging in the maritimes that allowed for moist/humid air to stream well north over and over.

That doesn’t look like an exact replica at all except for the fact that yes there is a trough across the north. We had higher than normal heights over the NE and into Maritimes. That look wouldn’t have given CAR is warmest July. @Damage In Tolland spot the differences… we were the battle ground in July, on the gradient. Not in the map you showed.

Now this feels more like autumn. 66/45 with NW gusting 22mph under FEW skies. Summits struggling to get to 50F.

46F will be the low it looks like.

48F so far. SLK at 37F lol.

52F to close out the month. It’s got an autumn vibe this evening. I guess it really only feels like a September evening to start August, which is really about what a bit of troughing should be this time of year up here. 45 in SLK at 11pm is wild, should hit 30s.

My marketing and photography background can only envision the ideal Pleasantville scene perfectly. There’s a weather “type”, you know it when you see it.

It’s true. Today wasn‘t at COC levels in respect to the true meaning of the phrase. Chamber of Commerce is the weather you’d see on a town’s brochure or marketing collateral. Smiling faces walking around because they are so comfortable in such a nice environment, ha. Sky needs to be mostly sunny to small puffy Cu. Not all humidity driven. I’d even wager that COC for a beach or oceanside/coastal community should be more hot and humid than inland. Sunny warm/hot day is what they would use in a Chamber brochure there for a beachside vibe.

Yeah I don’t think my parents place ever really hits 90F nor does it drop below 60F. It just loves to be humid and like 70-84F around the clock, little diurnal changes.

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.