powderfreak

Get a groundhog. Watched one of them absolutely vacuum dandelions off the lawn today.

Would it be possible to have heat on at one point in a week and then A/C another? Not a chance. I had heat one morning and usually some brief A/C in the late afternoon if the south facing windows are getting torched.

Haven’t had black flies up here yet. Still enjoyable to be outside. Great late afternoon for a walk to find snow to roll in. Can see the green spreading up the lower slopes on the left side of photo.

Wait… looks like ORH had a high of 48F last week (Thursday or Friday) surrounded by some low-50s. BOS had a max of 50F and min 44F (would indicate majority of that day was 40s). And ORH is running high. It looks like there was absolutely 40s last week in SNE? All easily verifiable on a phone while at a CVS . Spin-master.

You know that model graphics are often snapshots in time right? You see a graphic showing 40s doesn’t necessarily mean the high is in the 40s.

75F off a low of 37F. Might pull another 40 degree range today. Just rattling them off the past few days.

That’s a good day. These are probably some of my favorite temps during the high sun angle. First week of August sun angle, with 70s coupled with clear crisp mornings.

Yeah it's still going but coming along. Not sure I'd say full leaf out (like even the trees right side of that photo aren't there), but the ground is very green and bushes blooming very nicely. When it happens, it happens fast. A lot of fresh green moving through the valley elevations. Down here is fake cold heaven in the wide open areas at 700-900ft on the east slope valleys. Temp plummets like a rock once that sun goes behind the hill. On the flip side, the valley is also the warmest/driest RH during the day. Full sunshine and warmth gets those valley soils warming up. I'd say we have noticeable light green in the canopy up to about 1,500ft or a bit above. However above about 1,800ft it is still just barely trying to not look like November. There is just the very start of ground cover (ferns?) trying to pop out of the ground a few inches high.

lol heard there was a good sized one up near Lyndonville in NEK today. But yeah the fire weather statements have been out for burn piles.

70/28 is amazing. 21% RH and breezy.

What satisfies these guys? 3” per week, 9” per month all summer?

Up, up and away. From calm and cold to warm and breezy. Cracked 60F now.

28F and frosty.

Yeah we now have it there all the time with the mini-splits and it’s so easy to cool/heat at a moments notice…but I hated the look in the windows previously. In BTV I’d take the thing out and put it back in almost every other day as needed. Get a few days with low dews and windows open, thing went on the floor of the hallway closet, lol.

Yeah I mean not a bad question… why take them out if it doesn’t matter? Save the psychological stress of deciding when to put it in during the next spring.

This. It’s a very easy task that isn’t worth even thinking about or worrying about. If you want a window A/C in, you pick it up and you put it in. When it’s hot, or when it’s cold. Doesn’t matter. Pick it up, put it in. You just put them in, whenever you want. We aren’t replacing a roof or a boiler here.

Who uses A/C when the nights are in the 20s to 40s across the region?

Can see that smoke real well this morning on visible.

Hard freeze last night at 29F. Still early to let the gardens run wild.

The smoke from those fires isn’t that thick yet, certainly not enough to warrant a mask. <ducks> 37/32 at 10pm, should be a hard freeze.

59/25 with gusty NW winds. Nice day but chilly in shade.

A quarter-inch per day keeps Stein’s mental illness at bay?

Touché

Shoes come off before entering the house?

It strikes me this time of year, and early fall, why the “White Mountain” name fits in NH. The snow line just tickled the “Green Mountains”, where terrain above 4,000ft is pretty much non-existent. The zone between 4,000 and 6,000ft in NH can be very snowy when an extra couple degrees matter.