powderfreak

The fireworks at the ski area on the 3rd and town on the 4th are both legit displays. The Moscow village parade in Stowe and then the Stowe Village parade both good times. It’ll be a busy and packed town but the vibe is often awesome.

Honestly we are sort of at the point where Stein is just any below precip at all. It started as like legit drought and now if you are like a 20-minute thunderstorm below average in a month you are Stein/drought.

Been awesome today. Humid misty 60s.

What a summer so far. Low ceilings, dense fog and NW flow misery mist all day. MVL with 3-4 hours of -RN obs totaling under a tenth of an inch in classic misery mist style. High of 67F so far today in the valley… but thank god the dew is above 60F… Sure beats the Chamber Top 10’ers.

Looks like we finish today around ~.70” in the stratus. Will empty in morning for exact amount. Saw standing water this afternoon on a few Stowe Country Club greens while driving by. Another crappy day for outdoor recreation if you needed more than an hour or two dry at a time.

What did you have during that time to compare with? Those radar estimates can go both ways IMO, hit or miss. More hit than miss though.

Glad you got some too, figured it was starting to get dry without any rain in the past 12 hours or so.

Look like another line coming for you. Some big numbers again in E.VT and into NH.

Only one brief rainer today but a quick 0.40" in the Stratus. We'll see what later brings. Just every day. Clouds, mountains obscured, some downpours.

Yeah good call. Hat tip there. Haven’t seen the sun in days. Just another version of an ULL.

This thread needs more photos of said winter storms. 64/63

That’s true, no dry itchy skin. I usually only get dry skin in winter but May was doing it with all those like 20% RH afternoons.

What shitty pattern ha. It’s just absolutely sucked for outdoor activities. Rains every day. But at least the dew point is up there?

Yeah… Many of our hottest ambient temps have come in months like May in NNE over the past 5-10 years. We’ll pop a run of like 92-95F at NNE ASOS stations in May with buds on the trees and dew points of 38F lol. Then the rest of summer struggles to hit 90-91F. Tamarack seems like he records his hottest temps annually prior to full leaf out.

Large variability among small distances. The thunderstorms can rack up water in a very short period of time over a few pixels. This local picture is showing barely 5" in Stowe while Morrisville has picked up 7" and counting this month. Crazy to think a few local spots have picked up this much in a day or two.

They are just a big goofy animal wandering around, not trying to disturb anyone. Shy. Maybe curious. Easily spooked.

A good sized bear crossed in front of me on a ski area work road today. The work road is wider than it looks in the photos (supports F250s) and this bear took up the whole lane as he crossed. Good sized animal. He was just wandering toward me, head down. Then a gust of wind came from behind me towards him, and his head shot right up in alarm. I stayed still because I didn't want to spook him. Hate disturbing them because they are such scared animals. He ended up slowly walking away but then became more aware I was there and started to trot away unfortunately.

The comment on this CoCoRAHS report is awesome from over in the Andover ME flash flood area, ha. You know that's not a typo when the observer says that.

~0.35 today... haven't gotten truly hit yet in this cycle but have been nickel and diming it with some daily watering of the vegetation. Mother Nature providing about the water you'd want to hose down the garden with... not excessive but not noteworthy.

Holy shit. That road. Then the forest in the second shot like the trees grew in the middle of a river. That’s some rare stuff.

Storm totals since 7am:

Feels like a Taunton swamp out there.

We’ll be way above normal if the dews stay up. Radiational cooling is baked into climo pretty good here locally at MVL, the day time maxes would have to be very low to off-set mins in the 60s. The mins have a huge impact on us AN or BN.

That’s a great shot. Exceptional illustration of the Bahama Blue pattern.

Haha, yeah, not Chamber of Commerce weather… opposite of COC. I’m here for the documentation of scenes and daily life around these mountains, today was something I haven’t seen yet. Most of the previous smoke days over the past two decades were like 5-10 mile visibility haze. Today was a legit 1-2 mile smoke out.