powderfreak

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.

Yeah it’s gotten worse in town the past hour. It’s real bad… I wonder if the nocturnal inversion that tries to set up each evening with clear skies aloft and calm winds is sandwiching the smoke in the lowest few thousand feet now. MVL ASOS down to 1.5sm visibility now. Heres a shot from work earlier of the plume enveloping the mountain.

79/70 tropical stifling air mass with 0kt calm wind and 2 mile visibility smoke. What an evening to be alive. KMVL 252154Z 00000KT 2SM HZ CLR 26/20

This is definitely some of the worst I’ve seen for smoke. ASOS are widespread 2 mile vis now. Up here it still seems a mile at best. It is very thick. We missed the earlier smoke plume a few weeks ago. “This event is reminiscent of the Memorial Day Smoke Out event in 2010, but in some cases has become even worse with regards to air quality based on AQI estimates. Several airport sites are now indicating visibilities below 3 miles, and we have received reports of dense smoke in areas including the northern Champlain Valley and Northeastern Kingdom of Vermont. Unfortunately, this smoke will be stuck and even expand farther southward down the Champlain Valley through tonight.”

Have to be down under 2 miles now, maybe 1 mile. Lost all visibility of any surrounding hills/mtns from the Picnic Tables. Can’t see the base area either. MVL has been declining steadily, now 4 mile haze.

Seems similar here. Probably about 3 miles before everything disappears.

The smoke is really bad up here. Can smell it. Mansfield is very hazy even right from the base. I have no idea how MVL is 10 mile vis.

Looks like FVE, MWN, and HIE are the only reporting stations in all of New England with a dew under 65F. Edit: Whoops, what’s the spot SE of PWM over the water?

I just think there are a good amount of folks who can wear jeans, carharts, pants all summer at 80-85F or even higher… which means there must also be folks who can sleep at 65F with a fan. My wife would never use A/C and she actually adds blankets when it’s on. She also spends her days largely indoors at work and complains about being cold all the time even in July due to industrial HVAC A/C cranking at her work . I’m outside a large part of my waking hours so I enjoy the chill from time to time when coming inside. We A/C last night.

Not one of those posts mentioned cool or adding a blanket. What a salesman . I picture your mind like the opposite of one of those AI text generators. Put in a few words and something completely different comes out. ”We we’re ok last night without A/C. Window fan. Tolerable if not comfy.” Comes out as: ”Barely survived the chill. Had to light a fire. Thought about skinning the dog and cat for extra warmth.”

We’ve been meh too. Fronto band has been like 5-10 miles NW and on western slopes. Some spots over 2” just west of Mansfield. Jay Peak to BTV suburbs drenched.

Yeah it’s sort of like sitting in -20F and saying “this is comfortable”… it does seem like those who want it, like it because it’s noticeable and noticeable is exciting in a sense. It’s the uncomfortableness that is the driving factor. That’s probably why some truly have no use for truly comfortable weather… it’s boring. They want to go to Grad parties or gatherings and have everyone comment on how humid it is, how smokey it is, how hot it is, how wet it is, how dry it is, etc. Pleasant is boring is how I understand it.

Yup. 330pm… 84/50 615pm… 82/61 More clouds high up too.

84/54. Trading some dews for higher temps. BTV at 86/52.

Yeah it’s swarming us… over the top and crowding in. The CAD crew may be last.

Yeah true, it’s all relative. I just still think the Sierra snow out there is bonkers for this time of year. Going into July and lakes still thawing. Even Utah melted pretty fast on the whole. Alta and Snowbird had 850-925” or whatever it was, but they melted at a faster rate than 2011’s snowpack (also a big year, but not as big) based on SWE graphs.

Yeah I don’t know if I was talking about it but I remember that Payne Stewart accident. The fighter jets found the windows all iced over or something, knew they were gone. Then followed it until it crashed into some fields hours laters.

Ha like this is 9,600ft in Colorado at a higher latitude. It's all sort of relative. But these guys didn't get 60 feet of paste last winter. That stuff in the Sierra is like how glaciers start.

Ehh they are at like top 10 percentile or higher right now. 800% of normal. One zone there on the Nevada/Cali border is 3,300% of normal. As someone who pays attention to a lot of the ski areas and snowpack out west… that’s nuts for almost July 1st. 8,000ft isn’t *that* high. Even 9-10k feet that’s ridiculous for right now. But I also get it’s the East and we just assume all west is buried all the time at elevation and hard to conceptualize when it’s wow and when it’s business as usual.

Could be in Mammoth Lakes for the summer. On the Solstice lol. That’s nuts.

My parents were there yesterday and I think they are going again today.

46F… last 40s for a while?

It's coming. We avoided it for another evening. Windows and doors may get closed later tonight as that air works it's way in. By 2-3am it gets pretty chilly inside. This next week will stay elevated at night while folks sleep. 59/54 off a high of 83F.

Would’ve been a great story, like the cave rescue. Sort of glad they just got eviscerated immediately though, instead of a slow 3+ day death. That was a news story that captivated the world. Likely because it plays to most people’s worst fears. Slowly dying under water. And unlike Malaysia Airlines, the public knows what happened, it makes sense.

Ha I was just thinking that. We had RH drop to 28% and 82F felt plenty hot in the highest sun angle. Raising dews by 20 will be felt.