powderfreak

When do you think where you live starts seeing summer weather?

Here's something I've noticed looking at western mountain web cams... this is Utah's Guardsman Pass that actually opened today. But that's not what stands out to me. In many of these western mountain areas still melting out from last winter, there are a lot of trees leafing out and greening up despite significant snowpack. In this cam view there are some trees greening up on the left side but they seem to be in barely snow-free zones around their roots. But the ones on the right side are in like 2 feet of super-dense remaining June snowpack. The vegetation is wild out west... just greens up and leaf's out regardless of snow on the ground.

Stations around town ranging from 0.15 - 0.67" depending on who got hit best. Very localized downpours at times. Basically sums up the past week. Varying layers of clouds, passing showers, temps in the 50s. What a start to June.

Occasional showers. Not a lot of QPF but enough to get you wet outside on a fairly regular basis.

Nah it was from 2022. Heres the full clip from SNY. Same green hoodie.

Can’t think of anything more cliche to puff out a chest and say “I could put people in the hospital.”

It actually sounds like that was from last year after a scuffle with the Cardinals. April 22, 2022.

Just spinning around and around and around. Are we going to go a full 7 days of this ULL influencing our weather?

Just rotting at 46-55F for days now it seems. Still mist and light rain. Only 0.20” water but spitting drops more often than not it’s felt like.

The air quality indices recorded from the southern tier and central NY, into NE PA, NJ, NYC, LI, SW CT are on another level. Like it was known that it would be smoky, but that "over-performed" today in very populated areas. Cancelling local sports, outdoor activities, even the Yankee game. The Syracuse Airport in NY went from 5:40am to 12:10pm without visibility going above 1.00sm in smoke! Binghamton was 1.00sm or lower from 10:30am until 1pm. NYC ASOS at 2.00sm or lower from 12pm to 8pm! Almost 3 hours of 1.0> visibility at 3/4sm. That type of sustained visibility reduction moving through the atmosphere as a smoke cloud has some awesome novelty. The path of the densest smoke was like tracking a heavy snow band moving through the northeast. Whole thing dropped across Lake Ontario and rode the outside boundary of the ULL. Huge aerial coverage. Pretty interesting day.

I will say it is something a lot of people have been talking about. My family doesn’t care about weather but the family chat from upstate NY, downtown NYC, Long Island, etc saw more activity today than probably any other day, even Christmas. People are fascinated by it.

Looks like NYC is taking the brunt of it, along with adjacent areas and still back towards the southern tier of NY. BGM has been 1-1.5 mile vis all day long.

Most weather discussions on here you’d think NNE was in another world .

I’m not sure how she gets from point A to point B to be honest.

She’s not far from the BGM airport, just lower down around 1,000ft. I sent her the BGM NWS tweet and she was like yup. End of world feel.

My sister in the Binghamton area just sent this. Said everything is orange, like a California wild fire is one town over. All school sports cancelled and kids can’t go outside at area schools.

After looking at those CNY photos that looks like a crisp fall air mass lol.

Flow came around NW and now it’s our turn. 47F at the ski area and heavy drizzle, soaking mist. We we’re doing ok on the east flow but now with NW it’s raw and damp.

Day 4 or 5 of this ULL influencing our weather?

It’s like the evening golden hour at 8pm… but middle of the day.

Yeah who knows. Also when discussing western US fires, we are dealing with conditions that are foreign to us so it’s hard to visualize. I remember the documentary detailing the sparks had the grass immediately next to the entrance to the shopping plaza. Santa Ana winds in CA sustained at 40mph, gusting 60mph through residential areas at like 6% RH and vegetation just looking for a reason to ignite… probably takes a lot less than we think. People talk about it happening and I can’t comprehend it in their terms… like see sparks or cig butt go sideways in gale winds and 4 seconds later an entire tree is on fire and spreading at 40 mph. The neighborhoods that have fire suppression systems are wild. Like the equivalent of sprinklers in a building… but outside and everywhere. When I was out in LA area it was like what are all these pipes running through brush everywhere? Ohh, it’s a fire sprinkler system.

Most often it’s campfires, BBQs in a park where coals are extinguished on a windy day. Cigarette butts out car windows blowing into roadside dry grasses. One of the largest California fires was witnessed starting by a lowered like Honda Civic (or one of those types) bottoming out while pulling into a Wal-Mart… sparks from the under carriage blown in 40mph winds ignited the grass and forest next to the lot.

I keep saying it’s bound to happen eventually but last week we almost had a heat wave and maxed at 93F… so it’s been here.

82F at BDL? Kev’s station would be like 75F. It’d be like me using BTV max temps.