powderfreak

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.

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.