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Ripton drains that western slope just east of Middlebury… they have to be seeing some issues/damage with 2”+ verifying or even on the low-end compared to local PWS.

Right? We love rain and clouds... but the dews! The fun part of today was running into this weird looking dog at the mountain.

Hopefully. It’s rained twice here today now. I’m so f*ing over it .

Oh the 12km NAM, yikes.

Almost identical swath. This would be a problem for central/southern areas again.

High water levels continue for the foreseeable future in many areas and rivers of New England. May not be newsworthy levels but the bulk of New England is pretty saturated, besides the SE desert.

Tonight was one of the more prolific lightning displays I've seen in a while. The cloud to cloud spider lightning one the storms passed was what really put it over the edge.

Some scattered 1.5-2” footprints on a few PWS stations, primarily central and southern Greens, but mostly it seemed like 0.25”-1.00” rainfall in the mountain drainages.

0.74” in the Stratus. That fell in about 15 minutes total.

Yeah I’m right there… like a handful of pixels NW. Right on Mountain Road and the Rec Path. But if you use default “Stowe” and go a shade NW that’s literally overhead.

My address is the Stowe dot on this radar. I labeled it Stowe but that’s my literal address. Is there a way to get lat/lon off it? If you are to zoom in, default “Stowe” on RadarScope is like 1 mile ESE on RT 100 (the road shown).

This is some insane lightning and rain. Holy shit. Strobes and buckets of water.

We just got very lucky here. Given everything the past few days the last thing I wanted was to be without power. All set on weather right now. Radar velocity shows we just missed a good pulse of 50kt wind like a mile or two to the north.

Tor Warning Base Scan

We were in the upper 50s most of last night, min of 57F. Felt nice to open the windows for a night. Now raining.

65/61. Nice evening outside for sure. Mosquitoes are absolutely ferocious though.

Ha, true. California then if it’s not charred out rust.

I think that applies in any and all cases lol. Always buy from down south.

Yup, that kid in Johnson said everyone is just piling stuff in their yards now. Note height of water compared to the fence. The first step is just get EVERYTHING out of the house and start over from there. This the second floor window they went out of later that night at 3:30am with life jackets on from their canoe.

Haha I’ll never forget that.

Just talked to one of my winter seasonal employees in Johnson… him and his roommate lost everything on their first floor. They put life jackets on at 3:30am Monday night and went out their second story window in a now or never as the water came up their living room stairs. They waded through chest high water to higher ground at his roommate’s girlfriends house. Ho-lee-fuk.

Saw this one from Orleans, VT from Monday. Nice little slide.

They've announced they are closed indefinitely. It doesn't sound like a sure thing they will reopen. The community needs that store.

Civilization has occupied vulnerable places in the past. Back in the day, being near a water source and in the warmer valley climate with good soil was the recipe to survival. This event hit those areas.

The early observations, and final rainfall totals really showed the topographical effects of this event. It was a textbook SE flow orographic event that coupled with favorable upper level dynamics. High moisture levels (high dews and PWATS), abnormally strong prolonged moisture transport, with the NWS noting closed circulations aloft over western NY as the event developed... that just funnels moisture from the Atlantic up into the terrain reaching from western CT/adjacent NY northward through the eastern slopes of the Greens. In Vermont, there was low level orographics coupling with favorable upper level lift that took this precipitation event into historic levels. Just a wave of moisture into the terrain off the Atlantic, with peak efficiency occurring on the east slopes like a blocked flow. Best lift was upstream of the barrier and in the zone of rising air out of the upper CT/White River Valley.