powderfreak

Yeah my wife has been saying those same things as she gets older, lol. Like if it’s not going to be a solid winter it’s just a very long period of gray skis and darkness that gets old after 6 months a year.

Yeah that’s Stowe CC right next door.

We kid and joke but even if I was living where you are I’d prefer 80/50 all summer like Will/ORH. The mountains don’t have much to do with it to be honest, just the activities that folks do out-of-doors from biking, tennis, golf, pickle ball or whatever… watching your kids at a park or playground has to be nicer yesterday than when it’s 90/72. Walking around Boston, even a backyard BBQ gathering without a pool. Yesterday already gave me that brief autumn feel which was hard for the body and mind to not think about darker days, and fading light. It was sort of weird, had that like going back to school feel when you were a kid with a cool breeze. Funny how visceral some the weather can be. Can totally appreciate just wanting the vibe though… over trying to say heat and humidity is preferred because of the off-chance you get too close to the edge and fall into Boston Harbor, and you won’t be cold when you climb out.

lol love how you get a nice day and the only redeeming quality is it’s good for manual labor .

Yeah it’s nice to sprinkle a couple refreshing air masses in from time to time. Also had a nice post work hike… lowest amount of sweat in a while. Though I was getting used to the total soaker hikes with dews of 70F where it feels like sweat is coming out of every pore on the body. Sucked while doing it but felt oddly refreshing afterward, like the body just gave itself a reset.

August 1st looking like a crisp afternoon. 4pm Temps on Tuesday…

Today was a beauty for any activity outside except swimming; tons of opportunities for adventure without chaffing.

56F, feels great having the windows and doors open.

Yeah that’s my type of month. 96F to 35F on the extremes. Huge diurnal ranges. Looks like Stein was alive and well then too. Bet that was a beautiful month.

Full on horror show if you hate nice weather.

For whatever reason one of my earliest memories of my father is him hitting a nest with the push mower and just taking off in a dead sprint past our living room windows. Don’t know if I ever remember him moving that fast again, ha. Mower sat there for like a day in the middle of the yard.

You walk outside on an absolutely gorgeous day and just get irately angry that it’s so pleasant out?

Then it’s back to 6 months of November weather masquerading as winter.

Wind chills below freezing are a nice change of pace for the top of the Gondola crew.

Gentle 0.40” synoptic rain today. Been a dry 24-48 hours so glad the ground can stay soggy.

Warm evening/night… only the Mtn valleys are dropping below 70F.

It’s getting to the point where the tell-tale sign of someone in too deep or too far gone is that they cannot see, recognize or acknowledge the bias in their preferred media, news, science, people telling them how to live their lives… folks look at it like a team sport and follow that compass blindly. That’s how we go down this societal path. 72/66… last day in the period. Front comes through here with dropping dews around midday.

Yeah that’s what I thought and the soundings show. RH though does increase with height, as the temp falls faster than the dew with height. I think some mistake dews for relative humidity… if the valley is 32% but say a hilltop is 40%, it doesn’t mean the dew is higher up there. The low level temp lapse rate is steeper and causing the increase in RH.

Do dews really max out at elevation? I guess I don’t follow how dews are higher the further up you go. RH is higher but are the actual dews increasing with height?

I guess you missed the disco this morning about sensationalizing weather… honestly every single news source in the US is a dumpster fire pandering to their customer base. A singular event happens and everyone already knows what slant each station will cover it with, so what’s the point. Wish we had a BBC, less opinions and more news.

You could write for CNN to sensationalize weather. Big storms, with huge lightning… the biggest lightning this planet has ever seen. Just massive bolts.

That graph he posted is what you are looking for. It spikes in full sun and then drops 15F when a cloud comes in. Sounds like you are looking for an unshielded thermometer just getting blasted by sun? The temp/dew is measured in the sun but it’s shielded, so sort of like “shade” as the actual instrument is not getting torched by solar.

I believe some were mentioning triple digits at some point too, ha.

That’s awesome.

Based on New England history, a successful SVR event is one weak TOR and some isolated straightline wind damage. We tend to enjoy the tracking more than the outcome… There were a lot of clouds around today; if today dawned clear and there was the same atmospheric profile? Things might have gone off. Can’t discount the amount of cloudiness. Some brief sunshine doesn’t really get the job done, compared to full insolation from sunrise.