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Snowpack is solidly below normal on Mansfield… about 50% of normal for this time of year. Probably got another week or two left.
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58F dim sun. Looks like we are reversing our fortune after the past couple days.
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So chilly but with summer daylight well past 8pm, it feels like it should be warmer.
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I just read “The Last Traverse” book about a winter death and rescue on Lafayette and that was a good read about that area. Rescuers find two bodies on the ridge frozen. One is barely alive and they save him, lowest body temp recorded in the U.S. to survive…. One survivor to tell the story, and those National Guard guys are cowboys in the blackhawks up there in 70mph winds at night. I’d recommend if anyone is looking for a quick but intense read.
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I didn’t realize how cold this trough would be. It’s been flurrying and spitting snow all day out of slate gray skies around 40F at 1,500ft with steep lapse rates. I figured it would try to warm up but not really at all.
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I’m in sandbar mode too. This is like November but with twice the daylight length. Nothing is going to accumulate but just spitting snow showers on May 8th, with a backdrop of sticks. Not a lot of value here, ha.
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Did I miss something?
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Ha, it’s like legit snowing now.
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Light snow/flurries up here at 1,500ft base of ski area, ha. Phenomenal.
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Yeah we have started with some stuff and it was really just this week, but still largely sticks especially just out of the valley floor above 1,000ft. I can tell it’s about to explode though. Feel like we need another 1-2 days of sun and mild and it would go full green everywhere.
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32F… kind of has a November vibe with not much greenery and still stick season. Weird with the long daylight though. Bring back the 70s.
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79F yesterday to this disaster is cruel. Ashamed to say had to put long pants back on today as 43-45F was not cutting it in shorts.
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44F and about an inch of rain. What a day.
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37F to 79F… what a day.
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Had 37F for a min and already 64F. Just straight up temperature curve.
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Turned into a great afternoon. Got up to 67F and sunny after 40s and rain this morning.
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Oh I wasn’t saying put your plants in the ground. But you cannot say that currently you’d expect 5/26 to be the mean last freeze in whatever climate we’ve got going. Sure, could pop a 30F on June 1st… but you know what I was getting at. Go look at those summer minimum temps from 1955-1975 and tell me that’s not different from what we see on average lately. It’d be entertaining to see mid-30s in CT valleys in July, always a chance.
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34F in July of 1956 and 34F in August of 1956. 9 of the first 12 years of that Coventry station back in the the 1950s and 1960s saw July min temps in the 30s. Good luck with that today. Looking at that reminds me of when Dendrite posts the old CON data and it just looks so far fetched to what we see these summers at night.
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The data looks fine for the time frame... but given how we've seen last frost/freezes move over the past three decades, that could be like two weeks earlier now. It looks like the coldest was when the station started in the late 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s if you toggle to the late freeze dates. Skews almost to June 1 back then and then has been moving up until the last May/June data in 1990. https://wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?ct1689
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Oh the Coventry, CT data ended in 1990... ok that makes sense of 5/26 back then. No way that still holds true 30+ years later.
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What's the climo period for that one? No way the past 30 years last 32F average is 5/26 there?
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Radiators mount up. 30F here and 42F up the road at base of ski area.
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I picture like the boiler room in the Titanic… shoveling coal into the fire.
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48/25 is apparently dry enough to get frozen down here… graupel and mangled chunky flakes for a 3 minute shower. Dog came in with frozen pellets on her back.
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40s all day and powered through with shorts on. About half a dozen layers on the upper body though, ha. Channeling my inner DIT.
