powderfreak

Looping the GFS and GEFS it is amazing how persistent the lower heights are around us and NW of here. It gets some brief SW flow at times but its wet and active. Looks like it would be a great winter pattern. Now we just get humid, clouds and occasional rain.

Not nearly as smoky as the 1-2 mile visibility stuff but pretty widespread 3-6 mile vis haze.

Damn. That’s a party. We’ll played.

Can see the haze is back... no where near as bad as it was last weekend though. Only 150 AQI instead of 250+.

Going to be wet.

Lol looks like a nice lawn. Anything but a tropical jungle is Stein? Cutting it short will always leave it vulnerable.

Don't look now but we've hit 80 degrees with partly sunny skies. There it is after a week of clouds and rain.

"Wet in some spots"... the aerial coverage of wetter than average out-paces the drier than normal across the region by a decent amount. Mother Nature drenched a lot of acres this month.

We put the dog in one of the bathrooms that’s center-most inside, with blankets and music. She still hates it but it’s a lot better than anywhere else. She doesn’t shake nearly as much. The town fireworks are essentially in our backyard. It’s 20 minutes of WWIII for animals. When she was 1 year old, she was outside by accident when they started and she fled in panic. I went to the first place I could think of that she goes when in doubt, and found her covering her body in water in the middle of the river; like you see animals go in a forest fire.

The fireworks at the ski area on the 3rd and town on the 4th are both legit displays. The Moscow village parade in Stowe and then the Stowe Village parade both good times. It’ll be a busy and packed town but the vibe is often awesome.

Honestly we are sort of at the point where Stein is just any below precip at all. It started as like legit drought and now if you are like a 20-minute thunderstorm below average in a month you are Stein/drought.

Been awesome today. Humid misty 60s.

What a summer so far. Low ceilings, dense fog and NW flow misery mist all day. MVL with 3-4 hours of -RN obs totaling under a tenth of an inch in classic misery mist style. High of 67F so far today in the valley… but thank god the dew is above 60F… Sure beats the Chamber Top 10’ers.

Looks like we finish today around ~.70” in the stratus. Will empty in morning for exact amount. Saw standing water this afternoon on a few Stowe Country Club greens while driving by. Another crappy day for outdoor recreation if you needed more than an hour or two dry at a time.

What did you have during that time to compare with? Those radar estimates can go both ways IMO, hit or miss. More hit than miss though.

Glad you got some too, figured it was starting to get dry without any rain in the past 12 hours or so.

Look like another line coming for you. Some big numbers again in E.VT and into NH.

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.