powderfreak

MSS in N.NY broke their record high prior to noon today with 75F (old record 74F in 2012. POR to 1948). BTV has broken their record high with 76F (old record 75 in 1963. POR to 1884).

Killington often gets a 300 vertical stripe of white. Stowe (in that picture) never opens until the weekend prior to Thanksgiving at the earliest, even if there was 6 feet on the ground.

6 years ago today up here. Deep winter. Top to bottom snowmaking, solid natural snow cover. Today it’s more humid than the whole month of June was.

66/63 and OVC at 2200ft. Its wild that it’s been this mild, humid and we haven’t seen anything close to sunshine. Just low clouds and claustrophobic valley syndrome where it’s just terrain rising into thick stratus.

Minimum of 59F last night at the ASOS at the 12z ob roundup. MVL’s average max is 52F right now, average min of 32F.

Yeah last year was 242” at the Stowe 3,000ft level which left a lot to be desired. Mansfield snow depth peaked at 62” at the end of April, ha. Last year was rough, IMO. I also feel like we’ve had a few seasons in a row of “meh”. Nothing truly stands out.

66/61 at 8pm. Nice summer evening out there.

70/61 up here. Full on torch for end of October.

64/59 at the ASOS. Its straight humid today.

57F this morning leaving the house. That’s a warm night.

Driving from N.VT to ALB to BGM to ALB to N.VT over the past few days. There was a wide variety of elevation differences, micro-climates, and lots of fall vibes... scene this morning passing north through the eastern Adirondacks. Car thermometer bottomed out around here but it was 51F even here at this elevated lake basin in mild for late October. SLK valley got to 70F for a max at 1,600ft.

That BTV coverage is misleading too. That beam runs into mountains and higher scans go too high, well before it gets close to NH. That map looks like you can see CON area on the outskirts… can barely see a couple counties east of the rad site in reality .

The bolded is the real crux of the community issue. The home inventory that was removed from that $100-$200k annual family/couple income class (even spouse couples making $250k around here) in many areas has definitely upped the ante. The teachers, police, city hall employees, middle management to director levels of hospitality/service industry, business owners, etc are all out on buying stuff around here now it seems. I think about what Phin’s place went for, the land, size, view, etc. That might get you a fixer upper on small land around here now. Or maybe just a 2-3 bedroom condo/townhome? I’m tempted to go all in to some remote spot but I missed that boat by a few years lol. Even if you find something you can afford, it’s bought cash sight unseen overnight. Forget the time to make sure financing is in line. That’s one of the biggest hurdles for most of the folks who could’ve worked towards those $250-$750k level homes…competing with all cash offers, no inspections, etc on real short notice and they are all now $750k+. It’s just market forces at work and it’s no one’s fault… no person has a right to live somewhere anymore than another human… but it’ll be interesting to see how the communities proceed because you still need prime age work force people to make things “go.”

There is but this is why I commented on it being different than Mexico/US. Walls, barbed wire, big stations and endless patrols… vs friends who grew up in N.VT talking about riding their ATVs across the border many times on the hundreds of off-road vehicle paths. Most crossings trigger sensors but most of the time no one is coming after you. One friend said occasionally they’ll come find you and escort you back to your side of the woods. Some of those border crossings though are literally like a house with one maybe two Agents in them. People cross them for daily life.

Started in Middlebury and got big… they were most popular in late 1990s and early 2000.

Add me to the list. About a dozen seem to find their way indoors every mild sunny afternoon. I remember as a kid it was this time of year, my father had already removed the screens for winter storage. It was unseasonably warm/hot so I opened windows in my bedroom. I came back hours later to every walk and the ceiling just covered in ladybugs. Like hundreds of them. I remember my dad bringing up the ShopVac and being like “knock yourself out, have fun” and I spent the next hour sucking them off the walls.

Yeah they were big back in my UVM days… Dispatch was playing in many a dorm room a couple decades ago.

That’s the one! I thought I remembered it splitting a main building.

Some of those border towns are wild. Like one sidewalk in Canada the other in the US. I think there are a couple buildings up there literally bisected by the international border. A little different than the border environment down along Mexico/US.

I love the getting rid of the time criteria. Makes it much more cleaner. BTV already said they were switching it up. My question for you… with no time criteria though do you issue Warnings now for the backside upslope zones all the time? I mean you get a 3-6” synoptic system and then wrap around puts down another 3-6” giving 6-12” over like 30 hours? With no time criteria, it’ll be interesting how it’s handled. The mountains here or J.Spin can get to 7”+ “storm total” at 2-3 inches every 10 hours from snow showers. Or is that where impacts come in? Despite a 3 day total of 12” there were never any real bad impacts.

30F to 72F at MVL… but I’m down in ALB where it’s only 70F, ha. A tick warmer up in Stowe.

The weather this afternoon was phenomenal. Full sunshine, temps upper 50s, dews in the 20s... dry mild sunshine. Had to leave work a little early to make sure we had some daylight to wander around outside with man's best friend. The forest floor is just as colorful as the tree canopy now in the lower elevations.

Hopefully, that sounds awesome. Record maxes right now are still in the 70s here. Record mins in the teens. Today is a dream. Left work early, grabbing the dog to go wander the mountains until it gets dark. 57/26 and full sun.

You definitely like your seasons “early” climo-wise if that makes sense. You want spring warmth and sun by Morch not May…you want HHH no later than Memorial Day, not July 4th. Autumn chill (highs 40s) by October 1st and deep winter settling in by Thanksgiving. Ready to move onto the next season very quickly at the first hint that one season might be waning at all.

Yeah of late, but I still think our region wide chances of a huge snowstorm climo wise is higher in March? Need like December 2007 or 2008 or 2009 type months… weren’t those relatively good years? Maybe not 2009?