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Jelly. That’s 10 out of 10. 63F and sun is like 8.7 out of 10, ha.

The economic engine is hampered by work force now. The demand is there but restaurants that were 7-day a week operations are now 4-5 day a week operations. There are plenty of guests to do 7 day a week operations but can’t staff it. Wages are minimum $20/hr and some restaurants around here are at $30/hr now. But even being just a line cook for $70,000 a year won’t let you buy or rent around here. Also I have to imagine the margins weren’t great to begin with but if your whole restaurant staff is now filled with people making the equivalent of $50-$75k annually from hostess to line cooks, the margin has to be even less. The cost of food is up. Prices keep going up on the menu too.

Can’t draw up a Saturday in October any better. 63F up here in full sun.

Last night was stunning on the after work dog walk. It's the time of year where we now have to head down via headlamp with the shortening daylight. The trade off is hanging out up high at last light as the sky turns pastel colors and the alpenglow lights up the SW facing slopes red.

The upper SSE facing slopes of the Pesidentials (like the 3-5K spots at and above treeline) had to see more than a half a foot of water. It's topographical spot that would've condensed better than radar echoes showed.

He had a whole lot of friends on here right along with him for several months. It’s good to see the awakened folks realize it was futile. Mother Nature loves her averages… except if it has to do with cold . But moisture, it’ll even out.

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Models showing widespread 2”+ amounts possible seemed to do another good job at signaling region wide heavy rainer. Obviously there were less and more in different areas but tomorrow AM’s 48-hour totals should show a pretty large amount of 2”+ totals from NY all the way to the coast. Models have seemed to be doing pretty well the last 6 weeks signaling the heavy precip events.

He probably got blasted by south winds early on too. The Cocorahs station there had like 2.70” through 7am. Probably at least another 1.50” today?

Yeah there’s likely some of that with the decent wind flow and high PWATs… but the highest totals being on both the east (Waterbury, Stowe, Morrisville, et) and west slopes (Underhill to Montgomery) makes me think the boundary just stalled and waffled in this area too. Or the flow was just right in a critical Froude number to evenly distribute rainfall on both sides of the barrier. Last night on radar the line of convection sort of stalled and then got run over by slug after slug of moisture training over it. It almost went east of here but then backed up westward again into the Spine. Always some orographics in play but I think synoptically it was just where than boundary stalled. It’s still over the region now as that meso-low moves up in E. NE. It’s finally moving east again as the low reaches our latitude and tugs it again. I feel like the Whites had a more orographically induced rainfall with that southerly flow jamming moisture into them.

Ha this was oddly weird. First time I have ever noticed this station reporting to Cocorahs. That's my general area NW of village center and my rain total at about the same time this morning. Looks like he's up Week's Hill Road a bit. J.Spin taking the VT top total so far at 2.67".

Emptied 2.55” and it’s still raining steadily. Good overflow catch. Base of the Ski Area automated station just pushed past 3.00".

Base of the ski area automated station just pushed 3.00”. Moisture train continues.

Emptied 2.55” and it’s still raining steadily. Good overflow catch.

I don’t think I’ve had more than two full inner tubes all at once in a long time. Not the storm total… just having it all in there for the morning pour. Certainly have been “storm totals” of 2+ but often over a couple empties. The timing lined up with this one.

I don’t think I’ve seen this much water in my Stratus in a long time. Will need to empty soon. Most local PWS are 2.25-2.75” since 6pm last night.

This afternoon walking the dog it was raining leaves. Like just emptying themselves onto the ground. From peak, to past peak, to bare in like a few days.

Classic Kev lol… a couple posts saying something semi-exciting might happen in E.Mass and he’s like “Hold my beer while I type, I’m getting in on this too.”

Yeah I was figuring it’d be more unstable right if the track. Better mixing. Tracking that over E.CT should rip in SE MA.

I’d assume if that meso low goes left of you, it’s time to scream some wind? HRRR and NAM want to take it up over CT to like ORH… would assume you get much better mixing east of that thing right?

We also watch Covered Bridges. It’s been wet since Sept 1 and with trees/vegetation shut down largely… 2-4” should run off fairly efficiently. Anyone who sees 4”+ in the hilly E.VT area with narrower valleys and force multipliers could get interesting.

That’s a widespread soaker on the 00z HRRR.

3-6” to start? Go higher if need be?

Almost at 40 range here. 31F to 70F now. MVL seems good today, 70F fits regional observations.

One of these troughs will produce eventually. Just going to see them swinging through. Sooner or later with deepening wave lengths something will slow down and create a more prolonged flow.