powderfreak

As sad as this dumpster fire season has been, I just tuned in to listen to Dennis Eckersley’s final inning of broadcasting. Listening to Eck get a bit choked up here in the 9th, going to be tough to fill his “pair of shoes.”

Humid dews down there?

I was just thinking about what’s different in winter vs now… it’s the temps relative to normal. This time of year (or spring, summer) if you are out of the precip and clouds… it’s warm/mild relative to normal. Smoking cirrus in January is like a High of 8F vs having an area of like 45F and sun north of a snowstorm. Now it’s like wow, nice comfy day. You miss south in winter and it’s like wow, its fukkin frigid and breezy.

Wild differences from SE NE to NW NE this week. In winter it’s hanging from Reindeer sweaters but this time of year it’s like the Sound of Music prancing through a field of color haha. Kev’s Ricola commercial comparison.

What a day to smoke some minor cirrus. The after work dog walk is not disappointing. Day after day of sunshine and mild afternoons following crisp mornings. Not sure it could get any more pleasant out here. 72/25 for 17% RH this afternoon at the ASOS in the valley. 10/10 all week long.

There will be plenty of runoff this winter for sure.

Huge body of water nearby and the Gulf Stream say “Hi.”

Dry air press? Good amounts from Springfield to Worcester. Stein keeps getting beaten into the ground.

Crawford Notch, NH today. Just a top 10 type weather day all around. Frosty morning followed by 60s and sunshine all afternoon.

From Stowe through NEK of VT into your neighborhood, then south through Crawford Notch… the best color is like literally the lower mellow slopes around Bretton Woods ski area itself. Even over towards Mount Washington, the lower slopes aren’t as colorful as like the 1300-2000ft elevations around Bretton Woods. Less color in the Notch and south. I think the actual hillside the ski area resides is the best color around, ha.

Let him create an account name of “PhinsNeighbor” and hope he can stay away from trolling some of the mid-Atlantic guys… everything would be all good, ha.

The Mount Washington Hotel. See Alex post it often, so had to check it out. I’ll say that view cannot be topped in New England.

The lunch view. I mean c’mon.

Drove over to Alex’s neighborhood in NNH… what a beautiful day. Car had temps in the 60s the whole way with full sunshine. Car peaked at 68F in Twin Mountain which might be on the high side and HIE showing 66F. Absolutely gorgeous day in the North Country to peep leaves.

An hour after your ob… and down to 34F here; Coos County knows radiational cooling. Shallow cold here, up at 1500ft is 42F. An 8-degree difference in 750ft is noteworthy.

Wow, chilly… we’ve been north of the clouds so high of 62F here off 27F min. Already down into the 30s again though at 8:15pm as the up/down seesaw continues. You guys are doing the low diurnal spread fall vibe, while up north seems to be running the sunny higher diurnal spread play.

Not a popular option and honestly it probably wasn’t designed to be. There’s a reason why passes were $2200 for one mountain in the past. Needs to be some significant economic disincentive on weekends because the demand is so far out of whack with the supply side economics. The on-hill lift capacity is higher than two-lane road capacity. People per car nationwide is way down since COVID too, so more cars to get the same number of skiers. Need a very long gondola like Little Cottonwood Canyon is trying to do up Highway 210. Alta and Snowbird have the capacity on-hill but the road can’t come close to matching it. They do the paid parking with reservations and it still hasn’t really eased the situation (even without avalanches and the such).

Yeah sunny and 57F now. Very nice out. Surprising how fast the body acclimated to cooler air. Later in the week looks nice. Next 3 days all show sunshine and 64F, 68F, 71F for maxes.

21F at SLK, ha. Thats the normal minimum for late January in BOS or late December at BDL.

Local PWS at 27F, MVL at 28F. We hard freeze.

37F. Chilly evening.

It does get dark real early. It’s like 2-3 hours it feels like. Used to have enough light to be outside till 9:30pm and now it’s like 7pm time to go inside.

Wouldn’t coastals be snow or only applies to above 32F coastals? Basically it’s good when one is worried about no precip and it shows no precip? It’s a tool like anything else, it’s run frequently enough that you can sort of find the HRRR run that’s right. It feels sort of like if a model is relatively correct for one or two systems we as a forum collectively are like, yup that’s the model to look at.

For all the HRRR bashing this summer by everyone, this seems like a wild change of events.

Sunset the other day from the top of Mansfield looking at Alex's neighborhood 75 miles away.