powderfreak

This is a warm season AFD. Hazy, quiet, warm conditions after some record/near record temps. Summer vibe tonight. .NEAR TERM /THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT/... As of 703 PM EDT Wednesday...Mostly clear skies with some residual wildfire smoke will likely yield a colorful sunset tonight across the North Country. We likely tied or broke a few temperature records today looking at observations but we will wait until 8 PM to begin sending out any record statement as we want to ensure the data is correct. Otherwise, it`ll be a quiet night across the region with increasing cloud cover toward morning as a cold front approaches the region.

I bet the PWS is right. Just different settings between a wide open airfield and areas with more vegetation where people live. More evapotranspiration. Dews are a bit higher, temps a bit lower. I think your PWS is fine.

Smokey sunset.

Yeah I use MVL, took home the local heat award at 89F for max. That site can do it on these dry heaters. Local neighbor’s PWS was 87F though. BTV with 88F MPV with 87F. Already down to 72F MVL, 70F PWS. Those low dew afternoons drop fast once the sun starts lowering.

Sunday was cold, remember I was showing Mansfield was low-30s with strong wind and it’s a good 1000ft lower than Katahdin. That night was cold too.

88/52 Can we get 90F? 29% RH is how I like my heat.

Up to 86/52 now. Really nice heater out there.

Our ancestors put in so much time evolving, just so we could live in hermetically sealed dwellings of comfort .

Push of a button installs are my favorite.

82/54 here.

Dude I give you huge props for running every morning in that. They are absolutely brutal in the woods there. Back in high school and college, spending the summers living and working in Woodstock I would suffer through running the dirt roads through the woods around those parts (we were 1.5 miles from any pavement, so could do a quick out and back at 3 miles, or longer 5 mile loops with some minor pavement running). It was so bad that several times a week I would actually drive to the Woodstock track and athletic complex that was out in the open, mowed around it, tennis courts, etc. The deer flies didn't hit you at the track. Sometimes I'd rather run around in a circle 12 to 20 times at the track, bored out of my mind, than deal with 2-6 deer flies buzzing and trying to bite you the whole time while running the dirt roads.

So you don't have the "biting gnats." Just the annoying gnats.

Same thing essentially… gnats are the broad term for small annoying flies, ha. “Gnats are a broader category of small flies that can include black flies and other species. Black flies, also known as buffalo gnats or biting gnats, are small, dark flies that are active in late spring and early summer.”

I’ve never seen a worse place for deer flies than NE CT woods. Those things are absolutely relentless until you kill them. Then the horse flies that are the size of nickels, but they aren’t as bad as the deer flies.

Yeah she gets an anti-inflammatory if we notice her being a little sluggish. Overall though dogs are incredibly pain tolerant and it’s tough/sad because if they are showing it, it really hurts. I don’t take the dog hiking right now because I know she’d do it even if she was in pain. She’d drag herself up the mountain with her front legs just to follow me around. So I don’t put her in that position right now.

She’s on the IL at the moment… think partial tear in her knee. She ripped the other knee like 4 years ago and we got it fixed… worked great. However, now she’s over 10, not in pain unless she goes on long hikes… so she may just be a light hike or valley dog along the river. She can do 5 miles flat or like under 1,000 verts mellow… but the 2,000 vertical feet straight up Mansfield days may be done, sadly. It’s just too much hind leg stress the whole way.

Almost gone.

36F to 75F so far. Top 10’er. Hell, top 3’er this season.

36F here for the min. That was closer than I thought for the garden.

Would be the icing on the cake if everyone has to stay inside for another Saturday, but this time without power.

Starts Friday, ends on Monday. Sounds about right. That would be hilarious. Synoptically stormy pattern this spring. ICON and GFS though are north and make NNE swallow the uzi.

It’s like the old joke… “I can’t wait for summer in Vermont. Last year it was on a Tuesday.”

We've got some showers moving back in. Wonder if we can get some June flakes up top. 850s are -1C up at 4,500ft. 3,600ft showing 34F on the snowmaking system. BTV going full on snow level discussion for the last time of the season, haha. Upslope showers are lingering along the western slopes but they will gradually diminish during the rest of the night. Snow levels likely range between 3,000 and 4,000 feet, with the lower values over northern New York and the higher values over Vermont. Whiteface at around 3,000 feet is 33 degrees while Mansfield at around 3,000 feet is 37 degrees. Snow levels should drop a bit more as the night goes on. Raw model soundings generally have the freezing levels drop to around 1,000 feet above SLK and 2,500 ft above BTV by morning, but those may be overdoing the cold air slightly. These snow levels will not end up being that significant because profiles continue to dry for the rest of the night so there may not be any precipitation once the coldest air arrives. These snow levels will gradually rise during the day today and they should mostly be above summit levels by evening, and they will stay that way, possibly for the rest of the season.

That smell is woodsmoke on June 1. God I hope we can flip the minisplits from heat to AC this week.

Nice jackpot. Looks like 1.25” here in town. The ski area had 2” and it looked like some west slope spots had 2.5”. Was mostly a long duration synoptic rainfall here without true convective rates. The rainfall seemed efficient though, even lacking convection.