powderfreak

Hold up. Don’t you bitch and moan that no one wants to wear hoodies in mid-summer when someone posts that its below 75F in the evening? Then when you experience an afternoon high of 72F you wear shorts and tees “well into the night?” Something isn’t adding up there… hmm, smells a bit weird out, kinda like we stepped in bullshit .

36F at MWN with wind chill of 19F . Chilly for the hikers.

Yeah I see MVL has been bouncing around 57-64F depending on solar the past two hours. Lots of variation in the 5-min temps. 59F at 12:30pm and 61F at 1:30pm. Dews of 44F. That’s some legit fall-like airmass. I have 74F and low humidity in NE CT.

Upgraded the fabled east slopes of the Greens. Green as can be but ground water is low. Saw Stowe saw the daily 0.13” in the past 24 hours. Nice to see Taunton area recognized and downgraded.

It must be hard to read about humans having positive, pleasant memories of anything.

That makes sense, or at least some low level enhancement on cyclonic NW winds off Ontario. Bonkers to have 30”+ lollipops from the mountains of NC all the way up through the northern Champlain Valley (likely into Canada too). I wish we could see something like this with today’s model data. The media hype would be off the charts if a 48-hour ECMWF prog was showing this lol. “Nah it’s wrong, ain’t happening” - this forum.

The record books say only 1888 I think was better, but I haven’t read much on the wind during that event. Either way as a kid that 1993 storm was one of my first true snowstorm memories as like a wow, this is on another level compared to snow we get around here. I’m not sure if it blocked out everything before that but I can’t remember any specific snowstorm prior to that in my childhood. Anyway, nice trip down memory lane. I love when Will starts posting more frequently, we start talking snow.

But the best was even further west it seems. SYR with 42” from March 1993?! 35.6” of it in 24 hours. Holy crap. SYR records: 1. 35.6 inches of snow in twenty four hours (10am Saturday - 10am Sunday.) The previous record was 27.2 inches set in January 1925. 2. 22.1 inches of snow on Saturday, March 13, breaking the old snowfall record for that date which was 4.1 inches set in 1961. 3. 19.9 inches of snow on Sunday, March 14, breaking the old snowfall record for that date which was 8.6 inches set in 1956.

Ha, I just had to look it up, KALB gusted 53mph during the height of it it looks like. Guilderland, NY, next door to childhood home was 29.6”. That combo of 50+ wind and ~30” of snow is likely hard to beat in the Hudson Valley/Capital District area.

I have some photos from my childhood home somewhere, that I truly believe is the largest/best snowstorm in my lifetime at that location. Drifts were 5+ feet around the house and the Hudson Valley doesn’t really do windy/drifty snowstorms. It looks like it had to be 30” on the level and it was dense wind-packed. There have been deform band 20-25” storms but the snow was just different in March 1993. It was packed like concrete. I know ALB gusted 50-60mph in that which is nothing for you coastal dwellers but in the Hudson River Valley that’s unheard of in a synoptic snow IMO.

Feels like a Vermont evening in CT. Spreading the wealth. Except a few rounds of showers have moved through at home to keep the daily garden wartering. Looks like 50s at home and 0.06” rain. High POPs, low QPF pattern continues up north.

Could take another March 1993 if we are asking for things.

Yeah this is Chamber. I see BDL is 82/54…makes sense… it definitely feels like upper 70s here over mid-50s. Breezy too. I see back home is low 70s over mid/upper 40s.

Yikes!

Really? I see fox all the time during the day. Maybe it’s different at the mountain than in a suburban or urban setting? They are all super skittish.

Holy sh*t.

Yeah this year seemed better than recent years to me to be honest, but I think in some recent summers it’s been over-the-top style heat that’s baked us almost more so relative to normal. This summer felt more gradient with the cooler air nearby in S.Quebec. Felt like half the days were COC up here while Bob in TAN was posting Dominican Republic type obs. I know for sure there’s some differences of opinion between up north and 3-4 hours drive south that hasn’t been present in recent years. Next summer probably goes back to full latitude trough in the East.

We have a bit more luck further north where dry NW flow can help. Up in more NNE we are probably getting what SNE used to get after heat. But we’ve had some nice breaks up here…. Heat wave followed by a stretch of below normal… 4-5 days of mins in 40s, even a high in the 60s. But note the high end is +10 to +15 departures, then -3F to -7F cool shot. Averages above normal. But I feel like we’ve had some nice relief behind heaters when you get 40s nights and highs upper 60s to low 80s.

That’s nuts. We found the “winner.”

Yeah it was lining up real nice through the 4th of July week. June had to be one of the best warm season months in a long time. Big diurnal ranges. I think up north we had more influence even during the hot/humid periods of July/August from those drier Canadian air masses and the SE Canada troughiness that persisted… it felt gradient-like a lot of the time.

Are you the Manchester station with like 8”+ this month? Lol. That one stands out like a sore thumb.

I had another friend go to a wedding in Huntington at Sleepy Hollow. Great area. Some much needed rain last night area wide.

Sounds like the entire month of June and first half of July too.

PWS nearby is at 2.99” on month (my stratus is usually pretty close to this station). CoCoRAHS Lower Village is 2.60”. 16 days in the month with measurable rainfall though for under 3” total. After all the ribbing am I on the lower end this month in the forum? .

You guys got hammered in that retro-coastal storm. Can definitely see the differences in amounts in NW ME into N.NH on that map posted by Sey-Mour.