powderfreak

No idea what the Stratus had but local stations were 0.55-0.75” in Stowe it looks like.

Yeah it’s very noticeable now. Mid-April sun angle. I’m not a fan either. Heading towards the dark season.

Wow, almost twice as much as Stowe in August. Wet.

Woke up to it pouring rain here in NE CT.

Yeah it will be funny when this warm season is completely done to compare total water amounts to our general perception of the season. I swear people on here think we’ve had two feet of rain up north when we are in total comparable to NE CT (just got there much differently).

Yeah that’s why I said I wish there was a map with number of days of precip… that would be interesting. I can’t figure out how to do it. I just chuckle because everyone thinks we are raking in QPF. If someone pulled this data up in 15 years they’d have a completely different opinion on the summer water than what we have in this forum where everyone thinks we are flooding rains up here. Looking back at the total precip summaries they’d be like hmmm, the same water from CT to Taunton as up north in N/C VT… 7-12”. Our water levels up north are very low BUT the vegetation is fine. Guess that’s why you water your garden lightly every other day or something over than flooding it once every two weeks.

Dude, most of your county has had more rain past 90-days than where I live . This is May 30th to August 30th. Up around me… 9.03” for Stowe’s Lower Village there. Tolland County has no spots under 8”, but up here we have a few. Just look at the two 90-day map totals. Everyone thinks we have been soaked. It just rains a little every day but totals wise, many from N.CT through Taunton have had more water.

Going back to May 30th through August 30th… Scattered zones of jackpots like Tolland County, parts of RI, Taunton to S.Shore. Another stripe in CNE and then NW VT. RT 2 in Mass and SNE south coast seems like ground zero for 90-day precip.

We really have been pretty dry. The totals are well below normal but frequency has saved us. The areas that got smoked this past week or so in SNE have passed us . Can just see it in the color of the dots on CoCoRAHS. The past 60 days the highest totals here in like N.CT, Taunton area, S.Coast, Lakes Region into adjacent Maine. East of the Spine here in the same zone as most other places. I wish there was a way to plot total days with precipitation, that would be highest up this way for sure. Past 60 day jackpots are darker colored.

Yeah I’m not home but looks like that first round was a swing and a miss in our area earlier this evening. Looks like 0.01-0.03” up and down RT 100.

I mean we’ve heard for years the NE Hills are magical. The sunny lawns are torched pretty good. I don’t see much evidence of trees/vegetation wilting but it looks like N.CT (even north of Kev) along the Mass line has gotten lucky a few more times. My uncle has to water at least somewhat, haven’t talked to him as it’s a shared family area but it’s like Augusta National all along the shore. Gets a lot of afternoon shade too.

Yeah I’d say a foot or so. My uncle has to water this lawn… there’s not a blade of dead grass anywhere. Looks like Stowe lol.

What a day in CT. Lush.

This is full summer. Tolland STEM says -27F dew point but it feels a bit more humid than that to be honest. 83F in the shade in North Woodstock but has to be 70F dews.

We also live in a technological age where we all hear about these things all over the globe on a moments notice. The connectivity plays a huge roll. Hell mountainsides in remote ranges have been calving off with rockslides and landslides since the dawn of time… now we literally have first hand cell phone video of them happening like within hours on social media. No weather or geological event goes unnoticed by potentially hundreds of millions of people anymore… when even in the 1990s and 2000s you may never of heard of it happening. Do not discount the current connectivity of the world. A small village in the middle of nowhere gets smoked and there’s cell phone footage now.

Speaking of drought… the world’s third largest river (Yangtze in China) and drying up are probably not phrases we want to hear. Even 50% less water in the world’s 3rd largest river is pretty noteworthy I’d think? Seeing as they use a huge amount of hydropower, that probably isn’t a warm fuzzy feeling.

Our winters now are probably what Jacksonville used to experience before the Industrial Revolution.

Thompson Dam was ridiculously low. That thing is like earth islands between large puddles. Never would’ve known half of that stuff was there under the surface. Saw some folks like walking on the bed surface that’s usually like 4-5 feet of water.

You’re starting to lose your mind, lol. You sound like your about a year away from living in Florida. What happens in a week? Pattern change?

It is hot in CT this afternoon, that’s for sure. ”It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity.”

Then in the spring when Lake Champlain is 38F and everyone else is in the 70s and the Islands/South Hero is 47F… that’s when it really shines.

Foliage or first freeze?

Charts.

Playing tomorrow afternoon before the rest of the family shows up. Looks like a warm one tomorrow with rising humidity?

It's the right time to embrace it for sure. Summer weather on lake time. Days are relaxed and easy, no work, no shoes, floating around with a Julius. Time to make the most of heat and humidity. The Woodstock Fair on Labor Day weekend too. Entire immediate family will be there all week too... plus extended family that also summers there. Should be a good time. Looking forward to some time down there.