powderfreak

He was so concerned with the vegetation this summer, good to see his plants surviving until Thanksgiving.

30F and dense freezing fog.

It's entertainment. That's why they do. Winter is like a sports team to root for. There's always hope for future glory.

Yeah that’s all very true. Our place has tripled in value. People are selling comparable places for a ridiculous amount of money. I purchased cheap in 2012 after the market sank and I was sick of paying rent… my rent payments were about the same as a mortgage payment so why not? Now we could sell for what I think is an obscene price for what we have, but where do we go? If I did not make the decision back then to just go for it, there’s no way I live in this town right now. And you are right that in VT there are a lot of jobs like teaching, law enforcement, EMT, etc that are now actually way behind the curve… the service industry was forced into high wages if they wanted to continue to operate. The same can’t be said for some other professions. I know a local teacher who’s 17 year old son makes more money than she does bussing tables in the evenings.

That dude makes a living off being a contrarian. Almost everything he says is to be against the grain, to get a reaction.

It’s wild how 15 years ago on like WWBB everyone would’ve been throwing fits. Now we are all genuinely like, yeah another mild couple weeks Is fine…we can enjoy it.

Yeah that’s my favorite winter I’ve experienced here to be honest. It was just steady and constant.

Oh I’m an idiot. I was thinking of October 2005. October 2010 was the wettest and whitest October on record at Mt. Mansfield, VT. The precipitation total of 14.71 inches (374 mm) topped the old record of 14.43 inches (366 mm) set in October 2006. The snowfall total of 34.1 inches (86.6 cm) broke the previous record of 31.8 inches (80.8 cm) set in October 2005.

I thought the big snows were later in the month. Interesting. The Stake had like 20-24” settled depth I think at the end of the month. The big one I remember was Wilma’s moisture getting entrained in a coastal storm. I thought that was more like the 25th of October.

If I know Ginxy it’s Sunday River. Also looks like it could be East Fall at Killington looking into the Canyon area but I don’t think the lift aligns right.

Electric and wood is where the cost savings are at. It’s cliche but oil dependence is a wild card more than the others.

Then he makes me look stupid, hitting a bomb in his 2nd at-bat. 46/43

Struck out first AB instead. He’s in a funk. The break between regular season and division series looks to have gotten him out of rhythm.

He on vacation? Can’t wait for the pics of him and friends getting shared here, ha.

Where do you guys find this stuff? We just come to chat weather lol. That’s a bit heavier than the usual temp observation posts. 57F off a max of 64F.

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.