powderfreak

Ha this was oddly weird. First time I have ever noticed this station reporting to Cocorahs. That's my general area NW of village center and my rain total at about the same time this morning. Looks like he's up Week's Hill Road a bit. J.Spin taking the VT top total so far at 2.67".

Emptied 2.55” and it’s still raining steadily. Good overflow catch. Base of the Ski Area automated station just pushed past 3.00".

Base of the ski area automated station just pushed 3.00”. Moisture train continues.

Emptied 2.55” and it’s still raining steadily. Good overflow catch.

I don’t think I’ve had more than two full inner tubes all at once in a long time. Not the storm total… just having it all in there for the morning pour. Certainly have been “storm totals” of 2+ but often over a couple empties. The timing lined up with this one.

I don’t think I’ve seen this much water in my Stratus in a long time. Will need to empty soon. Most local PWS are 2.25-2.75” since 6pm last night.

This afternoon walking the dog it was raining leaves. Like just emptying themselves onto the ground. From peak, to past peak, to bare in like a few days.

Classic Kev lol… a couple posts saying something semi-exciting might happen in E.Mass and he’s like “Hold my beer while I type, I’m getting in on this too.”

Yeah I was figuring it’d be more unstable right if the track. Better mixing. Tracking that over E.CT should rip in SE MA.

I’d assume if that meso low goes left of you, it’s time to scream some wind? HRRR and NAM want to take it up over CT to like ORH… would assume you get much better mixing east of that thing right?

We also watch Covered Bridges. It’s been wet since Sept 1 and with trees/vegetation shut down largely… 2-4” should run off fairly efficiently. Anyone who sees 4”+ in the hilly E.VT area with narrower valleys and force multipliers could get interesting.

That’s a widespread soaker on the 00z HRRR.

3-6” to start? Go higher if need be?

Almost at 40 range here. 31F to 70F now. MVL seems good today, 70F fits regional observations.

One of these troughs will produce eventually. Just going to see them swinging through. Sooner or later with deepening wave lengths something will slow down and create a more prolonged flow.

A ton of people talk about that. How their camera or iPhone doesn’t do the scene justice of what they are seeing. A lot of people get frustrated by it. Like “this tree is literally glowing red in front of me but then I take a shot with the phone and it looks so bland.”

What gets me on these days is the mean daily temperature will be lower in the valleys because the night is so cold. So even if the afternoon is 3-5F warmer, the night being 15F colder averages out to a colder diurnal mean.

Yeah I should've clarified too. People around here have always rented out their places for a couple/few weeks a year to cover their bills, taxes, etc. That totally makes sense. What I see is more on the Industrial level scale of renting. Our townhomes have people who own multiple units. They are in it solely for renting and their units are empty a few weeks a year instead of the other way around. Then by owning multiple units they control the HOA, etc. Next thing they are trying to get folks to pay for a heated pool because they control more HOA votes and heated pool goes better on their listings and charging more money. Many decisions made are not for the better quality of living necessarily but what works better on a VRBO listing. That's my personal druthers, ha ha. There are also corporations buying up property, homes, condos, townhomes, etc around here for rentals... so you know there will never be an actual owner living there at any point in time. I get cold calls personally from companies looking to buy my place, ha. To me the balance might be limiting the number of weeks you can rent a property? Something that tries to make sure it is actually someone's second home/vacation place and not owned solely to be a stand alone mini-hotel operation? I do like the positives you pointed out though. Its good to remind myself of that sometimes. We could live in the country with nothing around us but chose to live in Stowe because we also like seeing some humans, eating out, bars, restaurants, breweries, music, festivals, etc. That wide variety of food, drinks, breweries, etc that is often on par with small cities is all because the town is popular. Property values too... ours has tripled since buying in 2012. Not a bad investment. And 95% of the days in a calendar year are perfectly fine, normal days. So much of this rabble rousing is for under 5% of days annually. @bwt3650 you think very much like me, ha. I've always used the football stadium or concert analogy too! No matter what happens, if you go to say Foxboro on a Sunday for a Pats game. You are waiting in traffic. There's no way around it. You cannot have that volume of people arrive and leave at similar times and not wait. There may be capacity at the end of the road (the stadium) but the road itself will bottleneck hard. Even rush hour into or out of a city. The Mountain Road here is like I-93 into Boston but on a much smaller scale obviously. The office buildings all those people go to is like the chairlift capacity (it's there, it can handle it) but getting to that office building or chairlift is all via the same roads and thus, bumper to bumper traffic. Even during AIG days there were traffic problems. Maybe people want to pay $2200 and have traffic a half dozen days vs. paying much less and having it a dozen days instead? And in the grand scheme of things.... a 155 day operating season, trying to do some monster infrastructure project for what is maybe 8% of winter days, and like 2-3% of days out of an entire year... seems like a hard sell. No one is building a 3rd lane on RT 108 for such a low percentage of days out of the calendar once you really boil it down.

Speaking of inversions, it was impressively tight around here. The fake cold crowd will love this. Low of 31F at a few local PWS along the valley floor, as well as the MVL ASOS, with heavy frost in the 700-800ft elevation band. 750ft freezing, but by even 850-900ft temps were mid-30s. By 1200ft it was mid-40s. At 1,500ft temps hung near 50F all night. Downright balmy this morning at the ski area while everything was iced in town. Extremely tight inversion. First image is larger view this morning (mins were 1-2F colder than this snapshot in the valley). Second image is my local area near the river and Stowe CC where the cold pools. 32F at the bottom of the hill 750ft and 46F at the top of the hill at 1200ft.

Looks like it went off-line at 3:05pm at 81F and came back online at 4:10pm at 63F. Now at 37F it’s in line with all the local radiating PWS spots showing 36-39F. Good to see BTV must’ve caught it and sent someone out late afternoon?

Yeah leaf drop has been strong. Mountain is definitely past now. Town is probably backside of peak.

Ha yeah it’s funny now because the cell phone apps around here are pulling MVL’s temp… my wife just texted “I’m no weather guru but it’s not 82 outside.”

Yeah BTV is 57F. No way it’s in the 70s. PWS aren’t even close. Upper 50s mostly. Disregard .

Wait, that can’t be right. MVL now 79F? The ASOS on the fritz? 79/36? METAR KMVL 111635Z AUTO 18005KT 10SM CLR 26/02 A3025

What a day. 28F and freezing fog this morning... up to 73F at 12:15pm at MVL! Already a 45 degree delta on the day at noon. It was still below freezing at 8:15am and now 4 hours later it's in the 70s.