powderfreak

Valentines Day 2007 in BTV. First flakes hit around 1:30am at like -3F and that was the end of any notion of sleep. Models printing out sustained 2-3” QPF over the next 24 hours as cold snow. Blizzard Warning. That was the first true all-nighter.

I just want to come clean and say I usually use the ASOS station nearby at MVL for temps/dews (same valley location). I do not have a station in my backyard and there’s a PWS like a quarter mile away that might run a tick cooler at night and warmer daytime… but I still am partial to the ASOS. Hopefully folks will still discuss weather with me.

Ha certainly not an issue 95% of the time here. Anything below like 1,500ft elevation seems to fall straight down. Not like mostly straight down… but like stacking on power lines and fence posts type of straight down lol.

I’m just busting. The only reason I got one is I like the tenths and hundredths. The hardware store ones were like quarter-inch markings only. How am I to know the difference between 0.29” and 0.37”?!

You a member of AMS? They’ll revoke that if it’s not Stratus brand. Denied.

I will say, I don’t do it for most snow events but there are times where I’m like hey, the Stratus collected that snow nicely… why not bring it inside and an hour later it’s liquid and you see how bad the models were with the QPF forecast .

The irony will be at the end of the summer when some posters have more total rainfall than up here. I’m at roughly 1.75” for August (not home to see todays but local PWS is .27”). It’s rained on at least 10 days this month, for only 1.75”. TauntonSoggy2013 probably had that in about an hour today. All joking aside, you have to imagine vegetation responds much better to frequency than total water. I know we talk about lush green up here but the total water the last 45-60 days isn’t anything to write home about. I guess 0.10-0.20” every other day or three is enough to keep things lush even if it’s only like 2-2.5” per month.

I feel like I’ve been getting a bit lucky with daily rains but no big amounts. A lot of like 0.10-0.30”. Had just under a quarter inch on Sunday, local stations look like another quarter inch fell today (I’m in Montreal for the night so will check when home). IIRC it’s rained 9 or 10 of the 23 days this month, but totaled only around 1.75”. I do think that’s kept stuff very green though despite the total water amount. This was from Sunday’s brief storm. Par for the course with light amount.

You and me both.

Yeah they are like $35? I’ve bought a few over the years, froze and broke a couple so far lol.

Maybe 0.15” storm total. Grass only needs to be cut once this week I guess.

Was at a music event at the Trapp Family Lodge meadow the other night and it looked exactly how you would think… Sound of Music, kids frolicking, half expected a Sheppard to wander out with a flock. 10 kids following a woman dancing through the property.

Haha I actually laughed out loud at that one, nice. I’ve only had 0.10” out of this whole thing so far. But man, feel that between your toes. Thick.

Has that strong acute convergence look on radar. Something local scale but like a standing wave. Terrain or ocean based. I love how the radar is only 2,000ft off the ground for a sample there… I’m so used to operating at high elevation scans, it’s impressive seeing 3 hours of 30-40dbz efficiency in lowest levels.

Just watched the whole radar loop since 6pm and it’s pretty impressive. Love that stuff. I don’t know how big one or two pixels are (a mile?) but rainfall does vary quite a bit locally on that product. Big area of 2-4” pixels but narrow corridor of 5-7”. Probably never know for sure the max amount depending on station locations… but that’s a large footprint overall of heavy rain.

Any truth to these radar estimates? Wild values.

You know grass way better than I do, but has that ship sailed for this summer? If you got like 4” soaked into the ground in 1-2 weeks would it come back, or is it a try again next year type of thing?

I get the competitive side to it too, it’s the problem with knowing what happened elsewhere. In a vacuum without outside knowledge you had a great soaking today. I’ll try to see what my dad’s crude garden gage had in Woodstock. I think yours today was as much if not more than the mythical Stowe fields have had this week despite it raining on 4 different days. Yesterday was only like 0.20”, nothing today.

What were your expectations today? You said 0.25-0.50” and got like 3/4ths of an inch. How does that lead to disappointment? I don’t get it. You wanted it to rain, it rained. Today is a win, enjoy it!

Man this place is a trip. Every day hearing about how it doesn’t rain from some folks, please just rain, anything…then it does exactly what they want (rain!) and the minute they find out some other area got more it’s back to woe-is-me.

Ha it did read a bit like “I was lucky but also unlucky.” Modeling takes it all into account. They are short duration heavy rainers just scatter shot across the area.

Sounds like a well needed drink. Modeling was fairly decent all things considered with convection and the variability it seemed.

Meteorology for the win? The back and forth from two hours ago is even funnier now.

If anyone “deserves” it… you do. Nice. Edit: Lol see you weren’t done there. There’s a month of rain.

There is something satisfying about seeing the models and Mets beat the emotional crew’s fear forecasting.