powderfreak

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.

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.