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68/55 Refreshing. Was a little dewy the past two days.

Only 0.24” in the Stratus from this one up here. We had been on a bit of a streak of locally maxing out… but this event jackpot was just south of here in Waterbury Center, where the 1.00-1.25” is. J.Spin with the 1.05” along the gap in the Spine. Convection season is interesting with the mesoscale hits/misses. It’s almost this scattershot that’s fun to be a bit competitive with because it’s just random. It was great seeing the Steiners get raked, too. Been multiple rounds this week of high-end water for several folks in SNE.

Hey how’s you doing today? I saw what looked like several different storms today miss here just to the south… every one seemed to go over Waterbury Res into Waterbury Center. Several stations in that area from Waterbury north to just south of Moscow showing 1”+ water today. Max seems to be right in Waterbury Center with some 1.25” water? Only a quarter inch up at my place.

Your neighbor cleaned his up during the storm. You gotta keep up. Think you guys are busting out of the slump… a couple key hits with runners in scoring position this week.

You drive North of the Pike to find that? Thought it was all going to be north? Nice Storm there.

That's awesome, pup looks to be living the good life there. Mine surgically removes the squeaky thing from any stuffed toy within minutes of getting it. Then drags the remains of the toy around for the next year or so, ha.

How can you tell the difference between the looped image and a single image to deduce there will be no line segments? Would need to see the loop of it I’d think?

Yesterday they were flying in concrete for the new lift at Stowe and man those helo pilots and the ground crew are absolute cowboys. Massive helicopter (the type that build oil rigs) bringing buckets of concrete to build the tower bases. This is a screen grab from a video but I wish I would post it. The rotorwash has the trees looking like a tropical storm is hitting. The vegetation was getting raked with like 50-70mph winds it looked like, and the guys trying to catch this monster concrete bucket without getting knocked off the platform. The whole thing arrives, empties and then lifts off again in like under 10 seconds. It's wild.

Dogs help keep the raccoon pigs off the decks around here. Cats would probably help them get inside.

Bummer we can’t all argue about who has the best 4” tube together.

Everyone that gets banned seems to have that statement said about them… is SkiMRG’s forum still kicking? I vaguely remember something from like 7 years ago.

He hasn’t posted in here in a long time. Said he was spending most of the summer in MD tossing the wife a bone but would be back in winter. The Mid-Atlantic crew always had it out for him or at least they definitely didn’t get along.

Wait what? That sucks if true. We finally picked up someone to root for far NNE snows.

Ha it might’ve been in a banter or general thread. But it’s there that winter. Might’ve been another date but I could’ve sworn it was that event.

I wish I saved his 3am drunk rant about upslope snow in the 2011-12 winter. We had just gotten like a rogue NW flow 15-30” late Feb 2012 during a horrific winter for most… and the dude just lost it. The only snow that winter was upslope and that event finally broke him. It was like 40 sentences with no paragraph breaks.

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.