powderfreak

Those days honestly seem the best, ha. 50F and low clouds coastal plain and it’s 75F and sunny out here.

A bit too many clouds up here today. Satellite looks like self-destructive Cu forming and expanding. Top terminal was in the clouds doing summer prep work, but drop out of the ceiling around 3,000-3,500ft.

Love this! The mowing, crisp painted towers… that’s a crew that cares.

I’m honestly not sure I follow what you are asking here. Complaining about winter pattern in summer over the last few weeks? This year? Past years? Summer hasn’t started. Do we get days with ridging and no troughing?

It has been an absolutely awesome late spring/early summer though. One BN day mixed in with a bunch of AN… we don’t enjoy cold rain but if the trade off is once in a while this for weeks of 70s… it’s not a bad trade. 24 of the last 33 days have had highs >70F despite the average high on June 9th being only 72F. It’s still early in the warm season, average highs are just above 70 right now and we’ve been enjoying it for a month now. +4.6 for May and +1.4 for June up here. So we get one below normal day in a sea of warmth, meh.

Max of 61F today in the valley... currently 57F. What a disaster.

It's like a cold conveyor belt traversing across up here. The Adirondacks were getting a nice deform band earlier.... been like a winter storm evolution. This was a bit earlier... it's now moving through here. It's been like classic synoptic storm with big surge of WAA precip lifting northward through the area and then getting CCB precip on the backside. If it were winter it'd be eastern Adirondack jackpot pivot point .

Awful day up here. This is what no one wants. 50s and steady synoptic rain. Hate being stuck inside. 53F outside the office and 42F at the picnic tables.

I've always thought of horse flies as the big black flies that are like flying acorns and assault us on the lake/pond. They are massive suckers when out floating on a raft or tube like to land and will bite. Much slower movers than deer flies so if you see them, you can usually get them. Make like a cracking noise when someone slaps them though. The deer flies, V-shape smaller things that also bite but are largely just annoying as all hell. Can get multiple of them buzzing around you. Will bite through a shirt too. Atrocious creatures.

That right there is my definition of summer… 75-85F for maxes. We’ve had a lot of warm days IMO. It’s been above normal. I think we forget what the “normals” are for the last 4 weeks. If there’s a pleasant time to be above normal it’s May to June, likewise in October to early November.

It's weird as I rarely have any issue with deer flies up here. Rarely run into them out and about. Black flies can linger for a long time though. When I go visit in the woods of NE CT the deer and horse flies are absolutely unrelenting. Like to the point you can't even walk the dog. Those sucks are the size of pennies. None of that up here that I ever see.

That’s a good difference. Like here to BTV… 64F in Stowe and 73F at BTV. Feeling a bit more humid this evening with dews in upper 50s.

BTV is above normal precip since April 1st though… I just looked. It’s not much but like 0.40” above normal April 1 - June 1. Looks like they were about 10% above normal water in March too. It hasn’t been dry up this way but they are in the banana belt.

Holy crap. Never seen them up here or seen anything like that in BTV either though it’s been a minute since I’ve been in Burlington proper.

72/52 Going to be another above normal day but comfortable.

Half inch up here. Guess it did finally start raining last night.

Radar is a lot more bark than bite. 0.04" here, enough to wet the ground. Looking at the PWS around NY/New England, so far it's 0.0-0.10" for most, largely under 0.05" despite a green radar. The stuff in E.NY is starting to add a slight bit of water but the first half of radar echoes with this line looks like mostly virga.

That’s definitely the type of place no one wants COC weather. Like Aruba, Dominican, Jamaica, etc… you live the beach life, you want mins of like 82F at night. Once palm trees are around, it’s time for big heat/humidity, low diurnal changes, etc.

Tolland does have that strong beach vibe to go with it… boardwalk, surf shops, open air tiki bars everywhere.

Jalapeño… not sure I ever had a drink like that. We just drown our rainy summers in IPAs . Vacation looks awesome as it should be, enjoy dude.

Yeah today is well above normal. An awesome 81/55 right now. Normal max temp is 72F at MVL… so good +10 en route today. Yesterday was +6 on the max temp. Today’s low-80s are about mid-summer normals. So it’s summer out there.

I like the extremes in short bursts though. The novelty of it. But the older I get the less desire I have to be outside in uncomfortable weather. Used to love the challenge of working on the mountain at -30F or 90F and humid…. like a challenge. Now it’s like if it could stay between 20F and 80F annually we’re all set even not working outside anymore… aka boring deflated weenie.

Brutal cold can suck it too, lol. Hate the sub-zero days.

Yeah September has felt much more uncomfortable than May/June but the seasonal lag that 40/70 mentioned makes a lot of sense. I feel like the dews linger into October too.

I agree but I enjoy this time of year most seasons… we tend to be further away from the Atlantic mank and get over the top warmth. Running +1 to +5 in the spring to early summer is a fine climo to live in around these parts. A lot of highs in the 70s when normals were 60s.