powderfreak

37F. Chilly evening.

It does get dark real early. It’s like 2-3 hours it feels like. Used to have enough light to be outside till 9:30pm and now it’s like 7pm time to go inside.

Wouldn’t coastals be snow or only applies to above 32F coastals? Basically it’s good when one is worried about no precip and it shows no precip? It’s a tool like anything else, it’s run frequently enough that you can sort of find the HRRR run that’s right. It feels sort of like if a model is relatively correct for one or two systems we as a forum collectively are like, yup that’s the model to look at.

For all the HRRR bashing this summer by everyone, this seems like a wild change of events.

Sunset the other day from the top of Mansfield looking at Alex's neighborhood 75 miles away.

It would be. Classic late March or early April spring skiing weather lol. Nice evening right now but man, used to have three more hours of light to play with in the evening.

This week looks phenomenal. Fprecast of lows in the 20s and highs 60-65F next few days before upper 60s and low 70s late week? Bring it on. Cold nights, mild afternoons. How we draw it up. Get outside in the mountains.

Oh it’s coming. It’ll probably be 60s in early November or something. It’s not like it won’t mild up again.

37F last night, but already up near 50F and sunny. Really no wind up here, should be a nice day.

Up to 68F so far today and CLR skies. What a Saturday.

Noted. Reggie, IBM, HRRR. Let’s go.

How those areas don’t average 100”+ a year is wild. We all think “there are the places that get snowstorms” .

32F MVL and 31F at the closest PWS across the river at the Golf Course. Garden looked in serious pain and cars were frozen solid.

It’s actually pretty weird up here to see all elevations at exactly the same temps. Guess we know what the column is like right now, ha.

It’s actually uniform right now. 36F Picnic Tables 4,000ft 37F Base Area 1500ft 37F Valley 750ft

37F, going to start getting frosty.

44F on my car at 6:40pm getting home. Feels like it may end the growing season tonight. Ground is wet from days of rain so not sure if we fog out, but it’s clear and calm now. Radiators mount up.

When I was down there last fall the whole place seemed like it would flood with water given 5+ foot increase in water. I’m sure many areas are 10-20 feet up but just has that “barrier island” vibe.

Props to the ingenuity of this NBC reporter to keep the microphone dry.

Just keeps raining. Almost another four tenths today bordering the golf course. From dry to daily. Noticed a lot of standing water around this evening. Mountain picked up another 0.65”. Every day a bit of rain.

It rains every single day now. Pouring out.

Yeah it’s changing fast day by day now. I’d say maybe a week? The funny thing is it usually finds it’s way to the first week or two of October regardless. Not sure if that’s solar related, but what can happen is the foliage is just “faster” and still ends within a few days of every other year (if that makes sense). Two years ago there was two distinct “peaks”… first was red and green in September. Second was red/orange. Foliage seemed to go for weeks but still ended by mid-October. It’s just interesting the “late” foliage seasons though don’t push it back to like Halloween. It just seems to shorten it and it all ends relatively at a similar time.

Nice evening after rain showers most of the afternoon in the mountains. Foliage seems behind by a bit based on previous years' photos. But that first cold shot finally started getting the ball rolling. I think October 5 - 15 time frame will be the best around here. The high-end color still seems a week out or so. Can see the steeple of Stowe Village down there dead center bottom for reference. The evening's are getting shorter though... this was the evening walk/hike with the dog. It was pretty much dark when we got down. A couple months ago it felt like the middle of the day still.

Cold season lake effect bands firing. Getting residual rain showers up this way off the Ontario band.

Mother Nature loves her averages. It all averages out eventually. It’s an important lesson to keep in the back of the mind about long term droughts especially… but guess it’s not comforting when it’s July and your lawn looks like the dirt grounds of an arid middle eastern compound.