powderfreak

MVL up here with 88F so far. Been bouncing between 84F and 88F depending on cloud cover. Nice summer day.

Hard to mix out under dense tree canopy. That sounds about right for a PWS reading when official dews are in the 50s out and away from thick canopy cover.

Oh man, exactly. Didn’t appreciate O’Brien mentioning he was the AL RBI leader so many times . Houck seems to like that… making the 9th interesting.

Summer vibe this morning for sure. Just hits slightly differently when you go outside than it has for the past couple weeks. Got down to 48F last night for great sleeping weather but up to 72F now and the dew point into the upper 50s. You know when upper 50s dews feel humid that it's been coolish lately.

GFS trending warmer late next week before the mild down around the 4th/5th. Pinches off some decent warmth into SNE. Then widespread Chamber temps for the 4th. No azz-sweat.

Adrenaline spiked evening. Wife and I chilling on the couch, Red Sox game on, and out of no where the dog goes into full on alarm mode. Look over and there's a solid, sizeable black bear 15 feet away at the back porch, looking into our living room. Only thing between it and us is a sliding screen door. Props to the wife for the quick movement, lightning fast ditch the iPad and move towards the bear to slam the glass slider shut. Bear goes around the corner towards the kitchen slider (also open), we run to close the other sliders, dog is going bonkers... bear then takes off towards the river. We head out cautiously, me with long lens trying to get a photo, but alas we can only hear it thrashing around in the brush and I didn't want to push my luck. Definitely getting a Nest cam now, looking at them right now. Would've loved to have that on camera. The bear down on all fours was about waist high on me and I'm 6'3". Looked like an absolute unit. Wife made lasagna tonight, smells great out of the oven, 3 open slider doors letting aroma outside, he was curious.

79/52 in the valley (high of 81F). Hot with low dews. Just a perfect Friday evening. Summer.

Dendrite ninja'd that

Lets get some sub-540 thicknesses in here for July 4-5th.

Up to 77/57 at MVL. Hottest day in what feels like a while.

Yeah I don’t have any numbers but anecdotally I’d be hard pressed to believe anything other than the best population is thriving and growing. I rarely if ever saw a bear my first like 5-7 years in Stowe, on the mountain, wherever. Now you see more of them than deer to be honest. They are everywhere. On the mountain, in town, etc. And anyone you talk to around New England seems to say they’ve seen more bears show up.

That must’ve been the year BDL set warmest month on record and it was done with mundane highs and ridiculously high mins.

It’s been much different than last year for sure.

I’ve read the first post a dozen times and still can’t see where there was mention of below normal temperature anomalies.

Bear trying to break-in, sticking claws under garage door and pulling upward. The video shows the bear knows how to get in, but doesn’t smell anything that warrants ripping the garage door off it’s hinges.

Ha, it was solidly above normal at the absolute best time of year. Above normal, during the climo period when snow becomes absolutely off-the-table but not before summer heat, is great. Best type of weather in that period. Highs in the 70s are the desired, but boring outcome here. Apparently MVL hit 71F today, never came close at the mountain though. Another day found it’s way into that 70-79F zone in the valley. The warm season happy zone without needing AC or heat. Comfortable.

Long range is for sure suspect to change but we roll with the current data. Can’t be stubborn in meteorology (no one likes that), and need to adjust expectations as new modeling comes in. It could go torch, but so far that persistent low height feature over the maritimes and adjacent NE North America seems hard to argue with. Enjoy the heaters when they come?

Euro EPS 10-14 day mean also seems to indicate ridging central, troughing northeast. We'll see, hopefully some warmth can sneak in from time to time like this weekend. But persistence seems to favor the NE/Maritime trough.

Just a parade of troughs after some brief warmth this weekend? Some of these H5 loops on various models seem to think we continue to experience lower heights while ridging stays in the middle of the country. Day 5 Day 10 Day 14

Lawn obsession is definitely an American past time. No other country or culture seems fascinated with it… “Lawns are the most grown crop in the U.S.—and they're not one that anyone can eat; their primary purpose is to make us look and feel good about ourselves. The popularity of George Washington and Mount Vernon’s green grass helped the contagion of the idea of a lawn, as images of Mount Vernon were produced and distributed throughout the United States into the 18th- and 19th-centuries. This gave wealthy Americans something to copy and aspire to.”

I’ve always wondered if it’s a myth to carry a balance because we have high limits and good credit scores and never carry balances. Edit: Looks like it’s a myth per CreditKarma. What is a good credit card balance? It’s a common myth that carrying a balance on your credit card will help you build credit because card issuers earn money on your interest payments. But there’s no connection between your credit scores and how much interest credit card issuers earn from you. Your credit scores are typically determined by other factors, such as your record of on-time payments and credit utilization. The reality is that carrying a balance could actually hurt your credit scores. Is it ok to carry a credit card balance? In general, it’s probably best not to carry a credit card balance. But sometimes you might find it impossible to pay your entire balance on time. In that situation, you’ll want to pay attention to how much you’re spending compared with your credit limit.

It’s a time filler for sure. It makes zero sense to show.

That’s pretty nuts. I’ve never really heard of bear kills around VT. Maybe because they have so many other food sources they don’t feel the need?

Haha that’s hilarious. “Why stand, let’s just sit down and relax and enjoy this meal.” I think I heard a VT Game Warden say the black bears can smell a single sunflower seed dipped in black oil from a mile away.

Watch out. The Bears are getting smarter. Very educated bears around here. They have always been smart... our trash is in a so-called "bear proof" contraption but a mama bear dismantled it last week and spread trash everywhere while my wife watched a cub run around the yard. That's business as usual. But now they have been opening doors. Lately on the Stowe Front Porch Forum have been numerous posts about bears opening doors and letting themselves into places. Here's two consecutive posts about bears opening car doors. Then a friend on instagram has a video of a bear trying to open a shed door. These animals are hilarious . Black bears are like racoons mixed with pigs. Very resourceful, crafty, and will eat anything but aren't hunters, only scavengers. This animal in the video (I only showed a screen shot) is literally trying to turn the knob and open the door. These creatures are smart.