powderfreak

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.

2 hours ago, mreaves said:

@powderfreakand all the other skiers in our NE group. I’m out in Dubuque, IA for a snowmobile conference. We had some free time this afternoon and went out to the Field of Dreams site. Not really my cup of tea. On the way back, as we were driving through a hilly (for Iowa) area, I spotted what looked like ski slopes in the distance. Everyone in the car thought I was crazy but sure enough we were soon at a place called Sundown. We pulled in to the lodge parking area, which was at the summit of the slopes, got out and started looking around. Pretty soon a guy came out and asked us if we needed anything. We told him we were there from VT and were surprised to see a ski area in Iowa. He invited us into the lodge for a beer with the summer maintenance crew and gave us the scoop on the area. He was the son of one of the founders. Sundown is celebrating its 50th anniversary next year and is still owned by the local families that built it. They have 77 acres and 475’ of vertical. The season usually lasts from Thanksgiving through mid-March.  They have a junior ski program with 100 kids. It was great talking to him. He had us stick pins in the VT Mts that our group had skied. This was one of those small, unexpected things that make traveling to new places so fun. 

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

3 hours ago, Damage In Tolland said:

I could be misremembering.. but I would swear I’ve seen at least several posts where you’ve been complaining about rain and cold and winter pattern in summer over the last few weeks. 

. Am I misremembering? 
Do you get those days with strong E coast ridging and no troughing? 

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? 

13 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

When you don’t enjoy or want summer .. and you want troughs .. this is what you get up there. If I were you.. I’d be rooting this pattern to end .. which it may start to evolve into much sooner than models show. You don’t get this up there with HHH

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.

5 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

wow - not shit... 

I was just waxing the splendor down here.    It's completely and utterly diametric to that appeal you described.  Wasn't honestly attempting to rub it.  This weird little low  cutting between us is really d(shits) across the area, huh -

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.

2 hours ago, tamarack said:

What we called horse flies in NNJ were jet black, maybe with a hint of blue, and over an inch long.  They would occasionally dive bomb the local beach (never saw them in the woods).  I never got bitten by one, perhaps because I could hold my breath - under water - longer than most. 
Up here, the brown penny-size ones look fierce, but it's the smaller black deer flies that I most despise.  In the north woods we'd have dozens circling us as we walked, and one cannot outrun them - I've had squadrons pace my vehicle at 20 mph.  (Or as a co-worker said as a couple dozen flew alongside our moving truck, "Doesn't that make you eager to get out into the woods?")  Confusing things up north were the "sweat-lickers", critters slightly smaller than a housefly that would arrive in their hundreds.  They never bit, but with hordes of dark insects swarming, we couldn't know which ones were carrying knives.

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.

16 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Last time anyone checked 75/85 with days of dews interspersed with Coc k days is summer .

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.

18 hours ago, backedgeapproaching said:

We are firmly on to Deer Fly season, they have been out for a little while now. Still some lingering black flies though too.  I only ever remember worrying about mosquitoes growing up in SEPA.  It really is ridiculous up here with the bugs...lol.

Serious rain shield in effect here..no rain for 15 days and then only .19" last night. 

 

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.

10 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

Quite the difference between the UHI and the sticks.  I was in Medford for a Wake and car thermo read 83.  Here at the home it is 68

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.

14 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Wow that’s awesome! I miss those guys. Dry springs do that 

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.

27 minutes ago, moneypitmike said:

Gypsy moths run amok in Burlington.  Guess they don’t wander over to freak.

 

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.

42 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Obviously we don’t have the Florida climate, but I love the beach vibe. Hot humid days, bars everywhere, surf shops, I just love it.

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.

2 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Most do in summer . Summer isn’t 75 and chilly dews with breezes unless you’re in Fort Kent

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

3 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Jalapeño watermelon margarita baby

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.

11 minutes ago, weathafella said:

You could be the only normal person here.....including me!

Today feels like summer but for the heat haters it’s not at all extreme.

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.

38 minutes ago, weathafella said:

Bunch of snowflakes here.  How dare the wx stray from San Diego!   Of course in winter dark and cold with discomfort exercising outdoors is ok…..

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

3 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

First half of September can have some nasty humidity iirc from past years.

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.

5 minutes ago, kdxken said:

Serious question, not a troll , this has to be one of the nicest springs we've had in a long long time?

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.

1 hour ago, Sey-Mour Snow said:

And she’s back on the very next run. 

I think every single one of those is above normal except for 1 or 2 days.  Fantastic June.