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Torrential rain.  Maybe 30mph gust? Ha.

But visibility is like 1/8sm in this rain.  So much water.

Heavy rain and thunder here at the Mt Mansfield base area.

Classic terrain initiation.  Just forming right on the Green Mountain Spine and lifting northward slowly.  Same from the Adirondacks and Catskills.

Today was the first day that you could feel it.  All the rainfall the past 24 hours juiced dews to 63-64F.  Yesterday was still in the 50s, but today has that cooler but humid feel.

72/64 type stuff.

23 minutes ago, BrianW said:

Well said. At what age do you think you embrace the dews. Late 30's or early 40's?

And it continues until you’re like my grandfather or my 99 year old grandmother… sitting outside on the porch with blankets on at 90/70, wishing the dew was 82F like an Iowa cornfield so you can ditch the blankets.

I’ll say I love the warm season a lot more than I did in my teens and 20s, but high dews still do nothing for me.  Just makes all of the outdoor recreational activities I like less enjoyable, or at least more uncomfortable.  But for boring daily life, it’s a bit more interesting to feel like you are stepping out into a rainforest between stints in the A/C.

3 minutes ago, kdxken said:

Looks like some more COC-a-doodle-doo ahead. Not sure we're the unrelenting heat and humidity talk came from lolz...

I don’t look at his tweets aside from what’s posted here but this guy is all over the place.

Loves beautiful sunny icons, while also hating on dry weather, wondering if it’s even worth growing a garden because he has to water it.

5 hours ago, tamarack said:

F irst cloudy sky here since May 6, quite the run.  Yesterday's 90/52 eclipsed the 91 on 5/18/2017 for earliest 90+.  Dews were moderate - upper 50s - and the leaves are bursting out.

Earliest 90 on record for you, not sure what it means but it feels impressive, ha.

And yeah woke up today to rain, fog and clouds.  First time since a week ago Thursday not waking up to full sunshine.  A solid 9-10 days.

Got dumped on with rain this morning, 1.09” in Stratus after I emptied 0.31” late last night at like 11pm.

Good drink for the neighborhood here around Stowe Country Club this morning.

1.09” so far today, just emptied Stratus as inner tube was overflowing, 1.40” between yesterday evening and today.

Good solid soaker.  The trees are going to go neon green after this.

66/64

No one had A/C when I’d grow up spending summers in Woodstock, CT.  Zero.  It was hot and humid and you just dealt with it.

Today every family member with a camp there has A/C now.  My parents put in central AC there.

Maybe it’s less expensive, or more wealth in general, or a push to live more comfortable in general, but from childhood to now everyone around the lake/pond in NE CT has A/C now.

1 minute ago, PhineasC said:

People moving up is some of it.

I think it might be the increasing number of dewy days rather than any notable increase in average temps.

That said, it does seem like we break high temp records with ease these days.

Good point on the dews.  The dews keep the nights from cooling off like they used to.  I think most of my need for A/C comes at night.

During the day if it’s hot or a bit uncomfortable, who really cares.  But I lose my mind sweating while sleeping.  I think the average minimum temps went up the most with the new 30-year normals.  Instead of 46-54F type mins in the fake cold spots, the number of nights of like 55-65F are vastly higher these days. 

Back to weather… first legit evening of T-Storms.  Constant flash and booms for over 90 minutes now.  Very slow moving stuff.  Torrential rain.

Been a solid light show.  All the summer feels.  Oddest thing is they are moving SE to NW, rare direction for T-Storms here.

7 minutes ago, PhineasC said:

Glad I got AC installed. NNE can roast at weird times like this I've noticed.

It'll probably be in the 40s when I come back up though.

The number of people I know who have put A/C in over the past 5 years is very high.  Even folks starting to install pools and stuff. 

Not sure if it’s getting that much hotter up here or we are just getting that much softer that we can’t put up with any discomfort?  Ha, probably a mix of both.

Or it’s just a lot of people from down south moving up north and wanting creature comforts that the native NNE’ers were previously fine without (raises hand)?

10 minutes ago, PhineasC said:

LOL that is some gross looking snow. Dog willing to roll in it still?

Dog is actually on the injured list, otherwise she’d be rolling in every postage stamp pile she can find, ha.  She wrecked her knee and now has a plate and four screws in there.  Should be back hiking second half of summer.

1 hour ago, CoastalWx said:

Jspin is very quiet when it warms up. Hate to see it.

He’s old school, the science professor.  No need to post just for the sake of posting, ha.  Me on the other hand…

Looks like cloud over and rain in the late afternoon/early evening season has begun.  Been thundering for an hour it seems like but finally started raining.

May is a summer month in NNE.

Its so hot with humidity coming up that all snow on the mountain has a surface ground fog bank coming off of it.

Pretty wild to see these streams of condensing air moving down trails and through the woods.

These are 2500ft range.

Looks like the Tolland Green on Christmas Day as Grinch dews move through.

58 minutes ago, PhineasC said:

Is some of this because that late season upslope you guys got didn't have as much staying power as a true seasonal pack would?

No I think it's just the record highs we've been having.  That late season upslope was very dense, QPF rich stuff.  Bullets, needles and graupel.  Certainly no fluff.

We've had a few daily record highs in the area over the past week.  That'll usually do it this time of year.  Instead of sitting 40s and 50s the summit has been hitting 70F almost daily.

In my experience, and the annual graphs show it, the snowpack tries to hold on for as long as possible but every year it hits a point where it just falls off a cliff.  It rarely melts at the "average line" pace, it's usually much steeper than the average depth for whatever reason.  Like whenever the first real "summer" warmth pattern moves in.

In 2020 that May heat moved in about a week later, but same pitch of decline.  Just depends how long into the spring we can get before we get that heat.  May 2020 also saw like 5 feet of snow disappear in like 10 days.

6 minutes ago, tamarack said:

Recent flow on the Carrabassett River at North Anson (near where it empties into the Kennebec.)

Discharge, cubic feet per second

Most recent instantaneous value: 639 05-14-2022   13:00 EDT

 

No precip at all, and those "bumps" resemble diurnal snowmelt surges.  From Sugarloaf snowmaking trails?  (Gauge is 30 river miles downstream from "Loaf trails, no other snow in 'Bassett watershed.  Saddleback drains into the Androscoggin system.)

This last 8 days of hot sunny afternoons has caused highly accelerated snow melt out of the mountains.

Can see Mansfield's depth falling off a cliff the past 8 days.  Lost like 2.5 feet of snow depth during this time.  It's in free fall now.

Last weekend there was still natural snow in spots down to 2,500ft (I even skied in the trees up high last weekend)... gone now.  And that snow is very water rich at the bottom of the pack... just glaciated stuff.  The water draining Mansfield behind my place has been decent flow despite no rainfall and low RH.  It has to be snow melt.

18 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

PF ...looks like you got some summit glaciators along the Greens... Might be some photo ops -

Heading up the road in a little bit for a hike, as always will have camera with me, ha.  

It's hot though, damn.  73F at MMNV1 at 4,000ft.

The simple garden thermometer at 3,300ft on the Snow Cam is in the mid/upper 70s.  That's very warm for up there in the spruces.

12 minutes ago, weathafella said:

Slept with ac on last night.  Still need work to finish leaf out but it’s rapidly moving now.

It's always weird visually when it gets hot this time of year with very minor leaves or even none at all... though it's changing every 24 hours.  A friend posted a shot from a golf course yesterday in VT, everyone wearing shorts, fairways nice and green, but the trees in the woods were still largely just sticks or some light green budding.  It doesn't look "right" ha.

1 hour ago, backedgeapproaching said:

Wow, pretty quick drop to 59F by 9pm. You might be the coolest spot in NNE right now..or one of.  Outside of some spot right on the water. 

69F here.

It's interesting how that area has some large differences in temps tonight.  Classic elevated valley type of night in E.VT?  Spots with any wind at all are 67-72F while no wind is 60-62F.

30 minutes ago, backedgeapproaching said:

How many wall mounted?  I got a quote for 5 wall mounted and 2 outside  condenser units and think it was 25-26K.  I guess had a little sticker shock, so I am sticking with the Midea's I bought last year for now...lol.

Granted, that was only 1 quote, I didn't totally shop around, but figured other would be in that neighborhood, even if a cheaper. 

 

That seems like a lot.  Efficiency Vermont does some decent rebates, though no where near as good as they were just 2-3 years ago.  We are doing one condenser and three heads for $9k.  Needing two condensers though likely is a big step up as the heads aren’t *that* much more to add.  I know once over like 1500-1700 square feet you’ll max out one.

Friends who have done it said it helped a lot this past winter with heating prices.  Still need to burn oil or propane from all the fake cold nights, but really helped them in shoulder season late fall and early spring… like the Nov/March stuff.

1 hour ago, Typhoon Tip said:

yeah I've heard nothing but good feed-back.   

I'm (unfortunately..) seeking a new job.   8 contiguous years of decent salaried employment ended - on good terms ... but unexpected, nonetheless - back in January.  Then, my sister collapse and death.  Then I got Covid.   Then I officially decided I hate god ... etc...  you know, so a loaded plate has belated matters.  But I'm interviewing now

Anyway, that project was supposed to be done 3 months ago but I've had to put it off. 

Keep your head up man.  Life can throw curveball after curveball but eventually you’ll barrel one for 450 feet to walk it off.

86/47 mixing out and temp going up.

14 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Having a mini split system  put in early June  It ain’t cheap at all 

Same here.  We’ve been delayed this spring due to back order of parts and supply chain.  Now expecting new Mitsubishi units in late May.  Mines getting finished as soon as they get them.

52 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

Wasn't it last year where over the top heat was the norm while we mehd

The last couple years at least.  That monster heat was two Mays ago.

88F at BML… another NNE scorcher.