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Not even a mention about the temperature, only dews. Edit: Just looked, jeez only mid-70s there in Tolland?!

Trying in a round about way to justify to his wife why he had to spend a ton of money on an irrigation system?

DIT got so much rain last year, it could probably not rain a drop this summer and he’s be at average over the past two summers. I think sometimes in summer convective rainfall folks look at “average” too much on a too small a time scale. Summer rain comes in short heavy bursts. Get a tropical feed and pick up 6 weeks of rain in 6 hours.

He loves it though, ha. I feel like there’s a bit of a lack of awareness on how warm season rainfall works too. The guy is looking for average like 1.25” water per week steady (which doesn’t really happen). Its more like 3 weeks of very little then some convective cluster drops 3-4” of rainfall and bam, you’re at 4.10” for a month, lol. Or on a larger scale, there’s 3 dry summers followed by one like last summer where it rains 30”. That’s the equivalent of a convective burst dropping a bunch of rain in a large time set amid drier climo. Its not going to rain 0.20” of gentle soaking each day all summer like he seems to want.

BTV southerly flow season has started. Hung around 70F all night at BTV (68F min) on steady channeling south winds. Should get 90F pretty easily IMO. “This is especially true in the Champlain Valley where overnight southerly winds have kept temperatures from dropping much so here we`ll be starting significantly warmer than yesterday. That said, looking for several high temp records to fall again today with BTV possibly hitting 90 degrees, which if observed will be the 7th earliest in observed history.”

lol at an airport measured 94mph gust. There wouldn’t be a tree left standing in New England with a wind speed like that not measured on a dune off the ocean.

Yeah you don't care about temps much at all... only dews. You'd take 72/72 soup over what you had today. A reason to run the A/C... a dry heat doesn't get the window units cranking in Tolland.

Yeah 1500ft at like SLK, across VT to your area in NNH all sporting 85-87F type temps today. The lack of green certainly plays a roll in these early dry heaters up north. It’s starting to come on fast though. Looks like 88-90F below 1,000ft too. Watching the snow melt on these warm evenings. Stick season hillsides getting blasted by mid/upper 80s.

Record daily maxes at Burlington, Saranac Lake and Montpelier so far.

BTV also 88/33.

MVL has an 88F at 3:15pm… we’ll see what the 00z max is but it’s hot in the sun. Doesnt feel 88F though with 16% RH. Shade is cool.

84/32 . Just how I draw up warm season weather.

Enough for the kids to go outside?

It's so dry out there the picnic tables may just spontaneously combust... he probably doesn't even have to light them. We've had some helluva great stretches of weather the past 5 springs. Maybe we've always had them but it seems I've noticed them more lately. Like solid 10 day stretches of warmth and low humidity. Even on the extreme side like the May a few years ago when it was like 95-97F but dews in the 40s.

We tend to do spring pretty well lately. I have no doubt that the lack of leaves though are what's helping the huge diurnal swings and low RH. I bet same air mass with full summer green/leaves and it's more like 30-35% RH instead of like 10-20% during max heating.

83/36 up here. Dipped into the upper 30s again last night. Days and days and days of sub 20% RH and warmth. This is literally day 7 now of full sunshine. San Diego style weather and it keeps going.

It’s warmer even up at 6,200ft on the top of Mount Washington.

82/27 like living in a Rocky Mtn ski town in July. Theres just like dust blowing around in the breeze, ha.

Nearing 70F at the picnic tables too. Supports low 80s in town.

Yeah 18z max comes in with 80F up here so far. Very low RH. Car was hitting 82F in spots around here. This is why I love this time of year. Only time you can get 80F with dews in the 20s is when there’s no leaves on the trees yet.

75/27 for 16% RH. Just every single day Top 10 stuff. Going back to like last Thursday? It’s been incredible.

Not much green but it’s starting. Still stick season but big change last 48 hours too. I can’t wait for that widespread fresh light green on the hills.

MVL high of 78F, true top 10 day. Ground seems so dry with these low dews and endless sunshine going back to last week. Tinderbox and I know there have been several burn piles locally get out of control real fast.

79/34 for 20% RH. Love near 80F with dews near freezing. Back-to-back days of like 45 degree diurnal swings. This has to be the greatest stretch one could draw up.

It’s built into the KFS forecast model. Take sensible weather outcome X and add more spice to it in the form of a few more degrees, more dews, more inches of snow, higher wind speeds… get it exciting and interesting. If someone agrees with you, you haven’t added enough extra spin… boost it further. Looking forward to a warm stretch coming up. Been sunny for so long it feels like San Diego.