powderfreak

I thought last night was southerly flow on 850/925 though?

Then kids get to high school and start spending a lot of time in the “woods” and seem really concerned about soil pH and you’ve come full circle.

Ha at some point you’ll be up north long enough to be ok with sharing snow and lose the southern anxiety. You won’t care about seasonal forecasts or patterns. Your kids will start listening to jam band music, growing out the pony-o. Half of them will ask for teleboots for Christmas. It’s coming.

It’s easy to do riding shotgun.

Pretty much raining just SE of Franconia at 32F at Lincoln exit.

You are sounding like me when Ginxy ribs me on being surprised. You expect one thing, then leading into the event you start doubting it, then you get the original estimates and are like “wow, nice surprise!”

Had a half inch coating in Stowe, looked similar across most of northern VT… hit freezing rain in Littleton, NH. Pretty snowy all the sudden in Franconia Notch passing Canon.

Some freezing rain in Littleton and snowing pretty good entering Franconia on 93.

Looks like some light snow and icing last night here.

Seeing is believing.

I love these little clips you get. How do you post that media?

A memory from 5 years ago in 2017. We were in the midst of a stretch of 108 inches at the High Road Snow Stake in 3 weeks. This was the only time in memory that had a tragic UVM student die from drowning in the snow. It was like 5 feet of unconsolidated snow (like what's on the left side of this photo) and if you got flipped upside down for some reason with your equipment on you may not be able to get your head back up above the snow. I have never heard of that ever happening in the east before. Had 375" that season at the High Road Stake. It snowed every day it seemed.

Ha! I may be remembering his name from a decade ago in BGM. I think they are both him.

Where's @kulaginman? This event has looked primed for his cabin up there on the hill in Jackson. Looking forward to Waterville on Tuesday if this is close to correct. It's almost like the snow axis is showing where the CAD spots are... ME foothills down through Dendy.

Now those are some low level glades right there. When you mentioned it I think of some glades around Mansfield but not at that level of openness and ease for kids. The Chapel, Sunrise, Birch glades at Stowe are probably similar to that pitch but not that wide open. Nosedive Glades are wide open but can get into a few more "interesting" shots/parts. Our scale of "relativeness" probably starts to change over time with what we get used to.

The sunset earlier this evening was fire.

100%. We get the radiating nights that cool nicely and lucky enough to have slider doors in almost every room so leave those open it can get cold inside quick even after 85F days (except when the bears are around, wife won’t allow screens to be the only thing from one walking into the kitchen). The problem comes on the last day or two of a hot stretch when dews pump and southerly flow keeps it well mixed and it’s still 70F at midnight outside and not 57F. I think I run our current A/C unit 2 weeks a warm season. May has been very hot the past couple years it seems. I will say if I have a quiet mini-split set up I’ll run A/C more in the evening. The 6-9pm time can be tough before the sun goes down and the quick drop happens. And like you said the big benefit is using it in the shoulder seasons when its “chilly” and you just want some heat but don’t need the full heating system. I think of early autumn and say the May/June rainy 48-55F days.

I'm still not sure I buy it but Waterville on Tuesday might line up nicely if it comes through with that QPF just south of the Presidentials. Though might be a bit too far west?

Yeah the summers have seemed warmer and more humid too in the past 10 years, so if that trend continues A/C is a good move. I feel like even a decade ago no one around here had A/C... now everyone has installed something.

Damn that's impressive! The fireplace is key though. My buddy lost his boiler and kept his place going in the upper 60s with a single woodstove. Heat pump this spring for sure for me, need a backup source, it's too cold up here to mess around with that. Was -17F here last night but inducer fan is holding in there with the wire straps.

NAM is on crack IMO, ha.

Ha that's actually another thing that made us delay, the rebates at the end of last summer were very "meh" because those things had gotten so popular. But I just read somewhere that Efficiency Vermont has another deal running this winter with $1K back if purchased before February 28th. They seem to do them with the demand, so I've got to get on that. It seems to change every couple months to be honest.

That’s wild. I mean it’s been lots of radiational nights but still even historically mixed places like BTV have been below zero like half the days for mins. BTV -7F MVL -17F Thats the radiational difference.

-17F. Fak me. This winter has been absurd for cold nights.

The irony is we were going to put in an electric heat pump for A/C and heat last August/September but deferred until the spring. I wanted it primarily for better AC than what we have now and it’s much more efficient. Had we gone ahead with that project we’d be fine. It wouldn’t have been hot like a stove but serviceable heat. I just balked as I wanted it for better AC than what we have now and given it was later in summer, temps on downhill slide, I figured we’d do it in April/May before the warm season. Oops.