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Yeah they just got done with the gauntlet of good teams… time to make hay. Need to go like 12-3 in the next 15. Yankees are only team over .500 in that stretch. Schwarber walked twice in first two at-bats so far and scored both times. That’s more than Marwin did offensively so far this month lol.

Might be shadows? Earlier when I looked it looked pretty normal dry adiabatic or reasonably close to it?

68F is pretty impressive for MWN. Isn’t the all-time max 72F? Been a hot one for all the picnic tables.

Looks like Sox have Schwarber batting 6th tonight, Chris Sale starts tomorrow. Season starts now lol.

Dews have dropped a bit and it’s noticeable. 72F to 65F and breezy. Just slightly more tolerable out there… not full Caribbean anymore.

88/68 at MVL... that's legit for 12:30pm. I noticed the Mansfield summit is the warmest it's been all week right now so it's torching aloft. Should easily get widespread valley 90s around here.

Ha! That looks like one of those insurance commercials waiting to happen... thing breaks free and rolls off roof, smashes through the windshield of the brand new car sitting in the driveway below as the car alarm goes off.

This seems very reasonable and would likely yield close to 300" IF the terrain there went up higher. That 2,900ft number is not much different than 3,000ft on Mansfield the longer we run it out. We've seen everything from 150s in 2015-16 to 375" in 2016-17 at 3,000ft.... but most years the past decade have been mid-200s. But go up another 500-1,000ft is where you start to get into that next level stuff. I still truly believe that a lot of our snowfall comes in relatively dry air masses or fighting dry boundary layer air... the nickle and dime stuff especially... that all orographic's aside, just going upward in the atmosphere will produce more QPF, better flake structure (longer arms that haven't shriveled up falling another 2-3,000ft downward) and more inches of snowfall. I think about it every time it's snowing nicely at 1,500ft but then ride the Gondola to 3,600ft walk out of the Cliff House and it's like really snowing. Flakes are bigger, stacking better, and then you ski down and the snowfall gradually lightens up just a bit as the Temp/dew spread increases slightly and RH dries out a bit.

Some are still trying to figure out how to install.

Fun stuff. Didn't see that coming. Great entertainment by MLB.

Yankees. Corn. Wow.

The trail mowing starting by Mountain Ops is a fun benchmark. It's the first real step towards the new ski season.

Yeah for sure, nice observation. Wind in the terrain is paramount, along with and inversion wind shift height. The Jay Range and Cold Hollow Mtns just south have a lot of nook and cranny type snow spots. The gaps in the Spine seem to help compared to the wall at times.

I assume Jay Peak is reporting or stating snowfall of at least 3,000ft in elevation possibly 3,500ft or even higher. If you ski glades right under the tram that snow is always very deep. I know some of the folks at Jay and have watched for a long time, along with knowing how Stowe was prior to I really wanted to normalize it a decade ago, and the snow may not necessarily be "measured"... at either location. It's hard to know. Estimating snowfall by skiing/riding and just a general feeling of it can be misleading at times. It's not even that wrong, but ski area reporting was for a long time (and still is at some spots) a more estimation and overall "feel" than it is actual stationary measurement. Even if a ski area marketing or snow reporter calls Ski Patrol for snowfall when they can't get out at that moment... often that data is "someone just skied trail XYZ and said 2-4 inches, of course it's blowing around and hard to tell." It always ends with "it's hard to tell" which is honest too. But that can end up on some snow reports, and it's not even necessarily wrong. If the skier and rider, customer, enjoys what they also think is 2-4 inches blown around, it's good. Maybe you had a controlled site and it was 1.5" but 4" was added to the season total because it skied like 2-4 inches. That happens without a permanent mark to measure against. But, does it matter or is it wrong if the day's skiers agree it skis like 2-4"? I don't think so to be honest, it's just a different metric. I'm a snow weenie. I've got a few other folks hooked on creating a longer standardized record on Mt Mansfield, the history of the mountain seems to inspire participation. Hopefully it can continue. But despite the differences in the ways the seasonal totals are arrived at, in a whole spine of ski areas, they fit meteorologically in the larger picture of the Green Mountain and New England climate.

Fall always seems to start later than Yore, definitely wouldn't be surprising. I think I actually like the warmth a bit more the later it goes in the season. There's a long cold season coming regardless of actual winter temperature anomalies. It's just cold or warm season. This is warm season.

It's been tropical, with the storms and rounds of downpours, mixed along with true summer real feel. A/C running the past couple days. Windows have not been open.

Sutton on GoogleMaps looks to be located between say 400m and 900m (really might be 850m) in elevation. That equates to 1,300ft to 2,900ft in elevation. That's a significantly lower elevation for a ski area. A 2,500ft snow measurement probably describes a good bit of it to be honest. There is a non-noticeable amount of snowfall possible on average between that and above that. All else aside.

Dude this Field of Dreams game is awesome. Watching the hitters launch home runs into the cornfield. Kids running after the balls in the rows of corn. Plenty of offense so far. MLB won with this. Hopefully they put on the Sandlot next time. Build an empty pen with a dog chained up, home run means you let one kid at a time past the fence to try and get the ball. Joe Buck having the time of his life.

Camera jealous, ha.

You get any velo scans as it went past your house? Was it a gust front? Inflow?

The 7 acorns on the driveway deserve the damage moniker.

Just get home here at 4pm and it’s 87/70. Feels all of that too. We seem to have a hard time getting to 90F with dews 70+… the 90-92s seem to be 62-64F type dew days up here. Anyway, nice little breeze rolling in, and what’s that smell? Manure. Fantastic. It’s hot and steamy outside and some farmer upwind somewhere must’ve decided today was the day. No better day of course. So the quintessential Vermont village smells like hot cow shit right now. I cannot fathom a worse day to spread or move or pump manure than today. Just all of the summer feels at once. Tourists get the best of VT today.

Yeah it feels like all that too. MVL here is 84/72 and 81F and very humid feels right in the base area. I was up top briefly a little while ago and even above 3500ft it doesn’t feel “refreshing.” More like a very humid hair dryer.

They are just gummy bears… that make you think you are a gummy bear. Ginxy’s sounds like the place to be. I’ll bring some wings. Its too hot today.

If I was a lurking NWS MET, student, or new poster this thread would definitely make me want to add to the AMWX discussion. Embarrassing.