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Yeah he should do well in Yankee Stadium. I just hate when the Yankees improve their team lol.

God dammit.

Jarren Durran with an inside-the-park home run at Fenway on a ball hit in the gap… man that young kid is fast! Now that was exciting.

Yeah, wife is going around closing doors and windows. 60F here currently. Dropped 10F in an hour, great to get that low dew radiational cooling back.

Baker still recommends condom use among those categories.

Yeah I like that description. Cool and wet. Exactly how my dad described it too. He doesn’t give a shit about the dew point, lol. What he remembers is that the highs were 60s and 70s a lot while it was raining. Thats the public perception I’d wager too. They remember all the highs in the 70s and damp, to them it’s “cool” for July because it’s not 85-90F for two weeks straight. It can be cool, wet and humid all at the same time.

Well between our two locations will have quite a bit of difference. The A/C was almost never on up here and windows open nightly. July will not be remembered as being warm or hot, thats for certain. Chilly, probably not but July isn’t a month that is chilly even below normal. Cool maybe? Cool and damp? But for sure it won’t be remembered as warm or deep summer. The other thing is I do think the public believes it was a colder than normal July (it was, ha). But the daytime highs were colder than normal a LOT and that’s going to lead to perception in the public. Focusing on the nights is weird because in the winter we always talk about what people perceive when they are awake and out/about. Same in summer, if it’s 72F for a high but 65F for a low, people are like it wasn’t hot today. In the winter we get those above normal months that are perceived cold because daytimes were chilly.

Ok yeah you are more interested in the dew point than the actual temp. We’ll see… maybe the ASOS’ climb that high by Wednesday.

You thinking torch by Tuesday? EPS and GEFS are in agreement where it takes a while to warm 850mb temps above normal…. Late next week. Maybe it changes, sure. Day 5-9 mean on EPS.

Started yesterday with mid-50s yesterday morning and should take us at least through next Wednesday. Down south you probably get clipped sooner with increasing moisture mid-week. NW flow remains across the region Friday night into Saturday with continued below normal temperatures expected. Low temperatures Friday night will average ~10 degrees below normal in the low 40s to low 50s. The overall pattern remains fairly active for the latter half of the weekend and into the early part of next week as another sharp trough swings through the Northeast. While Saturday looks to be dry, rain chances increase Sunday morning into Monday with the passage of this front. Another shot of cold air arrives Monday with below normal temperatures expected once again. &&

Dew point down to 40F at BML. We’ve only been upper 40s today but it’s very refreshing.

Talk about a conspiracy theory!

Definitely some disagreement with WAR.

A decade ago I was driving a foreign student worker back to his lodging after work and he was from Russia. We get down to the 3-way stop in the center of the village and he watches for a bit as we wait our turn. He turns to me and asks what’s happening, doesn’t understand how polite and orderly people are. I’m like what don’t you understand? The traffic pattern? It’s first come first goes, and rotates to the right so it’s just people waiting their turn to go. I still remember in his thick Russian accent he goes, “Dere is no fukking vay dis vould verk in Russia. No vay.”

Start with two direct ‘cane hits as early guess, can always adjust upward as needed.

The more I listen to the discussion it continues to become evident and like Phin has said, it’s not just political blue vs red. I admit I used to broad brush it that way but if we are going to discuss it so much we might as well learn deeper reasonings. It’s definitely a deeper personal freedom issue and trust issue with authority. Vermont has a large sense of community and I’m sure that played a large part in vaccinations. Not for the gov’t but because it circulated as a way to help your neighbors. Vermonters will eat that up if it helps someone else. Like waiting at a 4-way stop in VT, everyone is too damn polite that they all try to tell the others to go first and no one ends up driving anywhere. You go, no you go, no you probably have somewhere more important to be than me so you go first, etc. Not sure if politics really defines it but more of a overarching ideal in favor of the greater good over individual desires. Many town communities are governed by Republican Party members, the Gov is Republican and like posted earlier won’t require state employees to be vaxxed and sees no reason to make any rash decisions because cases are going up but deaths aren’t. But party lines don’t really explain VT, as much as community over self interests.

Top 10 day. 72/49 in the valley, upper 60s in the base area, and upper 50s at the iconic tables. Puffy Cu floating by. Mountain is packed, great day to enjoy it. Can see MWN for the first time in a while. Air is crisp.

68/49 open it wide up. Take the A/C’s out for the next 7-10 days.

VT’s Governor spoke yesterday that seemed pretty firm on not returning to any restrictions unless deaths start to skyrocket. “Despite an increase in COVID-19 infection rates nationally and in Vermont, Gov. Phil Scott and some of his key cabinet members remained upbeat during a weekly press briefing on Tuesday, saying they don’t anticipate a return of state restrictions. “There’s not a reason for us to take an alarmist kind of stance and make any major changes,” Scott said. “I went to a number of parades this year, and there were a lot of people there as well … We’re almost back to normal.” Nearly all of the infections nationally and in Vermont are striking unvaccinated people, officials said. However, the state has no plans to require vaccinations of state workers, and some other states have done, Scott said.”

“Most new infections continue to be among unvaccinated people.” It’s tone deaf. These folks largely take it as political. Some are lazy but the vast majority do not want someone telling them what to do. Without that, they’d likely get vaccinated. If someone gets the flu vaccine they should have no problem with this one. But Nevada is desert, wild, guns, gambling and prostitution. That population is going to rebel at the slightest hint of control. The legislature is definitely are tone deaf to the thought process there.

Stratus in the garden had 0.20 even up here. Several hour soaking it seems regionwide with more water the further south in latitude one went. 00z GFS barely had measurable here. Definitely over-performed the 30-50% POPs from this morning’s zone forecasts. The recorded amounts aren’t high but driving around late this afternoon from Stowe to Waterbury to BTV in both directions, it was wet with steady rainfall.

It’s also legal to pass on a double yellow line in Vermont. Pretty much anything goes here. Folks get so offended if you pass them on a double yellow, but it’s legit because it’s up to your judgement if you can get around them. Personal freedom in the people’s republic of VT, it happens more than folks think. Can’t even do that in Texas. Pass someone going 36 in a 40 on a double yellow and they react like you flipped off their grandmother. In Vermont, it is legal to cross a double yellow line to overtake and pass a vehicle traveling in the same direction as you are, if the left side is clearly visible and free of oncoming traffic for a sufficient distance, and you are not in a posted no-passing zone.

We get everyone. No one state plate stands out… equal opportunity. Becomes lower in MD, DE, NC, VA but they are around. NY, NJ, MA, RI, CT, even NH… all seem relative to population. Was stuck behind CT dude this evening on RT 100 coming back from Lowe’s. Had to pass. I’ve always thought locals ride out-of-staters much harder… never get tailgated by NY/NJ or any other state. We are always pushing them. We locals pass on the regular because folks are distracted at the sights (mountains, looking for lodging, trails, waterfalls, etc) and often go 5-10mph under the posted limit. Looking at stuff, in the country, just cruising around. But some of us live here, ha. We want and need to get places in normal time frames just like everyone else wants to when running their daily routines. If I went into DC, NJ, NY, BOS areas/suburbs and drove 5-10mph below the posted speed limits with clear sailing in front of me, people would lose their minds too .

I’m down. Makes sense for sure. Would people rebel against a nationwide fingerprick? Seems if they were like “report to your local firehouse for a test” it still might get similar numbers of participation because power is telling you to do it.

I’m totally with you on the reasoning. That’s what I like discussing. Not whether or not someone is to blame or who’s reasoning is better than someone else’s. No one is changing anyone’s opinion, let’s get that straight. Let’s discuss the thoughts behind the reasoning. It’s all about understanding the thought process. Sending more white well-to-do young people to convince minorities definitely doesn’t seem to appreciate the reasoning. Tone deaf.