powderfreak

Travis Pastrana set new MWN Auto Road record today in the race to the clouds or whatever it’s called. 5 min and 28 seconds is absolutely nuts on that road (7.6 miles). Lose it at speed in several spots and your car rolls 1,000ft down the mountain.

55/52 That cooled off real fast with the sun going down. Lost 10F in the last 60 minutes.

You get cold getting out of water when it’s 80 degrees and full sun on a beach?

Fair enough, beach definitely. Swimming with the dog in ice cold river water earlier was a bit nippy. Getting water past the groin was difficult.

It’s true, I’m not sure when the last time was that I carried cash on me. Town of Stowe had a 2-hour internet outage on a Friday evening from like 5-7pm recently that wrecked town. Hotels, restaurants, shops, even gas stations couldn’t process any electronic payments for two hours on a busy Friday evening.

I mean I get that it's nice to look forward to more extreme weather, even if it's high dews. Dreading something just sucks, so might as well embrace it and look forward to it. But there's no way it is not nice enough to do something with the family outside today that you'd need 70 dews to do. The up and down is sort of nice and at least interesting as temps can go.

69/50 Step outside, stretch your arms and smile in this air like it’s a Foldgers commercial.

It all worked out. He seemed a little wild with a lot of full counts but didn’t walk anyone right? Just the roar at Fenway when he first came out to the mound in the top of the 1st gave me goosebumps. Been two years since he’s pitched. This does feel like when a kid’s travel soccer team is struggling, so the coach arranges for a game against the town’s B-team to get their confidence up. You just pray it doesn’t backfire and the B-Team wins, ha. I feel like college teams do that all the time too. 14 runs scored for the Sox and the 5th inning isn’t even done.

Puffy Cu, sunshine, 76/54 in the valley. After the past few days it feels like Columbus Day weekend outside right now .

Hopefully enough to carry fans to grill and beer time early evening. I bet he goes 80 or so based on his rehab start progression.

Have no idea what’s going on in the “real world” anymore. Ignorance is bliss as they say . What a day to be alive. Chillin with the dog and wife on the hill, head home later to see Chris Sale pitch, no humidity and a good breeze. Perfect Saturday.

Help is coming for you. Dew was 70F at 9:40am and now it’s 61F. You can feel it with ever puff of wind, a little drier each time. We are 71/61 and dropping after a half inch of rain this morning. Windows and doors open, A/C off. We should see dews fall through the 50s today. Only a matter of time for you.

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.