powderfreak

My diurnal trend fetish going hard there. 30F to 80F in the afternoon. Meanwhile here we’ll do 59F to 74F today lol. Whats wild is at peak heating the wet bulbs there are 52F even at 80F ambient .

Jealousy is oozing out of me right now.

Regression to the mean. We usually say "Mother Nature loves her averages" on the weather side... here's the baseball version. It's like getting a completely shit winter, that's followed up with storm after storm of over-performers the next winter. Or vice versa depending on your team of preference.

Big Honda fan here. I drive a Honda Pilot with 180,000 miles on it. Thing is in great shape. The last one I had was an earlier model Honda Pilot and made it to 225,000 miles. Strong SUV’s and those Honda engines go forever. Stuff’s easy to fix too. None of the overly expensive repairs or going to a specialty shop like when I had a Volvo or WV. Some brands you just bring to any mechanic and they have the parts and can fix it confidently, faster, and cheaper.

Misquamicutt was always my favorite as a kid. We’d go maybe 5 days a summer but that was always awesome compared to the inland lake/pond swimming. Yearning for waves.

Grew up as a kid all summer long at the Woodstock 9-Hole Course at Roseland Park and Harrisville. I always remember Harrisville 20 years ago didn't have much irrigation so in the Stein summers you could hit the ball forever as the fairways were burnt brown. The ball would run and run and run. Now we play at Quinnatisset in Thompson and have also done the Raceway Course in Thompson as well in recent years.

It’s basically visit family, golf and float around on the lake drinking those IPAs until you need a nap from all the relaxing . If I’m doing a week long stretch of that though I’m getting on a plane and doing it at some resort somewhere. Though to be fair, NE CT weather is about the same as a tropical island. High dews, daily downpours, hot, and large insects.

Hard to line up work between my wife and I. She traveled quite a bit last month and summer is busier for her. Summer is actually Stowe’s busiest time as a town believe it or not. August is highest occupancy of any month. I’m heading back down without the wife next weekend for when my sisters and nieces will be there. Probably will stay 4 days Fri-Mon. Then we’ll be back a couple times in August for family gatherings. But you’re right, we rarely stay for just a week… we do multiple short trips. East drive though all interstate, about 3.5 hours.

Didn’t realize it was that hot down there today! We briefly touched 80F up here but most of the day the ASOS’s were 74-77F. Currently 73/59. Edit: I see ORH had a 74F dew this afternoon… that’s impressive for an ASOS at 1,000ft.

Another 2-5" for west-central Mass and northern CT over the next 3 days sounds about right on the GFS. What a time to be alive there.

All that water and now heat... ha bug paradise. I just think of all the standing water in NE CT.... the massive puddles rotting there all warm, roadside ditches full, ponds overflowing into other areas, wetlands filled with water... what a bug paradise. Breeding things the size of acorns and pine cones .

Damn that is some Dubai stuff, BTV area has similar temps but not those dews. 69/66 on the local PWS. We are right in the middle of the upper 70s to near 80F still found in BTV-land PWS and then the mid-60s in the NEK. Looking around, some of those NE VT highlands and elevated glens cool off ridiculously fast. I think we cool fast here but they are like 64-65F already on the plateaus.

Hit 86F at MVL and at 4pm it was 85/65 at the ASOS. I found being outside at the mountain got sweaty without much activity, ha. Mid-July though, it felt like seasons in seasons. A/C on at home this afternoon though it just went off as the outside temp has dropped to the indoor temp.

Alas I had to come back north to VT but will be heading back down for a few more days end of next work week. Hopefully it’ll be a bit sunnier that time around, though today looked like a great day as we left lol. Definitely trying to get down there to see family a bit more this year. I think I’ll try to go twice in August to. Of course once back in Stowe we almost hit a bear with the car. Was so happy to avoid that as in the rear view mirror we watched three cubs run across the road after mama. Not sure what I would’ve done if we hit the bear that ran out in front of us only to find cubs waiting in the high grass.

I definitely did when it happened. Not on this phone though, haha. It was a special look for sure, scared the children. I’ll have to look later.

Yes! I got hit in the forehead between my eyes and the swelling pretty much shut my eyes. Lasted for a solid 24 hours even with a lot of ice. And as far as I know I only got hit once but it was a dead center hit between the eyes. I've been stung many times and never had any issue (got hit almost a dozen times once at the mountain with no issues). Take one in the forehead and my eyelids swelled so much my eyes could barely open for like a full 24 hours. It's just a very sensitive area. My wife couldn't stop laughing after realizing there was no danger. Looked like I had small balloons inflated around my eyes. Had zero other issues except just wait for the swelling to go down. I figured when I woke up the next day it would be gone but apparently sleeping head down increased it a bit. It wasn't until the following afternoon that it dissipated.

I’m confused, why won’t a window unit go in there? The lower part holds it from slipping out and then you shut the window on top of the unit. Gravity wants it to fall out of the window but that lower bracket/raised part forms the bottom and the top window shuts to seal the thing in place? The ass end hangs outside.

The days of snow per season holds some pretty serious weight in terms of "wintry appeal" of a given winter. To me, having flakes flying is important mostly because it usually leads to a fresh looking surface. There are deeper snowpacks, more inches, but I absolutely love having a sparkling looking top sheet of snow. When you get even 0.2-0.4" of sparkling dust or even synoptic snow, the surface looks fresh. "Looks" is the key word. You can look out the window and see the existing snow sparking or having this undisturbed look. It appears like it all could've fallen overnight. There's no crusty, glazed, or brown snowpack. Even a couple tenths is enough to hide the dirty old snow. Get a thaw that melts it down to crust but passing snow showers on the back-end leave even 0.6" of new snow on top... it just looks a lot better than a dry air freeze. You can't see the crust so the pack looks the same as if it just fell when looking out over the yard. The winters with "days of snowflakes" can feel the most mystical... like it's just always snowing. Fluffy flakes floating down out of passing clouds in a cold air mass. It's a very wintry vibe. The metric of "days with snow" definitely influence the overall "vibe" of a winter.

I think he's being sarcastic judging by other posts?

I’m starting to come around to DIT’s line of thinking with if you’ve made it this far, go for wet records now. Pouring in Woodstock with thunder. Slow roller heavy rain. It’s absolutely stunning how it doesn’t miss. Looks to be setting up for some training action on the CT/MA border in ECT.

Sun broke out finally in NE CT and now it feels like a sauna. Hot and humid almost immediately. Crazy what solar input can do. My folks are turning on the A/C now lol. That is just such a difference between 1/4sm fog/mist and sunshine.

That’s all I could think of when reading those posts.

I want a peloton. I was actually in my best shape when I used to bike every day. Hill climbing and distance, even gravel back road riding. Biking is low impact and just a great workout. Great interval training. My knees and ankles are going to be smoked soon from skiing and then hiking. Down hiking is so bad for your knees.

I’m going to have to soon. Takes a lot of effort to go up the mountains every day in order to have a couple beers lol.

We waiting here.