powderfreak

Can’t wait to get home after work and open the place up wide again. The humidity lockdown has ended, ha.

You know its humid or you have a problem when you are refreshing dew point maps to watch the breath of fresh air move in.

Yeah. I saw EFK down to 41F at one point, but has come back up to 46F. Looks like FSO is coming back up, 39F now. Both of those stations are a bit of the secondary tier around here though. Seems to be a lot of jumping around, mixing probably. BTV down to 46F. Might mix out into low-40s, seems to be dropping with every 5-min update, RH now at 28%. Gahhh.

Dews are plummeting now. Feels so nice. Down to 54F now at MVL for a dew point from 70F this morning. BTV down to 48F dew. Highgate, VT (KFSO) down to 37F on the Canadian border. Let's get more of these dews in the 30s down in here. 83/37 for 19% RH there. Chamber Weather is back.

Yeah it feels much nicer now. We were around 70F dew point this morning and now down into the mid-50s with NW winds continuing.

We’ve been very dry too.

It's been really dry here. It's been a while since some soaking rains. I love it though, plans are never interrupted by rains. Some years it seems to annoyingly rain every afternoon. Never have to worry about changing outdoor plans due to rain or have to worry about what to wear. No rubber Carhartt wetsuits on the mountain. No mud, or soft slick ground. Just easy travel on foot with the dog once again this evening up at the picnic tables.

Karen is going to kick your ass.

Maybe using Worcester, ha. Must’ve forgotten the 1 in front of the 4.

Looks like you have more coming? Southern Greens and Bennington County know how to do summer convective rains.

Wild shot from Albany area of one of the storms. Like turning on a faucet.

The biannual leave of absence. Hate to see it during his prime weather.

Yeah makes sense. No avoiding this one no matter where you are. On an aside, I had forgotten what a rollercoaster ride that was late last May. A max of 95F and then 4 days later a max of 54F at BTV.

Last summer? Or was that more NNE? The May heat had mid-90s at some sites and even all-time May temps at numerous sites up north. Even SLK popped 93F, hotter than anything this week. Not sure SNE last year. June last year was also ridiculous. BTV had a stretch of 92, 91, 94, 94, 96, 96 and I think even at 1,000ft it was like 6 days of 90F. But that was right at the solstice, this is about 10 days earlier than that.

Nice catch. Doesn't look like there's any veering in the wind profile as it looks like it's due west up to 500-700mb. Does look like it's a standing wave downwind of the Green Mtn Spine just south of Killington. I don't see anything that would indicate flow blocking. Long way from the radar sites though too.

Gotcha. Yeah I don't have one connected either. These summer nights are when AC is needed, especially in the higher elevations that stay mixed. I've had my A/C running all day. I only do it a few days a summer but today was one of them. Temps are starting to drop here along the West Branch and golf course, neighbors station at 71F just to my northeast. It's humid but becoming much more manageable for a temperature if one can bring it inside efficiently. Note shown on here, but the ski area base at 1,500ft has gone back to 80F. They keep mixing out, while the surface inversion forms in the fields here. When fake cold becomes real, in the summer. When elevation snow hits though, we slop or water. Guess the trade off is it cools off at night .

Is this your spot?

Good call. Just watching them get so many shots, figured another one of those 45 shots could go in. That extra skater last minute was frustrating. They should've been putting the puck on goal instead of passing it around looking for a perfect chance. Throw it at the goalie with traffic in front and see what happens.

Not done yet though! They keep getting so many chances, they can do it. Red Sox with a win, too.

List of highs from around New England. Apologies if I missed your spot. Big heat today.... from BOS to BDL to BTV to CAR. Noticed big differences in the coastal spots, wind direction means everything. Mid-90s at PWM, BOS... 93F at BVY. 8 hours of 90F+ on the eastern coast. CT coastline though had the dews but much lower temperatures... maxing 70s and 80s. GON stayed pretty chilly though, like 69/63 at 2pm. Beach weather? Definitely a north shore type of air mass delivery. BOS... 96F BTV... 96F BDL... 95F IZG... 95F MHT... 95F BAF... 95F CEF... 95F CON... 94F FIT... 94F LEB... 94F BED... 94F PWM... 94F LEW... 93F HFD... 93F BVY... 93F LWM... 93F CAR... 92F IJD... 91F MVL... 91F BML... 91F PVD... 91F FVE... 91F LCI... 91F ALB... 90F TAN... 90F PYM... 90F ORH... 89F RUT... 89F DDH... 89F MPV... 89F HVN... 86F BDR... 85F WST... 76F GON... 76F

Interesting thing is seeing spin rates decrease recently in some good pitchers. This past week had several note-able pitchers see spin rates crash after this stuff started coming to light. I’m convinced every pitcher is doing it to some extent, but MLB has known it for decades...but now it’s getting carried away with sophistication. Of course, just like steroids, everyone is doing it before it gets cracked down on. This is their livelihood, millions of dollars are at stake, they’ll take every competitive advantage. And even if they don’t want to, they’ll do it to keep pace with everyone else. “All eyes will be on Gerrit Cole when he takes the mound Wednesday in Minnesota, after his spin rates dropped significantly in his less-than-dominant start last Thursday against the Rays. Cole, who blossomed into a superstar upon being traded to the Houston Astros in 2018, has come under some suspicion before. Trevor Bauer, whose own spin rates dropped significantly in a losing start on Sunday, made unspecified accusations a couple of years ago about what Cole, his old UCLA teammate, was doing in Houston. And then in January, a former clubhouse manager for the Los Angeles Angels named Brian Harkins, who was suing his old team over being fired after MLB had informed the Angels he’d been providing pitchers with a sticky mix of rosin and pine tar, revealed a 2019 text from Cole that indicated the star pitcher was essentially asking for a shipment of the stuff.”

90s all the way up through CAR... hot one region wide. Looks like even Quebec City area is flirting with 90F.

Funny you say that. I noticed the same thing looking at some NNE sites. HIE and BML in N.NH, similar valley bottom sites around 1,000ft elevation. HIE dew is 48F and BML is 61F. Dews have been bouncing around a bit, have to imagine some localized mixing can lower them a bit. But yeah it's interesting when the temperatures are about the same and the dews are jumping around. You'd expect a temp boost with dry air mixing I believe?

BTV is 95F. IZG also hit 95F.

Touched 80F briefly on Mansfield. 90F in the valley. BTV 95F MVL 90F MPV 90F