powderfreak

They’ve had some ridiculously cold snows out west in the trough. I saw Park City, Utah had like 5-8” of dry snow in the 20s at 6,000-7,000ft with lows near 10F a couple days ago. The higher ski areas had like two feet of blower mid-winter snow in the teens. Theres definitely a ying to our yang out there.

Yeah Sat AM/Sun AM/Mon AM on the GFS look to have at least some sub-freezing in New England. Sun/Mon here. I'm sure some will say toss, no freezes until Thanksgiving. At some point climo will kick in as several NNE sites around that time are near freezing for average lows. The problem is we just haven't been able to get a clear, high pressure in... which is what next weekend looks like right now.

I didn’t get that impression in the least. Every part of the discussion this morning looks to acknowledge the warming climate. So much so that it is assumed and Pope was wondering how growing season has been affected. Honestly don't get that denial vibe at all.

So in 10 years, the SNH growing season increased by almost 3 weeks on average (19 days)? Thats one huge gain in only 10 years.

Record late frosts/freezes up here this year. Seems like an odd time to try and make that point. “Growing” season seems to be getting longer and longer for sure.

Over an inch since 3pm, looks to be becoming more showery. Normally it would be a chilly October rain this time of year with a good 7 hours of synoptic style rain, but still feels mild with dews remaining in the 50s.

Very soggy out there. Stratus looked around .90” so far. Raining pretty hard. Hiking trails going to be all mud and leaves tomorrow.

Nice start to the game when JD rips a grand slam.

Worked out how you surmised too…. 1/4-1/2” rainfall quick… gusty winds but sub-severe, removing all leaves from trees.

MVL is 57/35… should be frosty most days now. The 72/56 was a +18 here. Last year was a warmer max at 74F! But the low was 36F. This fall we have had zero of those high diurnal ranges like last years temps show. The frost in the AM and shorts weather in the afternoon 40-degree swings.

Near whiteout with the line. Wind and rain. Probably 30-40mph. Not severe but leaves be gone.

BTV went to 1/8th of a mile and 44mph gust. KBTV 161858Z 25023G38KT 1/8SM R15/1800VP6000FT +RA FEW011 BKN047 OVC080 22/17 A2950 RMK AO2 PK WND 25038/1856 TWR VIS 1/4 PRESRR P0000 T02170172

Some action today.

Interesting line. Cold season pencil type line.

Looks interesting.

Nothing like a SVR Watch in mid-October. The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of Far western Connecticut Far western Massachusetts Eastern New York Northeast Pennsylvania Vermont * Effective this Saturday afternoon and evening from 1235 PM until 700 PM EDT. * Primary threats include... Scattered damaging winds and isolated significant gusts to 75 mph possible A tornado or two possible SUMMARY...A thin, low-topped convective line should intensify as it spreads east across eastern New York into western New England, as well as possibly across northeast Pennsylvania. A brief tornado threat is anticipated across parts of the Champlain and Upper Hudson Valleys. The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 55 statute miles east and west of a line from 35 miles north northwest of Burlington VT to 30 miles south southwest of Monticello NY. For a complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU9).

Definitely a “dirty” fall torch. It’s very mild but low clouds, fog and drizzle. Very much like a winter torch where the warm sector is mild but not “nice” out. Too much moisture trapped low.

A couple shots from the inversion the other day.

Utah in the Cottonwood Canyons in mid-October lol.

It’s not needed now, it has been needed the past few summers it seems more than ever though.

Ha yeah not verbatim but all models have a shift from what’s happened the rest of this month. Looks like first one early this week then a reload late week/next weekend. At some point it will get cold, at least transiently.

Is that Day 7-10? That cold shot on GFS and GGEM was pretty impressive. This would be one helluva wake up call after the warmth this month. Frigid cold pool, even a 522dm contour in S.NH.

Phin and others up here will have to be on the lookout for snow showers Mon/Tues. I’m out of town all next week starting Monday morning.

This is mind boggling to me. It’s obviously not the only issue but the fact that cranes aren’t working all the time (staggering breaks) is absurd if true. “Truckers unlucky enough to be waiting around lunchtime will watch as the entire crane crew stops work, instead of staggering their hours. “They leave for two hours, and you are stuck with no one there,” trucker Brian said.”

The craziest thing about this time of year is it can range from practically summer even at the summits… to other years you need snowmobiles to get around on the hill. I think it was 2006 the stake had 30” of settled depth in October with people skiing glades and employees ripping around on snowmobiles like it was December. Of course that 30” in 2006 melted and it didn’t snow again until MLK Weekend and Valentines Day 2007. Edit: Or was it 2005? What year was Hurricane Wilma? Something associated with Wilma dropped feet of snow.