powderfreak

It was 51F on Mansfield in the rain when we were up there. It was 50F in the rain on Christmas afternoon looking at the data. Similar experience both holidays.

Ha whew. You always get me with the “here” phrasing like you are up there. Glutton for punishment from your wife if you dragged her into that misty dark weather from summery mid-Atlantic .

Tell me you didn’t leave the Delaware shore for this weather abortion up north for the 4th?! We went for a hike this afternoon in sheet mist and fog with occasional rain. We look as wet as the dog.

At least we are getting our mid-level banding in July. Good snowgrowth zone too. Some good high-ratio rainfall.

Similar to a ski vacation in the east… or I guess anything where you are betting on New England weather. The odds of getting one shit day in a week at both the beach/summer and mountains/winter is pretty good, but it takes a real ugly pattern to ruin 3-4 days.

Last 3 days of rain. Stein is floating away along with the mulch beds running down the street. Only 1.10" here but you know it's wet when 1" is one of the lowest bins, ha.

“Embrace the disaster.” Wise words.

Gotta love when the true weenie comes out in the NWS discos once in a while. From BTV: Water vapor shows deep closed cyclonic circulation center over western NY, while moist conveyor of mid/upper lvl moisture continues along the Eastern Conus. Closed 700 to 500mb circulation wl slowly track from western NY into SNE by 00z Sunday. Only if this was winter-time, this would be an ideal track for big snows acrs the fa, always dreaming about the white stuff, as we have made the turn. Meanwhile, this 2 to 3 STD below normal trof wl continue to produce a cool and unsettled holiday weekend.

Yeah saw that, wild that it’s even an option. Can you imagine that within the same week ORH pops several 90F or above in a row? Heatwave to all-time low, .

55/53 at 5pm in the late afternoon on July 2nd at ORH is hilarious. Usually the max heating time of day.

Trippy. Easy thread statistics front and center on mobile. I gotta get my count up to match Phinny in the banter thread but he’s got a huge head start.

That's almost a summer month's worth of rain for the Pike region, ha.

They are everywhere at elevation on Mansfield. The Toll Road morning checks/drive used to reveal many of them. You could see 3-4 on the drive at 7am in the summer. The dog chases them all the time up there. For some reason never see them down low, but they thrive up high for some reason. Maybe lack of predators up there? The coyotes and foxes take care of the population below 2,000ft?

Stein. Definitely didn't see these synoptic (with convective elements) systems last summer or even recent summers.

This in an hour or two in an urban environment has to be leading to poor drainage flooding… underpasses, etc. Looks like BAF at 1.79” and an inch per hour.

Some fun Wunderground obs there. Chicopee like 2” down raining at 4”/hr. Looks like it’s leaving a decent footprint of 2”+.

The Mass Pike out there must be fun in those torrential trainers.

Yeah that’s hard to ignore.

Ginxy gets 1-2” from scattered showers… hard to bet against his area right now . 1-3” rest of the state.

The US as a whole looks moist on this map.

It all has a big impact. It would be hard to quantify subjectively one or the other. Even at the ski areas and NNE vacation towns wet weather sucks big time for times like the 4th, Labor Day, Columbus Day, etc. Places are sold out this weekend. Ski area ziptour sold out starting Friday… stuff like that. Not going to sell 2k Gondola tickets a day in the fog and mist. It all hurts from a business standpoint unless you own a cinema… but good for them, ha, been a rough year there too.

A dew point of 57F right now feels like come crisp Canadian air mass in October after the past 4-5 days.

ORH with 91, 93, 93 seems impressive. That's some high end heat for 1,000ft over multiple days.

LA wasn't as bad as I expected during time of days that are said to be terrible. Only had a week out there on vacation so it didn't really matter, was heading to and from beaches, but they had enough lanes to handle the flow at some supposedly rush hour times. Even to and from the airport in LA. 8-12 lanes wide at times, it was crowded but flowed at a good speed. Its amazing what infrastructure can do... and space. They have the space without thick forests to go wide out west.

0.5"+ is a good drink. That'll soak. Can't imagine from a vegetation standpoint that another half inch in quick time really would matter. Just get those drinks in.