powderfreak

Nice. SNE the max today and tomorrow, NNE had it the previous two days. Spreading the wealth of summer.

Hiked up to the fabled Mansfield stake to see the end of the natural snowpack in Vermont. The upper Toll Road forests are very widely patchy snow cover. I do believe aside from any random holes in the ground or whatever, that the northeast facing The site has been down to a trace since mid-week when the snow became fractured around the stake. Now it's down to a few small patches around the site. It is hard to explain just how big the 12-foot stake is when you are standing on the ground. Just a couple years ago in spring of 2019 that thing got over 10 feet of solid depth. The dog gives the height of the stake some context. Of course the dog visited every patch, making sure to cool off every time.

Too much cloud cover today for more than 82F. Had a few very light rain showers around midday, don’t even think it was measurable rain to be honest. All it did was add low level humidity it seemed. Oddly today at 80-82F with dews near 60F felt just as summery or more so than near 90F with dews in the 40s.

Beating the White Sox too... the AL East is a hot division right now. Lots of winning going on. Rays and Jays tied in the 9th right now.

Good night for New England sports. Boston getting it done in NHL and MLB.

Kind of bummed, MVL and MPV only hit 89F officially. It deserved 90F... the 5-minute data showed 90F but the rounding in the temperature conversion from C to F causes some false obs? I know Dendy has explained it so many times. Anyway, looks like the official 00z highs are: LEB... 92F BML... 91F BTV... 90F IZG... 89F MVL... 89F MPV... 89F FIT... 88F MHT... 88F RUT... 87F HIE... 87F CON... 87F DDH... 86F BDL... 84F ORH... 82F BOS... 82F HFD... 81F IJD... 81F LEW... 77F PWM... 69F

Ha, your original point stands for sure. Gourmet is not how it should be described. But I love the basic diet of like fish, dairy, potatoes/carrots and really good bread. Definitely a sustainable hearty food culture that developed from all the Scandinavian villages where it’s really hard to get from place to place... so you eat what you have because no one is bringing you anything else when isolated by mountains, glaciers, and water. My cousins over there are built like brick shithouses. Own a masonry business moving rock all day and then live off fish, potatoes and cheese.

I love Norwegian food but also grew up on a lot of their fish dishes as my grandparents came through Ellis Island in the 1940s from Norway. Cheese, cold fish, great bread. It is basic in a lot of ways but breakfast is the best IMO. This is what we ate for Christmas Eve for two decades, ha. Carrots, peas, shrimp and fish ball soup. Nothing says Christmas like fish balls.

Yeah I finally noticed the bugs exploding in population on the mountain now. This heat made them come to life in a big way.

Ahh right I’m mistaking those two heat waves... the May and June ones. I think it was the June one BTV hit 97F. That was a crazy stretch in May and June last year.

It wouldn’t be the first time. Last year’s highest was also that ridiculous May heatwave where even like SLK was 93F or 95F. BTV and CAR hit like 95-97? Much nicer up here but still mid-summer heat. Feels 80F even at over 3,000ft.

Cooling off on a hot day.

Yeah, May is apparently NNE’s time to shine with heat the past several years. No idea what the actuals are but looking at 5-min data the maxes so far: BML... 91F BTV... 90F MVL... 90F MPV... 90F HIE... 88F SLK... 86F That 1500-2000ft band seems to be mid-80s with 1000ft or lower around 90F. Car said 84F leaving the mountain and hit 88F in center of town.

Starting to see some high clouds or filtered sun... MVL bouncing 84-86F. Thought we’d get 88-90F for sure. We’ll see. Looks like BML 90F now .

Looks like the mountain valley sites of MVL here and BML over in N.NH leading the way with 84s at noon. Montreal also coming in at 84F. Going to be very close to 90F again it seems if it's getting mid-80s by lunchtime at those sites. 80F up here at 1,500ft.

Yeah up to 70F at BDL at 11:30. It’s trying down there. Definitely some warmer temps up north this afternoon on a lot of progs.

I saw she got her 100 days in, looked like she had a great winter which was awesome to see after some of the issues last summer.

Every May it seems we get the over-the-top heat. And it happens fast... like as soon as any semblance of cold vacates Quebec and Ontario, it’s almost instantly in the 80s. Could be snowing one week, then bam the gates of Hades open up and heat goes from Midwest up into N. Quebec. Last year was the big deal where it snowed May 11, then was setting all-time ASOS records in mid-90s a week later it seemed. Even summits MWN and Mansfield were setting all-time high temps after a frigid first two weeks of May. Today... already 80F at spots like BML, MVL, BTV while BDL, ORH, CON are upper 60s.

Looks like BTV didn’t get below 70F on the hourly temps last night. The nocturnal southerly jet in the valley there cranked again. Very Caribbean like weather there with increasing south winds overnight on these warm nights. Dews in the 40s though with very high min, just stays really well mixed all night.

Looks to come through here with 0.10-0.30" during early afternoon.... like perfectly timed to mess up the day. I'll trade you full Stein for any water to interrupt the day outside.

Reading through some ski area history this morning.... does this sound familiar to anyone? The Grinch has been around for a long time. The 1964-65 season got off to a bad start throughout New England, with rainy, 60 degree weather arriving at Christmas. Many areas were placed rough financial shape, including Stowe. Sepp Ruschp estimated Stowe's losses at $700,000.

That was awesome. Barnes came through with the save even after getting a little wild there for a sec with Rowdy. This team is fun to watch, best come from behind win of the season.

Dew Coin

Ha, sitting outside in shorts on a summer evening at Sushi Yoshi listening to live music coming from Stowe Cider... while bikers and runners pass by on the Rec Path. Clouds rolled in so temp won’t be dropping fast. It really feels like a summer evening.

He’s good with chainsaws I hear... sleep tight tonight. Great early season heat, perfect start to summer.