powderfreak

Stay strong my friend. Don’t give in to fear.

5:30pm BTV 91/38... 15% RH. Arizona style air mass when it’s 90s with dews in the 30s.

Ha, wow. Like 20 degrees cooler than the picnic tables this afternoon.

Sorry dude. Saying goodbye to a furry family member is one of the toughest things to do. I’ll always remember when my last dog told me it was time. Came home from work one night and she didn’t greet me at the door for the first time in 13 years. She was laying in the living room, tail still wagging but couldn’t get up and wouldn’t eat. She knew.

Yeah we warm. First swim of the season in the river... but man is that still cold. Felt hypothermic in like 5 minutes lol. I love this heat... dry, so the shade actually feels refreshing. Sun feels like 90F, shade feels like 70s. Going to drop real fast when the sun goes down. I could do this weather for the next 3 months.

I get it from Mesowest. The site seems to be acting slow right now but when it loads there's an option for the raw METARs and 5-minute observations. https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mesowest/timeseries.php?sid=kbtv

Yeah you're right, I saw 90F on the 5-minute data. Down to 23% RH too.

Looks like BTV got 90F so far.

Can we hit 90F? Over-the-top heat like last May. 88/48 at MVL. Nothing like dews in the 40s and temps approaching 90F. SSE surface flow at MVL downslopes the airfield pretty good off the Worecester Range (2,500-3,000ft drop). Seems to be getting that site a little drier/hotter.

UFO sightings... Odd that UFO sightings stop at the Mexican and Canadian borders too.

We are their test lab. The ones we've captured on video are just their rookie observers. "Dammit, we told you in your training that you can't be seen by these humans. We're going to have to send you home. Despite your parent's sending you all to the best schools and taking on a ton of debt, not everyone is skilled enough to be a human observer. Some of us just need to work in the trades to keep the mothership running smoothly."

Saw this photo on social of the Killington, VT forest fire. Photo from yesterday.

Can’t ask for much more. No reason to stay inside ever if it’s not going to rain. She’s a hot one today... 81/52 at MVL already at 1115am.

Crazy. 6 no-hitters in MLB through 5/19.

Yeah for sure. Guests are only required to follow CDC/VT Guidelines. It's a personal choice now if you travel/visit. The issue is employees and the local economy coming into what is going to be an insane warm season (summer/fall) tourism season. What's attractive to a person getting summer employment? Most of the wedding spots/hotel venues have 2-3 big weddings scheduled per week. Mid-week Thur, Fri, Sun night weddings will be a big thing this summer, as the Saturday dates are all filled. All the postponed destination weddings are going full-tilt this summer at all of the higher-end properties/resorts. How they handle employee mask wearing will be a big factor in employment level and associated service level.

We are too. But I think it'll drop after the company has a chance to digest everything. The national/multinational companies are trying to figure out if they follow local or federal guidance, too. Need to give the legal teams time to look at it too. As usual, I'm largely concerned about hitting short-term staffing levels and the service industry will see some competition between jobs requiring masks and those that don't this summer. If you are going to get paid the same amount, most vaccinated folks (I'd assume) will opt for the job that doesn't require a mask IMO. Some folks may still want jobs with masks required regardless of vaccination status, but that viewpoint is no where near as prevalent as its sometimes said to be. I'm sure a lot of businesses nationwide will be dealing with that, mask policy and hiring potential in the short term.

I went in with a grand today at the bottom and after the big rise late morning, it was dropping and I didn't feel good about it. Dumped it and made only $150 over a couple hours, but I'll be watching as there's bound to be a run before the next hard fall. Have to watch it like a hawk for a few hours though when it's on the move. Crypto to me is very short-acting. It's not the stock market where things generally move slowly, you put money in and don't need to watch all the time. Crypto is more entertainment to me, it can make some minor money here and there if you play the ups/downs. But the real money is in the hail mary bids on stuff like Safe Moon and early Dogecoin.

A good feeling I'm sure. Can truly end it in the workplace too. Employers seem to be gun shy due to the rapid change in policy in a lot of cases up this way. Can't ask for vaccination status but people volunteer it and wants to keep everyone masked until all are fully vaccinated as the process is still going. I'll get my second shot on Monday, month after the first one.

Already cooling off nicely... down near 60F now, wife wants to close the place us tight as we have 3 sliding doors open and all windows, indoor/outdoor temp isn't that different. I convinced her to feel a little chilly as sooner or later it'll be hard to get that feeling, ha. Also looking at BTV obs, man I am always reminded of how much I enjoy living in a place that cools off very quickly at night. At 8pm, MVL was 66F (dropping 10F in an hour) while BTV is at 78F. That immediate difference of 10-15 degrees when the sun goes down is a big deal between needing artificial A/C vs. natural A/C. We ran the window units pretty steadily in downtown BTV.

Makes sense, I’d imagine campfires at hiking shelters and overnight spots would be another big one. The last decent fire in Mansfield State Forest was from a smoldering campfire from hikers.... that one a few years ago burned under the surface or something weird like that, fueling on the peat moss. While it gets dry, seems like it’s not western dry for sure where a cig tossed out a car window can burn a forest. Needs to be active coals like burn pile or campfire in most cases I’d imagine. Hard to get the odd ways they start fires out west, like gender reveal parties... or a lowered Honda Civic bottoming out pulling into a WalMart and the resulting sparks blew into a field in high winds and burned the county down.

Damn! It was started by new homeowners I guess doing some land clearing and burn pile without a permit and fire ban in place.

They’ve had around 2” water this month and 5” last month it looks like too, dries out fast in this low RH regime. Every afternoon seems to get to 30% RH or lower.

Is that not under control yet? I figured they had that wrapped up. Crazy if it’s still going. Dont see this very often while hiking in the Northeast .

Ah yeah that makes sense. No veering and wind shift. Sorry I thought you were talking more generally about NW flow and was thinking we get plenty of convergence in many events on that wind direction.

NW flow reduce convergence because of larger scale sinking off Appalachia into SE Quad of New England?