powderfreak

Wow. Looks like the MVL/MPV/HIE/BML crew will all be 79-81 range for highs. Here we sat 78-79F all afternoon for hourly obs but I’d imagine we hit 80F in there somewhere.

Mansfield Stake should go to a Trace today... “trace” is when the snowpack is no longer continuous around the stake.

Pollen season is just starting up here, first day I noticed even the faintest green on the car windshield in the morning.

I did too in the dip this morning. Already looking nice. Can change rapidly though.

Really mixed out today, majority of sites SNE/NNE with dews in the 30s now. Even some like LEW tickled below freezing. Low RH region wide.

Yup it’s just play money but worth throwing a couple bills at. Maybe you win an all expenses paid vacation or a kitchen remodel, .

73/36 with 26% RH... let’s keep doing this daily.

Strong RAD cooling conditions... or fake cold. Down along the river, at the bottom of the Stowe CC golf course, the clear/calm conditions can be efficient along West Branch. The thermal gradient can be so close to the surface in these flows.

Max of 77.5F with a max dew of 49F (though afternoon much lower)... that's how you draw it up. Congrat's DIT, open 'em up wide and let it in. This is the week to install most likely though if that's something you do. Memorial Day Weekend not that far away, the unofficial start of summer anyway.

74/46... breezy... but feeling a bit muggy with dews above freezing.

Ahh you’re right. I see it now. It just replaced that specific NMM family within the larger HREF ecosystem.

So the new HREF is now more GFS based instead of the old that was NAM based is how I read it? “All HiresW-FV3 domains are initialized from a 6 h old cycle of the Global Forecast System (GFS). Previously the HiresW-NMMB utilized North American Model (NAM) surface conditions for all non-Guam domains, and took atmospheric initial conditions from the Rapid Refresh (RAP) for the CONUS and Puerto Rico domains.” ”The HiresW-FV3 also utilizes a very different set of physics than the HiresW-NMMB being replaced. In both models no parameterized convection is used, but the HiresW-FV3 otherwise is using GFS-style physics, while the HiresW-NMMB utilized NAM- style physics.”

We hit 76F here for the first time since April 9th. Nothing like a good 5 weeks to get back up to the early April torch values.

BTV hit 80F for the first time this season.

This evening’s dog hike revealed mosquitoes in big numbers. Stopped to take some photos and when the wind stopped blowing, I had a half dozen on my legs almost instantly. It was impressive how fast they were on you the moment the wind ceased.

A lot of Stowe marketing collateral over the past decade.... the stuff you see on trail map and brochure covers, website, social, etc. Primarily a landscape photog that sells through word of mouth too... second homeowners or those who own rental properties who want local landscapes of the Mansfield/Stowe area on their walls. It’s a joke on here, chamber of commerce weather.... but it’s real, ha. Sell shots from those days to Stowe Area Association and chamber office, . If I had a house on the Maine coast I’d have it full of @MaineJayhawk’s photos. He doesn’t post them here but damn those are amazing.

Yeah I’m reading on what Ginxy mentioned... sounds like most of that stuff is coming from Reddit. I guess that’s where the gas/bag video first re-surfaced and it went viral. Then everyone takes Reddit at face value too... sounds like a lot of viral stuff that’s fake starts at Reddit.

I'll have to look that up, ha.

What video?

Yeah I agree with mreaves up here... I thought we’d race out well ahead but things seem pretty normal right now. Mid-May and buds opening up to 2000ft, but even in the valley it’s not fully leafed out... early green, small leaves. In March one might have thought we’d have leaves on trees by mid-April, ha.

Yeah, my wife and I were both on unemployment when furloughed for a time late last spring and early summer for the first time ever when furloughed... we had the opposite effect, this was the first year we got a refund. We obviously had taxes taken out while on unemployment but then they waived taxes on up to $10k per person and we weren’t on unemployment/furlough long enough to go past 20k combined, so we got all the tax back from unemployment. First tax refund in a while for us, even with owing for my photography side business. I always owe because I don’t pay taxes on that income until I file.

They've been doing this for decades though. Even in the '90s all the stories were about "you won't believe what happened, and here's why you should be afraid. Tune in at 6pm to find out why an Ohio suburban mother is speaking up!" The problem now is that people can be exposed to it at all times... not just the morning or evening news cycle, or Dateline type show that you have to be sitting in front of NBC at 7pm every night if you really want to get scared.

Damn dude. A double visible. The size of the scene is awesome.

How about your house? Not trying to be an azzhat, curious if you think you’ll sniff 90F. It will certainly be the first summer burst. Is it full leaf out down there? Up here it isn’t, and forest flood/ground vegetation is not in full swing yet. May is the month here for warm/hot readings when dry and lacking full vegetation... last year’s 80s and 90s stretch proved that. Official stations mid-90s, even at elevated valleys like SLK, with a very dry air mass... it was how you draw heat up.