powderfreak

It's the American public, nothing surprises me anymore, . I got in at 0.22 and got out at 0.6 yesterday in Doge. Its hard to watch it go up another 10% today but I had 0.5 as my "out" and then when it blew past that I mentally said 0.6... and feel pretty good that I stuck to that one finally. Made several thousand in free money to get some home improvement plans rolling this summer. It's definitely straight up gambling and definitely feels weird, I'll be honest. Certainly not "earned" money. Feels a little dirty for some reason, ha.

Crazy this was one of the better events of the season in the lowlands up here. November 2-3, ha. Such a long time ago.

A bunch of people did. I looked it up, it’s like a decade old but a town near the Mississippi River had a lot of people build walls around their homes to protect from a coming flood.

Happy Bday Dendy. One of the boards best.

I dumped half of mine at 0.6. Even if I lose the rest I'll still come out ahead.

Oh yeah this is definitely in the public delusional stage. Chart makes perfect sense.

I’m with you on trying to find the exit strategy. I feel like it may be getting close? But each day it goes to the moon again. I got in late but right now I told my wife I’ll hold for a little longer and hopefully it’ll pay for our new hardwood floors in the living and dining rooms, ha. It’s scary how it prints money, it feels very odd. Definitely legal gambling.

44F. A very mundane temperature. As boring as temps get.

Poor kids when Dad is militant about being home, lights out and at rest early, ha. It's funny, as an adult you do remember those parties/gatherings as a kid and you still remember who left earliest each time. I'm probably on the other end of the spectrum, it would do me better to skew my day a little earlier... but the late daylight this time of year is one of my favorite things. I love that long, low glow in the evening that seems to last forever this time of year. Warmest time of the day too, especially up north where outdoor recreation temperatures are most ideal in the evening. It keeps me too energized into the evening, though I can usually fall asleep by midnight.

5:30 this time of year is like the middle of the day. Can work a full day, go home get the dog and then start 2+ hour hikes at 5:30pm when it's light until past 8pm.

Yup, late, late dinners abroad most of the time.

Yeah need to have multiple apps... I use Schwab and Robinhood for now. RH purely for the crypto stuff and Schwabby for other stuff.

Raining up here. Widespread mid-40s from BTV/MVL/MPV...be glad you aren’t here.

A friend shared these. Bear clans wandering neighborhoods in the Green Mountains. With Vermont's Compost Law, everyone has a separate compost bin (that looks like any other suburban trash can)... it's easily figured out by bears as they just knock it over and smash it around a bit. The dumpsters get the bear proof bar across the top. They can sometimes beat that bar with brute strength. It's definitely an on-going problem. Bears are learning that these human trash caches provide food. Even if they don't "learn" it, they can smell it.

That's nuts, I've always wondered why people don't do more drone tornado footage but then I realized they like getting their drones back at the end of the day.

Good husband. I'd have my neighbor call saying something happened at the house and needs me to go solo up there for a couple days to check it out LOL.

Look at that dynamic cooling on the 18z GFS bomb. Just top down cooling at 925mb.

Early and late season is when the NNE higher elevations get their business done for sure. Mid-winter it's usually pretty even as you saw when everyone has chances for snow. It's the October/November and April/May snows that really separates the high terrain. Head down to MD in the middle of winter and then come back north for the late season bombs. The big spring snows always happen because we usually have more moisture to work with and systems seem to be slower moving. Just need to be high enough in elevation. Getting the kids in the car for this one? If you don't, then @cpickett79 will be camped out on your deck.

Nah with an average like that you'll just always get crushed... or at least "struggle" is a very relative term . NNE climo is all about wind flow, you are right though... you saw what wind direction worked better than others. As suspected, E/NE flow is your bread and butter. W/NW works too. SW through SE seemed like the events you were more mystified about. About as one would expect though, a more northerly 925mb wind component is going to be better on that north side of the Presidentials than a southerly component. Good learning experiences.

I'm just busting his balls because anyone else would just say "It was a beautiful day until like 3pm, then the clouds moved in and rain started up afterwards" but he'll leave the rain and clouds completely out of it and make it sound like he's still grillin' while the kids play in the pool. I love it, cracks me up.

Really turned into a beautiful afternoon and evening. Had some clouds this morning into midday but that stuff seems to have pushed into NE VT and N.NH. Full sunshine this afternoon/evening.

It "was" a beautiful day? Glad to see Stein is letting you get some rainfall.

Yeah I bet that seasonal total is starting to get within the "normal" bin for that spot... the standard deviation has to be fairly large given the short period of record. Late winter had it's bleak moments but the spring snows are bumping the higher elevations closer to a more normal season variance. Still on the low side but might now fall within one SD at 150" on a 180" average. Hopefully that guy isn't 80--90 years old and can still give another good couple decades of data to narrow it down, ha. Over this way the elevations have also made some progress against normal starting with the April 1st event. It doesn't look as bad as it did relative to normal on like March 27th. Guess that's why it's average annual snowfall and not Dec-Mar snowfall, . Might be able to get another snowfall still too.

I’d imagine the ratio flips more the second half of May? I honestly can think of a variety of early May snows but can’t remember a single widespread severe outbreak in the first week or two? By Memorial Day weekend sure.

Install those window units. Never too early to stare at those in the window all day.