powderfreak

It is 75F at 11:05am. Holy crap. Previous record was 70F in 2020. METAR KMVL 231505Z AUTO 19015KT 10SM CLR 24/08 A2992

Another banner day coming up tomorrow.

DIT is going down with that ship/take, no matter what. I’m sure there is nice foliage scenes nearby or throughout. If his environment is largely dry oaks during a multi-month stein stretch, I’m sure that’s not vibrant. Oaks usually aren’t to begin with. But once the species mix changes along with soil/precip, it’s probably great. When you live on the warmest hilltop with the latest frost/freezes and longest growing season, with all oaks, and dry antecedent conditions…. probably not ideal for vibrant neighborhood color.

Back when I was at UVM, I took a course on non-profit recreation and we went to Maine for a week to travel around the state checking out some of those local community hills. The focus was on the Maine Winter Sports Center, and it was an awesome scene checking out places from Black Mountain to Big Rock in Mars Hill. Big Rock was an awesome little ski area that rips.... 1,000 verts of fall-line terrain, I remember loving that spot way up on the NE Canadian border. It was easy to get behind their mission statement and see that there are so many organizations in Maine that are dedicated to using winter sports to promote a healthy lifestyle in the cold, dark winter months and economic stability. A big part of the MWSC then was trying to confront the childhood obesity and issues that arise when rural kids are stuck inside for multiple winter months in a row, without the economic means to get winter sports equipment and access to recreate (and therefore better themselves, in physical and mental health). The Maine Winter Sports Center (MWSC) is a 501(c)3 non-profit, economic development corporation, founded in April 1999 with a grant from the Libra Foundation in Portland, Maine. Our mission is to re-establish skiing as a life-style in Maine for lifestyle and economic opportunity for rural communities of the state. Our assets include world class cross country and biathlon venues in Fort Kent and Presque Isle, Big Rock Alpine area in Mars Hill and Quoggy Jo Alpine area in Presque Isle, Maine.

Definitely have no memories of that ski area. But back then when I was growing up, the "camps" or cottages the family had in Woodstock were not winterized and we always drained the water and locked them up for the season... so for most of my childhood I would spend June-August in Woodstock but then we wouldn't come back after a final weekend in October. So I never was around in the winter back then.

What an afternoon. 60F at the picnic tables and hiking in shorts and a T-shirt… one week after mid-winter up here.

52 here and sliding doors open. It got hot inside with full sun and mid-70s. Feels like a crisp summer day. Not full summer humidity, but the temps line up.

Luckily we can still get good snow up here in +4ish temps. It’s when we start pushing the +6 to +8 up here that things get bleak in a hurry. Of course the margin for error with positive departures decreases as one heads south… with almost no margin of error by the time you’re in NYC and south latitudes.

I mean that’s been no problem lately. We can do that easily with the lack of radiational cooling in recent winters.

That qualifies for the “Torch!” post.

Up to 75F here. Wow it’s nice out.

That’s awesome. A 50-diurnal range. That’s some Colorado ski town type stuff in the warm season.

Those are the rare burgers. The 50-spots.

Was in the mid-40s last evening then jumped into the 60s in the middle of the night. 68F at 9:45am is solid.

I mean, there’s a lot of green in that photo. It’s just peaking in many areas well north of you (even up at this latitude in the Champlain Valley). You’ve got some time left to judge, especially if things are still blooming. It may be November, but the leaves will still likely flash for a period.

29F to 72F today at home in the valley… and already dropping back into the 40s. My diurnal swing fetish is satiated.

What a day. It’s warm, we’ve got 55F up here at 3,600ft. Snow crying for its mama.

Ahhh… way to add substance to a discussion by just throwing gasoline on a fire. I still don’t get the “alarmed” or “worried” aspect of the discussion. It’s something that’s happening and science shouldn’t have emotions attached to it.

Yes the hyperbole doesn’t help any discussion and there’s a lot of hyperbole in society on all sides of the coin. All I was saying is we are in a warming period on the long term curve. Not worried about it and not making any assumptions on 10,000 years from now or what caused it or what to do about it. Don't really care about that to be honest. Just it is what it is. Enjoy the awesome Sunday weather Wolfie.

No kidding, no one said it won’t snow. Where was that said? I’m watching snow melt as I type this . I don’t know why this topic gets people so tweaked. It’s just a casual discussion of something that’s happening… like the sun rising and setting. We literally believe the same thing, it’s warmed and cooled before in history and we are on the warm swing now. Isn’t that undeniable? This is the warm swing. Like I don’t know why it’s so combative? Just imagine we are discussing increasing precipitation amounts.

I just want to be clear, I wasn’t worried or even trying to imply worry when asking you if it “truly evens out over time.” Not sure why there’s always this assumption of worry or not. We are just talking about a climate trend that’s fairly undeniable. Nothing else is loaded into those statements.

27F at SLK to 55F at ORH. Large temp variation across the region this evening.

Wolfie, you think that temps will be below normal for a long enough period of time to cancel out all the warm departures over a longer duration? Like in the long run? Compared against “normals” that even rise every 10 years and cheat the temps from 50 years ago? Or do you say that just as, there will be periods of colder than normal weather still? I think we are going to continue to get short-duration higher-end cold season events (QPF rich storms into barely 0C thermals). The mean thermals though will also continue to average out on the warmer than normal side with plenty of unfavorable parameters.

That sounds like exactly where he’s supposed to be. Don't disturb his leaves and he won’t come out, ha ha.

28F to 64F so far. What a day.