powderfreak

Nice yeah that’s a good drink! Only 0.18” here but looks like the second round should add some. I was guessing we got like a third to half inch judging by the downpour but went out and Stratus was like oh hell no, only 0.18” . Looks like stations in Stowe range from 0.05” to 0.80”… the classic convection wide ranging rainfall.

Fairly lackluster. Not a breath of wind, but guess I don’t have to water the garden this evening. Not even much rain, but enough to soak.

There’s a core of like 70dbz at 4,000ft going right over Mad River Glen ski area. Would assume hail with that.

Pretty good lightning show though as this crosses the Green Mountain Spine. Just started pouring.

Yeah seems fairly run of the mill thunderstorms with very heavy rain. This air mass can make some water though in short duration. Though nothing jumping out as overly severe.

Two TOR Warnings out by CAR.

I had no idea they were so obsessed with the color blue. Wonder if my dog would wear a blue bucket on her head?

88/70. About as unpleasant as it gets around here. BTV 90/70.

BTV 88/69 and gusting almost 40mph out of the south. Feels like the Caribbean when it’s around 90F and the flags are straight out in a hairdryer wind.

This air mass is legit. It was 81/69 and now is 87/69 at MVL. Upper 80s with near 70F dews. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen that ASOS not mix out at least a little as the temp climbs. Temp keeps going up and dew point stays high.

Let’s go.

Very jealous. I love the hills but the water has an extremely strong pull too. The ocean is where summer lives. That wide open space.

That's insane, two in one game. Textbook way to do it. Ball hit hard to third base, step on the bag and then start a more routine double play style finish. If the batter is just leaving the box while the third basement already has the ball next to the bag, he's in trouble. He hit it too hard .

Chamber of Commerce day. What you see in the brochures for summer in the mountains. No haze, excellent visibility in clear air... a breeze... shallow Cu dotting the landscape casting shadows. Hot enough to swim, not hot enough to stifle active recreation. Mountain was bustling over on the Gondola side, a good energy of people enjoying themselves. Low 80s in town (max of 83F at MVL), upper 60s at the picnic tables.

Yeah the adult black bears can be large creatures in person, ha. I probably feel overly comfortable with them though as they really cause me no concern… my dog does though. Every one we’ve seen, I’ve seen it first and can leash her before she notices it. A black bear will pay no attention to me, but a barking dog might just annoy it enough. They are extremely docile creatures though. A few years ago working on the mountain we watched a deer and bear graze only like 10 yards apart or less. They both were going for the same ground food source and the deer seemed to have an understanding that this large creature isn’t interested in the meat I could provide, ha.

Dog and I ran into our first bear of the season today. Big fella. Had to wait about 10 minutes for him to meander away and out of our path. Of course the one time I decided not to carry the real camera with me on the mountain too. Amazing summer day though. Low-80s in the valley, dews in the 50s. Tons of sunshine. Plenty hot to go swimming (dipped in the river) and comfortable enough to be very active without sweating to dehydration. A perfect summer day.

He was solid at BTV. I liked Loconto on the discos when he was up here.

Added 0.12” this afternoon, first 24-hour period with 1”+ in what feels like a very long time.

Never even noticed this. I just remember in college they had Happy Hour but they got you with free food. I guess the booze wasn’t discounted but the way around that is “all you can eat free wings from 4-6pm.” I guess I didn’t realize how it was done but it felt like “happy hour” with everyone going and buying pitchers of beer while they bring you free food like nachos, wings, mozzarella sticks or other stuff.

Good Red Sox win today against the Royals but oof at the Baltimore Orioles. O’s were 1 out away from winning the game 7-4… and instead lost 10-7 when the Blue Jays scored 6 runs with 2 outs in the 9th. lol you can’t make that stuff up.

Just got one here too. Brief torrential rain but the wind on the front side had to be 40+ mph here at the ski area. Evap cooling rushing down the east slope into the base area right as the rain started was pretty good wind for 5-10 seconds. Turning over tables and breaking umbrellas, ha. Waitstaff needs to be faster at getting those down.

It is wild how late it’s light out. Like 10pm and still twilight visible on horizon.

That’s a hot one Monday on the 6z ECM…

It doubled our June rainfall tally. I’m at 1.78” now. Had been under an inch so far. Can tell it’s dry as the river didn’t change at all, rains almost an inch and can’t tell. Still very low flow.

Haha you’re right… those always come with a “wasn’t expecting the inner gauge to be almost full this morning.” Models won’t show those pixels of 0.75-1” amid a larger 0.1-0.4 shield. I guess it was more the overnight loud boomers at like 2-3am that knocked power out based on the flashing clocks this morning that woke me up… sort of like was that thunder? Then another one crashes and yup, yes it was.