powderfreak

Radar estimates look like you guys in Tolland, adjacent I84 and just south were jacked. Good stuff. Going to pump DIT’s backyard dews in this upcoming heat given the rainforest there.

A friend from the Hilton Hotel who’s the director of engineering/maintenance there shared these... I’m not sure I’ve seen a true fog bank like this off Champlain. Cold lake water.

Yup, that’s how I think of it. You are more prone to squeezing those extra few degrees out on either side (night and afternoon)... this the high diurnal ranges in those locations. Mid-slope elevations have a lower diurnal range in clear and non-advection regimes, less chill at night and more moderate afternoons. Often in NNE the radiator ASOS sites are also the ones that get hot/dry in the afternoon... BML, HIE, MVL, SLK even at almost 1700ft. Air moving down the mountain slopes into the valley, compressional warming and drying. Get that extra 2-3F while losing some dew point...those sites get that 90/57 while others are 86/62 type deal. SLK is probably the best example as it’s what like 1665ft? That elevation as a hilltop in New England might hit like 83-85F in a very hot period when valleys are ripping off 90s. Like 1700ft in SVT plateau, not very hot. But Lake Placid and SLK in that 1600-1800ft range is valley bottom surrounded by 4,000-5,000ft terrain all around. You’ll see SLK get 87-90F in hot patterns... probably 3-5F hotter than if that elevation is a hilltop. Then there are larger valley spots like BTV, ALB, MSS, etc that don’t radiate AND absolutely torch, ha. BTV probably doesn’t drop below 70F for 24-48 hours at some point early next week. King of 70F mins.

The radiators should hit it, along with BTV/CON/LEW. Probably avoid it at 1500ft and above?

Think you’ll hit 90F?

Yeah this is looking like a pretty legit period of heat for the North Country. Hadley Cell is devouring us all.

Is that some sort of antenna or are you just excited to see me?

No there’s a few scattered about. The terrain park jumps will be all thats left aim next couple days. BTV going hot: “Otherwise a largely dry and increasingly warm/hot forecast will be maintained with this package with highs on Sunday in the upper 80s to lower 90s, then upper 80s to mid 90s early next week.“

Mentally preparing for the heat coming up. I think we hit 90F at least twice in the NNE valley ASOS spots. For now enjoying a COC evening. The only problem is the black flies after the cold weekend have been programmed to super aggressive attack mode. Flesh eaters.

78/43.... the Chamber approves. Blue sky, a breeze, low dew points... that sun is hot though!

Getting a lot of pollen up here too now. Car has thing green film in the morning.

The funniest part is forum members remember severe events based on what Wiz was doing at the time. Selling hot dogs, score keeping, or inside working at the hockey rink during open skate?

Yikes. Healthy fall in Tuckermans over the weekend. Local medical helos like DART won’t fly in low clouds but they got the Coast Guard out of Weymouth, Mass to respond with a bird to transport critical patient to Portland’s level 1 trauma center. https://mountwashingtonavalanchecenter.org/sliding-fall-tuckerman-ravine-2/

Surprised to have it raining pretty good up at the ski area this morning. Looks like upslope rain on the radar. Forecast is for partly to mostly sunny with scattered afternoon showers. Hopefully this is just a brief flare up.

Happy Memorial Day crew. Thanks to all the veterans who gave to this country. Was a great evening as the rain ended and the sun came out. It'll be a weird night, good fake cooling conditions but warming aloft. It's been about as cold as it can be this time of year across New England. It's still insane to me that this scene occurs after 8pm. It's light out very late into the evening.

Marshall’s was still requiring masks next to Home Depot. Wife loves that hit or miss stuff for cheap in there... I listened to the Red Sox lose handily on the radio and hung out at the car with the dog.

Me too. And honestly I like that. Not for COVID... just personal space, ha. This showed that there's enough room in a Home Depot checkout line that you don't need to be up my ass and I don't need to be up yours . We can wait and enjoy personal space.... plus there are damn dots on the floor, as a human it's very hard not to wait on the dots... they queued it up for us. Home Depot was probably 50% mask usage in Williston, VT... it seemed like a fair mixture of both. BTV suburb but it was about what I would expect for this time frame in the process...transitional period. It was actually the first time I had been in a big box store since the changes, and not wearing a mask was refreshing. Brought it with me though, as I wasn't sure of the policies. I then had to remind myself to stop being so damn nice to people, as whenever I saw or needed to pass an employee or customer with a mask on I wanted to put one on out of respect.

Yeah if you are buying that you aren't "stretching your budget"... it's like Monopoly money at that point. But holy crap at the wind speeds this place probably sees for a residential spot... just exposure to the free air from all directions with no barriers at 2,600ft? Low level jet at 925mb racing across the grass. That field probably never has more than 12" of snow on it, ha.

Ahhh that's the one that had so much drama associated with it. Or basically just the builder went full send without anywhere close to the necessary approvals.

Ha yeah, the classic switch probably with the wind flow too. Maybe it was a little blocked/shadowed from the south too, but now that the flow is coming from the north into the Presidentials, it's much more efficient at precipitating.

Deform band type stuff or upper level low attributed. It's been curling through NVT and into your neck of the woods. We just cleared out before sunset but it was wet this afternoon. All the echoes were going SE to NW and then just reversed course and started coming back from the other direction . Good in the winter, ha.

I don’t know if it’s purely anecdotal but I feel like I’ve wanted better AC the past few summers in a row up here. Like 10 years ago it didn’t seem that bad, but again this is likely all in my head. We would go summers without hitting 90F, now we hit it in May, lol. There was one beautiful summer maybe 5 years ago with no humidity... tons of mins in the 40s all summer.

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday next week are full on torch on the 12z Euro. 24 hour maxes each day:

Yeah we've got AC if need it though I hate to run it. We have good ventilation in this place and being down along the river, near golf course and fields we get plenty cool at night if it's not overly humid. Our AC is a bit old though and takes a minute to cool the place down (it's the opposite of efficient), so I've been investigating mini-splits and we think we'll get that put in this summer. I think Tamarack mentioned it but those heat pump systems have some good rebates from state/federate efficiency programs. Of course I've seen your place and the cost to cool our 1,200 square feet is going to be a bit different than your zones .

Yeah all set with this today. Need the rain to stop today so I can get outside, ha. Hate being stuck inside this time of year. That over-the-top stuff is usually more of the higher diurnal range drier heat, at least to start the first couple days. Usually eventually gets humid but often a couple not dry hot days at the beginning.