powderfreak

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.

Yup I found it. Dr Scholls. I rarely buy this type of stuff thinking it’s too gimmicky but with the pain, I was getting anything. Best $10 spent at Shaws ever, ha. I think it was like the 4th or 5th day I was able to cut the nail away from the skin. Euphoric feeling afterward, . Dr Scholls

Dude I feel ya. I had that last summer. Cut my toenail wrong I guess, it became lodged in the side of the toe overtime, turned yellow with infection. The pain was intense for such a minor thing though if it was hit by my shoe. I can’t remember the product but I got something in the supermarket that was like a circular bandage pad. It helped immediately, numbed the area under it, which was the ingrown nail. After a few days of those things, the toe was numb enough that I was able to cut back the nail (still hurt like hell, but could do it without passing out lol). That seemed to fix it.

We had pretty consistent thunder around this afternoon. A couple downpours that were short lived. Looks like 0.22” in the Stratus.

Yeah it’s also likely a case of we like to remember the success stories of phones in water still working... like wow my buddy’s phone worked! All while not mentioning the 99 other times it doesn’t and the phone is phucked. Just like hearing about a guy getting rich on crypto, but not the ones who don’t make shit lol.

Yeah turned into a pretty wet run in the end.

Looks nice and warm going forward. As we often see in the spring, higher anomalies over-the-top into southern Canada.

It’s amazing sometimes. My buggy lost his phone on a backcountry ski trail one year in late January... someone hiking after the snow melted found it and it turned on. He was able to get it back to my buddy. It was like 4 months of Mansfield weather that thing endured. Also this spring someone contacted me on social to try and find a phones owner... iPhone 11 found when the snow melted, dried it in some rice and it fired right up but locked on Home Screen so hard to figure out owner. Hardy little devices sometimes.

I like him, the booth is great right now. Eck and Ellis get colorful and DOB keeps them focused . Ellis says stuff DOB wouldn’t but gets Eck going... Ellis “that pitch had some hair on it, don’t you think?” Eck is so delightfully surprised “Why yes! Yes it does. Check out that hair. Thank you for saying that.” DOB rolls his eyes.