powderfreak

What a stretch of high pressure with nary a cloud and very low moisture levels... the afternoon RH and diurnal ranges for 4-5 days? Already around freezing outside for the night. We are 50-50 melted out up here. We'll be taking a dip in the river before long, ha.

Just ridiculous air mass. Daytime maxes have been +25 while the mins have been like -2, ha. Last 4 days diurnal ranges have been: 41, 43, 48, and at least 46 today. Low of 22F this morning and high of 68F so far. Dew point is 14F for 12% RH. What a stretch of weather.

What a day on the hill. Might’ve been the most I’ve skied all season. Definitely the most roving cast of friends I’ve skied with. Lowest lift lines of the season too. This is why spring skiing is great.

NNE climo sensei J.Spin told them not to lose faith. Spring never moves in for good in March.

I want to clarify I don’t like high dews, but warm/hot and dry is growing on me each year. I love this weather right now. But hiking in dews during the summer and the bugs that come with muggy weather, pass. I want summer days hot and cool refreshing nights.

Tolland Hills upslope event. Like the difference between J.Spin and BTV. Those are fun events, cool stuff.

"We aim to improve 500mb scores to rival that of the fabled UKMET." NOAA says it will lead to better predictions of hurricanes and other extreme events, ocean waves and weather systems high in the atmosphere.

With those super low dew points, as expected the bottom dropped out as soon as the sun went down. It's already 30 degrees colder than this afternoon... atmosphere becomes a vacuum once the sun goes behind the Spine. It's almost like a cold front moved through, doors and windows slammed shut before the heat kicked on. Will be below freezing in not too long.

He’s still on the dry persistence forecast going on like three summers... the next 5 months will be “don’t be surprised if XYZ finds a way not to rain.” Suppressed, South Coast, far NW, only the Cape, etc everything leaning towards no rain for heart of SNE.

All part of climo in the North Country. Late season snows count, lol. That’s often how these early mild stretches go... then end with some big snowstorm(s) as the rubber band snaps back and reminds you that it can snow into early May. Euro/GFS/GGEM all have something in that time frame early next week.

Doesn’t get any drier than that for a warm air mass... textbook definition of Chamber of Commerce weather.

BTV with 66/6 for 9%. FSO (Highgate, VT) with 66/0 for 7%. VSF with 62/3 for 9%. Today was some legit desert air mass. Temps in the 60s with dews in the single digits to even below zero is absolutely wild.

Forget about COVID though... Some fantastic spring skiing these days. Was on Spruce today enjoying some south facing sunshine as this part of the mountain closes Easter Sunday. This is definitely one of my favorite times of year.

That describes the current situation pretty well. The base area mazes, base lodges and indoor spaces are the target. No one is telling anyone what to do once the chair leaves the terminal and you are up/out on the hill. And by far the vast majority “get it” right now... go skiing, pull into the maze where it’s face covered time, then I go back up for another one. Lots of grilling and tailgating in the parking lots... people still out there with grills when I just left the Mtn at 5:30pm. Its not like it was back in Dec/Jan when the ski areas just wanted to stay open and avoid some super-spreader event being traced to their practices (or lack thereof). Many resort employees (older) and all ski patrol and stuff like that are vaccinated too... which has definitely cooled the vibe off too. Its still spring skiing and it’s still a fun laid back vibe. The people dressed in gorilla, Bigfoot, Borat and banana suits seem to be doing just fine, ha.

Definitely the SOP at most large resorts. First half of the season all ski areas just got hounded for not being strict enough on mask compliance... social media was a bloodbath of photos of people without masks over their noses, videos of guests hounding other guests, the customer surveys were wildly biased towards folks not feeling safe enough. It still is probably 66% to 33% in favor of or thankful for a strong hand of compliance... but that’s down from probably a 90-10 breakdown in January. Spring weather and vaccines are starting to turn the tide a bit more evenly. But still people by and large seem to understand what’s going on and are very polite. There are always a few that are looking for a confrontation.

This. Trying to keep everyone happy all the time when something like COVID is so political or divided and people stand so firmly on one side or another. As an employee, you tell that person drinking the Gatorade in a non-restaurant setting to pull up his mask and the person is annoyed.... don't do it and walk on by and another group of guests will get on you for not telling the other guy to pull up his mask. The lift lines can have people going at each other, going at the staff, etc about whether a nose was exposed. Guest 1 tells other guest 2 to pull up his mask, guest 2 responds that guest 1 needs to go home and watch more MSNBC... then guest 1 tells him to stop drinking the Fox News coolaid, Rush Limbaugh is dead, deal with it. It goes on and on. Ahhh... life in America. Cant wait for next season.

66/13 A 47 degree rise from the morning low of 19F so far. Given the dew points so low again, we may very well hit teens overnight again. It's going to absolutely plummet as soon as the sun goes down.

65/13 13% RH. It is very dry out there. If it started raining it would be like 39F, lol.

Yeah it is flowing from all accounts I hear. 19F this morning here and going back into the 60s again. Very hard freeze each night and then very warm day times. It's crazy that you can get a high in the 60s under sunshine but then spend 12+ hours below freezing during the 24 hour period. The overnight lows will keep the departures from getting all that high.

FB Memories reminded me of today back in 2012 when the great melt was occurring.... I've never seen rivers running through the trails like that before. Highs in the 70s and overnights in the 50s... I think we even hit 80F in the valleys for a couple days. The overnight lows were the killer though. I remember showing up at 5am to Ops and it was 57F outside at that time.

34 degree drop so far at MVL in the past 4 hours. 28/21 currently. Same 28F at the local PWS. Frozen again with muddy parking lots and wet snow now very crunchy...happens quickly with this dry air.

Awesome views today. Looking towards Alex, Diane and Phin's neck of the woods.

Been solidly below normal this month at -2.0. This will start chipping into it but with the high diurnal ranges it's not that warm all things considered. Yesterday was a +12F on the max temp and a -9F on the minimum that averaged just a touch above normal. That's the way to run a spring... warm above normal daytimes and cold, below normal nights. Lost 17 degrees in one hour, and 25 degrees in under 2 hours this evening. Temp just plummets when the sun goes down. 60F to 35F in a flash.

42 degree diurnal swing yesterday and at least 43 today. 53/11 and today’s 62/19 (might have hit higher between hours). It does feel insane to have the heat on at night and temps in the teens leaving the house in the morning, then opening windows in the afternoon because the sun is baking the living room. The old heat in the car in the AM, then A/C in the PM air mass.

Yeah I wasn't drawing any connections to being healthier to what we should do in the future. Just an observation for sure but one can see why it's true. We just all became insane clean freaks and cut down on a lot of the things that spread illnesses. Lockdowns are a thing of the past for sure. But it will be interesting to see if the cleanliness/hygiene stuff continues.