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Yeah I thought the one I ran into hiking was an unkempt German Sheppard that got away from his owner... until you see no collar, the burrs in the hair and how skinny it really is and the fact that the German Sheppard looking canine just scaled a 30 foot ledge like it was hoping up onto an owners couch, lol.

I've only seen them twice on the mountain, but one was really close on a hiking trail coming down towards me. They are so skittish though and my one observation was how nimble the thing was in close quarters... this is no domesticated dog lol. He pretty much went straight up a good sized ledge when he came around the corner and saw me, in full flight mode. Mangy looking thing but very cool. The other one I saw crossing the Nosedive ski trail in the spring with some animal in its mouth.

Ha yeah, November 2018 we had permanent snowpack down now. Last Monday and Tuesday was like mid-winter for 48 hours... but we do get these Indian Summer's in November but not quite to these levels. I actually think November 2011 was like this but later in the month. We got an 8-10" snowstorm and then it just went sunny and mild with these massive inversions. That was the only time I have photos of snow cover in the valley but not up higher. It was wild. 1,500ft was just 50s for days on end while 700-1,000ft rotted in freezing fog and 28-33F until on Day 3 the warmth finally broke the inversion.

Another crazy inversion. 33F for a low in the valley. Car said 36F leaving home and 51F at 1500ft less than 10 min later. Its hot up here, like a July morning in the 50s, lol. I still have plow piles rotting at my place, snow is long gone up here though. The cold nights must be keeping it around ha.

Ha yup sounds like here and with very similar elevations between village and base of the ski resort. The differences at night there also look to be beating the daytime differences, so definitely a warmer mean temperature this week in the mid-slopes that stay well mixed at night.

I feel like the elevated mid-slope zone of like 1,500-2,500ft is taking the brunt of the highest departures.... the mid-slopes are still getting the full afternoon torch but they aren’t decoupling at night either. The past couple mornings it’s been a good 10F colder at 750ft than 1500ft (very shallow inversion)...while the afternoons are only 2-4F warmer in the valley. The net result is a warmer daily mean temp at 1500ft because of the large nighttime spread, at least in this local topography.

Four straight mins above the normal max temp is impressive too!

Yeah it’s more seasonable but I didn’t have the normals readily available to say one way or another. And maybe I’m looking at it as we already had highs in the 20s which is skewing my sense of normal... but I would assume those lows shown there would result in any daily as being above normal. Its closer to normal though for sure. Looks like last year on this date the max/min was 28/23, lol. I think recent cold November’s are skewing my view too.

I think I was responding to the idea of big departures through mid-November... only warmth through that time. But yeah, we hope that day 7-10 is correct with seasonable cold.

1k feet looks like the apex of the torch right now... departures this month seem much higher with the warm nights up there. ORH at +5.9F with BDL at +4.2. I cannot believe ORH had a MIN of 57F the other day... like holy crap for a low temp in November. ORH looks to be the hottest relative to normal in New England the past 5 days with absolutely zero cooling at night.

Yeah +3.3 here so far with nothing but warmth ahead. Going to get some big departures.

One would think truth and fiction wouldn't be a partisan issue either. After Donald Trump, we certainly do live in a world where lies don't matter. Blatantly false information repeated over and over. Leaders of other nation's are starting to see it too... if you peddle lies long enough, they start to become truth. Trump is an amazing business man and he remained on-brand and remains on-brand... he knows marketing that's for sure. And his brand went to war with the media resulting in what we have now.

Low of 33F, could’ve used a frost advisory probably... oh wait that was almost two months ago when we were getting these types of mornings.

Game 7 ALCS... crushed it.

An image to illustrate this in full is needed. How big is big enough to matter?

Bagging leaves is up there on top 5 worst chores you can possibly do. Blow or rake into the woods all day long.

A friend called this “Retirement Community Weather”.... meet you at the shuffleboard courts! This is what you get when you visit grandma in Florida during the winter, sunny and 70F.

Shorts and t-shirt weather at the picnic tables. The 14” of snow is crying for Mamma... just a rotting few inches in the high shade. This is pretty spectacular warmth. 60F up here and 72F at MVL. Even the breeze is warm.

It’s crazy that it’s 1:30pm and the sun is setting on the east slope of Mansfield. Hiking and that’s all for the sun today as it heads behind the ridge.

Loved that song growing up. Still do, but I was all in on that one for a while.

Thanks, was hoping I could bait you into it . Where do you find this stuff BTW? That does make sense though, if Christmas Eve can pull 60s, there has to be some random low 70 mixed in there between now and then.

MVL maxed at 72F... I don’t have the data records Dendrite has but I have to think that’s also close to warmest temp so late in the year.

At least the divisive rhetoric will disappear. The differences in their speeches is astounding, back to a normal President who doesn’t drive an axe through the populous every time he speaks. That’s all America asks for.

No I’m sure they are doing better than I think, our hospital is in the UVM network but most of our employees are still averaging 3-5 days for a test result, sometimes up to 7. But on an unrelated note, the UVM medical network has also been hit hard with a ransomeware attack. They are screwed still for a while. No records, lot of hand written documents and charts. My buddy is having hand surgery and was asked to bring his copy of his X-Rays as it’s the only copy they have at this point (the one they printed for him to take home). ”The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating a cyberattack that caused a shutdown of the University of Vermont Health Network’s online systems. UVM Medical Center President Steve Leffler said Thursday officials had not identified the source of the attack that had downed the electronic health records system and its patient portal, where patients can access their appointment information and medical history. After learning of the issues on Wednesday afternoon, the staff switched to all paper medical records, Leffler said. Some appointments Thursday were cancelled, including certain surgeries and elective X-rays, Leffler said. The Burlington hospital has temporarily stopped taking trauma patients transferred from other emergency rooms. The system shutdown will likely delay the result of some Covid tests. According to Rajewski, similar attacks by the malware known as Ryuk have been increasing in recent months. He said he’s seen ransomware hit businesses and nonprofits of every size and in every sector. Recently, health care organizations have been a target. Since July, hospitals in New York, Nebraska, Ohio, Missouri and Michigan have reported cyberattacks. In recent days, an Oregon hospital and St. Lawrence Health Systems in New York were also hit. On Wednesday night, federal officials — from the FBI, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Department of Health and Human Services — warned of an “increased and imminent cybercrime threat to U.S. hospitals and healthcare providers.” Health care providers should “take timely and reasonable precautions to protect their networks from these threats.”