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Ha, that was one that also came on and I was digging. That’s funny. I just think of it as pop country. It cycles through my wife’s Spotify playlist.

I don’t like the old country like those guys I mentioned… but I’m down with more pop country as I get older. Luke Combs, Nate Smith, Morgan Wallen, etc. Wife had Post Malone and Morgan Wallen “I had Some Help” on the other day, and I no idea who it was and was like, I sort of dig this, ha.

Like George Strait, Alan Jackson lol. Shaboozey is played on pop radio stations. Is it also on country stations too?

That’s not what I think of when I think country music? Seems like a pop hybrid.

How long were you in the pool today? Hopefully got some good water time to enjoy it.

70/54 here at BTV. College kids back in town. Early autumn vibe.

As a friend said, when the ocean temperatures start getting hotter than the human body temperature, it can’t mean good things .

Could be here… two of those airports had dew points of 93F at one point in the past day or so. Bet those kids are in school .

I have noticed it’s a sign of the times with regards to sun angle, that we can get daytime CAA to solidly off-set insolation. This April sun angle doesn’t quite have the juice it used to. Feels like 6 weeks ago we still would’ve been able to get an afternoon of 75-80F here despite CAA.

It was 73F at 6:30am and felt like a mid-summer morning that would yield 90+ by afternoon. That came to a very abrupt end. Sun is out now and mid-60s with a breeze.

lol it’s also a product of this forum and the torch crowd vs ACATT, as we call it. It’s like a sporting event. Daytime max is 82F instead of 88F and it’s a +1 for one team despite it being plenty warm, as you said. Most of our summer is spent nitpicking points (+1s) on here for whatever your home team is. Trying to spin it as daytime highs or only nighttime lows, how to frame the discussion to meet each of our own points. Its not a hot month because the maxes were low/mid-80s when Johnny got out of school in the afternoon… no, it is a hot month because the average low in Quebec City was 70F but by then Johnny is tucked into bed in the A/C and doesn’t notice it. But his swing-set is floating by his window in a flash flood from tropical rains at the same time. Then Johnny’s parents are wondering why the electric bill is so high for a month that wasn’t hot, or was it hot? It really is a sickness .

Yeah for sure during cold season. Wasn’t thinking winter as much as current season. I was just thinking in warm season it really matters environmentally… soil temps, vegetation, insect migration northward, ticks, rainfall, humidity, cooling degree days/energy consumption, etc. All that stuff environmentally has larger implications when nights don’t cool off. Once below 32F in the winter, it doesn’t matter as much for sure. And we only care about snow. Most of our snowstorms up here result in above normal dailies.

Yup, still an above normal temp regime for the larger environment while humans act confused and try to peddle it was cold .

We did 83F here. Mid-summer average max around here, so it was summer today.

However often all it takes is the presence of a suit to attract the necessary attention. You don’t want to be named in that suit regardless. And they often settle too, to save court fees even if they have a winnable case. It’s all very nuanced though… litigation happy country ties back to health insurance and if someone is looking down the barrel at losing their home, their kids’ college funds, etc because of some accident. Thats why they started suing for the most part. To find someone to be responsible for their medical bills. Look at societies who don’t have litigation happy constituents, and their health care systems. There’s a correlation. Anyway, Mods feel free to move to banter.

It’s 100% insurance liability coverage and the litigation friendly United States. We see it in the ski industry all the time… whereas Canadian and European operators don’t even blink at some of the stuff that will get you sued and shut down in America. You are better off cancelling school 100 times before you risk that one single multi-million dollar negligence suit that’s front page news. How many lawsuits have we seen since the 1990s about high school sports and coaches? One kid passes out from heat stroke, has a seizure, and the coach/school is sued for a lot of money. The courts have decided the school is unequivocally liable for your child’s safety while they are there… and here we are now.

GEFS and EPS are largely similar in 850mb anomalies during that time period. Day 8-12 means…

Sign of the times is the first high elevation snows out west. Sierra spots like Mammoth, Palisades/Alpine Meadows, Kirkwood saw snow, as did interior Rockies spots like Jackson Hole (pictured here). It’s crazy to me these guys can get a coating of snow in August, while places in New England can be begging for it even in December. Yes, I know they are at 10,000ft. Still. Though if we had 10,000ft elevations that recent ULL would’ve been a big snowstorm at that elevation, so sort of checks out.

+1.7 here and +1.6 St Johnsbury… but BTV down to -0.3 as the overnight lows don’t impact them as much (don’t radiate). Been as close to a below normal month as you’ll get here. Anything under +2 these days is a win against Earth’s inferno.

I’m afflicted to some degree. I think it’s the information overload in society… cue Tip. It’s just taking the emotional let down of a subsidence zone, one step further. Worrying about the rain after the storm. A weenie in 1932 loves the 16” of snowfall, and ignorance is bliss about what his neighbors received and the upcoming weather. The snow lover today smashes his keyboard when he sees 10 miles away get 28”, and it’s going to rain within 5 days.

There’s two months of nice weather left. Top 10 day season coming up in Sept and Oct usually. As a forum though, folks’ emotions are often more tied to the future than the present. If there’s a blizzard in progress but consensus for a cutter in 4 days, some will not be able to enjoy the blizzard. Just like we’ll mourn the end of summer for the next two months for fear of another winter of 40s and rain.

Ok I mean we are splitting hairs then. 75/55 or 83/63 is not *that* different in the grand scheme of things. Its not going to like highs in the 40s and 50s. Averages at BDL look to drop from 80F to 70F from 9/1 to 9/30. So like 80 early in the month is basically normal… trending above normal.

Isn’t there a difference between using available guidance to formulate a discussion and weather outlook, rather than just holding true to one’s desires regardless of available data? Of course there’s going to be a burst of dews mixed in there. We can get high dews ahead of an October cutter. But do you think it lasts a week or so of true summer heat and humidity given the overall guidance right now?

It’s still wild how the two options in your head are either 92/70 or 44/43 and rain. Like there’s no other possible weather outcomes between those.

Some might say west of him is... the Berkshires?