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Fantastic evening for a hike. Winds are still cranking pretty good out of the NW. 51F up here.

I remember as a kid my family went up there and once above tree line my mom ended up having to lay down in the back of the station wagon until it was over, lol. I’ve only done it since then to access spring skiing once the road opens and the snowfields are still in.

Max of 64F up here under full sunshine so far... lol at people wearing jackets outside right now. Must be accustomed to full on torch all the time.

Hope you know I’m just joking too, I know there’s a lot of external factors going on right now. Just ribbing on the can’t make up your mind on what weather to want.

Ha I think it’s hilarious. You’ve always been one of the most level headed but it’s definitely been trying this summer... it’s too hot, it’s too cold, no rain, excessive rain is no good though, want the heat, over the heat, etc. You’ve been uncharacteristically all over. But it’s 2020. Tough to find that sweet spot.

Yeah I’m not sure I get the hate on the ASOS records at airports. I mean, that’s what we grew up comparing and still do because there’s a period of record there that makes it so we can see where things fall. The records are what they are...just seems like folks are getting tired of hearing that every summer is a top tier summer. But every summer also seems to end up in the top 10 these days, lol. I do think TAN gets the award for most uncomfortable readings on the whole this summer.

61/37 here at MVL at 1pm. Pretty impressive that in August, with 100% sunshine the temperature held steady from 12pm to 1pm at 61F. This is a legit air mass. Dews in the 30s.... been a long time since that.

What a day. Bluebird, breezy and 61F in the valley at noon. 12pm temps:

Looks like 4kft dipped into the upper 30s for the first time since June 14th. Freezing level seems to be 5,500ft.

Can’t wait to see the documentation of a first winter in likely one of the coldest/snowiest zones in NH, for someone used to a Maryland climate.

I have no evidence to back this up, but for the summer temperature rank (high, top 5) at many sites there seemed to be a lack of heat headlines from the NWS. At least up here, I feel like 2017 had more heat advisories up at BTV, as that was also a top tier summer. I know Snowman is good at finding number of advisories/warnings stuff like that, but it would be interesting to see how this year compared to other years in NWS headlines.

Lift installation teams are a whole other sort of cowboy. That's some serious stuff for the two guys on the tower while the helo brings in the tower tops/catwalks.

Yeah the conversation devolved from "The hottest summer of your life" to "They don't think it was a hot summer." Those are two very different things. I do think there's an area in central New England that missed the record NNE torches early on, and then also failed to get into the BDL/TAN heat during the second half of the summer. Probably like Hippy to Hubb Dave to your area seemed to be more moderate in both cases when the heat was far NNW over the top, and then again when it was valley torches south of the Pike.

And honestly I feel like I've heard that argument here... above normal snow but lacking in a true signature 12"+ event so meh. I can almost hear Ray saying how sick of 3-7" events he was in that hypothetical winter.

Definitely some irony in a few of these posts regarding the picking of certain sites to get the weather one desires.

Definitely was high mins but that counts. I didn't even notice that the lowest minimum temperature for the month of July was 55F on Mansfield. The average minimum temperature for the entire month in a normal year is 51F... so the entire month of July was above normal miniums every single calendar day at the picnic tables and it wasn't particularly close. The high temps were closer to normal but those July mins were insane.

Then it's time for this.

I still can't believe that early in the warm season, Mansfield set it's all-time max temperature of 85F on May 27th when there was still snow on the ground at the Coop stake. That late-May heat was likely the most memorable here... hottest MVL temp in the past decade since I've lived here, also was the hottest SLK and BML temperatures on record for the ASOS. Hottest May temp ever at BTV in their 130 year period of record. But the summit torch was next level. There were 4 days there at the end of May where the summit went 79/59, 85/66 (!), 83/61, 74/63 with snow cover still in the upper spruce forests. That four-day period averaged +22 departures up there. I think that was also when CAR was going for it's all-time max too?

I don't remember that month having many days above 0F. I think we were at the point where a high of 10F at the mountain was a warm ski day. Anyway, I'm on board with this being a record hot summer. At least up here there was a good 8 week period that seemed to stretch the bounds of what I thought was possible... and we've got some decent records to support it.

Yeah it definitely switched in there from NNE to SNE. August really hasn’t been that hot up here at all. Big switch from the like +4 and +5 stuff in June/July. I think Bob seems like the worst of it. I don’t know how TAN/BDL compare this month but TAN seemed to have higher dews most of the time when I checked. Definitely more marine humid air when some of those well mixed days dropped dews at BDL/ORH and interior sites. You’d see those guys drop into the 50s while TAN sat at 70F+.

Yeah we are gusting even like 30mph in the valley. Dew was 65F at 1pm and now 53F. It’s like the humidity just vanished in a few NW breezes.

Hottest June and July on record for the picnic tables. August hasn’t packed any punch up here but from like that May day when it was 97F or whatever at BTV and 93-95F at SLK/BML/MVL through the end of July was definitely other worldly up here. I think we got 11 days of 90F in from May/June/July and only one weak 90F since then.

That’s crazy. We hit 81F for a max in the valley over the last 4 days. 70s today with gusty NW winds and dropping dews.

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I’m rocking one of the gnarliest farmers tans you’ll see... tons of outdoor time in the sun on the mountain, forearms and face are as dark as ever but then my wife needs to put sunglasses when we go swimming.