powderfreak

Yeah I think we are over the hump. This week has felt different. The nights are chilly to the point that my wife wants windows closed at like 3am. I tell her to add a blanket because I want to feel cold while sleeping after the past two months, ha. Just so nice to sleep very comfortable and without fans or A/C running. Quiet.

I agree. They won't go very deep unless they have to. They like to just be barely hidden from the outside elements.

Yeah you certainly don't want to flush them inside the house if you try something from the outside or sealing off the entrance. Reminds me of a dumb move at the ski area, there was a large nest inside a wall of a lift shack one summer. Sprayed the outside entrance and then the next day the entire hive was inside the lift shack and very pissed off, looking for a new way out.

I just had no idea salt was that damaging to vegetation. Google says using salt is a great way to kill a tree if you need to, I guess this clears up why: "Using salt is an effective way to kill a tree. The sodium in salt will prevent a tree's flow of potassium and magnesium, both of which are vital ingredients in the making of chlorophyll. The lack of chlorophyll will eventually kill the tree."

What causes that? Salt or something?

Nice, now we can watch you wrestle bears for sport on the front lawn!

I can tell we’ve turned a corner with daylight too, as June/July we usually only decouple down to whatever the previous afternoon’s mixed out dew point was. If the dew bottomed out at 4pm at 58F, that’s usually what the low temp will be the next morning, 58F and foggy. Now though, we are starting to get longer nights and this week we started beating the afternoon minimum dew by 3-5F. Like yesterday I think it was 53F and the min was 49F this morning and I think the past 3-4 nights have all gone a bit lower than our lowest afternoon dew reading.

84/53 This is some good stuff. Higher diurnal range than expected... last night was a bit cooler than min forecasts, and this afternoon a bit warmer than max forecasts.

Just noticed SLK at 41F last night... their first frost usually isn’t too far away lol. Big change lately in the night temps this week, haven’t had even fans on for several nights. Seems like a corner has been turned. Even our first 49F min in a long time, ha.

High of 81F so far up here off a low of 49F. Currently 79/54. Top 10 day all around.

This didn't do it for ya?

“At least back to the river.”

12 here lol. Not too often I'll say that (I hope), but I'm still fascinated by that. Given how some other summers this decade have been like pulling teeth to get 90F+ and all the heat maxes out at 85-89F.

Yes! It got really cold and fast once that pattern changed. February was frigid. I still remember that Valentines Day storm thread, we actually had several posters in BTV at the time. It started snowing at 0F and we got like the first foot of snow at temps of like 5F. It was so, so cold. Coldest major snow of my life and the BTV obs show it. I think it eventually rose into the mid-teens at some point (but that's still a cold air mass for 2+ of QPF)... but that's just another reason why that storm was so great. I do remember late January and the first half of February in 2007 didn't have much synoptically until Valentines Day... but we did have a big increase in upslope snows with the arctic air masses starting to come in. I remember the snowpack didn't grow all that fast (outside the 2,000+ foot elevations) despite the snowfalls because of how cold/fluffy it was, but it was nice to see regular snow at that point and it was still serviceable for skiing. After Valentines Day the snowpack was set for the rest of the season. What you describe sounds like the classic Northern Greens though... like when I've got 4-6" on the ground at my house with 1.5sm -SN at MVL and then you drive a few miles up the road and there's a couple feet on the ground at 1,500ft+ with SN+ wind-whipped blizzard style.

One of the greatest flips I’ve ever witnessed too. It was looking real bleak and then one day it snowed in January...then it snowed a bit more...then we put together a couple decent weeks, before Valentines Day storm hit (still my personal number 1 favorite storm). After that it was just deep winter, biggie on St Patrick’s Day too followed by crazy upslope. April snowed a lot up high, some storm in there gave two feet of paste followed by rain lol.

Max of 82F with dews in the mid-50s was just about perfect today. Given dews getting down to 54F this afternoon, we should have some great sleeping weather tonight. Even been able to turn the fans off the past few days.

August 1st is the traditional skiing New Years Day anyway. The official start of the new ski year for those who count their days and ski on glaciers all summer, ha.

This week looked hot/warm, the relaxation always started this weekend and next week. Unless you can find some graphics showing below normal heights were expected this week?

EPS and GEFS 5-day means from 12z Mon to 12z Sat look like a nice stretch. Doesn’t mean it’s going to be cold, but both ensembles agree on the large scale features of a pleasant week, GEFS are just a touch deeper.

It’s hilarious how any time someone posts about a break from the heat (Dendy even said break from excessive heat), you make it sound like they are calling for a below normal pattern or cold crisp autumn air masses lol. When I said 70s/50s you made it sound like I was talking about frosts, ha. It can just be normal sometimes, as un-exciting as that is.

80F off a low of 55F... feels so good to finally get consistent lows in the 50s (which is normal), never thought we'd get there, ha.

Let's get a 2010-11 La Nina and we are all in business.

Mountain weather never gets old. The slopes give the clouds some perspective too and I think what makes mountain weather so awesome is it gives the atmosphere a sense of 3-D. In flat country, a cloud over your head is just a cloud over your head, but the topography in the mountains gives you something to compare height with. Like an elevation snow event over your head... in ALB I would know it’s snowing at 2,500ft but you wake up and it doesn’t matter if it was or not. Now I look outside and despite wet grass in the yard I see plastered hills and that snow aloft becomes real. Like oh, there it is... ha sort of like if a snowflake doesn’t accumulate on something, did it ever really exist? If I were you I’d take that photo/view and a topo map and draw the different elevations on it so you can easily reference it for the... “yup, snow level got down to 2,800ft last night“ posts.

Just wait for this winter... that same phrase has you throwing your phone through the wall in fits of rage while your wife takes the kids to stay with relatives for safe keeping.

We've finally started cooling off a bit relative to normal from SNE... +2.5 at MVL and +1.6 at MPV. Even strung together 4 straight days below normal earlier in the month. Certainly above normal but not the all out torch that June/July were.