powderfreak

My wife won’t do temps in the 50s inside. It’s a deal breaker. She definitely isn’t a Vermonter. I had ours set to start if the inside gets 59F but then I also left the windows open yesterday. It’s mostly just negligence, to be honest. And our windows suck even when closed lol. The wear and tear definitely is something to think about, can’t be good to turn on for two hours then back off again for days at a time. I’ll turn it off completely this weekend and see what happens . Maybe I’ll be sleeping in my car by Monday.

Yeah that’s what got me, under-estimating yesterday’s chill and leaving them open.

We need our new windows. But yesterday's windy mid-50s all day didn't help and I'm the idiot who left the windows open yesterday during the day before going to work. Sucking in 50s all day then a freezing night. It was 63F yesterday when I got home and heat came on at 60F this morning.

For sure, I’d live in Rocky Mountain ski country in a heartbeat. They still get fires but not nearly the frequency of other areas... the ski towns in CO/WY/MT get enough precip usually to keep them low risk. The wife and I talk about, could just up and leave one day. Would have no problem selling our place and putting it in a truck and head west, ha.

Nice! I've got mine coming finally in two weeks. We've been on wait list since like May, lol. There was a production backlog so I don't think he got them delivered until later in August. I can't wait... mine are currently from like the 1970s. I think it'll keep my place a good 5F warmer.

Ha, my heat kicked on this morning. I can't imagine having window units in especially this weekend. Definitely a different climo. Saturday and Sunday morning are going to be real cold with great high pressure set-up both nights after the CAA comes in earlier on Friday than it looked yesterday.

Actually looks like it was early for 32F... still not sure if MVL hit 32F but they were 33/31 and several local PWS hit 32F, so they might have. We’ll see when the 12z max/min come out. Looking at this, September 15th would be early, with Morrisville showing up as September 27th for a median. Actually looks like the record is 9/11/95, so we are only 4 days from that. It’s also only a 30-something year POR though.

Feels earlier than recent years but I bet it’s very normal if you look past the recent “September is a summer month” stuff.

We frozen car windows.

Well I was wrong. No fog and we are frosted hard. Grass frozen, roof tops white, cars frozen. Went out with the dog and that grass sure is crunchy! MVL 33/31 and the PWS a quarter mile from me is sitting 32F. Looks like it’s 39F up at 1500ft.

Ha yup, into the 30s at BML and HIE near you, too. Looks like Alex is 37F too. We are at 39F and the drop has really slowed down. I’m thinking 36-37F locally. We may mist/fog soon. SLK in the Adirondacks down to 32/28 already at 11pm. That’s crazy. Like frozen bird bath in the morning cold there.

The low lying areas along the river and swampy spots are starting to turn fast. I’ve actually noticed it seems like some of the highest elevations appear the slowest at this time, but that should change after these cold shots.

The local temp differences are wild on these nights. Dropping into the upper 30s and calm in the lowest elevations while literally a few hundred feet up is still mid-40s. You can actually see MVL runway in this upper left on RT 100, the ASOS usually runs pretty close to that nearest PWS.

41/39 and dead calm. It is straight cold out here taking the dog for her night walk. 49F with a breeze up at 1500ft. There‘a the difference between mixed mid-slope and calm valley bottom. Radiators mount up.

Still low color, seems normal for mid-September. Two more weeks should have this view jamming. There's always that one tree that gets the party started well before everyone else.

Interesting. Even really high cirrus seems to effect that outgoing radiation.

I saw a video a guy shot from his house after a fire in Oregon... somehow his house was completely untouched and his neighbors on both sides were leveled to the ground. His shed even got torched but by some matter of luck his house was completely fine. No thanks on forest fires, I’m good with 60mph winds being about the extent of damaging natural disasters around here.

Ha, on Boston craigslist with the VT unemployment numbers but struggling to hire. My wife manages the spa and tennis centers there. Nice property. 57/40 at MVL. Clear skies. I like a low of 36-37F with dense fog here. Fog will save us a frost but just above the fog layer will frost, maybe 900-1000ft.

It is borderline cold outside for September 14th at 3pm in the middle of the afternoon. Really don't want to turn the heat on later. We were just talking about wearing shorts with temps in the 50s? I went with shorts today and not sure it was the right choice. Up at 1,500ft we are holding at 51-52F and looks like down in town is mid/upper 50s.

Yeah I was thinking the 1st one might have been minor stroke or even a seizure that repeated itself later. “Serious medical episode” is usually something other than a broken bone. I’ve been alone on a chairlift with someone who started having a massive seizure and I had to pin them in the chair with all my weight...you never know when a “serious episode” will happen. They were unconscious and unresponsive the second half of the ride, 4-5 minutes of that feels like an eternity, I can’t imagine waiting for an hour or two for help.

Looks like they have friendly bears in Greenfield, Mass too... this video is absolutely crazy. Dude falls asleep by his pool and is woken up by a bear tapping his foot. https://boston.cbslocal.com/2020/09/14/greenfield-bear-sleeping-matt-bete-video

59/51 at 7am this morning. 58/41 at noon with gusty NW flow. CAA at its finest. Seems to be off-setting any insolation so far and dews are plummeting. Midnight high temp of 65F.

Oh the difference is likely at least that much on most clear calm nights. At my house I can be up to 10 degrees lower than the base of the ski area at 1,500ft sometimes where it's almost always mixed at least a little with mid-slope climo. The inversion level is often right around 1,000-1,200ft. I'll leave in the morning and it could be 32F only to find it's 40F up there with a breeze. Then it'll be 60F there in the afternoon and 65F at my place. You can actually see it in the MVL/MPV normals around here... MVL is 700ft and MPV is almost 1,200ft but because the overnights on clear nights can be colder, the daily mean temperatures are pretty even. One site gets a degree or two lower for the mins and the other gets a degree or two lower on the maxes. Alex is still at just over 1,500ft so even his daytime temps stay pretty cool... he really found a cold spot there. Pretty crazy little microclimate.

Pretty strong ensemble support. That's a "shot across the bow" if we haven't seen one yet, ha.

Man, 6z GFS is real cold. 00z EURO also with a strong sub 0C 850mb shot too.