powderfreak

Ya’ll climbing back up the rope to get on the bridge again.

Tropical moisture and orographic processes make for some interesting combinations sometimes. This is mildly concerning. If that track holds with the PRE ahead of it, certainly could do 3-6" somewhere. Some very strong H7 fronto that pivots right through N/C VT there. Would be quite a 6-hourly dump of water.

Nice, you let him stay up later than DIT. Congrats 4-year-old ORH.

You’re a hard read these days, haha. Zzzzzz or yawns with maybe a wind threat and isolated tornadoes.

Ha what changed from this morning for you? You were telling ORH/Will that making any determinations today was way too early... then like 2 hours later it's completely done and over with? I get the "post traumatic drought disorder" that's going on right now, but the UKMET, EURO and GFS lit the swath of heavy rain pretty much over you today.

Extremely confusing, ha. Models paint heavy rain swath right through SNE.

Every model gets you pretty good. Euro was like 2.5”.

Yeah I thought that was his home mountain. Anyway he’ll know the climate differences well, he knows he’s getting into a snowier zone at home now ha.

Yeah Sugarbush skier right?

That last name is real familiar... I’m in some skiing circles with a Gabe Aceves? I don’t think we’ve ever met but we are both active in a closed group local VT ski/ride page.

Love the new maps! My rough tally was around 4.75” here and totaling up the PWS around here, including the Stowe CoCoRAHS and MVL ASOS, pretty much the entire Stowe area was like 4.25-5.25” this month. Nice wet axis right down the Winooski Valley from Williston to Waterbury, too. One spot that stands out is down near Killington or just north of it, there’s a cluster of high elevation sites that only had 1.89-2.50”....that area is usually real wet in summer. Also up near Newport, that’s usually a minimum but 6-8” in the two stations up there. Such is the nature of convection. Great to see the monthly totals laid out graphically!

Great area. Real estate is going so fast, and Waterbury is a great investment. That place will always be in demand as you can work in Montpelier or Burlington area...and it’s the exit on the interstate that accesses Stowe to the north and Mad River Valley to the south. It truly is in the middle of everything. Can’t get a more central location up here.

"It's going to be meh." "It's going to be meh." "It's going to be meh." "Goddamnit! It's actually going to be meh. What the hell do we have to do to get a good storm!?"

Last week a friend woke up in the middle of the night to noise outside the window, flipped the outside lights on and this big guy is wandering around outside the screen. He lives about a mile away from my place, other side of the golf course, but I haven't seen one this big. He immediately shut the sliding doors open on the deck, and bedroom windows. These bears are curious and have no fear getting very close to homes, making a lot of folks "close up" more at night than they normally would. This bear has to be 300-350 pounds.

We recently supposedly had a local Shaws supermarket employee test positive along with an Alpine Mart/Subway employee... though apparently both turned out to be false positives after the serum test.

Ha so not that extensive. How many students? I haven't read anything on how colleges/universities are handling it, just what's been written about the UVM one.

Did you see what UVM's approach was going to be? They are trying to do in-person but will provide testing before arrival on campus for all students and will require weekly testing for at least the first month students arrive. Then they'll adjust as needed after that. It's said to be one of the most extensive testing policies rolled out for a university.

Finally a day that is just about "normal" around here. Temps started off in the 50s this morning, rose up and hung around the 80F mark all afternoon (high of 82F in there) with dews dropping into the 50s. Now we get that classic sunset drop from 80F to 66F almost immediately and still going down. This feels more like NNE should. Air quality seemed great too, with good long distance views over to MWN from Mansfield. Here's a shot from the base area of the Gondola with the north side Notch wall behind it.

Wait, BDL has only had 2.24” since 5/17? That would explain the good mixing. Probably a desert under that ASOS.

Hottest spot in New England is also the driest. Looked very COCy today with FIT, CEF, ORH, etc all well down into the 50s for dews.

Looks like several 90F readings on their 5-minute observations, don't see any 91s but they definitely hit 90F. Relative humidity under 30% is impressive too.... 88/51 for 28% is dry.

Looks like winter. Trying to figure out if it's going to go up the Hudson Valley, CT River Valley or will it head to BOS/PWM and ME coast.

Dew is 54F at ORH. BDL looks fine. If we like seeing BDL be hotter than everyone, we should accept lower dews there. Science, ha.

I want to bang my head into my laptop so hard right now, lol. You get hotter temps with lower dews in the same air mass. So it’s either 83F with higher dews or its 87F with lower dews.... but it’s not hotter temps and higher dews.

No if you really analyzed the fibers, they'd come back to a Dale of Norway sweater that's hanging from the top of a ski lift somewhere up north.