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I still can't quite understand what he's getting at there, ha. It has some deep psychological undertone though, like we are all slaves to exciting weather or something is usually the end point of those.

Piecasso Pizza just down the road had one in the middle of the afternoon just hanging out at their dumpsters waiting for the kitchen staff to bring out more bags. It is truly incredible the population of these things. This guy looks different than the one I've gotten pictures of here. There are far more bears than deer around here. If you want to come to Vermont and see wildlife in Stowe, just post up at a dumpster for a few hours and you're sure to see a bear.

Dumpsters... gotta lock that sh*t down or these bears will get in. Matterhorn Bar have screws sticking up to stop the bears from walking on it, but evidently their pads on their feet are so tough they've still seen them walking on top of this with no problem. Their grease trap is chained to this concrete pillar that the bear was able actually break and multiple times they've found the grease traps down in the river. The dumpsters have those lock bars so you can't lift the top upward, but then they just jump on the top of it until it breaks and falls inward.

Ha yup, that's the compost inspection division alright. Our guy destroyed our first attempt at it and the Fish & Game Warden said with the bears in Stowe (he said Stowe and Richmond were getting hit really bad by bears) that right now despite the law he said we should forgo any composting until we can get a true secure way for it not to be feed for them. Every day you drive around here there are dumpsters emptied with trash. There are more bears than any other animal around here. Just a day ago, a family was checking into a neighboring townhome air b'n'b and the father was like "At 2pm I was unloading the car and this bear just casually walked right down the sidewalk, past our SUV, within 10 feet of me holding luggage, and he went straight over to the dumpster and hopped in." I was like oh yeah, that's our daily visitor. He circles our pool and stays outside the fence grazing on berries while people are swimming. He thinks he's supposed to live with us or something. I now put a couple empty trash bins to make a barrier to get onto our porch, so if he tries it again it'll make a sh*tload of noise that will trigger our dog alarm system.

Very legit concern and likelihood. My opinion means absolutely nothing seeing as 1) I'm not a teacher and 2) I don't have kids, so I try to just listen to those that do have a horse in the race.

Cabot cheese and dairy land led the state of Vermont for water in July. 9.15" and 8.48" is a wet month. Pretty awesome consistency between two stations near each other, to the east of the Cabot Village center.

Having schools open though is certainly the best option for the economy and workforce. Schools fill that very important child care function.

All the teachers I know have said it has been the hardest working period of their career going from home at the end of last year. April/May/part of June sounded like long hours of work from home to make it happen. Scheduling kids for video calls even at like 7-8pm. I think every single teacher would prefer to be in the classroom but kids are germ factories, school ventilation is nil, and there's no way to socially distant (you are in close quarters with strangers for hours and hours). One can see both sides of the argument.

Best word to describe the month for sure... that's a keeper.

Hey but look on the bright side, it’s always nice and sunny... and then you steal all our QPF in the winter.

Wet EURO run to start August.

74/59 currently feels pretty good.

I think of my grandfather (rest in peace) being 85 years old and freezing cold all the time. The only time he could get warm was sitting on his porch in central NY when it was like 90/70 at SYR. He’d be legit cold at like 80F if the dew point was in the 40s/50s... just like DIT/Kev. Complaining about “cold evenings” when it’s like 70F outside, acting/dressing like it’s about to snow.

Where did you find that graphic!? I didn't know CoCoRAHS had that ability... awesome. I looked quickly but couldn't find it.

That's what we aim for in NNE... but it ain't happening this summer.

Ha! One shark death in a 100 years and shut the ocean down... "abundance of caution" sounds familiar.

For sure, the beach is a whole other animal to the very controlled environment of a pool or inland water. The lack of waves and currents, that stuff is strong and requires a strong response. At a pool or lake, you're basically making sure a small child doesn't get in over their head or fall in. It's a job that goes along with washing dishes at an Italian restaurant at night during a summer of yore.

Yeah even if it's not record lows like that, you usually expect the radiators to pop a 45-48F once in a while. And what the hell happened in 2001. That's like return of the ice age.

Our average here in the 700-800ft range at the valley bottom is 80/56 right now. It should be low 50s just as often as low 60s... we should see 40s once in a while. Like stuff where you wake up at 3am and want to close the windows and doors because it's cold inside. With an average high of 80F, we should have days where it struggles to hit 70F just as often as days that hit 90F. That's crazy to me. I can't even imagine struggling to reach 70F at the same frequency that we have touched 90F this year.

A nice cool evening... aka probably right in the "normal" zone but feels cool this summer. Into the 60s by 9pm is refreshing.

For someone who likes to rip the band aid off a season and go immediately into the next season, I can see how April would be infuriating to you. It's not the most boring but it can sure suck. I'd go like April 21-May 21 here... early April is still legit snow chances and skiing, as the mountain snowpack is usually still near it's peak depth.

I consider myself a strong swimmer, grew up in the water, spent my high school/college summers as a Lifeguard, and I've never been so terrified as I was in a rip current in Florida. Mostly due to my incompetence, I'm a mountain guy, not marine. The surf was pretty rough to begin with, but as soon as the water got over head height I was sucked outward like I've never felt before. Even swimming sideways, by the time I was out of it I was alarmingly far out and had some rough surf to get back in. I remember thinking, oh this is easily how people drown. You are exhausted afterwards and with high surf, even getting back in required getting slammed by a few waves that felt like being in a washing machine, upside down, spinning, etc.

Same up here. We've had some quality damaging wind/flood events. Though 2017 was that huge region wide wind event in October or November? Last Halloween up here had that near record flooding that matched or exceeded Irene on some rivers. That one sort of surprised and over-performed.

Yeah boring can be very nice. Need to wait for October though to really get those strong autumn FROPAs and wound up synoptic lows. October usually has some good wind and precip.

Yeah even post FROPA here has had a max/min of 84/57 which will be about +2. It’s been impossible to get a below normal day this month.