powderfreak

High of 90F today, I believe that’s the 11th of the year. 12 is the record for the ASOS if I remember from a conversation earlier this summer. 0.53” rainfall today too. We’ve been getting decent soakings every few days now for a while. July has been decently wet with almost 5” of rain. 73/71

That’s what you took away from that post? Their temperature sensor looks off by a couple degrees too in that case. I thought you were at least passable with the science side of it. You understand mixing and compressional heating/drying in a valley right? To squeeze out those extra couple degrees you dry out the boundary layer a bit more. For example, now they are 94/64 and the same as CEF. In order to get to 97-98F at BDL, it had to dry the boundary just a bit more than CEF, which had a lower max temp.

Ha sure, but having the hottest temps at BDL but lower dews is exactly what science says should happen. 97/61 at BDL 95/63 at CEF You either get the extra couple degrees at the cost of lower dews, or you keep the dew higher but the temp stays down a tick.

That explains a lot. Do you take the temps down a couple degrees too? I’m with Dendrite... laws of thermodynamics in a valley torch spot would support extra drying where there’s extra heat on mixed sunny afternoons. Probably all brown dead grass around it too.

85/73 The dews are nuts as Dendrite pointed out a few days ago...we'd miss the high heat but get the higher dews. No thanks but that's what we've got. 73F out in a NNE field is impressive... this morning's rain certainly didn't hurt either.

Yeah only took 5 days before games start getting "postponed" due to COVID. This won't last too long at this rate.

Ha that’s funny because I thought they developed that as a convective warm season tool. I do think we’ve seen several times this summer by most models, this over drying/heating of the boundary layer. It just ends up more humid but also not quite as hot as the machine numbers.

It’s the NAM run hourly, what do you think is gonna happen? Lol. It was weird how good it was locally here in some snow events last year but if you run hourly it’s gotta get something right once in a while ha.

Looks like most sites are mid-60s, yeah. There’s usually a tick up in dews late morning but you’ll have to see what the official sites do from 2-5pm.

Just a wave of warmth before the rains? Makes sense, looks like most of the BTV CWA sites ticked upwards ahead of that cluster after trying to cool after sunset.

Looks like even SLK was 75F at 2am, same as BDL. Thats unheard of for that location.

Lots of NNE in the 80s last night. Those clouds and increased flow hit just right to stop and even reverse any cooling that started at sunset. Wild. I still can’t believe that without that round of rain this morning it might have stayed 80s even at spots like here.

Oh it’s long past install, lol. Record hot June took care of that. Now record hot July just for good measure.

Holy crap. I’m just seeing that MVL here was 80F at 2am last night from wind/cloud cover. Got into upper 70s around sunset but then rose back to 82F at 11pm. Thats wild for that ASOS to rise back into the low 80s at midnight. That’s the normal average high temp getting hit at like 1am.

BTV was 81F at 1am last night. Palm trees blowing in the southerly flow. They might have held around 80F all night except that round of showers brought them a half inch of water and got temps into the mid-70s.

Wasn’t expecting the rain. 0.38” so far... enough to soak the vegetation. 70/70

How do dew points and surface moisture affect that? Are the 17-18C days “undered” but surface moisture is a bit more than modeled?

I know he’s just baiting, but I still don’t know if the historical significance will get there in his neck of the woods. If BDL is hottest July ever then we can talk. Back to back hottest months in the bag at the Mansfield COOP. BTV has joined the party, too.

Hottest June ever at the picnic tables on Mansfield...and July will be hottest ever for BTV and Mansfield. Will BDL get into those categories?

I don't think those mass production farms care in the least about chicken comfort.... I bet more die from heat and poor conditions than we know. They just keep churning them out.

The ballsy bear cubs are getting more adventurous. A friend had a leftover burrito stolen from their jeep after stopping somewhere on the way home. Only a sandy footprint left as evidence.

Speaking of summer's of "Yore"... pretty soon all the hot summer of yores will be gone. Replace by recent summers. In BTV, the last 3 July's are in the top 4 hottest since 1883, lol. This July will absolutely destroy the other ones after the next 3-4 days too, as it's already running decently above the number 2 slot from 2018. #4 is 2019. Every July just gets a little bit hotter.

77/64 Very comfortable sleeping last night. Gonna be a couple nights till we get back to that level. Might need AC tonight.

Yeah the discussion is in 3 different threads lol.

66F currently off a high of 84F. Another fantastic evening.