powderfreak

69/44 This feels like Labor Day Weekend.

We were mixing in and out last night too... got 50F then had a breeze quickly make it 55-56F for a few hours, then calm gives it a late drop back to 50F at 7am with a min of 49F before the rising sun takes over.

Big moon tonight.

Sign me up for January 2011 too... wasn't the same as yours but it was more than serviceable as we seemed to at least get 8-12" in a couple of those events. That entire winter was awesome though on the whole.

Got chilly real fast, wife going around slamming doors and windows shut right now. MVL at 64F but still 5mph wind... PWS about a half mile away is calm and 59F. MVL will catch up immediately once the airfield goes calm.

CON mix down to 40F dew... nice!

I’m jealous. If the Canadian border doesn’t open, that place is going to be a once in a lifetime powder party with 50% less skiers. I truly think the locals up there are in for something special from a skiing standpoint... I mean millions of people cut off at the border a few miles away in Quebec/Montreal and suburbs, and Americans have to drive past every other ski area to get there, and they aren’t on a multi-mtn pass. Place could be legit empty with that snowfall...wow. I’m jealous, if there’s one place that you could grab the most possible powder turns this winter, it’s Jay hands down... it is in most winters anyway, but close Canada border traffic and it’s like a private powder party.

5 hours now of 68-71F temps and 47-48F dews. What a day, I decided to bounce out of work early and take a long afternoon hike with the dog... the visibility is insane. I can see wind farms with the naked eye that look like they are right next door. Can even see the Tram Haus at the top of Jay Peak. Mount Washington dominates the horizon to the East, can see ski trails as far away as Killington too. It’s like winter visibility.

70/48 with fairy breezy NW winds. Flags are out straight at times.

Lol. So essentially lawn browning is the main impact this summer and that is primarily for aesthetic purposes. What is the purpose of a lawn? A lawn is an area of soil-covered land planted with grasses and other durable plants such as clover which are maintained at a short height with a lawnmower and used for aesthetic and recreational purposes.

Got down to 54F at 2am last night but then the wind kicked up and back up to 66F at sunrise. Funny watching the temp move with every puff of wind.

“It’s as bad as we’ve ever seen it.” Not being a dick but what is? I don’t think you’ve mentioned anything but a brown lawn and that graphic. What’s the impact of that graphic that gets shared here every day?

You and I will likely be rooting for very similar stuff on the whole... from NW upslope set ups to synoptic storms. Sometimes we’ll have differences but by and large compared to the general forum, we’ll be rooting in the same outcomes.

I didn’t realize 30+ in that one got so far north, looks like probably some mid-level high ratio band from like Rutland to Rangley but that’s a classic NW New England screwjie while SE New England has cars trapped on highways.

Yeah that’s why I laugh as well... what’s the true impact? Suburban lawns went brown? I still laugh at a Ginxy comment from a while back saying something along the lines of “Have you ever heard of an invention called a hose?” I haven’t heard one person mention the drought anywhere outside this forum. My parents in Woodstock had a fine garden...said the lawn was hurting but shocker, they watered the garden and got a lot of produce during one of the most severe droughts ever in NCT.

Yeah it’s crazy the variability in New England...that image might be my largest snowstorm this decade. We are definitely an island up here in NW New England in the sense of the forum. Need Dec 2003 style storms like I said, ha.

That particular one had warning snow amounts in Litchfield/Berkshire/Bennington counties...but the set up was a low moving along a stalled front, those seem to be tighter because you have that strong gradient already in place. Same thing in March 2011 when a strong low tracked over ORH and dropped 27” here in Stowe...it went along a frontal boundary. But yeah not many in New England were too stoked with us getting feet while it’s 56F in ORH. That’s usually a BGM-BTV-CAR type jackpot. Obviously for someone who’s lived in ALB area and then up to NVT, I’ve had a few really fun ones with that track.

It’s just climo unfortunately. Everyone has their tracks. Though I wish we could sign up for Dec 5-6 2003 all the time... 18” for Scooter and 18” up here... 8”+ for the whole forum pretty much. If only we could do this type of widespread dump all the time:

Ha, the Berks and Litchfield did really well in that storm. I look at it not NNE vs SNE, but WNE vs ENE .

*Moved this to the snow discussion thread... but it was borne out of the discussion of the winter storm that will hit the front range out west. Discussion of hot days to snowy days. This was the best I can find that I've ever experienced from highs in the mid-70s to 12+ inches of snow the next morning. Actually looked it up... holy crap, that storm in ALB was pretty impressive. Also how we were just speaking about surprise storms being rare... this one looks like it was forecast for a couple inches in the higher elevations and instead dropped 12-15" in the ALB area. 76F at 6pm to 39F at 11pm is pretty solid drop. I mean, this is what we all dream about right?... lol a forecast for a weaker low to pass east off Nantucket that instead at 12 hours lead time turns into a bomb over ORH. Major Snow Storm Sunday April 9, 2000 It was perhaps the cruelest twist of weather to affect the region during April 2000. A spectacular mid 70 degree day preceded the largest snowfall of the entire winter season in the Capital Region and the second heaviest all time April snowstorm on record. As if the snow was not bad enough, the magnitude of the storm came with very little warning. Forecasts on Saturday, the 8th, for the region had called for a period of rain changing to a brief period of snow through Sunday morning with only a couple of inches of accumulation expected mainly in the higher elevations. The front passed Albany at approximately 6pm on the 8th, dropping the temperature from 76 at 6pm to 57 degrees at 6:15pm to 50 degrees at 7:30pm and to 39 degrees at 11pm. At this point in the forecast, it was anticipated that the cold front would continue to be progressive in nature and the storm that had formed over western South Carolina would be weaker and move much further east, off of Nantucket by Sunday morning, than what actually occurred. The jet stream disturbance, as it turned out, was much stronger than anticipated and thus was able to bend the main steering flow up the Atlantic seaboard from its southwest to northeast direction on Saturday the 8th, to a more due south to north configuration by early Sunday morning the 9th. With a due south to north flow, the cold front which had moved through the Capital Region, delivering the very cold air, lost it's atmospheric push to keep it moving east. With the front now parallel to the upper air flow, it stalled over the Connecticut river valley in west central, MA. The stalled front then acted as a highway for the Carolina low pressure system to cruise north along and intensify. And that is exactly what happened. As the low tracked along the front and grew stronger it induced a stronger northwest airflow over eastern New York which allowed even colder air to move into the region changing the rain over to snow by about 3am on the 9th. The low then transported a hefty slug of Atlantic moisture over the cold dome over New York which translated into a period of extremely heavy snow over the Mohawk valley, Adirondacks and Capital Region, as well as western New England well into the afternoon on the 9th. Snowfall rates exceeded two inches per hour for a time early on Sunday morning. By 8am on the 9th the storm was located near Worcester, MA producing the blinding snow over the Capital District. The system began to accelerate by midday Sunday, as the parent jet stream disturbance moved out, finally bringing an end to the snowstorm.

I really can’t even process that. I’ll have to look up April 2000 at ALB (I think that’s the year)...I remember shorts and t-shirts playing soccer in maybe 70F on a Saturday, then we got 10-14” in the area on Sunday. But 90F to that is incredible.

75/55 Now this is perfect.

McKesson Corp huh?

65F... adding about a degree per hour this morning. Getting torchy.

You think +5-6 is torchy day? I feel like that’d be within a standard deviation or so. Doesn’t give much room for an above normal day that’s not a torch. Like when your normal high is 50F and the max is 55-56F, that just seems like an above normal day. A torch there would be like 65F.