powderfreak

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.

Check out the ECMWF prog Ginxy posted earlier in one of the threads... 95-100F at DEN and then possible snow a day later, lol. I still can’t get over those numbers on that chart.

Very subtle early color. Not all deep green. About 4 weeks from hitting peak.

Man that 1780ft in Eden would be one helluva snowy place. 1800ft right in the sweet spot of the Spine is true weenie delight. Fantastic views of the old asbestos mine, ha. I can see that thing clearly from Stowe. Pretty much living on Belvedere Mountain, that would be obscene snows.

Gondola has been running at Stowe most of the summer... if you live together you ride together is the current motto. Winter will be similar though I think if it’s singles they say they’ll do one single on opposite sides of the gondola with face covering.

Someone disagreed yesterday.

Lot of that around here, but I also love the mix of humanity between that and people like my wife and I who live here in a 1,200 square foot townhome. I’m never jealous and everyone gets along just fine in a common love of the local area... I love my life and know I get to spend probably 300+ of 365 days at or on the mountain. People ask what it’s like to live among that wealth but you just don’t notice it with people. It’s funny how passions of outdoor recreation can bring folks together as we have several friends who are wealthy beyond anything I can imagine (such as Boston area commercial real estate who spend time between coastline in Mass, Stowe and Bermuda) but when you go skiing or hiking, none of that matters. You’re just humans who love being outdoors on a mountain. We get invited to dinners and gatherings where I’m amazed at how successful these people are, but all they want to talk about is what skiing 100+ days a year is like, measuring snow at 5am on a mountain, and they dream to get in a Stowe powder photo someday. That sort of community and sport transcending wealth is what makes the stories of rifts at Killington so hard to fathom. It’s supposed to be this joint passion of the mountain community that doesn’t matter where you are from, how much money you have, etc.

Yeah just saw that... 92F to 38F in 12 hours with precipitation is one crazy model prog! The foothills are insane like that.

That is absolutely obscene. I’m having a hard time processing that. Highs of 95-100F for 3 days and then immediately to highs in 30s with a foot of snow. It doesn’t even make sense that it would be 95/68 and then 38/35 a day later, those temps don’t overlap! Mind blown.

I do think it’s over here, we’ll see about your place. Maybe a couple 80s but more days like this. It’s been below normal for two weeks in the means up here. It’s largely over for me.

You never hold onto winter like this. March 1st you are Morch and snow is useless... but with heat and dews you try to ride it into the ground.

It’s certainly not safe to pull the polling machine lever down with your mouth during a pandemic. If only there was another way, maybe, but I’d rather lick the ballot envelope instead of the lever if those are the two choices, ha. All joking aside, voting is fun to do in person. Feels civic. My parents still say my name comes up on the list of voters for Albany, NY despite the fact I’ve voted in Vermont for a decade.

I was washing dishes like 2000-2001 time frame? I then realized lifeguarding at Normanside Country Club was a better gig as a senior. No idea when Alteri’s closed but I think it was within 5 years or so after that? Barb and Lou were getting up there in age and the 80 hour work weeks I think were getting to be too much. Lou was at that restaurant from like 9am until 11pm every single day.

Nice, still 70/55 up here! South wind and cloud cover not letting us decouple at all and keeping a well-mixed atmosphere.

Fun community it sounds like....yikes. Either that or sounds like a high school clique online that is trying to make it sound like they sit at the cool kids table.

You know the seasons are changing when today’s 59F dew felt a little humid all the sudden.

At the ski area, my best employees have been the J1 students and US college kids who know it isn’t a career and is only a temporary stepping stone. There’s a change once you get slightly older Americans working entry levels jobs in terms of work ethic and time they are willing to work. It certainly starts to get rougher around the edges the more disenfranchised a person is, and unfortunately working entry level in your later 20s and 30s in America does that really quickly to a person. Like this feeling that they are behind in society and will never catch up just seems to eat them alive. I’ve noticed that same thing working in hotels and restaurants, probably why drug use is so high in those industries among entry level positions. This disenfranchised attitude that “the system” is keeping them down, wages are too low, and the grass is always greener elsewhere etc.

Funny you say that, a friend of mine in Salt Lake City had an incident like what you and KLW seem to allude to... he found a used needle in his bathroom after a crew putting in tile floors left one day. He now has a family of Hispanics who roll up all together in a van, they’ll do literally anything as each person in the family has a specialty (lol) and they absolutely bust a**. He said the only time they stop is when the mom shows up at lunch and sets up a table of cooked food for them (which is awesome, folding table, crock pots, etc). They waste no time and if they only have two hours work left they will just stay and do it, instead of leaving to come back the next day. He just makes it sound like the work ethic is out of this world.

I’m already like “what’s the phone number of this company and will it service NVT too?”

I could see Friday being the day too if I had to pick. The final day before FROPA often sneaks in the warmer than modeled.

Ha, I think it was mentioned in the ski thread... but not what the ski industry needs heading into the fall. Even in COVID times Killington fulfills it’s reputation as a party spot .

I wonder if any of it in VT is tied to that $200-$300 million construction project in Burlington that stalled before COVID too. Largest commercial construction in the state. It was going to be the largest structure in Vermont but they’ve been in legal battles for a bit. I think the last work done at all was last November? Maybe the other VTers know more on that. True on those sized projects that employ hundreds of construction workers will jack up those percentages.

Yes! Last time we had work done it took the guy 8 months to bill us despite repeated pleas that we wanted to give him our money for work he performed. My folks had the same problem recently with a landscaper, I still don’t think they’ve paid him from June despite wanting to. They show up do the work but there’s no one running the “office” or accounting side of things... just one job to the next and “we’ll bill you soon.” Scheduling is often hit or miss too... forgotten times, etc.

There has to be some other reason, unless someone just put a decimal point in the wrong place. I was trying to figure out if any large companies folded or something, ha. I was also thinking I think I know some folks working those jobs under the table (not sure) but even if it wasn't documented that can't make up for 30% decrease. Those crews just don't have enough time for the work, like you are experiencing up there. Every person we called is like well if it's not an emergency, it'll be months. We've been waiting since June at this point. Hopefully this month he said.

You haven't looked at any models today have you? I guess if the GFS/NAM are calling for 85-86F at BDL, I could see you adding a few degrees to try for 90F... but nothing immediately says 90F in SNE. Humid? For sure. Strikes me more as a humid 80-85F for the bulk of the populations down there on Thursday and maybe Friday. Wednesday is 70s for highs.