powderfreak

I’ll ship ya some. Pretty solid downpour this evening. Was thinking of the rain deprived.

I wouldn’t complain if that boundary was south of us like that.

Really cool clouds with these storms today. Very localized downpours but I’ve seen mammatus clouds in a couple of them so far. This is probably the best view I got, decent mammatus up top.

Mid-slope climo... bet you get a nice drainage flow through your property towards the valley bottom. You may notice the wind is coming from higher up and pointing the wind vane towards the bottom of your field. Down there at the roadway/valley I bet it’s even as much as 10F colder some nights. It’s very similar at 1500ft at the ski area here. It drops quickly with sunset but then levels off over night while it continues to drain cold down here into town through the West Branch of the Little River. We’ll keep dropping right until sunrise in the morning, but the biggest drop is in the evening...then just ticks off a degree or two an hour after midnight usually.

I’ll have to fire up the external hard drive and look at more shots, but it is just as insane geography as it seems like it would be. Never seen anything like that.

Sun busted out back this way after the early morning band of showers.... was 63F at 11am but now a truly epic, breezy and sunny 72F. That NW breeze feels dry and visibility is ridiculous, crystal clear between Cu and rain shafts out in eastern VT to NH.

The teleworking stuff is interesting as it's been building for quite a while but seems to come in waves. Like the very first wave was after 9/11, IMO. I know several people in Stowe that moved up here from NYC area after 9/11 and started working remotely. It's been a growing thing in mountain towns (east and west US) for what seems like two decades, but seems to come in renewed waves after some causation event. Telecommuting was going to be the next best thing for people who wanted to enjoy the mountain recreation lifestyle (or beach lifestyle, I have a couple friends who work remote on the Cali coast) or whatever, but this will be another strong wave like 9/11 where people who have been thinking about it, finally pull the trigger again. It's not going away either, it can be delayed but then down the road something else will happen that will drive another wave of people to the country side if all they need is a broadband internet connection to do their job.

Yeah most of it for sure is cultural. It also depends on a lot on how the population feels... if they feel disenfranchised, they are less likely to work collectively with the populous to keep things in order, clean, nice, etc. Most of the cleanest countries have a very uniform population where everyone feels the same way, with not a lot of unrest.

Then there’s just like these scenes on the side of the road everywhere.... lot of steep terrain and high elevation snowmelt, meant waterfalls everywhere. This was down the road from a cousins house.

Yeah for sure. They all looked like fathers side of the family ha, blond hair, blue eyes and tall. My grandparents came over from Norway, through Ellis Island in the 1940s. Its a stunning country though from aesthetics, and yes it oozes pride and civic duty to fellow countrymen. The cleanliness really is absurd though from how people take care of their properties to even mass public transit stations being spotless. Like some weird Nordic Stepford wives utopia. Most of the police officers didn’t even have guns outside the airport, transit stations, those types of places.

I think this is what all schools are trying to avoid, from colleges to elementary schools... start in-person then quickly be forced to go to online only. Better off just plan for it. “UNC-Chapel Hill moves all classes online after 130 more students infected with COVID-19“ https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article245014185.html

Norway is hands down the best country I’ve ever visited. Place was so clean and it appeared money grew on trees, even very rural areas seemed “well kept”... have family there so visited some spots tourists might not, but just seemed like every thing was so well kept. Even way rural, none of this letting my yard grow out, cars up on cinder blocks, trashy look. Not to mention the craziest geography you can imagine. It was incredibly impressive... roads looked like they were repaved annually lol, bridges, tunnels, ferries, the infrastructure oozed money, Oslo has to be the cleanest European city I’ve ever been to... and it cost $40 USD for a large pizza, which is probably how they pay for it all lol.

Ha I was right there with ya... like 240-ish upper mountain snowfall seems like the low barometer until a 156” or whatever it was dropped on us in 15-16. *I should note that 11-12 was only 212” I think during operating season, which ended early on April 1st after a week of 70s/80s in March. We did get that big elevation 24-30” upslope event after closure but before scheduled closure so I generally roll that into the total.

2011-12 stands out like a sore thumb lol.

Ha yeah on the -7C but it’s probably about right. This week up north should be the first NNE shot across the bow where it’s partly sunny with sub-10C 850s for 2-3 days. That’s sort of what I look for. Not rain cooled air but legit air mass cooling from top down. Gradient for sure that by the time you get south of Dendrite it’s not as noticeable, if it is at all further south. Seems right on schedule though for this climate, second half of August gets that first whiff of something over than heat/dews.

I mean your bolder is almost exactly what is forecast for J.Spin and myself, across to Phin/Alex the next couple days. Theres definitely some regionalism going on, but like I posted our zone forecast has highs struggling to 69-73F the next couple days with lows in the 40s. Identical to what you just referenced. We get that a lot this time of year, where sun goes behind the mtns and you can just tell you are about to lose 15-20F in about 2 hours time. EURO has 850s down to +5C to +7C this week... “shot across the bow of New England.”

Yup you want above normal moisture IMO. If the moisture is there, eventually at this latitude and at elevation it’ll snow a bunch.

All I know is the 2010-11 Nina was huge for upslope. 2007-08 was just a big snow year in general but I generally have an overall positive outlook on Ninas... seem less prone to suppression depression too, even if they are SWFE mixed bags.

Yeah for sure. It’s not warm apple cider time by any means. But like we mentioned this last week, there’s been a noticeable change at least in NNE (don’t want to speak for SNE). 70s by day and 50s by night. Now we might even tickle 60s by 40s. There will still be mid-80s days even up here I bet, seems September is a torch month these past few years. Ive also noticed the solar angle difference and lengthening nights makes it easier to cool off. But a large part of June and all of July was pretty unrelenting (as can be seen by hottest July for BTV & Mansfield locally)... even the cooler days were popping above normal 82-85F maxes at my house.

Always nice to see the first sunny days with highs in the upper 60s to near 70F. Not some rain cooled air. Back broken. Nothing higher than upper 70s for the next week. Wednesday Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. Northwest winds around 10 mph. Wednesday Night Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Thursday Mostly sunny. Highs around 70. Thursday Night Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Friday Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.

Not too excited for La Nina?

It’s only rain, there will be plenty in December.

On an aside, I had no idea how much bears like corn. With our recent bear take-over in town, someone took a drone shot of the bear damage to corn crops... I had no idea they could plow through that much corn. Bear crop circles, lol.

Ha I noticed that too! That porch light stayed on for a long time while trees were getting shredded. Crazy.

25 minutes straight of severe wind is just crazy. That’s a long time! The wind goes on long enough that the car alarm stops and only goes to intermittent alarm, lol.