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Lift installation teams are a whole other sort of cowboy. That's some serious stuff for the two guys on the tower while the helo brings in the tower tops/catwalks.

Yeah the conversation devolved from "The hottest summer of your life" to "They don't think it was a hot summer." Those are two very different things. I do think there's an area in central New England that missed the record NNE torches early on, and then also failed to get into the BDL/TAN heat during the second half of the summer. Probably like Hippy to Hubb Dave to your area seemed to be more moderate in both cases when the heat was far NNW over the top, and then again when it was valley torches south of the Pike.

And honestly I feel like I've heard that argument here... above normal snow but lacking in a true signature 12"+ event so meh. I can almost hear Ray saying how sick of 3-7" events he was in that hypothetical winter.

Definitely some irony in a few of these posts regarding the picking of certain sites to get the weather one desires.

Definitely was high mins but that counts. I didn't even notice that the lowest minimum temperature for the month of July was 55F on Mansfield. The average minimum temperature for the entire month in a normal year is 51F... so the entire month of July was above normal miniums every single calendar day at the picnic tables and it wasn't particularly close. The high temps were closer to normal but those July mins were insane.

Then it's time for this.

I still can't believe that early in the warm season, Mansfield set it's all-time max temperature of 85F on May 27th when there was still snow on the ground at the Coop stake. That late-May heat was likely the most memorable here... hottest MVL temp in the past decade since I've lived here, also was the hottest SLK and BML temperatures on record for the ASOS. Hottest May temp ever at BTV in their 130 year period of record. But the summit torch was next level. There were 4 days there at the end of May where the summit went 79/59, 85/66 (!), 83/61, 74/63 with snow cover still in the upper spruce forests. That four-day period averaged +22 departures up there. I think that was also when CAR was going for it's all-time max too?

I don't remember that month having many days above 0F. I think we were at the point where a high of 10F at the mountain was a warm ski day. Anyway, I'm on board with this being a record hot summer. At least up here there was a good 8 week period that seemed to stretch the bounds of what I thought was possible... and we've got some decent records to support it.

Yeah it definitely switched in there from NNE to SNE. August really hasn’t been that hot up here at all. Big switch from the like +4 and +5 stuff in June/July. I think Bob seems like the worst of it. I don’t know how TAN/BDL compare this month but TAN seemed to have higher dews most of the time when I checked. Definitely more marine humid air when some of those well mixed days dropped dews at BDL/ORH and interior sites. You’d see those guys drop into the 50s while TAN sat at 70F+.

Yeah we are gusting even like 30mph in the valley. Dew was 65F at 1pm and now 53F. It’s like the humidity just vanished in a few NW breezes.

Hottest June and July on record for the picnic tables. August hasn’t packed any punch up here but from like that May day when it was 97F or whatever at BTV and 93-95F at SLK/BML/MVL through the end of July was definitely other worldly up here. I think we got 11 days of 90F in from May/June/July and only one weak 90F since then.

That’s crazy. We hit 81F for a max in the valley over the last 4 days. 70s today with gusty NW winds and dropping dews.

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I’m rocking one of the gnarliest farmers tans you’ll see... tons of outdoor time in the sun on the mountain, forearms and face are as dark as ever but then my wife needs to put sunglasses when we go swimming.

Your house won’t sniff 90F.

The wind is really starting to crank from the NW on the mountain now. Here comes that CAA. Top station is sustained 30-40mph, gusting 50-60 out of the NW. Haven’t really felt this NW wind vibe in a long time up here. Very cold season-esque.

To be honest that doesn’t sound like DIT. Maybe you have Dendrite and him confused.

Brutal 72F up here today. Special indeed.

Just noticed how wet last nights Euro run was. Upstate NY floating on off from tropical moisture.

One county between them, that’d be wild.

Holy crap at that boundary lol. 50F at MVL and 90F at BDL? Tamarack wandering through woods in full flannel outfit while DIT walks around with a couch stuck to his nads?

Left the mountains to go down to the lake for the afternoon. The Champlain Islands area is pretty cool... it's always insane to me that in like an hour drive or so you can go from big terrain like Mansfield to the 6th largest body of water in the United States. Off in the distance is the massive thunderstorm complex that was in Addison and Rutland Counties, as this is looking south/east.

I agree with you. Did everything I normally do in a summer, tons of outdoor time and daily dips in the river or pool. More humid than I would like but the big NNE heat first half of the summer was actually historically noteworthy... if it’s going to be hot, might as well do it like this up here with several monthly and station record max temps.

Looks like they hit 89F around 12:10pm before the rain. Max temp after the rain appears to be 84F at 3:15pm. Looks like if those storms were even 15-30 minutes later they would’ve popped 90F before 1pm.

The monster that lives under DIT’s bed.