powderfreak

It's like 2011-2012 in a way... below normal snowfall, not an inspiring winter by any stretch of the imagination. But the N/NW side of New England got a few events and then some nickle and dimers... compared with very little in other areas, it seems like a good winter. Some good events during "winter" months can start the idea, and then a solid finish is a lasting impression. To some it seems like a better winter relative to the actual numbers. In reality it wasn't a very good winter.

Swimming spots are incredibly busy right now... it's nice to see folks getting outside and enjoying the heat in NNE. Hiking trails were as busy as I've ever seen them prior to the high dews the past few days. Folks heading outdoors even more than normal this summer so far, in a place where folks go to get outside. Thanks COVID. Only the high dews deter them only to the swimming holes though.

Yeah I average decently less snow at 750ft than you and we need to have someone come once or twice a winter sometimes with a bucket loader to push the snowbanks way out into the lawn. It's common, those snowbanks will pile up and then it'll rain at some point and turn them to concrete that only a bucket loader can deal with. Last year we had more dense QPF rich snow with the warmer pattern, and that's when its really needed. The plows can crush the fluffer nutter snowfalls pretty easily into the existing snowbanks. In confined areas you need to just truck it away and dump it somewhere, ha.

Ha, I think it was a reference to classic superstitions on the forums about buying new winter toys... you buy something like a snowmobile and snowblower, you are guaranteeing a snowless winter so you can’t use it. But yeah, plowing is the only way to go if you average 100+ per season.

No, NNE is fukked. Ginxy to Scooter should get ready for jackpots. Lets just hope he doesn’t have the luck of @eyewall...he moved to BTV from the Carolinas and then the airport goes like two full years without a 6”+ event, including the only time in 65 years with 0” at the Mansfield Stake on Christmas.

No camera-on-a-tripod in a hotel room was ever aimed at clouds out the window. Before today. “Don’t worry honey, that camera is for clouds not the bed.”

Really cool cloud porn this evening. Big towers going up everywhere it seems.

Late afternoon hike up to the summit overlook on Spruce Peak... exposed to the south and the wind is just honking up here. The weather station says sustained 30s and gusting again in the 50s, now SSW direction. Probably experiencing the highest winds of this storm? Glad someone found 50+ gusts. Ha.

Minutes after I wonder where the SVR is, ha.

Wasn’t there talk of severe convection this afternoon?

0.34” here. Some breezy conditions at times, MVL has had a couple hourly obs of 25-30mph gusts which sounds about right. There was a good low level jet though for the summer time as MMNV1 at the picnic tables was sustained at 40mph and gusting to 60mph out of the SSE for a while early this morning. 30-40G50-60 out of SE for a sustained period is pretty decent for summertime jet across the summits.

It's been active. Weird year. Never in 8 years here has any of this happened. From the heat, to the general circus (summer: fireworks, bears, hot air balloons type stuff)... 2020 maybe?

I have to admit, with the brazen black bear that has been at the back steps and looked inside a screen door twice now, my wife has dictated a shift to all A/C. The door vents the kitchen, ha. She’s not leaving the slider doors open.

It’s been rare in recent times. I’m sure it happens from time to time but we are likely talking decades at this level. Some of the more rural ASOS records in the NNE stations go back to like the 80s/90s? Not *that* far in the grand scheme of things but enough to get a strong idea for baseline climate. Maybe something changes for the second half of the warm season... this has started like a winter that exceeds your average seasonal snowfall by a lot already, and it’s only halfway through the winter.

And the higher elevations haven't escaped the departures, or even the temperatures. If anything, the departures higher up in elevation have been even bigger. This isn't steep low level lapse rate heat... it's just hot through the column. The summits have been torching at high-level times since mid-May after that May 12th snowfall.

Nice, that's exactly what I was thinking in that 3-4 range. Some years you barely get 1 and other years you get 6-7. But 9 of them already by July 10th with a hot pattern in place? This is going to be ridiculous.

90F or higher maxes: Burlington BTV leads with 12 Bradley Airport BDL has 10 Morrisville-Stowe Airport MVL has 9 Berlin Airport BML has 9 That is utterly insane from a climo standpoint.... just absolutely nuts. Some summer's it is a legit struggle to get 1 day of 90F or higher at BML and MVL. @Dendrite or anyone else, can you find the average number of 90F+ days at these sites in a summer? I was thinking like 3-4 on average?

Just wait. Even the worst winter there will destroy your 2009-10 in mid-Atlantic. You'll start to look at the models differently too. Most folks write-off those QPF panels of like 0.01-0.09”/6-hourly lightest shade of green crap on a model graphic, but you don’t anymore. Those are wintry days with flakes flying for hours.

We know those confuse you, which is what makes them even better. But most charts have titles and axis to show you what they are measuring.

Gonna crush summer total 90F+ days at some ASOS if we haven’t already... doesn’t look to change anytime soon. A perfect summer pattern for a “glad we don’t live there” lol.

Ha I read it as essentially a “Glad we don’t live there” post. Ginxy’s description of Fay was hilarious too. Weather has always been about locality, which is what makes it fun. You in it to win it, or not.

What the heck did psv do? Lol some of you show so much anger. Looks like an interesting weather afternoon around NYC/Long Island. Hoth in CT seemed to enjoy it too. Man this stuff can be brutal to read, unless I’m missing some past history. I’d go for a rainy afternoon with some breeze.

Those would be like 85F on his sensor, lol.

Now THATS a torch in Northern New York. KMSS/Massena has been running out 99s at times in the past hour. The stations are showing S/SE/E flow ahead of Fay downsloping off the Adirondacks...just frying them.

BTV’s put up 95F so far at the airport.