powderfreak

What’s your set point in the house? My wife wants/is lucky to get mid-60s inside in the winter. My folks set their AC to 73F in Albany and CT.

66/64 here. Humid but cool enough where multiple screen doors offer plenty of ventilation to those 60s temps outside. It's summer, but wouldn't trigger A/C.

Might go far enough west to help out. At least that eastern side of the track will be high humidity regardless of rain.

But you don’t want rain either, ha.

Just had a good size bear run in front of my car 15 minutes ago out by the mailboxes when turning onto my street... I’ve never seen bears around my place in 10 years as we are in a pretty active part of Stowe with decent traffic, restaurants, Rec Path pedestrians, dogs, etc. But this summer the things are everywhere. It has to be the same adult that was on my porch to the dumpster to running past diners on the Sushi Yoshi patio just now.

You’ve gotten hit with some big rainer storms this summer! I do think there’s something with the Winooski Valley and convergence. Storms and squalls like to split the gap.

Now that’s a true heat and dews lover. You walk the walk if you don’t use A/C and love it. We know DIT likes the thought of it but can’t stand living in it.

I turned mine on for two hours today before this recent storm dropped the temp into the 60s. Now windows and doors back open as it’s colder outside than the 69F inside with AC.

Probably some tough driving on I-89 between BTV and Waterbury with 1.0-2.5” of rain estimated in short duration there. J.Spin with another inch of rain. I do think there’s something about the gap in the mountains there that leads to some high precip events driving right through the Winooski Valley.

Probably some tough driving on I-89 between BTV and Waterbury with 1.0-2.5” of rain estimated in short duration there.

Looks like Richmond/Jonesville got smoked with rain... lots of PWS in there around 2.0”. Looks like you are getting in on that training “tail” of the storm going down I-89. I’ve got around 0.4” up here.

Pretty good velo coming down the east slope of the Greens into the Mad River Valley.

Heavy rain and I’d estimate brief 35-40mph gusts on the front end. Nothing close to severe but a solid thunderstorm. Garden is ponding nicely so the veggies get a nice natural drink.

You look to take a good hit. Pouring here with some decent wind. Best wind looks south of I-89... like Duxbury heading for Moretown.

Inbound. It is very dark to the NW and all the golf horns just went off. The Vermont Amateur Championships are going on just on the other side of the little river.

Constant thunder... some hail just north of here. There is a very ominous line of darkness off to the north towards Jay Peak as viewed from the PicnicTables. You know it’s humid when all the rocks on Mansfield are just sweating with condensation. All rocks are wet without rain, ha!

It is gross outside. Cloudy, low 80s but dews near 70F at the ASOS.

It might be a concern... but the overall picture is warm to hot and humid relative to normal in the future. The later stages of the operational models show some FROPA's mixed with above normal temperatures. It might not be a record torch, but it'll be uncomfortable for a period of time here.

A lone ranger this afternoon... heavy rain and lightning just east of the Worcester Range on the horizon. Stowe Mountain Club course in the foreground, fairway at 2,000ft.

Ha, that's a pretty convincing graphic.

I have friends that have skied it in August. It was a weird end of the season... on one hand, there was very cold weather and pretty decent snows from April through mid-May. Then there was that obscene record heat like the 3rd week of May, but there were also some very cold shots relatively speaking in there too... we'd go from highs in the 90s to highs in the 50s and then back the other way. That usually meant the high ground was in the 30s or even sub-freezing during those cold shots, but they'd also be 65-85F during the hot times. To be honest, the piles of snow this year and huge drifts seemed to last just as normal despite the high heat times. There are just so many factors that go into it. I also think we managed to "average" normal for a long time despite the heat because of the rebound cool shots...it was weird how it evened out until recently when it's flipped decidedly warmer than normal in the means.

Gotcha, ok that’s what I was thinking but was wondering if there was more of a relationship between actual tornadoes and SSTs... but its more the relationship between convection and the marine layer. Can’t have tors if you don’t get convection and strong updrafts.

Purely curious, how do warm SST’s promote Tors? They don’t hamper convection like cooler SSTs? Anyone can answer, not directed specifically at Kev.

Ha yeah I think our average mins are in that range, 55-58F for warmest climo. The mins usually hit the afternoon mixed out dews around here.

So funny the bouncing between drought concerns and then mushroom concerns. Folks praying for rain, then we want hot and dry