powderfreak

“At least back to the river.”

12 here lol. Not too often I'll say that (I hope), but I'm still fascinated by that. Given how some other summers this decade have been like pulling teeth to get 90F+ and all the heat maxes out at 85-89F.

Yes! It got really cold and fast once that pattern changed. February was frigid. I still remember that Valentines Day storm thread, we actually had several posters in BTV at the time. It started snowing at 0F and we got like the first foot of snow at temps of like 5F. It was so, so cold. Coldest major snow of my life and the BTV obs show it. I think it eventually rose into the mid-teens at some point (but that's still a cold air mass for 2+ of QPF)... but that's just another reason why that storm was so great. I do remember late January and the first half of February in 2007 didn't have much synoptically until Valentines Day... but we did have a big increase in upslope snows with the arctic air masses starting to come in. I remember the snowpack didn't grow all that fast (outside the 2,000+ foot elevations) despite the snowfalls because of how cold/fluffy it was, but it was nice to see regular snow at that point and it was still serviceable for skiing. After Valentines Day the snowpack was set for the rest of the season. What you describe sounds like the classic Northern Greens though... like when I've got 4-6" on the ground at my house with 1.5sm -SN at MVL and then you drive a few miles up the road and there's a couple feet on the ground at 1,500ft+ with SN+ wind-whipped blizzard style.

One of the greatest flips I’ve ever witnessed too. It was looking real bleak and then one day it snowed in January...then it snowed a bit more...then we put together a couple decent weeks, before Valentines Day storm hit (still my personal number 1 favorite storm). After that it was just deep winter, biggie on St Patrick’s Day too followed by crazy upslope. April snowed a lot up high, some storm in there gave two feet of paste followed by rain lol.

Max of 82F with dews in the mid-50s was just about perfect today. Given dews getting down to 54F this afternoon, we should have some great sleeping weather tonight. Even been able to turn the fans off the past few days.

August 1st is the traditional skiing New Years Day anyway. The official start of the new ski year for those who count their days and ski on glaciers all summer, ha.

This week looked hot/warm, the relaxation always started this weekend and next week. Unless you can find some graphics showing below normal heights were expected this week?

EPS and GEFS 5-day means from 12z Mon to 12z Sat look like a nice stretch. Doesn’t mean it’s going to be cold, but both ensembles agree on the large scale features of a pleasant week, GEFS are just a touch deeper.

It’s hilarious how any time someone posts about a break from the heat (Dendy even said break from excessive heat), you make it sound like they are calling for a below normal pattern or cold crisp autumn air masses lol. When I said 70s/50s you made it sound like I was talking about frosts, ha. It can just be normal sometimes, as un-exciting as that is.

80F off a low of 55F... feels so good to finally get consistent lows in the 50s (which is normal), never thought we'd get there, ha.

Let's get a 2010-11 La Nina and we are all in business.

Mountain weather never gets old. The slopes give the clouds some perspective too and I think what makes mountain weather so awesome is it gives the atmosphere a sense of 3-D. In flat country, a cloud over your head is just a cloud over your head, but the topography in the mountains gives you something to compare height with. Like an elevation snow event over your head... in ALB I would know it’s snowing at 2,500ft but you wake up and it doesn’t matter if it was or not. Now I look outside and despite wet grass in the yard I see plastered hills and that snow aloft becomes real. Like oh, there it is... ha sort of like if a snowflake doesn’t accumulate on something, did it ever really exist? If I were you I’d take that photo/view and a topo map and draw the different elevations on it so you can easily reference it for the... “yup, snow level got down to 2,800ft last night“ posts.

Just wait for this winter... that same phrase has you throwing your phone through the wall in fits of rage while your wife takes the kids to stay with relatives for safe keeping.

We've finally started cooling off a bit relative to normal from SNE... +2.5 at MVL and +1.6 at MPV. Even strung together 4 straight days below normal earlier in the month. Certainly above normal but not the all out torch that June/July were.

Not quite as mixed up here... 81/63. I figure at some point we'll jump into mid-80s and dews will drop into the 50s. Low was 54F this morning, a "normal" morning.

The oddest part of the whole summer heat thing is it’s always about the nights. Like you all spend so much time outside overnight. DIT is asleep long before a shawl would ever be needed anyway.

That bear wants that kitchen slider open bad, let me tell you... "what you got for me?" is their mantra. 62/60

It certainly looks much hotter (both sensibly and maybe departures) at times down your way, summer isn't going anywhere anytime soon at BDL.

Down to 65/62 after a fast temp drop at sunset. Fans drawing that air inside and the wife is already chirping that it's chilly. I tell her it can't be chilly with a dew over 60... "nobody cares about your dew point" was the response.

Gently backed off probably describes it fine. I’m not splitting hairs on a 58F vs 61F low at BDL that Ryan is changing in his forecast, ha. Overall it still looks like a nice pleasant air mass here in the north. The “over the top” heights have disappeared from the first half of the summer, and I do think climo will start to slowly (or gently) assert itself at times across southern Canada.

Next week looks nice on GEFS and EPS. “At least for Saturday and most of Sunday, our region will be dry with seasonably warm temperatures owing to the upper ridge in place. It should be a gorgeous weekend. Afterwards, an upper trough will move in with cool, Canadian high pressure at the surface.“ Pretty decent agreement between EPS and GEFS.

Some crazy people down there is the joke... the “meanwhile in Florida” memes or usually the most ridiculous news stories you can imagine (where you are like nah, that can’t be real) usually start with “A Florida man....”

Yeah those are ski trails off the Gondola. It’s extremely pleasant up here today. Clouds cleared out to just small Cu dotting the landscape.

They are ready.... haven't gotten their fresh coat of paint yet. One of the places where you truly get "paint-peeling" wind/weather. 64F at the picnic tables.

72/64 up this way at noon. Windows and doors open.