powderfreak

Finally a day that is just about "normal" around here. Temps started off in the 50s this morning, rose up and hung around the 80F mark all afternoon (high of 82F in there) with dews dropping into the 50s. Now we get that classic sunset drop from 80F to 66F almost immediately and still going down. This feels more like NNE should. Air quality seemed great too, with good long distance views over to MWN from Mansfield. Here's a shot from the base area of the Gondola with the north side Notch wall behind it.

Wait, BDL has only had 2.24” since 5/17? That would explain the good mixing. Probably a desert under that ASOS.

Hottest spot in New England is also the driest. Looked very COCy today with FIT, CEF, ORH, etc all well down into the 50s for dews.

Looks like several 90F readings on their 5-minute observations, don't see any 91s but they definitely hit 90F. Relative humidity under 30% is impressive too.... 88/51 for 28% is dry.

Looks like winter. Trying to figure out if it's going to go up the Hudson Valley, CT River Valley or will it head to BOS/PWM and ME coast.

Dew is 54F at ORH. BDL looks fine. If we like seeing BDL be hotter than everyone, we should accept lower dews there. Science, ha.

I want to bang my head into my laptop so hard right now, lol. You get hotter temps with lower dews in the same air mass. So it’s either 83F with higher dews or its 87F with lower dews.... but it’s not hotter temps and higher dews.

No if you really analyzed the fibers, they'd come back to a Dale of Norway sweater that's hanging from the top of a ski lift somewhere up north.

I still can't quite understand what he's getting at there, ha. It has some deep psychological undertone though, like we are all slaves to exciting weather or something is usually the end point of those.

Piecasso Pizza just down the road had one in the middle of the afternoon just hanging out at their dumpsters waiting for the kitchen staff to bring out more bags. It is truly incredible the population of these things. This guy looks different than the one I've gotten pictures of here. There are far more bears than deer around here. If you want to come to Vermont and see wildlife in Stowe, just post up at a dumpster for a few hours and you're sure to see a bear.

Dumpsters... gotta lock that sh*t down or these bears will get in. Matterhorn Bar have screws sticking up to stop the bears from walking on it, but evidently their pads on their feet are so tough they've still seen them walking on top of this with no problem. Their grease trap is chained to this concrete pillar that the bear was able actually break and multiple times they've found the grease traps down in the river. The dumpsters have those lock bars so you can't lift the top upward, but then they just jump on the top of it until it breaks and falls inward.

Ha yup, that's the compost inspection division alright. Our guy destroyed our first attempt at it and the Fish & Game Warden said with the bears in Stowe (he said Stowe and Richmond were getting hit really bad by bears) that right now despite the law he said we should forgo any composting until we can get a true secure way for it not to be feed for them. Every day you drive around here there are dumpsters emptied with trash. There are more bears than any other animal around here. Just a day ago, a family was checking into a neighboring townhome air b'n'b and the father was like "At 2pm I was unloading the car and this bear just casually walked right down the sidewalk, past our SUV, within 10 feet of me holding luggage, and he went straight over to the dumpster and hopped in." I was like oh yeah, that's our daily visitor. He circles our pool and stays outside the fence grazing on berries while people are swimming. He thinks he's supposed to live with us or something. I now put a couple empty trash bins to make a barrier to get onto our porch, so if he tries it again it'll make a sh*tload of noise that will trigger our dog alarm system.

Very legit concern and likelihood. My opinion means absolutely nothing seeing as 1) I'm not a teacher and 2) I don't have kids, so I try to just listen to those that do have a horse in the race.

Cabot cheese and dairy land led the state of Vermont for water in July. 9.15" and 8.48" is a wet month. Pretty awesome consistency between two stations near each other, to the east of the Cabot Village center.

Having schools open though is certainly the best option for the economy and workforce. Schools fill that very important child care function.

All the teachers I know have said it has been the hardest working period of their career going from home at the end of last year. April/May/part of June sounded like long hours of work from home to make it happen. Scheduling kids for video calls even at like 7-8pm. I think every single teacher would prefer to be in the classroom but kids are germ factories, school ventilation is nil, and there's no way to socially distant (you are in close quarters with strangers for hours and hours). One can see both sides of the argument.

Best word to describe the month for sure... that's a keeper.

Hey but look on the bright side, it’s always nice and sunny... and then you steal all our QPF in the winter.

Wet EURO run to start August.

74/59 currently feels pretty good.

I think of my grandfather (rest in peace) being 85 years old and freezing cold all the time. The only time he could get warm was sitting on his porch in central NY when it was like 90/70 at SYR. He’d be legit cold at like 80F if the dew point was in the 40s/50s... just like DIT/Kev. Complaining about “cold evenings” when it’s like 70F outside, acting/dressing like it’s about to snow.

Where did you find that graphic!? I didn't know CoCoRAHS had that ability... awesome. I looked quickly but couldn't find it.

That's what we aim for in NNE... but it ain't happening this summer.

Ha! One shark death in a 100 years and shut the ocean down... "abundance of caution" sounds familiar.

For sure, the beach is a whole other animal to the very controlled environment of a pool or inland water. The lack of waves and currents, that stuff is strong and requires a strong response. At a pool or lake, you're basically making sure a small child doesn't get in over their head or fall in. It's a job that goes along with washing dishes at an Italian restaurant at night during a summer of yore.