powderfreak

Yeah Sugarbush skier right?

That last name is real familiar... I’m in some skiing circles with a Gabe Aceves? I don’t think we’ve ever met but we are both active in a closed group local VT ski/ride page.

Love the new maps! My rough tally was around 4.75” here and totaling up the PWS around here, including the Stowe CoCoRAHS and MVL ASOS, pretty much the entire Stowe area was like 4.25-5.25” this month. Nice wet axis right down the Winooski Valley from Williston to Waterbury, too. One spot that stands out is down near Killington or just north of it, there’s a cluster of high elevation sites that only had 1.89-2.50”....that area is usually real wet in summer. Also up near Newport, that’s usually a minimum but 6-8” in the two stations up there. Such is the nature of convection. Great to see the monthly totals laid out graphically!

Great area. Real estate is going so fast, and Waterbury is a great investment. That place will always be in demand as you can work in Montpelier or Burlington area...and it’s the exit on the interstate that accesses Stowe to the north and Mad River Valley to the south. It truly is in the middle of everything. Can’t get a more central location up here.

"It's going to be meh." "It's going to be meh." "It's going to be meh." "Goddamnit! It's actually going to be meh. What the hell do we have to do to get a good storm!?"

Last week a friend woke up in the middle of the night to noise outside the window, flipped the outside lights on and this big guy is wandering around outside the screen. He lives about a mile away from my place, other side of the golf course, but I haven't seen one this big. He immediately shut the sliding doors open on the deck, and bedroom windows. These bears are curious and have no fear getting very close to homes, making a lot of folks "close up" more at night than they normally would. This bear has to be 300-350 pounds.

We recently supposedly had a local Shaws supermarket employee test positive along with an Alpine Mart/Subway employee... though apparently both turned out to be false positives after the serum test.

Ha so not that extensive. How many students? I haven't read anything on how colleges/universities are handling it, just what's been written about the UVM one.

Did you see what UVM's approach was going to be? They are trying to do in-person but will provide testing before arrival on campus for all students and will require weekly testing for at least the first month students arrive. Then they'll adjust as needed after that. It's said to be one of the most extensive testing policies rolled out for a university.

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.