powderfreak

70F straight till Nov 1st, then highs of 32F and snowmaking afterwards.

55/51.... feels straight up chilly for 8:55pm. Looks like the models did a pretty good job with this mild down.

It does feel right on schedule for some cooler days. Not locked in autumn, it’ll get warm/hot again, but seems spot on climo wise for those first lower heights into NNE.

Yup. This year’s snowfall for the resorts is off a bit. Granted it seemed the most snowfall might have come after closing anyway with second half of April and first half of May having some decent totals at elevation. I don’t remember much the second half of March and early April?

Come up here and cool off in a mountain river, you’ll think 76F is a hot tub.

We tried to tell ‘em? I think that’s the phrase...

This will never stop cracking me up... years and years of Will giving one analysis and then you just know how Kev will follow that up depending on winter or summer. Don’t even have to look at models... can’t let that type of talk about muting go without an even stronger statement to follow.

68/50 partly sunny skies... smells like pumpkin spice in the NW breeze.

Pretty sharp boundary on the Euro between hot/dry and a parade of short waves/convection along the International border over the next 7-10 days.

See I feel like I’ve been watching more baseball than normal, even with the Red Sox sucking... following more teams and paying attention to the league as a whole more than any other season. Also watching hockey night on the Canadian stations we get out of Montreal. Just been so happy to have sports back.

55F this morning, thought we’d go lower given it was in the 50s already by 845pm. Dense fog developed early from the rain yesterday evening and temps went no where.

You are a sick man, my friend. All About That Dew. I'd prefer to just go big or go home. Put up some all-time records like that May day in NNE this year, or else be comfortable.

Nice double rainbow after the rain...

I’ll ship ya some. Pretty solid downpour this evening. Was thinking of the rain deprived.

I wouldn’t complain if that boundary was south of us like that.

Really cool clouds with these storms today. Very localized downpours but I’ve seen mammatus clouds in a couple of them so far. This is probably the best view I got, decent mammatus up top.

Mid-slope climo... bet you get a nice drainage flow through your property towards the valley bottom. You may notice the wind is coming from higher up and pointing the wind vane towards the bottom of your field. Down there at the roadway/valley I bet it’s even as much as 10F colder some nights. It’s very similar at 1500ft at the ski area here. It drops quickly with sunset but then levels off over night while it continues to drain cold down here into town through the West Branch of the Little River. We’ll keep dropping right until sunrise in the morning, but the biggest drop is in the evening...then just ticks off a degree or two an hour after midnight usually.

I’ll have to fire up the external hard drive and look at more shots, but it is just as insane geography as it seems like it would be. Never seen anything like that.

Sun busted out back this way after the early morning band of showers.... was 63F at 11am but now a truly epic, breezy and sunny 72F. That NW breeze feels dry and visibility is ridiculous, crystal clear between Cu and rain shafts out in eastern VT to NH.

The teleworking stuff is interesting as it's been building for quite a while but seems to come in waves. Like the very first wave was after 9/11, IMO. I know several people in Stowe that moved up here from NYC area after 9/11 and started working remotely. It's been a growing thing in mountain towns (east and west US) for what seems like two decades, but seems to come in renewed waves after some causation event. Telecommuting was going to be the next best thing for people who wanted to enjoy the mountain recreation lifestyle (or beach lifestyle, I have a couple friends who work remote on the Cali coast) or whatever, but this will be another strong wave like 9/11 where people who have been thinking about it, finally pull the trigger again. It's not going away either, it can be delayed but then down the road something else will happen that will drive another wave of people to the country side if all they need is a broadband internet connection to do their job.

Yeah most of it for sure is cultural. It also depends on a lot on how the population feels... if they feel disenfranchised, they are less likely to work collectively with the populous to keep things in order, clean, nice, etc. Most of the cleanest countries have a very uniform population where everyone feels the same way, with not a lot of unrest.

Then there’s just like these scenes on the side of the road everywhere.... lot of steep terrain and high elevation snowmelt, meant waterfalls everywhere. This was down the road from a cousins house.

Yeah for sure. They all looked like fathers side of the family ha, blond hair, blue eyes and tall. My grandparents came over from Norway, through Ellis Island in the 1940s. Its a stunning country though from aesthetics, and yes it oozes pride and civic duty to fellow countrymen. The cleanliness really is absurd though from how people take care of their properties to even mass public transit stations being spotless. Like some weird Nordic Stepford wives utopia. Most of the police officers didn’t even have guns outside the airport, transit stations, those types of places.

I think this is what all schools are trying to avoid, from colleges to elementary schools... start in-person then quickly be forced to go to online only. Better off just plan for it. “UNC-Chapel Hill moves all classes online after 130 more students infected with COVID-19“ https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article245014185.html

Norway is hands down the best country I’ve ever visited. Place was so clean and it appeared money grew on trees, even very rural areas seemed “well kept”... have family there so visited some spots tourists might not, but just seemed like every thing was so well kept. Even way rural, none of this letting my yard grow out, cars up on cinder blocks, trashy look. Not to mention the craziest geography you can imagine. It was incredibly impressive... roads looked like they were repaved annually lol, bridges, tunnels, ferries, the infrastructure oozed money, Oslo has to be the cleanest European city I’ve ever been to... and it cost $40 USD for a large pizza, which is probably how they pay for it all lol.