powderfreak

Just got smoked by a storm on an evening hike with the dog.... we were around 2,900ft when it hit. It was literally like a black wall of water and it was classic downburst style with some high gusts in the middle of the rain shaft. I'd estimate 40-50mph gusts in about a 30-second pulse of wind inside what felt like a bucket of water getting poured out of the sky... to the point that you had to turn away from the wind as it was driving the massive rain drops into you sideways. Some pretty terrifyingly loud thunder too. Wasn't expecting that, but completely soaked through and pouring water out of my shoes. Amazing how fast everything can go from bone dry to a torrent of muddy water flowing down every little nook and cranny on a mountain

I like it... the novelty of big NNE heat during the day but luckily the nights have been in the 40s and 50s. It’s fun to have high heat in the middle of the afternoon but then it’s 70F and cooling fast by 9pm. I think days of like 86/70 would be much worse and piss me off because it’s pedestrian daytime heat and then doesn’t cool off at night, ha.

Well we do have an official heat wave up here at MVL, with at least 92F... last 4 days have been 88/45, 91/48, 91/53, 92/57. This is pretty wild when you couple it with the May heat. Other heat wave locations include: BTV, BML (another 93F today!), HIE, IZG (3 days of 93-94F), LEB, CAR, and I’m sure there’s more. Seems most of the NNE ASOS site’s hit the 3 day heatwave designation and might get another one or two to go.

Yeah we’ve leveled off at 88-91F... it’s just bouncing around in that range on all the 5-min obs for the past 2 hours. We got to 90F early but seems like we won’t be going much higher...maybe sneak in a 92F or so? Definitely hotter by a couple degrees deeper into Maine as the 850s alluded to.

Can see the storm cooled air in C.NH with a couple 82s... surrounded by upper 80s and low 90s on pretty much all sides. Some pretty hot observations for 17z.

91/59 here. This might be the hottest day yet. Maybe rival the 93F from May. HIE at 90/58. Another mountain valley scorcher.

Already 88/61 at 12:15pm. Going for the true heatwave here shortly.

Past hour and a half has taken us from 88F to 73F... it feels like a summer evening. 73/64... certainly no need for a hoodie. It is wild that it's 8:50pm and still light enough to take the dog for a walk.

Ahhh so that's where the ground cloud cover came from. I was thinking it was smoke from a burn pile or something but seemed to be a bad idea to have a burn pile lately. Rain cooled air and fog/mist in the valley makes a lot more sense, ha.

There was a very brief rain shaft coming out of this one over Waterbury... but otherwise just a lot of tall skinny development.

That they did. It was like a Caribbean sky this evening.

There are no better sunsets than Lake Champlain sunsets in the northeast. The west coast of New England. What a photo!

Whoops, back up to 88F.

84/64... finally starting to come down from near 90F all afternoon.

90/63 A noticeable increase in humidity but it’s not bad yet... just going from real dry to standard summer. If that dew comes up another 5-7 it’ll be bad.

Go big or go home.

The clouds make a huge difference. My car has been showing anywhere from 82F to 92F based on full sun or shaded by cumulus. Jumping all over the place driving around town even at similar elevations.

My dog's in it.

88/61 Probably get 90F again easily.

Man, a min of 69F at FVE, that’s wild. We hit 53F here which was nice for sleeping last night. Already back up to 80F though.

We don't have them at home but once above 2,500ft they come to life. Up at this elevation was pretty rough without any wind.

They finally arrived here... the bugs have exploded in the higher terrain. Climo has risen enough for them to prosper. They are ferocious in this wind-less heat. Black flies mostly, but the dog gets an occasional deer fly. Anytime the wind blows they can't compete, but damn these light to calm wind speeds let them come to life.

Some North Country max temps now that the 00z 6-hourly obs are in: CAR... 95F FVE... 93F BML... 93F IZG... 93F BTV... 92F CON... 92F LEB... 92F MVL... 91F HIE... 91F LEW... 90F MPV... 89F SLK... 88F Compared to the usual cold spots... CEF...87F BDL... 86F HFD... 84F IJD... 82F

Everyone was tickling each other's testicles. Seems like the usual hiatus when he gets fed up... lurks but doesn't post. Need to get the Tolland Stem up to 90F for a return.

Yeah I have a big diurnal range fetish as many have noticed, but it's practical too. We left all the windows and sliding doors open last night and this morning the indoor temp was 59-60F. Before I left for the day I closed the south facing drapes and shut the place up tight. Even with a high in the 90s and full sun, the indoor temp late this afternoon when I got home was only 71F and very comfortable. It's already 72F off a high of 91F... we've lost 15 degrees in an hour and 15 minutes... so open all the windows and doors again and let the natural A/C work again overnight.