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Is 2018 the current July record for BDL? Edit: Just looked it up, looks like last year 2019 is the current record for "Hartford Area." Not sure if it's year's of "Yore" right now or if we should just call it "each year gets a little hotter", ha. Summer of Yore is probably a pretty cold summer.

72/63 here... a 9F drop in 20 minutes. Finally got some rad cooling going on.

Yeah it was 80F at MVL at 1-2am! It had dropped into the 70s at like 9pm but spiked back up ahead of the rain. Looks like MPV was 78F at 3am that night. Every station from NNY to NNH was 75+ at like 2-3am.

So our floor to ceiling windows face south and east in the living space, which is great in winter for heating but we do have to keep the blinds and everything buttoned up during the daytime in summer. We also do the lock the house up tight and dark during the daytime to keep it cool and then open it up at night... but I just remembered why this year is different, ha. Mr. Bear. With only 1200 square feet we still have three large 8-foot sliding glass doors, one in our bedroom and two in the main living area. At night, those wide open provide extremely ample cooling to the point where with all 3 doors open we can almost match the outside temperature by morning. It’s almost like sleeping in a tent but inside, ha. We can lock the screens and with no crime and a dog as an alarm, we’ve always been comfortable with them open. This year though we have a resident bear for the past 3-4 weeks now. He’s been at our screen door at least twice... once we only saw the paw prints on the porch after the dog scared it off, the second time we had Piecasso pizza on the kitchen counter and I ended up staring at him 4 feet away with only a screen separating us, he had his nose up near the screen sniffing. After a bear entered a house on River Road in Stowe to get to the kitchen, and another one walked through a screen door in Underhill at 3am to get to the kitchen... my wife will absolutely not allow the doors to be open after dark. So we need to A/C as windows aren’t doing it. The Underhill story is identical to us... couple keeps their slider doors open at night to cool off, bear came through it and the couple woke up to plates smashing in their kitchen. I keep thinking the bear might be gone but then even this morning I found a huge pile of black, berry-filled bear scat right off our back steps. So he still makes the rounds nightly looking for food. He’s an adolescent and truly isn’t aggressive (we’ve seen him several times in the daylight too), but this is his zone on the Rec Path apparently. He just doesn’t know any better.

Two nights ago was next level hot from here to you to PWM. The clouds and storms seemed to keep temps real high... when it’s 75-82 at like 1-2am at SLK, MVL, MPV, BML, HIE, etc. Those are normal afternoon max temps, lol. I wouldn’t have made it without AC. But I’m one more summer like 2018 and this summer away from dropping like 7-10k into central AC, lol. A buddy of mine had twins this spring so he did spend 10K for A/C in early June for the kids... and I was like no f’in way. Now I think he’s a genius.

You’re a soldier @J.Spin if you managed this latest stretch without AC! We’ve had ours on for 2 full days but I turned it off this morning with the dews dropping. The other night when it was in the 80s at 1-2am before the storms pushed my limits for sleeping with windows open, ha. I had to do AC. We’ve got one of those in-wall units but it’s an older louder model. I will consider newer more efficient AC if these summers continue. 2018 and 2020 are going to be top 3 all-time I think at both BTV and Mansfield. Mansfield this year will be hottest June recorded and hottest July recorded... largely due to overnight mins which is mostly a function of humidity I think. Feels glorious out now. Dews of 50-55 right now feel like an autumn air mass, lol.

Yeah that’s exactly what it is. BTV will still hit 90F if they haven’t yet... but the Td is down over 20 degrees. Crazy warm pattern when the FROPAS are basically just “dew downs.” You can see it on satellite... probably why today is busting warm SE of the front? The day right ahead of the FROPA seems to be surprisingly hot (over-perform)most of the time.

BTV 88/51 for 28% RH. SLK dew down to 48F. The dry air advection in full force.

Holy sh*t. Up this way it was one of the more impressive dew FROPAs I can remember. We are down about 15F in the past hour, with the clearest blue sky imaginable. Like COC just rolled in all at once. 82/55 currently down from 81/70.

What a dew front! BTV was a humid 72F Td at 11:15am... an hour later at 12:10pm it is 52F. A 20-degree drop in the dew point in 55 minutes. That line of showers is the dew front... It's still 70F Td here and about to get soaked again... dews in the 50s are a few miles away.

The worst of the worst. That sucks.

Yikes. Yeah this is the set-up where you get like 0.04" of rain and your dew goes up another 5F immediately. Sun comes back out and you see steam rising off the pavement putting more low level moisture into the boundary layer.

The drier air is on it's way though. Dews are plummeting to the west and it just hit BTV. SLK dew went from 67F this morning to 50F currently! BTV dew just dropped 11 degrees in the past hour down to 60F. We don't get cold fronts anymore, just dew fronts.

This is a pretty long stretch of near 70F dews up here. Had some very short but intense downpours last night, like 30 seconds of torrential rain then nothing, then 30-seconds of torrential rain then nothing. It was tropical.

That's the concerning part. But then again I've seen a lot of people go on social media to call out a business where someone wasn't wearing a mask or had one below their chin, but then like 20 people will chime in that they go into that store almost daily and everyone has masks on. You never know when you might catch an employee or two (who might wear a mask for 7 hours out of an 8-hour shift) with it down under the chin after just taking a drink of water or something. A friend did have one interaction in a backwoods country store up here in VT where the woman at the deli counter making sandwiches had her mask down under her chin and a customer asked her to put it up while making his sandwich. She replied that she has serious lung issues and can't wear the mask, which then devolved into an uncomfortable conversation with her about why she is in that position interacting with so many people if she is so high-risk that her lungs are that bad she can't put a mask on for 5-minutes. She didn't really have an answer. Always a risk embarrassing someone making your food though, ha.

Yup. Lots of one-off's still out there. I think the vast majority of people are on the same page but there are still a few in every state in every region, etc.

Any 80F or higher mins like 2018?

High of 90F today, I believe that’s the 11th of the year. 12 is the record for the ASOS if I remember from a conversation earlier this summer. 0.53” rainfall today too. We’ve been getting decent soakings every few days now for a while. July has been decently wet with almost 5” of rain. 73/71

That’s what you took away from that post? Their temperature sensor looks off by a couple degrees too in that case. I thought you were at least passable with the science side of it. You understand mixing and compressional heating/drying in a valley right? To squeeze out those extra couple degrees you dry out the boundary layer a bit more. For example, now they are 94/64 and the same as CEF. In order to get to 97-98F at BDL, it had to dry the boundary just a bit more than CEF, which had a lower max temp.

Ha sure, but having the hottest temps at BDL but lower dews is exactly what science says should happen. 97/61 at BDL 95/63 at CEF You either get the extra couple degrees at the cost of lower dews, or you keep the dew higher but the temp stays down a tick.

That explains a lot. Do you take the temps down a couple degrees too? I’m with Dendrite... laws of thermodynamics in a valley torch spot would support extra drying where there’s extra heat on mixed sunny afternoons. Probably all brown dead grass around it too.

85/73 The dews are nuts as Dendrite pointed out a few days ago...we'd miss the high heat but get the higher dews. No thanks but that's what we've got. 73F out in a NNE field is impressive... this morning's rain certainly didn't hurt either.

Yeah only took 5 days before games start getting "postponed" due to COVID. This won't last too long at this rate.

Ha that’s funny because I thought they developed that as a convective warm season tool. I do think we’ve seen several times this summer by most models, this over drying/heating of the boundary layer. It just ends up more humid but also not quite as hot as the machine numbers.

It’s the NAM run hourly, what do you think is gonna happen? Lol. It was weird how good it was locally here in some snow events last year but if you run hourly it’s gotta get something right once in a while ha.