powderfreak

Yeah that's gotta be it. I've never been up there, but Jerry can have the entire forum up there for a winter getaway. Only $20,000/month payments! That is actually dirt cheap for that thing, ha. $3.5 million?! There's a listing from 2013 for $6.9 million.

Haha, yeah. Old timers hanging outside the ski bars... shaking their mugs like begging for coins. It truly is amazing for that spot to be so snowless. Especially the Christmas time period. We opened the summer zip line down from the top of the Gondola for Christmas break! That's one you tell the grandkids someday.

Welcome to Christmas in the NNE Mtns that year, Phin. Only time since 1954 without even a trace of snow at the Mansfield COOP. I honestly never thought it was possible to do before 2015. I mean, at 4000ft there isn't even ice bulges on the cliffs, nothing at all. Not even a drift. Just bare ground straight to the summits. It might as well have been mid-October. We'll never see anything like that again is my guess.

In the past 25 years at Stowe, there hasn’t been another winter within even 75” of that one. We got 154”. The next closest contestant in 25 years is like 2011-12 with 246”.

Ha I'm with you. I've been on the +1 train for a while but Will has always been able to show that as a wrong assumption with BTV data, but their climo definitely probably favors cold in the valley. Maybe the difference is we tend to "jackpot" more in a +1 to +2 or something regime because we are on the gradient line.... maybe it's snowier on the whole in a colder regime? But I still think we have a better chance of being in the sweet spot of storms in a bit warmer pattern.... ie last winter. But last winter's overall snowfall wasn't great, but we jacked in quite a few storms, haha. Even got a couple CCBs which seem rare up here. It probably has more to do with a jackpot or sweet spot of individual storms vs. overall seasonal snowfall total.

My college girlfriend was from Boxford... I remember spending a bunch of time there over 3 years. They got absolutely pummeled in a few storms around 2005 time frame. It seemed like every single big storm the Topsfield/Danvers/Boxford/Ipswich was 24-36" for a time there from like 2003-2005.

Jerry can buy up next to the Kellogg mansion at 1,900ft in elevation in Stowe. This shot from two evenings ago that I took just happened to have that house in it. High on the left shoulder is what looks like a hotel to most people (they always ask what hotel that is) but it's really an 18,000 square foot monstrosity known as the Kellogg mansion, owned by those who got rich off cereal and snack food. Phin made a great choice in Randolph as a home like his would've cost him 3x that amount here. The only reason I can afford such a central location in the center of restaurants/bars/recreation path, on the river right on Mountain Road is because we got in at 2011... right after the recession and housing bubble burst. We got in during some of the lowest real estate prices the town of Stowe has seen in decades. Around that time, getting a mortgage on a 1,300 square foot townhome was about the same cost as paying rent so it was a no-brainer. Since then the value has rebounded an incredible 30-40% for this central location. Now with COVID, the real estate agents around here are talking like it's similar to post-9/11 with an ever increasing demand of folks looking to leave the city or get a place away from the city. The next couple years of real estate will be interesting given the economic repercussions of COVID, but countered with a demand to leave the city.

High quality post, Tip. Thanks for that one. Maybe it is deserving of its own heat thread. Looks like we've got another round of high end heat coming.

It’s not worth it. You are out of the club already.

Put that map next to the one from ALY and that is probably one of the more underrated storms ever in the northeast, haha. The rest of the winter will forever over-shadow that event.... but 18”+ from the Boston suburbs all the way past ALB into the Mohawk Valley is big. Also looks like the lower elevations of CT River Valley did well (20s near Springfield) and Hudson River Valley got crushed with 20-26” in the ALB area.... rare to see a long duration storm like that not screw the valleys. But again I think the rest of the winter will over-shadow that storm in the memory banks.

Looking more and more like winter in NE CT. Any good weenie would wonder why there's no snow on the roof though. The ground cover actually isn't that bad.

BTV has mixed to 82/50. There's some Chamber weather with RH around 30%.

My parents said they are setting up for fake winter in Woodstock, CT.... they are filming some Hallmark movie at various locations around town and there are several buildings/outdoor spaces getting prepped to fake winter. It's supposed to take place during December and Christmas time. The leaves on the trees must make that tough. Must be brutal filming a movie wearing winter clothing outside a house when the dew point goes back over 70F in a few days.

I was just hoping he’d go no shame and quote 80F at BDL right after telling Steve not to use those observations.

While we are talking Tolland Stem... let the record show it appears @CoastalWx was right on a day or two under 80F for the interior. That Stem graphic above only has a max of 77F so far. Most interior SNE seems to be 70s.

80/56 This feels pretty good.

I really forgotten how big that storm was. That's a legit large scale zone of counties with widespread 18-28". That's no isolated deform band jack or something... that's a large chunk of terrain buried under 18"+.

I mean, argument aside, these dews are pretty decent for midday in mid-July. You've got 59's across the board from BDL/ORH/BOS and more 50s streaming in from Maine/NH. We'll mix out up here this afternoon too I'm sure with 50s just north in Canada.

Somewhere there is a cartoon superhero wearing a giant weenie on his cape, fighting the big bad villain named "Chamber of Commerce."

Yeah we had a low in the 50s this morning and right now it's 72/62... it does not feel humid anymore. But this would've felt humid a month or two ago. Just like when we wear a jacket for 59F and sunny in October because it feels chilly after summer... but 59F and sunny in the spring feels like t-shirt weather and shorts. I mean, the argument is over a dew of 59F vs. a dew of 62F. The normal population, will never tell you the difference between those two. It only matters to what we call it on here and apparently it matters, lol.

Those dew scales were also developed by ASOS dew points, not backyard dews. Move those up 5F for Davis dews at least. You have to be honest, 62F though doesn’t feel like it did a month ago. Your body does adapt really quickly.

That is nuts. Probably one of the more impressive hail videos ever recorded in New England.

Looks good this week for sure. This evening turned Chamber worthy. After the rain stopped, I took the dog up for a walk on the hill. The sky cleared so fast after the rain, except for the low level moisture. I love this time of year, when you can start a hike at 6:30pm and have plenty of daylight when you get down at 8:30pm. This was somewhere in the middle. 60s and a decent breeze up here crossing the Sensation Quad liftline.

Highs in the 60s at the beach with patchy fog is the equivalent of 40s and rain showers in a ski town in January. I'd think you'd want big heat and humidity living a stone's throw from the ocean.

Channeling my inner-Scooter.... those sound like ideal temperatures to have at a beach house. "Just steps away from the ocean, the beach house is a perfect place to escape to in the summer. Not for the swimming, but because you can wear a shawl on the porch at 2pm in the afternoon and be comfortable."