powderfreak

Ha I was right there with ya... like 240-ish upper mountain snowfall seems like the low barometer until a 156” or whatever it was dropped on us in 15-16. *I should note that 11-12 was only 212” I think during operating season, which ended early on April 1st after a week of 70s/80s in March. We did get that big elevation 24-30” upslope event after closure but before scheduled closure so I generally roll that into the total.

2011-12 stands out like a sore thumb lol.

Ha yeah on the -7C but it’s probably about right. This week up north should be the first NNE shot across the bow where it’s partly sunny with sub-10C 850s for 2-3 days. That’s sort of what I look for. Not rain cooled air but legit air mass cooling from top down. Gradient for sure that by the time you get south of Dendrite it’s not as noticeable, if it is at all further south. Seems right on schedule though for this climate, second half of August gets that first whiff of something over than heat/dews.

I mean your bolder is almost exactly what is forecast for J.Spin and myself, across to Phin/Alex the next couple days. Theres definitely some regionalism going on, but like I posted our zone forecast has highs struggling to 69-73F the next couple days with lows in the 40s. Identical to what you just referenced. We get that a lot this time of year, where sun goes behind the mtns and you can just tell you are about to lose 15-20F in about 2 hours time. EURO has 850s down to +5C to +7C this week... “shot across the bow of New England.”

Yup you want above normal moisture IMO. If the moisture is there, eventually at this latitude and at elevation it’ll snow a bunch.

All I know is the 2010-11 Nina was huge for upslope. 2007-08 was just a big snow year in general but I generally have an overall positive outlook on Ninas... seem less prone to suppression depression too, even if they are SWFE mixed bags.

Yeah for sure. It’s not warm apple cider time by any means. But like we mentioned this last week, there’s been a noticeable change at least in NNE (don’t want to speak for SNE). 70s by day and 50s by night. Now we might even tickle 60s by 40s. There will still be mid-80s days even up here I bet, seems September is a torch month these past few years. Ive also noticed the solar angle difference and lengthening nights makes it easier to cool off. But a large part of June and all of July was pretty unrelenting (as can be seen by hottest July for BTV & Mansfield locally)... even the cooler days were popping above normal 82-85F maxes at my house.

Always nice to see the first sunny days with highs in the upper 60s to near 70F. Not some rain cooled air. Back broken. Nothing higher than upper 70s for the next week. Wednesday Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. Northwest winds around 10 mph. Wednesday Night Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. Thursday Mostly sunny. Highs around 70. Thursday Night Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 50s. Friday Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s.

Not too excited for La Nina?

It’s only rain, there will be plenty in December.

On an aside, I had no idea how much bears like corn. With our recent bear take-over in town, someone took a drone shot of the bear damage to corn crops... I had no idea they could plow through that much corn. Bear crop circles, lol.

Ha I noticed that too! That porch light stayed on for a long time while trees were getting shredded. Crazy.

25 minutes straight of severe wind is just crazy. That’s a long time! The wind goes on long enough that the car alarm stops and only goes to intermittent alarm, lol.

Down to 65F and pouring. Really random cell popped up right over the garden.

I wouldn’t make an investment in that area expecting the Balsams planned ski area to go anywhere. That’s been like two decades of talks it seems like. The market just isn’t there for that place IMO.

As I said earlier... Top 10 type of day up here. No humidity and seasonable August temperatures, bright blue sky and puffy Cu floating around. Fantastic Saturday.

No bee problems but the bear (we named him Blue) keeps coming by daily or twice daily. Sometime between 2-4pm this afternoon he stopped by and dropped a deuce on our walkway. I'm about to buy a camera like Phin but instead of watching the mountains you can watch this guy take craps around our place in the middle of the day.

I wouldn't spray them from the outside unless you are 100% positive they can't escape inside your house.

Yeah I think we are over the hump. This week has felt different. The nights are chilly to the point that my wife wants windows closed at like 3am. I tell her to add a blanket because I want to feel cold while sleeping after the past two months, ha. Just so nice to sleep very comfortable and without fans or A/C running. Quiet.

I agree. They won't go very deep unless they have to. They like to just be barely hidden from the outside elements.

Yeah you certainly don't want to flush them inside the house if you try something from the outside or sealing off the entrance. Reminds me of a dumb move at the ski area, there was a large nest inside a wall of a lift shack one summer. Sprayed the outside entrance and then the next day the entire hive was inside the lift shack and very pissed off, looking for a new way out.

I just had no idea salt was that damaging to vegetation. Google says using salt is a great way to kill a tree if you need to, I guess this clears up why: "Using salt is an effective way to kill a tree. The sodium in salt will prevent a tree's flow of potassium and magnesium, both of which are vital ingredients in the making of chlorophyll. The lack of chlorophyll will eventually kill the tree."

What causes that? Salt or something?

Nice, now we can watch you wrestle bears for sport on the front lawn!

I can tell we’ve turned a corner with daylight too, as June/July we usually only decouple down to whatever the previous afternoon’s mixed out dew point was. If the dew bottomed out at 4pm at 58F, that’s usually what the low temp will be the next morning, 58F and foggy. Now though, we are starting to get longer nights and this week we started beating the afternoon minimum dew by 3-5F. Like yesterday I think it was 53F and the min was 49F this morning and I think the past 3-4 nights have all gone a bit lower than our lowest afternoon dew reading.