powderfreak

The ol' heat on in the car in the morning and then A/C by 11am. Up to 84F here. Hot and sunny. Summer.

Now it's already in the low 80s after waking up cold with every door/window open at 45F this morning. At this rate we'll do a 40 degree diurnal change by 1pm, ha. Yesterday max/min ended up 82/39 for 43 degree change.

I feel like the lack of precip and clouds has helped with the radiational cooling, which has been substantial at times to off-set some of the hotter afternoons. So despite the vibe of plenty of warm afternoons when people are out and about, the nights are getting down there with the dry air masses. We've also had two periods of highs in the 50s from CAA (beginning of month and last weekend) to off set the mid/upper 80s that came between those, ha.

Decent NNE/SNE split on monthly departures so far, even with the warm periods. This should get erased pretty fast over the next week though.

From west to east up here it gets way below normal in a hurry. BTV... -0.9 MVL... -1.4 MPV... -3.5 1V4... -4.6 Montpelier and St Johnsbury have been ice boxes this month relative to normal.

1,500ft in NNE, on the northern side of the barrier (Presidential Range), is going to be a very snowy spot. J.Spin and Alex style snowfall for sure.

The NWS forecast reflects the heat for sure... lowest high temp in the next 7 days is 82F at Day 7. These are the point and click highs for 750ft elevation here over the next week: 84/87/89/89/89/86/82. That's a hot week up here, no doubt.

What an evening. I love that temperatures keep rising until 6pm with this incredibly long daylight. 4-5pm feels like the middle of the day. Bluebird all day long.

81/44 gah so nice.

Yeah this is as good as it gets. Temp around 80F, dews in the 40s and not a cloud to be found. A nice 40-degree diurnal swing too.

Yeah that sounds right... really stunted our high temps that summer. On the flip side, I’m up at the picnic tables right now and can see MWN to the east, Jay Peak to the north, Killington to the south and Whiteface to the west. There isn’t a single cloud in sight in that entire 360 degree view this afternoon. Really dry air mass or a lot of sinking air. Crazy to see all this topography in a June afternoon completely devoid of even a single shallow Cu.

Yeah there’s definitely a good deal of that. Last year didn’t do it either though I don’t think... some summers it seems the mountain gets a thunderstorm 5 out of every 7 days and then other summers it just doesn’t happen. We’ve seen a fair bit of sunshine but then I also think we didn’t see any sun at all this past weekend. But it also didn’t rain. Odd to get that cold aloft and have that trough but be completely dry, just cloudy.

Yeah there are certainly those summers... or patterns during summers. I think it was 2015 or 2016 where that really took off, or around there. We never hit 90F that summer and it seemed to rain every single afternoon. Even when we got the hot air masses the big Tcu by 1pm off the mountains would shut down heating at like 85-88F. This is pretty dry for the mountains, we do have those summer months where it rains like 21 of 30 days but only for like 20-30 min a day.

SLK has had 3 straight freezes in a row, a week away from the solstice. They've also hit a hotter max temperature than BDL so far this warm season. What a place.

Snuck down into the upper 30s last night, but already shot up to 74F... should be able to do a 40-degree diurnal swing today fairly easily. Love these low dews, warm days and great sleeping weather at night.

5,000 feet is pretty low for a snow level at the summer solstice.... good luck to hikers and campers. That's when your 3-day backpacking trip gets a bit more interesting with a foot of snow.

Dog proudly found a pretty good patch of snow left over from winter up high... I bet this depression drifted to 20 feet deep by the end of the winter, though this is all that's left in mid-June. End of winter the snowpack is like 2/3rds of the way up these trees. There were a few other patches scattered about but this was by far the largest. Wasn't expecting to come across this but that's what exploring does.

We get highs in the 50s and highs in the 90s. Lot of variability lately, ha.

71/41 after a low of 40F this morning... this is good stuff.

No bird feeders up here... the bears have been out of control. A good friend just two days ago had a small bird feeder on his second story deck and had a large bear climb up there destroy it and then attempt to enter the residence but the dogs scared it off. Another friend about a quarter mile away from that had likely the same bear hanging out in his front entry way and busting into a locked crate to get birdseed. Some woman on River Road had a bear enter her residence in the last week and ransack her kitchen, easily tearing the screen apart and letting itself in. The bears are on a mission this year.

Time to go Caribbean... some heat and dews with the endless daylight sounds pretty good.

Got a good view today directly across from the pocket of rocks that ripped out in that slide a couple weeks ago in Smugglers Notch. Crazy to think how big the boulders were and home much damage they did to the forest below, but also how small it is in the grand scheme of things.

Decent sunset this evening. Crazy, 8:45pm and just getting the sunset... four hours later than in mid-winter.

Ha, open season in the winter. Unlimited fish for you to catch. Late day high of 65F today, better than yesterday, but most of the afternoon was spent around 60F.

Nice @alex... I’ve been seeing a bunch of skiing shots in my feeds from up there the past week or two. The upper snowfields still look good to go from the road. That last photo of yours looks like Pipeline Chute is no go but hard to tell with Airplane Gully just out of view in the foreground. I’ve done Airplane in June but it’s really pretty terrifying and not sure I’ve got the balls to do it anymore (or maybe I’ve smartened up?)... the steep Chutes of snow are fun but man if you fell for any reason you are dead. You’ll slide for life (and gore tex accelerates fast) and then when the snow runs out you get dumped into boulder fields at a very high rate of speed. I think hiking back up the chutes was always the more terrifying part, one wrong step and you are gone, not stopping until those boulders stop you.