powderfreak

Congrats. With the general tendency for increasing warmth year over year, you/we should have plenty of chances for summers of yore over the next few decades.

He looked really healthy, good to see...well fed and no skin issues or missing patches of fur you see sometimes from bad tick infestations. Him and the dog stared each other down for a long time.

Yeah he was a young male. Still was crazy though being young that I'm 6'2" and his back was taller than me.

This evening coming down Spruce Peak on our daily dog walk we ran into this guy. He went down and stood on the work road for a good 10-15 minutes directly in our path and wouldn't let us get by, so we almost went back up top to take a different trail down. Eventually he did meander off trail and disappeared into the woods.

We’ve been upper 50s today for dews. 81/57 is an extremely nice July afternoon.

You only have had 1.23” this month? Scooter had me thinking the Lakes Region is getting an inch per day.

Ugh. I really want those 90/50 days back.

Yeah I think the tides are turning. We are ripping off 90s like candy anymore and it’s gotten wetter with like 4.5” water this month so far.

That’s going to be interesting but need some penalties for travel if you are going to have a quarantine rule. Heres the Mass map. If you come from a red state, 14-day quarantine or $500/day fine. Even residents who travel and return home, automatic 14-day or get tested.

That’s a hot look for the GFS... starting the day with 21C at 850 in Mass on WNW flow.

79/59 Partly to Mostly Sunny. This will do.

It's felt at least normal wet to a bit above normal precip up here over the last month... this morning's half inch to three-quarters was just about on schedule for the grasses and vegetation. That area from Lakes to Western ME got the best of that cut-off low but continue to get frequent rains as well, nature loves to average out the deficits.

Awesome pics!

79F here... rain got out earlier enough to gets us up near 80F.

For sure it’s turned decidedly more wet ever since that multi-day cut off low a few weeks ago. Up on the mountain, a lot of the streams and creeks were pretty dry in June, just spring fed trickles. Now all the drainages are flowing steadily on a regular basis. It’s almost like we hit the summer dry flow really early this year, as normally that “dry up” seems to happen in July and August. But the mountains seem to be adding 0.5-1.0” every 3-4 days it seems, because I know whatever water we get in town, Mansfield on average is going to top that by at least 50% or more.

It’s on its way to you, back edge just cleared through here.

A nice soaking 0.58” this morning with some rolling thunder. 66/66

Tied for 3rd longest streak since 1883 of temperatures above 60 degrees at BTV:

Oh wow, that heavy rain streak goes all the way back past Northampton. Good swath of 1-4” there.

There’s gotta be some decent rainfall totals like halfway between Worcester and Leominster. Is that 495 there on radar? Seems to be training over that same area. North of Rutland, Mass too...been steady high DBZ.

Everyone is outdoors playing and outdoor transmission rates are non-existent. Hotels are still pretty light with occupancy per state guidelines but lots of camping, cabins and private vacation rentals are way up (families and people know they can sort of isolate themselves that way without staying in hotels). You can travel and have very little interaction with others right now... stay in a cabin or condo, go hiking/swimming/biking by day, maybe get some take out food or cook and chill at home with the family. Most importantly though is likely the fact the Northeast as a whole has flattened the curve... there aren’t outbreaks where folks travel from or to, there’s just not much to spread right now.

Tourism here is way up in the past couple weeks. In our townhome cluster, any unit without a full time resident has been rented out each week. All restaurants seem packed to whatever capacity they can with every outdoor table filled each night. Car traffic is getting worse on Mountain Road and trail heads for hiking are overrun. I’m all for outdoor recreation all day long so I think it’s good to see all the interest in hiking/biking/swimming. I think summer tourism season is in full swing at this point. August is town’s busiest month of the year so we are getting there.

I bet that’s similar to a lot of rural NNE areas though I would’ve guessed 50s/60s... when textile mills and manufacturing were big along with timber, mining/quarries, and other stuff like that. Once that stuff closed up there was nothing. You have to make your money elsewhere and bring it in like Phin. But Phin probably wont be counted in any population count anyway up there. That’s always talked about here in Stowe, the actual census population is like half of the actual number of folks here on any given weekend as the second home owners are counted in their primary state residence.

Yeah I think most of NNE has declined in the past decade. I'm pretty sure Vermont has a slight downward trend in the past 10 years. The number of older folks dying (NNE is known to have a relatively high average age) and others moving away are not out-pacing those moving in on a year over year basis.

Agreed. Facebook especially has become a complete cesspool. It is 100% argumentative and abrasive. People used to share photos of their family and pets and fun stuff, now it is literally political 100% of the time and everyone is just shouting at each other. If we judge society by Facebook then we should just blow up this whole civilization thing and start over. News and comments sections are just absolutely brutal across the board. I've gone mostly to Instagram for now as you can still just look at stuff that is appealing to you without reading all negative stuff. It's so much more "up-lifting" to scroll through. Your advice is correct, just stay off FB and enjoy the summer.