powderfreak

Ha people have been mailing in ballots for decades, I used to do it in college for NY state. But I agree, go to the polls.

Yeah for sure. That entire industry is incredibly tough. No on is getting rich off a restaurant it seems. When I go home to visit my parents in Albany, they are always talking about a new restaurant to try out that is located in the same buildings as the ones that failed before, it's almost comical at times. Like oh that building was an Italian restaurant for 4 years then went under, then someone thought they could make a run of it as a Thai restaurant and then it lasted 2.5 years, and now there's a BBQ style joint in there, etc.

45F to start Torchtember.

Yeah restaurants are like humans with pre-existing conditions... doesn’t take much to push them over the edge. I’m always surprised at how many restaurants that seem “popular” but yet still struggle mightily and even close in normal times. Some areas it seems the restaurants turn over every 5 years if they are independently owned and not an Applebee’s or Olive Garden type chain.

Midnight hike start? Awesome dude. Props.

Every great summer thread ends with a few pages of winter memories. I love it.

Even that event though was expected to be big nearby in the mountains...retrograding low and spinning moisture back southwestward. Of course the crazy terrain blocking put the band of snow out in the Champlain Valley but that event was still within a larger synoptic background with high POPs for snowfall...just not those amounts. That event is basically a mesoscale version of a surprise deform band that goes to town and turns a 4-8” event into 30”, which I guess is exactly what you said, lol. Norluns are probably another sort of event that can surprise...but they are usually signaled on models, you just never know when to believe it. But didn’t something crazy happen in Jan 2011 in SE CT with that type of mesoscale surprise?

Yeah really hard to get that sort of bust now. Especially with models running 4 times a day. I guess maybe on the western side of a nor’easter you may think you are getting dim sun and end up in some mid-level magic band with hastily issued Winter Storm Warnings for another block of counties to the west. But the true “Didn’t know it was coming and then bam big storm!” is probably gone thanks to modern modeling.

I read medical distress as like a cardiac event.

I love that plan. My first season passes were to Gore/Whiteface with the ORDA pass back in High School... I washed dishes for two years in high school at Alteri's Restaurant, coming home smelling like red sauce and pasta to pay for it. Those years were simple. Gore's a very underrated spot. Whiteface was scary steep at the top as a kid, but Gore's got some pitches too. I broke my wrist as a 10-year-old on the Rumor Headwall, ended up in the trees on the right side. Learned lesson was sometimes you can't stop when you fall, and slide a long way. Ski Patrol crushed it, that's a steep sled ride down to a waiting snowmobile ride down the old Tannery Trail. I was just another kid from the Albany area to eat it hard off the Straightbrook Quad.

Those photos...ha

That's nuts. Even the trail runners decked out with water-bottle vests have had masks on up here even on the work roads where you have plenty of space. Overkill to me, but they probably think I'm the inconsiderate one if I don't mask up when 10+ feet away in quick passing outdoors. I do think it's a nice "team humanity" gesture if you are on a close tight trail with thick high elevation vegetation allowing for a close pass, even outside. Not necessary in my opinion still, but a nice nod to humanity. Most hikers seem to be extremely respectful at the least.

That's like a masked ACATT member swapped out the sensor in the middle of the night.

Ha! What the hell happened there?! Yeah their numbers make no sense. ALB's monthly temp on the F6 is 3.4 degrees COLDER than the monthly temperature at ORH, ha. No way a place at 200ft in the Hudson Valley averaged 3.4 degrees colder than 1,000ft in the Worcester Hills.

The most surprising station departure in the month of August though is ALB.... they are -1.0 for the month of August. For ALB to be -1.0 for the entire month, compared to the torch in SNE? ALB only hit 87F for a high temp in August, which seems low given the torchy conditions in valleys along I-90 and south. Another comparison: ALB... -1.0 max temp 87F POU... +3.6 and exceeded 90F on 10 days. Does that pass the sniff test? Or was there some crazy gradient in the Hudson Valley? I can't figure out if the F6 data is just straight wrong or from another month.

Guess this illustrates it pretty well... the last two weeks have been two different worlds between NNE and SNE. Pretty evenly delineated right there. Aside from BTV's background warm anomalies, NNE was below normal past couple weeks on average for sure. Meanwhile SE Mass was completely torched, as Bob has experienced. Not only is climo starting to get more stark between NNE and SNE during the transition seasons, having normalized departures that much different over that gradient leads to some very real sensible weather differences.

The torch just came to a screeching halt in August. Up here at MVL, since August 15th we have been -0.5F.... so the 2nd half of the month averaged below normal, a real nice change from the record June and July. It's been noticeable too, the heat just vanished.

Don’t tell Tip, he hasn’t figured that out yet.

October up north in the mountains is the same as the Maryland January.

Took the dog to the picnic tables... 47F with 30G50. Was forced to put on a jacket and honestly could probably use a hat and gloves. Wind chills in the 30s.

Chilly. Rotting in the upper 50s and low 60s. Feels like we should be watching football with a fire going, ha.

Everyone here has been wearing masks and I can say the on-trail hiking mask usage is near 100% when passing people (even I think some of the mask usage on trail is a bit much, but at the same time I think it's just a mutual respect people are showing towards each other, which I'm all for). I still wouldn't judge your Killington home area based on social media posts from that site. It's funny that in the last couple weeks I've actually heard the Killington Locals+ forum or whatever mentioned by several people recently as a toxic place where a few folks continue to try to push this "us vs. them" mentality. I bet by far the vast majority of locals down there are fine with masks, are extremely respectful and also don't hate everyone. It just seems like drama whenever that place gets mentioned. All faith in humanity has been lost recently on social media, ha. The bullies and trolls have been formally released into the wild now.

Ha, that’ll take more than one event (hopefully).

56F at MVL at 12pm. The heat is about to come on, just had to lower the thermostat to 58F to make sure there’s no way in hell the heat kicks on in August. Sitting 64F inside.