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Didn't see this posted... 25th Anniversary of the Great Barrington Tornado page by BOX https://www.weather.gov/aly/25th_Anniversary_Great_Barrington_Tornado Crazy the damage while that hillside behind it is just chillin like its a normal day...looks like some damage right side hill though.

Welcome to the club of all-time heat this week, ha. Crazy stuff.

Torching pretty good again... 84/65! This week has all had days that are above our normal max summer climo. Our max climo highs are like 82-83F in late July and the last 4 days have been 89/93/84/84. The only way to cool off is to find some glacial pond at elevation. The dog knows how to cool off.

June is going to start with the highs not reaching our minimum temps from the past few days, ha. Nothing but mid-50s to mid-60s for high temps Sunday through Thursday. Whiplash from snow to record heat to late April climo.

Yikes, yeah that's pretty low. The last two weeks especially with a lot of full sun and low RH.

Now that you say that I do remember some talk of that... don't remember it locally but it rings a bell. Maybe it was Dendrite or Gene on here?

Oh I get it, what were your rainfall totals? I'm seeing a lot of 2.5-3.5" on CoCoRAHS in Franklin Cnty, and Hampshire Cnty is pretty tight around 2.75-3.0". I'm a little surprised that's one of the driest on record but maybe my climo barometer is way off. Some of those stations even have snowfall in them from the first two weeks of May, ha. There was some rain around with that deep trough. The real thing is the past two weeks has been bone dry with sun and low dews...during the planting season. Agriculture is just such a roll of the dice around here as a well timed two week dry period can immediately cause such hurt. Hopefully it rains for them, just really bad timing on a dry stretch.

It just seems like it's never the "right mix" in the summer, ever. If it's not dry, it's torrential rain every afternoon. Summer patterns just aren't going to give New England farmers what they want... you just don't see 1/4-1/2" every few days consistently. The issue this year is a few week dry period right at the time of planting. I'm sure we'll all be underwater at some point here in the next month or two. Since March 1st, most SNE sites look to be within an inch of normal water on either side. Some spots are above, others a tick below.

.... it's summer climo. We've been at this long enough to see how it works. It doesn't rain a quarter inch every other day or do frequent lower amounts like cold season weather patterns. You might go 3 weeks with very little rainfall, then get a stalled FROPA and tropical moisture drop 3-4" in the same number of hours... and voila, average precipitation for the month. Summer is short duration extreme rainfall spread among long periods (weeks even) of dryness.

Even if you are OCD about your lawn... like the absolute worst case scenario in New England is a town tells you not to water your lawn from like 9am to 5pm.

What happened in the 80s and mid-2010s? I honestly don't remember a thing regarding drought in the mid-2010s... what effects would we have felt?

Played for the first time this season two days ago at a local 9-hole track not far from the MVL ASOS, lol. Wasn’t too pretty, bogey golf but it was first time out.

Weird rubber bands snapping back and forth pattern we are in... couple frost threats for the cold hollows. LONG TERM /SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY/... As of 439 PM EDT Thursday... Expecting frost potential across the Adirondacks region and Northeast Kingdom for the first day of June, as Monday morning will begin quite cool with core of coldest air settling in during this time period before a moderating trend begins. However, temperatures each day through Thursday will still run below normal for the time of year in dramatic contrast to our recent weather. On Monday night, light winds should promote good cooling, resulting in areas of frost again Tuesday morning.

Time to Shut 'Em Down. That's going to do it for the continuous snowpack season at the fabled Mansfield stake. I went up with the dog to get today's reading and called it 3" though it becomes very tough this time of year. Yesterday's record heat just absolutely eviscerated the remaining snow and the snowpack is now fractured with bare spots. It's really 0-24" up there but the official ruling is to go to a "Trace" once the snow no longer creates a full circle around the stake tree. Today was certainly the last day for that as the little 1-2" bridge in front of the stake won't make it through tonight and certainly not through tomorrow. So tomorrow will go down as a Trace. One helluva impressive snowpack drop the past two weeks, but that's what 9 days averaging +14.1F will do. Yesterday was a whopping +26.5 in the means. Hard to pull daily means greater than +25 in the warm season.

Time to Shut 'Em Down. That's going to do it for the continuous snowpack season at the fabled Mansfield stake. I went up with the dog to get today's reading and called it 3" though it becomes very tough this time of year. Yesterday's record heat just absolutely eviscerated the remaining snow and the snowpack is now fractured with bare spots. It's really 0-24" up there but the official ruling is to go to a "Trace" once the snow no longer creates a full circle around the stake tree. Today was certainly the last day for that as the little 1-2" bridge in front of the stake won't make it through tonight and certainly not through tomorrow. So tomorrow will go down as a Trace. One helluva impressive snowpack drop the past two weeks, but that's what 9 days averaging +14.1F will do. Yesterday was a whopping +26.5 in the means. Hard to pull daily means greater than +25 in the warm season.

Happy Birthday man. Hopefully KLEW reports some HAZE obs this evening.

79/62 All downhill from here seeing as the hottest day of the summer may have happened already, ha. Cold shot early in the week might get some leaves to start turning?

82/61 Yesterday at this time it was already 91F. This feels more like standard fare hot weather for here. Not nearly as exciting, ha. The forecast max temps on Sun/Mon/Tue are lower than our recent minimum temps...so that’ll be a trip.

Most spots seem to be 6-12F lower than yesterday at this time... except for the summits. Still torching into the low 60s this morning on MWN, Whiteface and Mansfield. It’s warm upstairs but not getting the extreme mixing of yesterday.

Ha sweet, thanks. Those are big numbers. I can't find the MVL numbers on BTV's site except for the monthy forms that went back only so far.

I also haven't checked IZG in Maine but would have to imagine that 96F today breaks some records there.... that has to be in play for some bigger records since that ASOS has been in there. But I generally agree with you @CoastalWx, it seems everything was a bit jacked up today relative to the progs. I don't think the 850s are all *that* crazy. It was always going to be a NNE torch vs. SNE, but I didn't see any 2-M guidance showing widespread 91-97F type stuff for N.NY/N.VT/N.NH/W.ME. Even the spots that never ever seem to hit 90F in the summer in the deep NEK of VT like Gallup Mills and Island Pond (both at like 1,300ft in the middle of no where) were pulling 92s and 93s for a while this afternoon. Island Pond saw 5 hours of 90+. Those spots have seen frosts in like July and August, its a cold climate to be solidly into the 90s. Those are high end values for any time of year, May or not. I wonder if the vegetation just exploding in the past week (vs. deep summer green) and the zero rainfall in the past 10-12 days played into it?

The lower period of record ASOS sites looked to have done it. SLK and BML I think were hottest recorded no matter what month. MVL might have done it too. Around here, BTV, MVL, and MPV were highest May temps recorded, but MPV/BTV have much larger period of records than MVL. Locally here at MVL the 93F is the highest temperature I can find manually looking through the F6 monthlies but I certainly might have missed it, I can't search them on NOWData though. It hit 92F on five different occasions during the torch 2018 summer (also the summer that Mansfield hit 84F three times), but I can't find anything more than 92F so far.

Yeah it's a little odd but so many places were so hot, a bunch of the mountain valley ASOS's recorded their highest temps since they were installed. A bunch of May records broken and even some anytime of year records. I don't have records for Whiteface, NY but up at around 5,000ft the graph looks like it hit 79F or 80F. That's insane for that elevation. Just like Mansfield 1,000ft lower and MWN before the storms. That's probably how SLK can hit 93F at almost 1,700ft. That's some huge elevation to get 93F at, but 80F up at 5,000ft probably does it.

BTV's official max of 95F beat their All-Time May max temperature by two degrees. Old record was 93F in 1977 and 2017.

I think Mount Mansfield/MMNV1 just set it's All-Time Max temperature for ANY MONTH, not just May. They have an 85F in there. The old record of 84F was from June 1999 and July 2018. We avoided any clouds and thunderstorms so far..... Mount Washington hit 66F (their May record) but then had Thunder and clouds that looked like it capped heating.