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76/45 Roosters out and about.

We think this was the guy we found on our porch two nights ago. He was ravaging some dumpsters about a 1/4 mile away from us. These bears this year give no fuks, not afraid of humans at all. This guy looks like he could just roll the dumpster over.

My dog hates them. She usually chills in one of the bathrooms with music on that seems to hold back the shaking during the Independence Day celebrations. It seems to be the compression of the larger charges that really make her hit the deck, as we are pretty close to the field where the town launches them. Any rogue firecrackers definitely cause a strong reaction too. She ran off as a puppy during a 4th of July fireworks display as a pup. For a dog or any animal, it must sound like the end of the world.

I could see a chicken eating some firework debris, no? Can’t be healthy. On another note, the amount of crap that the commercial firework shows leave is insane too. Private is messy, but the aftermath of a commercial firework show makes a field look like it’s got WWII ordinance all over it. Stowe’s fireworks are a go this year luckily and we have a phenomenal back yard view.

J.Spin, Alex, Phin and the mountains can pick up 1-2 feet in 7-days of 50% snow showers ha.... I’ll get 6-8” at 1.5”/day and most folks though will see some passing flurries.

Yeah a bunch of 30-50% chances of showers outside the mountains doesn’t make one feel all warm and fuzzy.... but does a 30% chance of a passing shower mean there’s a 70% chance of dry? In the winter it’s the “days and days” of snow that turns into one period of snow and some occasional flurries for most folks. Really the only places where those daily chances seem to materialize are prone to orographics.

Ha, the only time I’ve ever seen State Police at the family cabin in the woods in Woodstock, CT was for fireworks. Just a bunch of threats about fines and citations but on July 4th they actually sent two troopers to investigate for low grade fireworks. They took what we had left too. I remember my uncle lost it on them... you came all the way out here from Tolland to steal some kids fireworks on the 4th of July... Ironically they were bought in New Hampshire lol.

I totally get enjoying whatever weather you want, but I don’t see the reasoning haha. Unless kids are different now, we spent the 90/70 days in someone’s cold basement playing Golden Eye. 75F and partly sunny was like 5 hours playing whiffleball or street hockey with the neighborhood crew until your parents force you home. Without a doubt we spent more time inside during high heat afternoons, huddled in A/C.

All joking aside, it’s nice to see the kids back outside. There’s a large daycare about a third of a mile down the road and the poor kids were huddled inside the A/C all week... finally was able to hear them on the playgrounds again today. They take big group walks on the Rec Path and such, so good to finally see them back outside enjoying the weather.

Just a fukkin’ sufferfest up here for those poor kids. You just hate to see those partly sunny days with low dews and 75-80F. I never would’ve gone outside to play whiffleball or ride mountain bike trails in this stuff.

75/52 This does feel good and as fun as it was, this is much better for being outside doing literally anything but swimming than the big heat was. Don’t hear any children crying either because they are cold .

Ha, not in a the way you hope. I'm laughing thinking about that memory. Got him a golf ball that he put under his sack to scratch the itch and then our Earth Science teacher caught him sitting on it in the middle of class... I picture HubbDave finding a student rolling a golf ball under his nut sack in the final weeks of the school year. "Get out, I don't care why. Just leave."

One of my best friends in high school got poison ivy when we were playing a round of golf. He must’ve gone home and took the weenie for a walk because he had such a bad ivy outbreak on his nuts that he had to leave school early for several days in a row. Sitting on the hard school chairs was so rough on his sack that it was getting inappropriate for him to sit in class scratching his nuts all day, lol.

Even if it didn't rain for a year I'm not sure I would fear a forest fire burning my house down in New England. Not saying it couldn't happen but that would be pretty far down on the list of worries.

3km NAM just rolls a bowling ball of moisture through. I naturally like it as it's further north than the 12km NAM, ha.

49.1F at closest PWS and 48-50F at MVL depending on the actual min.... feels great.

57F at 10:45pm is some much needed relief. Need to close windows back up as it’s almost chilly inside now.

Have had precipitation on 15 of 24 days this month. However the total during that time is only 1.17”.... an average of about 0.08” per day of rain, ha. Just like in winter, we are prone to plenty of days with precip but it doesn’t always add up big. Nickles and dimes.

We are going to be like folks in Florida after this past week, bundling up for highs in the 70s with no humidity.

I always thought it was because they coalesce by colliding with each other making larger drops from small drops and figured it had something to do with the weight of the rain drop and the strength of the updraft (it needs to get big/heavy enough to actually fall to the ground). This high speed camera sequence of a rain drop falling and breaking apart into various sized drops is also interesting. Fragmentation of a 5 millimeters in diameter drop falling by its own weight relative to an ascending stream of air. The overall sequence lasts for 60 milliseconds. This process is responsible for the formation of the raindrops which wet the ground. (Image: © Emmanuel Villermaux)

75/54 What an afternoon of Chamber weather after all that heat.

You gonna root for hot and dry or cool and wet? Going to be hard to pick heat over water.

That refreshing air is on its way... SLK is 68/49, yesterday they were 87/60 at this time. A nice 20 degree drop from yesterday.

Could’ve sworn I read his answer.

Ahh true. It’s tough to do at 1500ft, I forget Alex is even a bit higher up than Phin. Anyway, 75/55 is absolutely glorious this afternoon. We earned it this time, ha.