powderfreak

Wow. That’s cold for 3pm in late May.

We can tube now with the water level from snow melt, usually too low to tube most of it in mid-summer except a short stretch upstream of the Waterbury Res. But no way sitting in a tube in water that has to be like like 40F tops. Mid summer the lower water level and heating from rocks seems to get it up to a temp where you don’t lose feeling in your limbs lol. Right now it’s still cold enough that >60F dews might cause a low cloud right over the water surface.

My dad called it the “first crappy day in a while” in NE CT. He’s a pretty good barometer of the general public. They go from a week of sunshine and warmth to low-mid 60s with wind and clouds... no matter what semantics game is going on, the population notices it’s not 80F and sunny. They’ve been quarantining for over a week now in Woodstock. Should be about good to start getting out.

Cranky has been struggling. It’s almost like he’s trying to make false claims.

79/37 Gawd.

Friend is already on the Ridge. Mid/upper 60s up there. 10 Top 10 days in a row?

Yeah we tend to have nice springs up here once it stops snowing. This was well modeled to have no effect up here. 73/37 at 10:30am. Summer temps with low dews and blue sky as far as the eye can see.

What a day again. Temps already to 70F without a cloud in sight. Picnic tables up to 64F. Hot in the high country.

Windows and doors wide open, just the natural A/C tonight. We’ve dropped 25 degrees in just over two hours, going to have to close the windows soon. 82F to 57F after sunset.

“Up and in” doesn’t just refer to interior SNE.

Sick swimming hole! I went in today for the first time this season with the dog when I got home. but holy crap is that water shockingly cold. The human body almost doesn't know how to handle it, ha. I guess I'm not sure what I was expecting, that water was snow 5 miles upstream.

Posted this in the May thread but good info for this thread too as it moves at a slower pace. With the snow melting fast, I'm trying to get up there every 48 hours or so now for stake readings. It's a walk for sure, 3.5 miles each way with 2,600 vertical foot gain just to get a snow depth reading... but who am I kidding, the dog and I love it. I called it 30" today on my report to WFO BTV. It gets hard this time of year with the melt ring to narrow in on a certain inch. Its in free-fall now... lost 11" in the past 48 hours alone. The summit isn't cooling off at night like the valleys. The valleys are getting down to frost levels in the low to mid 30s at night but the summit has now been 48 hours in the 50F to 70F range. Not good for snow preservation when you don't drop below 50F, ha. Stunning weather though to wander around in the mountains. Not a cloud in the sky for like the 5th or 6th day in a row, ha.

With the snow melting fast, I'm trying to get up there every 48 hours or so now. It's a walk for sure, 3.5 miles each way with 2,600 vertical foot gain just to get a snow depth reading... but who am I kidding, the dog and I love it. I called it 30" today on my report to WFO BTV. It gets hard this time of year with the melt ring to narrow in on a certain inch. Its in free-fall now... lost 11" in the past 48 hours alone. The summit isn't cooling off at night like the valleys. The valleys are getting down to frost levels in the low to mid 30s at night but the summit has now been 48 hours in the 50F to 70F range. Not good for snow preservation when you don't drop below 50F, ha. Stunning weather though to wander around in the mountains. Not a cloud in the sky for like the 5th or 6th day in a row, ha.

At least 83F here but probably jumped higher at some point. Will see at 00z. At least 46 degrees warmer than this morning. Hiked up to get BTV a Mansfield Stake reading. It’s down to ~30” for about a foot of melt in the last 48 hours.

Scraping frost off the car in the morning, swimming in the pool by 2pm?

Car is registering 80-83F around these parts... not quite to BML levels but good 45F diurnal range.

Already a 41F diurnal trend before noon. 37F to 78F real fast.

Ha, holy shit. What a view.

Awesome tall old-growth pines, great set up man.

I don’t notice an issue with deer and horse flies up here. It’s really nice to walk and hike in mid summer without those things around. Must be climate or something but they aren’t a problem. Meanwhile, down in Woodstock, CT those things are absolutely brutal. Can’t walk 5 mins on the dirt roads without having half a dozen of the things buzzing around your head and trying to bite you through your shirt.

Luckily it cools off enough in the evening up north that sitting out by a fire pit in a hoody or pants is comfy and saves you from the skeeters. But yeah, bugs love the wilderness. I had a tick imbedded in my neck earlier this spring that resulted in 14-days of antibiotics.

Earlier where you are than most of New England, lol. First frosts seem to do them in. September? June, July and August though are buggy. You’re in the wilderness now, bug spray becomes your friend quickly.

Oh you have no idea living out there. Wait for a warm humid July evening and turn your flood lights on. The size and volume of the insects bouncing in that light will be astonishing. Especially with that field out in front... and bright light will bring every insect from a mile away to it. Moths the size of your fist will feed on those insects.

I hear ya there. Just got back from a late day hike and the snow level keeps creeping higher and higher. Tons of water getting released above 3,000ft... waterways are flowing like it’s raining an inch per day. But this weather is unbelievable and the black flies are staying away for now. Green level has shot up about 1,000 vertical feet in like 3-4 days. You’re gonna love mountain weather, so much cool shit going on all the time. Down to 3.5 feet at the 12-foot Stake on the local bump.

Yeah that’s one way to put it. Like to get to 80-85F we usually start the day higher than frost levels. Mostly though we just aren’t in that arid climate zone where you get air masses with that little moisture in it at those temperatures. I wonder what the PWATS are relative to normal. We get the winter dry air but it just seems like 80 over teens is pretty extreme for our general climate zone. This is the time of year to do it though. Gotta figure being early the air masses aren’t modifying as much from the lack of evapotranspiration to our NW?