powderfreak

I mean that’s been no problem lately. We can do that easily with the lack of radiational cooling in recent winters.

That qualifies for the “Torch!” post.

Up to 75F here. Wow it’s nice out.

That’s awesome. A 50-diurnal range. That’s some Colorado ski town type stuff in the warm season.

Those are the rare burgers. The 50-spots.

Was in the mid-40s last evening then jumped into the 60s in the middle of the night. 68F at 9:45am is solid.

I mean, there’s a lot of green in that photo. It’s just peaking in many areas well north of you (even up at this latitude in the Champlain Valley). You’ve got some time left to judge, especially if things are still blooming. It may be November, but the leaves will still likely flash for a period.

29F to 72F today at home in the valley… and already dropping back into the 40s. My diurnal swing fetish is satiated.

What a day. It’s warm, we’ve got 55F up here at 3,600ft. Snow crying for its mama.

Ahhh… way to add substance to a discussion by just throwing gasoline on a fire. I still don’t get the “alarmed” or “worried” aspect of the discussion. It’s something that’s happening and science shouldn’t have emotions attached to it.

Yes the hyperbole doesn’t help any discussion and there’s a lot of hyperbole in society on all sides of the coin. All I was saying is we are in a warming period on the long term curve. Not worried about it and not making any assumptions on 10,000 years from now or what caused it or what to do about it. Don't really care about that to be honest. Just it is what it is. Enjoy the awesome Sunday weather Wolfie.

No kidding, no one said it won’t snow. Where was that said? I’m watching snow melt as I type this . I don’t know why this topic gets people so tweaked. It’s just a casual discussion of something that’s happening… like the sun rising and setting. We literally believe the same thing, it’s warmed and cooled before in history and we are on the warm swing now. Isn’t that undeniable? This is the warm swing. Like I don’t know why it’s so combative? Just imagine we are discussing increasing precipitation amounts.

I just want to be clear, I wasn’t worried or even trying to imply worry when asking you if it “truly evens out over time.” Not sure why there’s always this assumption of worry or not. We are just talking about a climate trend that’s fairly undeniable. Nothing else is loaded into those statements.

27F at SLK to 55F at ORH. Large temp variation across the region this evening.

Wolfie, you think that temps will be below normal for a long enough period of time to cancel out all the warm departures over a longer duration? Like in the long run? Compared against “normals” that even rise every 10 years and cheat the temps from 50 years ago? Or do you say that just as, there will be periods of colder than normal weather still? I think we are going to continue to get short-duration higher-end cold season events (QPF rich storms into barely 0C thermals). The mean thermals though will also continue to average out on the warmer than normal side with plenty of unfavorable parameters.

That sounds like exactly where he’s supposed to be. Don't disturb his leaves and he won’t come out, ha ha.

28F to 64F so far. What a day.

Radiators mount up. IDJ at 38F and TAN at 37F… while ORH at 47F is a healthy elevational gradient.

This February sun angle and E/NE facing aspect of the Mansfield ski trails doesn't melt snow very fast these days, despite summit temps around 50F today.

What a day. Hit 64F at MVL and 61F at 1500ft here. That sun angle and NE facing aspect really limiting melting over there with snow cover still down near 1500ft in spots… while south facing is almost bare to 3,000ft.

Could also just use snow depth days to actually figure it out. Not saying your memory is wrong but anecdotal memories can be tough to judge climate trends. My guess is overall SDD are down but there are still some big spikes mixed in for big winters that memory latches onto.

Ahh I messed up, I was looking too much at mid-October snows. There are late October snows that go through. Like in Oct 1976 it snows on the 18th, then melts, then snows again later and carries it through.

Ahh, so 3 years but that’s a long dataset. Crazy that 78” can fall in October and still melt in November. Its hard to hold onto snow even at 6K feet.

I guess I should say mid-October. Maybe there is a some Halloween snow up there that lasted. I know it hasn’t happened on Mansfield.

I don’t think October snow has ever lasted, even on MWN.