powderfreak

5,000 feet is pretty low for a snow level at the summer solstice.... good luck to hikers and campers. That's when your 3-day backpacking trip gets a bit more interesting with a foot of snow.

Dog proudly found a pretty good patch of snow left over from winter up high... I bet this depression drifted to 20 feet deep by the end of the winter, though this is all that's left in mid-June. End of winter the snowpack is like 2/3rds of the way up these trees. There were a few other patches scattered about but this was by far the largest. Wasn't expecting to come across this but that's what exploring does.

We get highs in the 50s and highs in the 90s. Lot of variability lately, ha.

71/41 after a low of 40F this morning... this is good stuff.

No bird feeders up here... the bears have been out of control. A good friend just two days ago had a small bird feeder on his second story deck and had a large bear climb up there destroy it and then attempt to enter the residence but the dogs scared it off. Another friend about a quarter mile away from that had likely the same bear hanging out in his front entry way and busting into a locked crate to get birdseed. Some woman on River Road had a bear enter her residence in the last week and ransack her kitchen, easily tearing the screen apart and letting itself in. The bears are on a mission this year.

Time to go Caribbean... some heat and dews with the endless daylight sounds pretty good.

Got a good view today directly across from the pocket of rocks that ripped out in that slide a couple weeks ago in Smugglers Notch. Crazy to think how big the boulders were and home much damage they did to the forest below, but also how small it is in the grand scheme of things.

Decent sunset this evening. Crazy, 8:45pm and just getting the sunset... four hours later than in mid-winter.

Ha, open season in the winter. Unlimited fish for you to catch. Late day high of 65F today, better than yesterday, but most of the afternoon was spent around 60F.

Nice @alex... I’ve been seeing a bunch of skiing shots in my feeds from up there the past week or two. The upper snowfields still look good to go from the road. That last photo of yours looks like Pipeline Chute is no go but hard to tell with Airplane Gully just out of view in the foreground. I’ve done Airplane in June but it’s really pretty terrifying and not sure I’ve got the balls to do it anymore (or maybe I’ve smartened up?)... the steep Chutes of snow are fun but man if you fell for any reason you are dead. You’ll slide for life (and gore tex accelerates fast) and then when the snow runs out you get dumped into boulder fields at a very high rate of speed. I think hiking back up the chutes was always the more terrifying part, one wrong step and you are gone, not stopping until those boulders stop you.

Yeah it makes sense to do it in the middle of the day. I just find with the added daylight the time sneaks up on you fast. You can start a hike to the summits at 5pm with no problem and be down by 8pm with an hour of light left. Folks are starting 18 holes at like 4-4:30 and getting in with light to spare. Or you are out in the garden, playing with the dog, etc and all the sudden it’s 8pm and haven’t started making dinner. I love the long daylight, I wish we could have it in the winter too, ha. The day seems so much longer.

It is sad once the days start getting shorter. I love the late daylight but I also find we eat dinner so late because of it. In January it’s like 6pm rolls around time for dinner, sun’s been down since 4:30.... now we eat at like 8:30 or 9pm even. Terrible to go to sleep with a full stomach but right now there’s some light until 9:15pm (civil twilight or whatever it’s called). I’ve got this mental block eating dinner in like the middle of the day type lighting at 6pm.

Ha, used to be piggy pile but I think yesterday it switched to testicle tickling.

WNW flow heat is the way to go in the over-the-top regimes. Get that afternoon well mixed heat with a breeze and low dews. Out hot days up north have been like that... you get that high of 87F but it's 52F in the morning with low dews.

SNE down the I-95 corridor along the east coast is like the only wet spot outside Great Lakes and Pac NW. You can see Bob's Taunton wet axis there.

More over the top heat? It'll get hot everywhere but holy sh*t at some of these progs way up north in Canada. It's got like multiple days of 2-M temps in the mid-90s even at the very top of this graphic. Just a full on Canadian blow torch coming up. All the while, every day for the next 7-10 days the entire southeastern United States is shown as below normal 850mb and 2-m temps.

Hopefully we can get these orographic clouds to finally start disappating. Visible satellite today (and yesterday) has looked like an EPS mean snow map from last winter, following the terrain.

Awesome man, right there with SLK at 31F. Love anomalous weather and we keep flipping from anomalous heat to anomalous cold and back. Normal seems boring all the sudden lol.

48/45... clouds keeping it warm. Wish we got a clear/calm night with this air mass.

We had some sunshine kick MVL up to 58F very briefly around noon, but all afternoon from 1pm onward has been 52-53F. I was an idiot and forgot a window open, so the dining room thermostat is down to 62F and I refuse to pay for heat in mid-June so told the wife to bundle up, lol. Wonder if indoors gets into the 50s, I moved the set point to 58F.

Was a cold day in the high terrain... temps rotting in the upper 30s above 3,000ft. Dark, thick clouds all day. It really had an October vibe today with that cold, dark, gloomy feel. The only difference is all the vegetation is bright green, ha. Here's a view out into the Champlain Valley on my hike.

Two days ago we had dews at 12pm around 70F with a bit too much azz sweat for my liking.... today it's mid-30s and it's a bit too dry/cold, ha. These up and down shifts, there's no way for the body to get used to either one.

51/36 Feels like fall, should be some college football on this afternoon right? Might do some apple picking and get cider donuts before that.

Yeah that band of showers was likely snow up there. The Whiteface cam has something frozen on the lens... 27F up there.

You're about to see that view with some June rime if the modeled temps occur...and soundings have some cloud producing moisture in that upper mountain level. Looking at that northern slope of the Presidential's across the way, you will see some awesome rimed white views from your location. Heaviest/most visible riming is often on that northern/western facing terrain, as that's the direction moisture moves in during most cold air advection regimes.