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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.

Colder than the picnic tables high up on mountains.

That would get you a 90F at an ASOS, ha, but I know what you mean. 88-89F for a week at 1,500ft is crazy hot.

One third of the days so far this month have set daily maximum records on Mansfield, ha! 8 of 23 days, including the last 6 in a row. Today will buck that as it's only 60F up there now.

Looks like we grabbed 0.34" this morning... sort of nickle and diming our way to near an inch this week.

Looks like today ends the 6 days of 90+ at spots like BTV and BML.

Almost midnight, already nodding off... get awoken by the sound of something hitting the trash can and eventually opening it on the back porch. The dog goes absolutely ape-shit with the wide screen door being the only thing between it and the house. I got there just as the bear scampered off the deck, fled into the night. Paws were soaked like it just crossed the river.

BTV posted this to social media, great loop showing the FROPA that should end the heat wave. This has been high end summer. After a high end summer shot in late May. It has wanted to swing wildly above normal at times, yet punctuated with times of highs in the 50s here in June. This has been a heatwave worthy of the nomenclature.

Some max temps from this anomalous times... another good torch with highest anomalies certainly in NNE. Thunderstorms held temps a little lower in some spots compared to recent days, but places that remained sunny the longest torched the best away from marine influence. BTV... 96F CON... 94F HIE... 92F IZG... 92F LEB... 92F BDL... 91F BML... 90F DDH... 90F LCI... 90F MVL... 89F MPV... 88F BOS... 88F SLK... 87F TAN... 87F ORH... 86F IJD... 86F LEW... 77F PWM... 75F

Would've passed on the rain today... only 0.09" and no wonder the dew point went from 63F (reasonable) to holding at 68-70F (getting miserable) all evening after that wet ground started getting hit by the sun. It's just enough to form puddles but probably doesn't do anything for vegetation when the sun comes out immediately after and torches it. Kept temps down, only 89F at MVL, breaking the streak of 90F days. I'd almost perfer BTV's afternoon of 30-35% RH at like 96/61. Shade stays cooler in lower dews.

Looks like a decent storm in Waterbury, VT today based on this video.... props to the traffic flagger for making sure his sign stayed upright and forward. Never back down. It's like the guys putting the flag on the moon.

Interesting way of looking at it... Whatever keeps the wife happy.

Part of that just looks like we get lucky or unlucky depending on your point of view... but it’s still a hot pattern into Canada that we might sneak out of for a bit underneath it.

Cool pocket underneath the over-the-top heat while Canada bakes some more?

BTV with at least 95F so far again.

Looks like day 6 of 90F at BML and HIE. HIE with at least 92F is solid. I’m seeing a brief 90F here at MVL on the 5-min obs but will have to wait till 00z for confirmation.