powderfreak

Happy Birthday man. Hopefully KLEW reports some HAZE obs this evening.

79/62 All downhill from here seeing as the hottest day of the summer may have happened already, ha. Cold shot early in the week might get some leaves to start turning?

82/61 Yesterday at this time it was already 91F. This feels more like standard fare hot weather for here. Not nearly as exciting, ha. The forecast max temps on Sun/Mon/Tue are lower than our recent minimum temps...so that’ll be a trip.

Most spots seem to be 6-12F lower than yesterday at this time... except for the summits. Still torching into the low 60s this morning on MWN, Whiteface and Mansfield. It’s warm upstairs but not getting the extreme mixing of yesterday.

Ha sweet, thanks. Those are big numbers. I can't find the MVL numbers on BTV's site except for the monthy forms that went back only so far.

I also haven't checked IZG in Maine but would have to imagine that 96F today breaks some records there.... that has to be in play for some bigger records since that ASOS has been in there. But I generally agree with you @CoastalWx, it seems everything was a bit jacked up today relative to the progs. I don't think the 850s are all *that* crazy. It was always going to be a NNE torch vs. SNE, but I didn't see any 2-M guidance showing widespread 91-97F type stuff for N.NY/N.VT/N.NH/W.ME. Even the spots that never ever seem to hit 90F in the summer in the deep NEK of VT like Gallup Mills and Island Pond (both at like 1,300ft in the middle of no where) were pulling 92s and 93s for a while this afternoon. Island Pond saw 5 hours of 90+. Those spots have seen frosts in like July and August, its a cold climate to be solidly into the 90s. Those are high end values for any time of year, May or not. I wonder if the vegetation just exploding in the past week (vs. deep summer green) and the zero rainfall in the past 10-12 days played into it?

The lower period of record ASOS sites looked to have done it. SLK and BML I think were hottest recorded no matter what month. MVL might have done it too. Around here, BTV, MVL, and MPV were highest May temps recorded, but MPV/BTV have much larger period of records than MVL. Locally here at MVL the 93F is the highest temperature I can find manually looking through the F6 monthlies but I certainly might have missed it, I can't search them on NOWData though. It hit 92F on five different occasions during the torch 2018 summer (also the summer that Mansfield hit 84F three times), but I can't find anything more than 92F so far.

Yeah it's a little odd but so many places were so hot, a bunch of the mountain valley ASOS's recorded their highest temps since they were installed. A bunch of May records broken and even some anytime of year records. I don't have records for Whiteface, NY but up at around 5,000ft the graph looks like it hit 79F or 80F. That's insane for that elevation. Just like Mansfield 1,000ft lower and MWN before the storms. That's probably how SLK can hit 93F at almost 1,700ft. That's some huge elevation to get 93F at, but 80F up at 5,000ft probably does it.

BTV's official max of 95F beat their All-Time May max temperature by two degrees. Old record was 93F in 1977 and 2017.

I think Mount Mansfield/MMNV1 just set it's All-Time Max temperature for ANY MONTH, not just May. They have an 85F in there. The old record of 84F was from June 1999 and July 2018. We avoided any clouds and thunderstorms so far..... Mount Washington hit 66F (their May record) but then had Thunder and clouds that looked like it capped heating.

I see BTV has SLK "area" as a max of 94F.... NOWdata has a 94F back in 1911 for "Saranac Lake area" for May. Must be some ThreadEx stations in that area.

SLK at 1,663ft with 93F!! Holy crap. That has to be a record for that ASOS at that elevation.

This is insane. 93F at least for MVL, might be hottest I can ever remember since I lived here. 94F in BTV last hour is warmest May temperature on record back to 1882.

I’m rubbing yellow dandelions all over my body for sun protection. Go big or go home.

Looks like the METAR for Mount Washington has officially at least tied their hottest May temp recorded. Records left and right.

1:05pm came in with 80F on Mansfield. That might've just done it for the hottest May reading ever. I think the warmest temp ever is like 84F or there about.

91F here at MVL 90F BTV 89F MPV

I noticed that, there's a lot more convective looking clouds firing up over the highest terrain today. Looks like a real gully washer down around or NE of Killington/Ludlow vicinity. Thing just isn't moving.

Congrats on experiencing some all-time May heat for these parts, ha. The Mount Washington temperature profile is about as hot as I've ever seen, even for July/August. Nearing 80F at 4,000ft (same with over here on Mt Mansfield) and upper 80s from 2,300ft and below. We've gone entire summer's without hitting 90F at the valley sites.

Ahhh big difference there. I think they might get the 66F for May but toss that 72F max then. You were right, 72F is the highest temperature ever recorded up there in any month. Still, that's a really hot day for 6,200ft.

Wonder if they got their highest for any month of the year then? I can't figure out the difference though between the "Current Summit Conditions" page on MountWashington.org and this: https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mesowest/getobext.php?table=1&banner=off&sid=kmwn They have two very different data sets for today. Here's the WMN main weather page: https://xmountwashington.appspot.com/csc.html?data=more

MWN record for May is 66F.... and the current summit conditions temperature is higher than that right now. Looks like a new all-time May temp for the rockpile?

Holy shit at Mount Washington. Today's record high is 63F back in 1978.... they have already hit 72.2F today? I gotta find the May record. Wonder if they hit it. Back down to 68F right now but look at this temp profile, this is insane to see upper 80s at these elevations:

Is that what it is? Causing that gradient near RT 2 and S.NH? Impressive that the southerly flow can sort of overwhelm all of SNE with that marine air. It's easily noticeable in CT though in that lowest 3,000ft of the atmosphere.

Yeah, man, look at these 925mb temp differences from you to the North Country! Yesterday was my first swim in the river, god that snow melt still feels cold even at 90F outside, ha. The whole time though, CT and most of SNE doesn't exceed 20C at 925mb. Pretty neat pattern. Today: Tomorrow... Even Friday is a sneaky torch in NW Maine... hottest spot in what is normally the climo coolest in New England.