powderfreak

BTV with a min of 72F this morning setting a new month of May record for highest min. Old record was 70F in 1911, 2015, 2017. Today they are forecasting May record max temps at BTV, 1V4, and a tie at MPV.

Ha, hotter than that at the summits up here. I think picnic tables are gonna destroy their all-time May temps at this pace. What an impressive air mass. This sort of came out of no where for 3 days.

We go snowy, heat wave, frost all in the span of like 3 weeks?

BML is already 90/63. SLK at 88F too. One impressive torch.

88/66 at 11:15am. This is fukkin wild. Multiple snow events in the backyard this month along with some of the hottest May temps on record.

Yeah I’ll use ours occasionally from like 4-8pm... often by late in the evening the outdoor temps match the AC temps so we just end up opening the windows and slider doors after running the AC for the last several hours, ha. I haven’t noticed any of this vast accumulations of pollen though that SNE seems to have. Some make it sound like you should be shoveling it out of your bedroom in the morning if you accidentally leave a window open.

Yeah cooled off nicely. Already 21F lower than a few hours ago. 68F and windows and doors open. Screen sliders in the living room, dining room and bedroom cool it off real fast. Its not a badge of honor but it’s useless to use the AC when inside temps dip into the 60s anyway.

Toasty up high and the fast melt continues with these record/near record max temps for the month of May. Talk about whiplash.... the first two weeks of May were one of the coldest starts to the month on record, with multiple snow events even down to the NNE valleys. Now we are seeing some of the warmest temps the month of May can produce in these parts. Bi-polar weather.

Mansfield's 79F max temp ties the warmest May temperature there as well. Though the other one occurred almost two weeks earlier in the month on May 14, 1961. The minimum temperature of 57F in the last 24 hours is the same as the normal high temperature for the date. BTV's 92F just missed their warmest May temperature on record by one degree as the May record is 93F, set just a couple years ago in 2017. Tomorrow is supposed to be a degree or so warmer, wonder if these spots can set their May records that were tied today.

Yeah it’s been a crazy week. Like I posted yesterday, the station at 4,000ft up here on Mount Mansfield averaged almost a degree higher in temperature than ORH in the last 7 days, three thousand feet lower and 150 (?) miles further south.

Yeah we full torch in NNE. Especially the further NW you go it seems. Been like 8 days of that pattern of hotter the further NW you go.

Ah ok, but you don’t know if it’s 89F or 90F till the 6-hrly right?

How do you get the 6-hr maxes before 00z? MVL has been rotting at 88F for 3 hours but I have to imagine it’s hit 90F at some point within that time.

This is legit heat for July and August for sure. +20C at 850mb over southern Quebec. BTV hit at least 91F... First 90s in New England this warm season? Torching at the NNE Mtn valley spots. From fake cold to fake heat. 88F here at MVL 89F at BML 88F at SLK 87F at MPV

Upslope torch up here, 81/64

The heat and dews are coming. Steady southerly flow today has brought dews up from 38F this morning to 57F now... it’s noticeable. Still in the 70s for temps. Feels summery now with those dews rising. Near record highs in the forecast. ....Lows overnight will be rather mild, generally low 60s in the Champlain Valley, and mid-upper 50s elsewhere across Vermont and northern New York, or roughly 10-15deg above the 30-year climo mean for late May. Mostly sunny conditions and 850mb temps rising sharply to near +17 to +18C will allow valley temperatures to reach the upper 80s to lower 90s...the warmest values of the season thus far and near record highs (see climate section below).

I think rain/snow and mix lines along with snow amounts have to be the most difficult thing to forecast... especially given how many factors go into each and how visible the busts are to society. You bust by 5F or even say 10F on a high temp forecast in warm season, no one but weenies really notice even though it’s a pretty big bust. You bust by 6” in a snowstorm everyone knows it...or it’s freezing rain instead of snow, etc. Very narrow gradients in winter events seem real tough compared to other types of forecasting.

Yeah the only two we have left are Nosedive and Liftline if you really wanted it. Looks like a bunch of options there. Today:

Yeah going back to the 18th (not including today yet)... this is the average temperature for ORH and Mt Mansfield Summit: MMNV1... 57.7F ORH... 56.8F Today will probably be another day too that averages warmer at 4,000ft with a max/min so far of 66/52 at the summit and 64/48 at ORH. It's been warm up here when the 4,000ft picnic tables have a mean temperature almost a full degree higher than ORH. If I've seen anything over the last week, it's that snowpack does not like weekly average temperatures nearing 60F...departures of like +11/+14/+17 type stuff.

It might have been warmer at the MMNV1picnic tables this week than ORH. Maybe I’ll crunch the numbers later. Been telling you guys how hot it’s been, lol. Might end up losing 3-4 feet in 7 days with full sunshine. That sun this time of year means business.

Thought the mountain would have had more snow. Sugarloaf still looks tasty up top The snow has taken a beating over the past 8 days of full sun and pretty much constant highs of 70F and lows of 50F on hill. The valley has cooled off a lot at night but the high ground has stayed up there. Stake has lost 6” per day since last week... a foot gone every two days. Anything out in the open to sunlight has gotten pretty torched. Need to get in the woods where it’s still deep in the pines.

Yeah that’s Stowe. One of them is the poster “adk” who isn’t around the forum much anymore. I think I was in the Dominican Republic when that storm hit, ha. Thought it would be a safe time to travel and not miss any snow.

We cloudy now up here. 66F at 3000ft.

Warmer than that at the picnic tables. Mild 65F on the summits. This has been a weird week. Or not, just backdoor climo.

Day 8 in a row of just sun and great temps. An outdoor activity orgasmic stretch. Would lose my mind in the winter though watching snow showers come to die here.