powderfreak

I gotta imagine that gets warmer. Seems excessively cold for mid-June. A wild ride the last month... record heat, plenty of hot days, and then also days with 30s in the morning and highs in 50s. Saturday afternoon’s temps will be 10-15 degrees less than this afternoon’s dew point, lol. Saturday Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s. Northwest winds around 10 mph.

Looking at the models for this weekend, holy crap is Saturday looking cold. 18z temps on Saturday afternoon on the NAM and GFS are low 50s... that’s uninstall and turn on the heat type of day. It doesn’t even look like rain, just cold.

I just don’t get the obsession every single summer. Summer climo is long dry stretches and when it does rain it’s convective short duration downpours. It’s not going to change.

2.26” at TAN ASOS... that’s a solid drenching.

That’s like half a month’s normal rainfall in an afternoon at TAN.

Damn, TAN is just ripping off 3/4 mile visibility obs in +RN. It takes some heavy rain to stay down under a mile visibility on an ASOS.

Bob's racking up that water. Nice. Much drier air moving in up north here.... dews back into the 50s and very noticeable from the near 70F dews early afternoon.

It's crazy how the western mountains and adjacent valleys do weather. A guy who worked for me two winters ago now lives at the base of Aspen Highlands, he was like 80F the day prior and then it was snowing that next evening. He only had a sloppy 1-2" from his pics at that elevation but they got like a foot like 1,000ft up the hill. Then the sun comes out and it goes to 70F. The dry air has to help, the wet bulb never seems to go above like 50-60F, even if it's in the 80s for surface temperature. If it rains it gets real cold in a hurry, and then up at like 10,000ft it seems like the wet bulbs are always only in the 30s/40s at the hottest climo period in mid-summer. I do think those dry dew points and low wet bulbs are whey the western mountains have that climate where it can be "beautiful or snowing"... sunny and 40s for skiing but the moment it tries to precipitate it's immediate like 28F and snowing. Unlike here in the East where we are sunny and 40s ahead of a system we can be screwed very fast. They have none of the "antecedent air mass" concerns.... it could even be 50s in March on the slopes when the sun comes out but even so if it precipitates it'll never rain, always snow.

Sort of sounds like any model... if you can recognize the times they are wrong, they can be pretty damn good outside of those times.

Yeah we've had some really good timing for summer days. Got some good downpours early this morning to water the vegetation and then break out into sunshine/dews/temps. I think It's about to come to an end though... mountain just disappeared from sight behind a rain curtain, looks like it's pouring as the FROPA comes through.

81/69 right now at the ASOS... certainly feels like summer out there. Wasn't paying attention but seems like we are getting more sun with these dews than expected. Looks like front is through BTV as they just went westerly and dews dropped an immediate 6 degrees.

These northern Vermont dew points right now would make DIT proud. This is by far the highest dews of the season at midday noon.

Picked up just over a third of an inch of rain this morning in a couple good showers. Lots of low clouds now. But wow on the humidity! Dew point up to 69F now at MVL ASOS. That rain jacked up the low level moisture.

Great evening up north. Good to be home. Every time we travel, we get home and are like, yup this is the spot. Taken from a field about a mile walk out the back door. 64/50

Ah f*ck! You are right, the angle of the skew-t slope is greater than the slope of the dew. I had the valley mixing with widening gap trick me into it. I tried to give DIT the benefit of the doubt. I should remember not to do that. Salesman vs science.

With that said, ORH at 1,000ft never had a dew point hit even 60F this afternoon. ORH stayed in the 50s for dews all day long. Must've been a strong dew front between ORH and TOL.

Its negligible but yeah. In the middle of the afternoon with good mixing, especially if comparing a forested hill to a field in a valley. Here's a sounding this afternoon from the CT Valley. The dew point increases about a degree or so with height. But the temperature difference is crazy. Look at that extremely long tail on the temperature plot... that is an insane lapse rate in the lowest 1,000ft. There's a reason DIT talks dews and not temperatures in the hills of NE CT. The temps cool off a lot with any height outside the CT Valley.

Wow. ORH’s dews are in the 50s at 1000ft. It is quite a difference from NE CT at times. We left earlier and it definitely started feeling more humid than the past few days.

I’m not too different... WWBB I think in 2003-04 winter was my first winter on the boards when I was in the UVM dorms.

I could be color blind, ha. My mind always labeled it light green for some reason.

You guys in SNE weren’t joking about the pollen. This stuff is crazy. Car is green from a few days of no use since we arrived. Every day the dog is covered in the stuff, constantly having her go swimming in the lake to wash the green off. Here’s green beard this morning:

Saturday looks very cold. Highs in the lower 60s on the zone forecast, warmer Sunday with upper 60s. Nice October weekend I guess. Saturday Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers. Highs in the lower 60s. Sunday Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers. Highs in the upper 60s.

The hottest station in New England *almost* hit 90F in the vicinity of a calendar date thrown out as the start of an expected heat wave? I’ll drop off the participation trophy on my way back north. I do love the long range calls, they bring plenty of discussion. BDL hit 90F tomorrow?

I always think you mean hot as in it feels hot out. BDL’s temp is up there relative to normal for sure. Today was perfect up in your and Metherb’s hood. Low 80s and low dews. Chamber of Commerce all the way. Now back in the 70s, great evening underway.

Low 80s... low dews... feels like perfect weather here in NE CT. Not rushing to go swimming but great for maxing and relaxing outside.