powderfreak

Don't under estimate our force field. Those showers didn't stand a chance against San Diego weather. Nothing but sun right now still. Looks like filtered sunshine immediately to the south though. Nothing but CLR skis and a nice day for another hike.

We are -3.0 on the month here... but 8 of last 10 days have been above normal. That should tell you how obscenely cold the first two weeks of May were. Snowy May too. Pretty crazy to have 10 days average above normal but we still have lower departures than SNE.

Bright sun again waking up.... but oh shit, the streak may be in danger as there are a couple bands of clouds moving in. Trying to keep that mostly sunny streak going for NNE.

Must have better mixing as the dews at the same max temp times aren’t that bad. 2pm dews... much hotter ambient temps NNE but also drier. Guess that’s exactly what @dendrite said, ha.

Both of those days look hottest from me to you. St Lawrence Valley probably wins but some early heat coming. Pretty mild nights for MVL too, with low 60s for mins both days at 5am. Wed Thur

Superstar still looks stupid deep. No skier traffic or grooming, that thing will last a while.

Warmer up here at the picnic tables at 4kft. Lift shack thermometer says mid-60s at 3,600ft and MMNV1 showing 66F. Another day another snow shot. Dog cooling off in the cold pocket. Once you step into the woods with snow it feels like you just opened the refrigerator door with this blast of cooler air.

Holy sh*t this is hot for here. BTV pretty much forecasting a heat wave for MVL... 90/92/89 Tuesday Partly sunny and hot, with a high near 90. Light southwest wind. Wednesday Partly sunny and hot, with a high near 92. Calm wind becoming southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. Thursday A 30 percent chance of showers after 2pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 89. Southwest wind around 6 mph.

Oh look, another sunny day with temps in the 70s and dews in the 30s. Had one rogue OVC ob this morning from the ASOS...that was close, immediately back to CLR. I’m not sure I remember such a continuous stretch of clear skies up here as the past 7 days.

Those are some sweaty PWAT values. Southerly flow ahead of a closed low this time of year usually means we could be in it for a while. Those things don't move fast. Warm look too with 18-19C H85 temps, ha.

It was 72/28 at only 19% RH at 8pm. Crazy how late the sun is out for it to still be at max diurnal mixing as late as 8pm! By 9pm it was 62/40 as the decoupling started, but it's crazy how long the afternoon warmth can carry into the evening this time of year before the nighttime vacuum starts.

My dad sent me a screen shot of his weather app for the family locations. One of these is not like the others. We are usually the ones getting butt-banged up here on upslope clouds or blocked flow stratus.... spring backdoor fronts are the one time we really get some nice weather compared to elsewhere.

81/38 with 22% RH and a NE breeze.

Wow. That’s cold for 3pm in late May.

We can tube now with the water level from snow melt, usually too low to tube most of it in mid-summer except a short stretch upstream of the Waterbury Res. But no way sitting in a tube in water that has to be like like 40F tops. Mid summer the lower water level and heating from rocks seems to get it up to a temp where you don’t lose feeling in your limbs lol. Right now it’s still cold enough that >60F dews might cause a low cloud right over the water surface.

My dad called it the “first crappy day in a while” in NE CT. He’s a pretty good barometer of the general public. They go from a week of sunshine and warmth to low-mid 60s with wind and clouds... no matter what semantics game is going on, the population notices it’s not 80F and sunny. They’ve been quarantining for over a week now in Woodstock. Should be about good to start getting out.

Cranky has been struggling. It’s almost like he’s trying to make false claims.

79/37 Gawd.

Friend is already on the Ridge. Mid/upper 60s up there. 10 Top 10 days in a row?

Yeah we tend to have nice springs up here once it stops snowing. This was well modeled to have no effect up here. 73/37 at 10:30am. Summer temps with low dews and blue sky as far as the eye can see.

What a day again. Temps already to 70F without a cloud in sight. Picnic tables up to 64F. Hot in the high country.

Windows and doors wide open, just the natural A/C tonight. We’ve dropped 25 degrees in just over two hours, going to have to close the windows soon. 82F to 57F after sunset.

“Up and in” doesn’t just refer to interior SNE.

Sick swimming hole! I went in today for the first time this season with the dog when I got home. but holy crap is that water shockingly cold. The human body almost doesn't know how to handle it, ha. I guess I'm not sure what I was expecting, that water was snow 5 miles upstream.

Posted this in the May thread but good info for this thread too as it moves at a slower pace. With the snow melting fast, I'm trying to get up there every 48 hours or so now for stake readings. It's a walk for sure, 3.5 miles each way with 2,600 vertical foot gain just to get a snow depth reading... but who am I kidding, the dog and I love it. I called it 30" today on my report to WFO BTV. It gets hard this time of year with the melt ring to narrow in on a certain inch. Its in free-fall now... lost 11" in the past 48 hours alone. The summit isn't cooling off at night like the valleys. The valleys are getting down to frost levels in the low to mid 30s at night but the summit has now been 48 hours in the 50F to 70F range. Not good for snow preservation when you don't drop below 50F, ha. Stunning weather though to wander around in the mountains. Not a cloud in the sky for like the 5th or 6th day in a row, ha.