powderfreak

With the snow melting fast, I'm trying to get up there every 48 hours or so now. 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.

At least 83F here but probably jumped higher at some point. Will see at 00z. At least 46 degrees warmer than this morning. Hiked up to get BTV a Mansfield Stake reading. It’s down to ~30” for about a foot of melt in the last 48 hours.

Scraping frost off the car in the morning, swimming in the pool by 2pm?

Car is registering 80-83F around these parts... not quite to BML levels but good 45F diurnal range.

Already a 41F diurnal trend before noon. 37F to 78F real fast.

Ha, holy shit. What a view.

Awesome tall old-growth pines, great set up man.

I don’t notice an issue with deer and horse flies up here. It’s really nice to walk and hike in mid summer without those things around. Must be climate or something but they aren’t a problem. Meanwhile, down in Woodstock, CT those things are absolutely brutal. Can’t walk 5 mins on the dirt roads without having half a dozen of the things buzzing around your head and trying to bite you through your shirt.

Luckily it cools off enough in the evening up north that sitting out by a fire pit in a hoody or pants is comfy and saves you from the skeeters. But yeah, bugs love the wilderness. I had a tick imbedded in my neck earlier this spring that resulted in 14-days of antibiotics.

Earlier where you are than most of New England, lol. First frosts seem to do them in. September? June, July and August though are buggy. You’re in the wilderness now, bug spray becomes your friend quickly.

Oh you have no idea living out there. Wait for a warm humid July evening and turn your flood lights on. The size and volume of the insects bouncing in that light will be astonishing. Especially with that field out in front... and bright light will bring every insect from a mile away to it. Moths the size of your fist will feed on those insects.

I hear ya there. Just got back from a late day hike and the snow level keeps creeping higher and higher. Tons of water getting released above 3,000ft... waterways are flowing like it’s raining an inch per day. But this weather is unbelievable and the black flies are staying away for now. Green level has shot up about 1,000 vertical feet in like 3-4 days. You’re gonna love mountain weather, so much cool shit going on all the time. Down to 3.5 feet at the 12-foot Stake on the local bump.

Yeah that’s one way to put it. Like to get to 80-85F we usually start the day higher than frost levels. Mostly though we just aren’t in that arid climate zone where you get air masses with that little moisture in it at those temperatures. I wonder what the PWATS are relative to normal. We get the winter dry air but it just seems like 80 over teens is pretty extreme for our general climate zone. This is the time of year to do it though. Gotta figure being early the air masses aren’t modifying as much from the lack of evapotranspiration to our NW?

Hitting mid-80s with dews in the 20s is hard to do. Edit: Hitting 80s with dews in the teens is even harder lol.

This weather is taking care of the snow pretty efficiently. 2,800ft in Bolton, VT... will probably be snow free in the next two days as that melt level continues to work up the slopes.

Yeah that's why I was taken aback by Dendrites obs... under 20% is unheard of in New England for PWS with trees within like 200 feet lol. For ASOS', North Adams/AQW has a good one... 75/22 for 14%. They've also done 40F diurnal swing so far today.

Humid up here today with dews above freezing when compared with the sub-freezing dews in CNE/SNE.

Holy shit. Are you getting 13% in your backyard, not at a field siting ASOS? And 75/14 is unheard of around there. That’s a cold rain wet bulb, ha.

This is day 4 of awesomeness and we have another 5 to go? Damn. 30s by night and 70s to low 80s by day.... every damn day. Haven’t seen a cloud other than some high cirrus it seems starting Monday.

With the arrival of sustained 70-80F temps in the valleys and 50-60F+ at the summit, we are finally on our final descent at the Mansfield Stake. I hiked up there today to get a reading to pass along to the NWS, lots of water pouring out of the higher elevations as they release that high SWE.

Yeah this week has felt great. I’ll take this giant step up before wanting 90F and dews. We went from back-to-back snow events to consistent 75-80F in like 7-10 days, flipped the switch hard. Maxed out at 77F today and next 3 days are highs 78-82F. Oddly enough those are normal summer month max temps, just without the dews.

Yeah we lost 12F last hour as the sun dipped behind the hills. Mid-70s to low-60s after sunset. Love that it’s 8:30pm and still light enough to walk the dog or go for a run if you wanted to. Can start a hike at 6pm and get it in before dark too. Awesome.

Flabbergasted!

Your house wouldn't be freezing cold if you didn't stick a AC unit in every window already. But isn't summer the same, hot outside and walk inside to get refreshed with cold air and A/C, no? You guys have been a bit colder during the day though than up here the past few days it seems. But I get it, you seem to judge summer by the nighttime temps.

Some real big diurnal temp ranges today in the NEK of VT. NSTN3 at the headwater of the CT River has gone from 34F to 80F today for 46 degree spread. NLHV1 has done at least 34F to 78F for a 44 degree spread and has had sub-freezing dews all day with RH below 20% for the past 5 hours.