powderfreak

Ha that’s funny because I thought they developed that as a convective warm season tool. I do think we’ve seen several times this summer by most models, this over drying/heating of the boundary layer. It just ends up more humid but also not quite as hot as the machine numbers.

It’s the NAM run hourly, what do you think is gonna happen? Lol. It was weird how good it was locally here in some snow events last year but if you run hourly it’s gotta get something right once in a while ha.

Looks like most sites are mid-60s, yeah. There’s usually a tick up in dews late morning but you’ll have to see what the official sites do from 2-5pm.

Just a wave of warmth before the rains? Makes sense, looks like most of the BTV CWA sites ticked upwards ahead of that cluster after trying to cool after sunset.

Looks like even SLK was 75F at 2am, same as BDL. Thats unheard of for that location.

Lots of NNE in the 80s last night. Those clouds and increased flow hit just right to stop and even reverse any cooling that started at sunset. Wild. I still can’t believe that without that round of rain this morning it might have stayed 80s even at spots like here.

Oh it’s long past install, lol. Record hot June took care of that. Now record hot July just for good measure.

Holy crap. I’m just seeing that MVL here was 80F at 2am last night from wind/cloud cover. Got into upper 70s around sunset but then rose back to 82F at 11pm. Thats wild for that ASOS to rise back into the low 80s at midnight. That’s the normal average high temp getting hit at like 1am.

BTV was 81F at 1am last night. Palm trees blowing in the southerly flow. They might have held around 80F all night except that round of showers brought them a half inch of water and got temps into the mid-70s.

Wasn’t expecting the rain. 0.38” so far... enough to soak the vegetation. 70/70

How do dew points and surface moisture affect that? Are the 17-18C days “undered” but surface moisture is a bit more than modeled?

I know he’s just baiting, but I still don’t know if the historical significance will get there in his neck of the woods. If BDL is hottest July ever then we can talk. Back to back hottest months in the bag at the Mansfield COOP. BTV has joined the party, too.

Hottest June ever at the picnic tables on Mansfield...and July will be hottest ever for BTV and Mansfield. Will BDL get into those categories?

I don't think those mass production farms care in the least about chicken comfort.... I bet more die from heat and poor conditions than we know. They just keep churning them out.

The ballsy bear cubs are getting more adventurous. A friend had a leftover burrito stolen from their jeep after stopping somewhere on the way home. Only a sandy footprint left as evidence.

77/64 Very comfortable sleeping last night. Gonna be a couple nights till we get back to that level. Might need AC tonight.

That's good that it's still there at least.... it's probably a fantastic study in the overall range of emotions and issues relating to COVID-19 from the inception to mid-summer.

He looked really healthy, good to see...well fed and no skin issues or missing patches of fur you see sometimes from bad tick infestations. Him and the dog stared each other down for a long time.

Yeah he was a young male. Still was crazy though being young that I'm 6'2" and his back was taller than me.

This evening coming down Spruce Peak on our daily dog walk we ran into this guy. He went down and stood on the work road for a good 10-15 minutes directly in our path and wouldn't let us get by, so we almost went back up top to take a different trail down. Eventually he did meander off trail and disappeared into the woods.

That’s going to be interesting but need some penalties for travel if you are going to have a quarantine rule. Heres the Mass map. If you come from a red state, 14-day quarantine or $500/day fine. Even residents who travel and return home, automatic 14-day or get tested.

For sure it’s turned decidedly more wet ever since that multi-day cut off low a few weeks ago. Up on the mountain, a lot of the streams and creeks were pretty dry in June, just spring fed trickles. Now all the drainages are flowing steadily on a regular basis. It’s almost like we hit the summer dry flow really early this year, as normally that “dry up” seems to happen in July and August. But the mountains seem to be adding 0.5-1.0” every 3-4 days it seems, because I know whatever water we get in town, Mansfield on average is going to top that by at least 50% or more.

Everyone is outdoors playing and outdoor transmission rates are non-existent. Hotels are still pretty light with occupancy per state guidelines but lots of camping, cabins and private vacation rentals are way up (families and people know they can sort of isolate themselves that way without staying in hotels). You can travel and have very little interaction with others right now... stay in a cabin or condo, go hiking/swimming/biking by day, maybe get some take out food or cook and chill at home with the family. Most importantly though is likely the fact the Northeast as a whole has flattened the curve... there aren’t outbreaks where folks travel from or to, there’s just not much to spread right now.

Tourism here is way up in the past couple weeks. In our townhome cluster, any unit without a full time resident has been rented out each week. All restaurants seem packed to whatever capacity they can with every outdoor table filled each night. Car traffic is getting worse on Mountain Road and trail heads for hiking are overrun. I’m all for outdoor recreation all day long so I think it’s good to see all the interest in hiking/biking/swimming. I think summer tourism season is in full swing at this point. August is town’s busiest month of the year so we are getting there.

I bet that’s similar to a lot of rural NNE areas though I would’ve guessed 50s/60s... when textile mills and manufacturing were big along with timber, mining/quarries, and other stuff like that. Once that stuff closed up there was nothing. You have to make your money elsewhere and bring it in like Phin. But Phin probably wont be counted in any population count anyway up there. That’s always talked about here in Stowe, the actual census population is like half of the actual number of folks here on any given weekend as the second home owners are counted in their primary state residence.