powderfreak

Just waiting for the real estate prices to mature a bit more and then getting out of here. Maybe Newark or somewhere near there is the next life stop? This evening’s dog hike, dodging showers, in this god forsaken land.

Needs a mushroom growing out of it but the mold is about right for this amount of water since June 1st .

That’s true. This is the first time it’s rained with dews in the 50s in a very long time. Orographic showers. The ones summer camps fear. All joking aside, it gets chilly in a hurry when it rains at lower dews. Immediate drop to 61-62F.

Raining again. Make it stop. 0.32” on the day. No memories getting made today.

Off and on showers. 73/65 Ran into a friend while walking the dog in town just now.

There has to be other things than CC at play. This isn’t just like a half a degree Celsius of warmth that CC is supposedly adding to the background… it’s like +5 or greater most of these months lately. There has to be larger circulations causing this or feeding into it.

It’s the most jarring when we do get a few cooler afternoons but then people find it was still +10 at night… that’s the CC effect.

Yesterday here was +6 to continue one of the warmest July’s on record. Classic CC torch… 80/65 on a 79/55 normal. So +1 max and +10 min… +6 on the day.

Our bodies have acclimated nicely. But we may also need to start defining torch as daily maximums or something. The nights are just relative infernos compared to climo while the days are just warm.

Yup. 62F this morning for a nice +7 to start the day.

It’s an impressive gradient. Whatever large scale set-up is causing this, where the frontal boundaries have continuously set-up over the same swath… it’s crazy how stable the precip distribution has been the past two months. The jet will sink south as the sun angle lowers. It’s been residing pretty far north these past two months near record average temperatures. As things cool, it’ll drop south. It’s interesting that places in the axis of drought through CNE/E.NNE (over the past two months), got decent rain after the cooler/normal interlude. Temperatures were a bit cooler and it rained hardest a bit SE of where it has been.

The irony is this idea that warm, humid weather is nice while cooler weather leads to a cold rain just keeps getting proven wrong. We had 3 nice dry days with normal temps and COC dews… literally the minute the dew rose above 65F it started raining again.

There’s an anomalous swath through here of 14-18”. Highest is 18.77” in Starksboro. Pretty uniform swath too. Its localized but yet still widespread if that makes sense. Drops off sharply SW of Montpelier, and especially SW of Orange County.

0.19” today, and about 0.50” past two days to keep the shrooms happy. Think that just pushed us past 16” since June 1st.

Its incredible. It’s a continuous torch overall. Sure we get an occasional 1-3 days of climo normal temperatures, but it just wants to be warmer than normal at least excuse possible. And not just slightly above normal.

82/55 this afternoon… felt about normal and normal summer is good summer. Excellent day.

Nice weather is boring weather this time of year. The more uncomfortable, the higher the post rate gets (cold or warm).

79/55 at 6:30pm down in the valley, about 5 degrees cooler here. A third climo normal day in a row! How’d we get so lucky.

The irony is that’s spot on normal. Doesn’t get any more normal than that. Normal value for MVL is 79/55 (yesterday’s climo report)… It’s wild that for every 85F max, we should match it with a 73F max. Instead it’s like you get a normal day or two then retorch.

Do we ever see a below normal month again? Ha, not even really joking.

79/55 right now at 6:30pm. You just feel bad for the kids at summer camp and folks who can’t make summer memories in this weather today.

Fairbanks looks pretty nice this weekend, ha. 78/53, 82/57, 87/61 with sunshine until midnight.

Yeah no one wants this. Why can’t we just get some normal weather lol. It wants to be record warmth (means) or a cold rain. Let’s go for 84/55 and Cu. Central/North VT doesn’t need another 2” of rain though.

Also, the irony about the bolded is that during this stretch, rain has impacted more days and kept folks inside up here more than any COC weather could. It’s rained or threatened to every day. 16+ inches since June 1. Today was the first day it hasn’t threatened to rain in a long time… not shocking the minute the PWATs and dews drop, the rain threat ends. Folks up here are definitely now trained to expect tropical rains with tropical weather.

Ha, while I don’t disagree… I still think if you aren’t doing water activities there is better weather possible. Today was glorious for just about anything. I hiked after work with the dog and worked up a sweat on the way up, but then something curious happened. My sweaty shirt was bone dry by the time we got back to the car. For two weeks, it was a sweatfest in all directions. Once wet always wet, ha. Today dried as soon as exertion ended. All joking aside, there’s a decent gap between 90/70 and a chilly cloudy rain. On this forum we tend to spin at as the options are record heat or brutal cold. Some nice, normal 82/55 days (climo here) work very well too.