powderfreak

Franconia and Crawford notches have to be real fun. Can see the slow travel down the west side of 93.

Awesome. Cant wait to head to work tomorrow AM, ha. Looks snowy up the road and hill just before the ski resort. Quarter inch whitening here, while a few minute drive probably has up to 2”. I love good spatial changes.

Mreaves has more elevation than I do at home. Alex is equal to my office elevation. I just have very easy access to good elevation traveling around town. We are starting to stick on the grass at 750ft. 1sm mile snow at the ASOS is a nice steady snow. METAR KMVL 280110Z AUTO 36005KT 1SM -SN

You’re gonna do well once the moisture from here gets over there… judging by 1500ft over this way.

Snow accumulating 900ft and above… not quite down to here at 750ft. 1500ft at the ski area base is getting pasted. It’s crazy how it goes record warm, then sharp brief cold shot that snows, then goes back to record warm. Just a wild ride this October.

34/30 with -SN. Its more like pouring white rain but some trying to stick to the evergreen branches. First snowflakes down the valley. METAR KMVL 280015Z AUTO 35008KT 3SM -SN BR BKN008 OVC013 01/M01 A3030

First flakes of season at home.

That makes sense, it was just shocking. But comparing NY, MA and VT… the swing state thing makes more sense. I just had no idea it was like this every election. The $$$ spent on just signs alone must be staggering.

I mean I see none in VT but this is like dozens on every corner and every business. Just never seen anything like this. Political booths set up at my nieces’ soccer games on Saturday… very passionate folks.

I’m down in NH this weekend. Bedford and Merrimack. Beautiful down here. But holy crap I’ve never seen so many political signs in my life. This is incredible.

Snowing now down through 1200ft it looks like.

Do we have snow in the air this evening?

I love turning the clocks ahead… daylight jumps from 6pm to 7pm instantly. But put me in the camp of I want more daylight later in the day. I’m up in the dark in AM regardless in the winter.

The older I get the more I wish the summer solstice lasted all year.

My ideal spot is elevated valley. I’m only at 750ft so I’d like to do this same climate but at 1,500ft… like Alex or an SLK. You want thermal extremes, elevated mountain valley will do it. Can pop 95F or -40F… but need that surrounding high terrain a couple thousand feet up around you. 1,500ft on its own and you are ranging from like 85F to -10F annually up here. But throw some walls up around you and the delta grows rapidly. I love the extremes and then you also have the elevation to snow efficiently when that CAA comes in.

No. This is unbelievable. Every single day.

It almost feels like you are always trying to convince yourself too. Never getting too cold there, and never getting too hot. Enjoy a bit of both. Freeze in the AM, shorts and tees at the summits in the PM. What a day. Also, not a single leaf left.

27F for the low.

That’s super impressive. Driest two month combo on record? Of all two month combos? The chances of randomly running into some precipitation events over a 60 day period are high… even in a dry pattern. Not one good rain event snuck through the webbed fingers? I’m impressed.

Next day the sunsets after 6pm here is March 10th. Here comes the darkness.

Light rain falling at 67F in late October is a vibe. Wets the ground, probably leads to more fog. Love having all the windows and doors open as the weak FROPA moves through a good 30mph breeze.

The conspiracy theories that would come from that...

This is pretty funny from the official NOAA social account…

lol 79/29 for 16% RH. It’s like the desert SW with winds gusting to 30mph too. We’re like 9 degrees over the record high (granted MVL only goes back about 33 years).

Yes, good nuance. It’s usually precip or maritime influenced… vs just like a straight yore air mass. I find the trend-line warming very interesting from a science observation standpoint (don’t care for the deeper sociopolitical undercurrents that often bleed into these discussions though).