powderfreak

Looks like 2.11” at the MVL ASOS for the 24 hour total. That’ll pad our October rainfall nicely, ha.

Wet day for northern Vermont. 4.37” Albany, VT 4.17” Albany, VT 4.16” Glover, VT 4.10” Richford, VT 3.77” Lowell, VT 3.75” Montgomery Center, VT 3.37” Richford, VT 3.33” Eden, VT 3.24” Sheffield, VT

"Hours and hours" of thunder reported at MVL. 1.80" at the ASOS, including 0.40" in 15 minutes and 0.26" in 8 minutes during different cells. Pretty solid rain event in N.VT on the whole. Humid as hell, dews in the 60s on October 1st should result in heavy rains up this way.

Stuff has looked good. It is "wow" vibrant in spots above the Lake Mansfield Trout Club. Not even sure the photos do this spot justice.

I have no idea on conditions to produce great foliage... I know there's some solid logic and science to certain environmental factors that cause good foliage, but every single year is different.

I remember a lot of that growing up in the Hudson Valley... orange mixed with brown...yellow mixed with brown. Some great colors to be sure, but I do remember more of what you guys like Hoth just said... brownish tint to a lot of color. I've never had that feeling up north here where the foliage had a lot of brown in it. I think it was the oaks that love to turn brown and die off? Suburbia had a lot of oaks.

Its been thundering for 3 hours now. Still good flashes of lightning too. I do enjoy these non-severe type events where it’s just rounds of convection for hours. It pours for like 10 minutes then stops, then pours for 10 minutes and stops. But the whole time there’s thunder and lightning around.

Add Lyndonville State College area to that... 1.84” and raining an inch an hour. East Burke at 2.24” and pounding rain.

A quick 0.41” of rain so far this evening... more than PWM had all September lol. Man we just missed some huge rains... one county north of here is widespread 1.5-3.0” so far today. Crazy how it can be so dry for an entire month in places while other areas of New England get 2-3” in a few hours. The region around Jay Peak has been soaked today.

BTV on that lookout for first flakes at the Picnic Tables: “The next question becomes how much moisture lingers under cold air advection with northwest flow Thursday night into Friday morning. Temperatures could get just cold enough atop our highest peaks that snow mixes in with any lingering showers. This will be above 3000ft. Model snow levels are a bit higher, so it will be a stretch, but we are not far from the first snows across the mountain peaks.”

Lots of thunder at the mountain. Might miss north though.

We had a few big boomers a little while ago from a cell that skirted just north of the mountain. Definitely some lightning in these.

lol that’s one way to look at it. Not my problem. Let my kids fix my f*ck ups.

The more interesting question is at what point do individuals start to care. 50 years, 80 years, 200 years, 500 years? How selfish are we going to be? If it won’t impact my lifetime, how much do I care? Humans by nature are very selfish but that’s also a survival technique. I need to gather as many resources as possible and I will not share anything with those other humans who are just sitting around the campfire while I bust my ass hunting sabertooth tigers. That selfish self-preservation continues to this day despite most having all the resources they need to live comfortably. But you can always live more comfortably, right?

These are some impressive September snow totals.

40+ CoCoRAHS stations in Vermont with over 3.50" of rainfall this month...some stations as much as 5.0-5.6" just south of here in J.Spin's neighborhood of Duxbury, Richmond and Huntington. You guys to the south/east will be stealing all our QPF in the winter when the coastal storms roll in.

It happens in convection season. Think of the PWM total and then you think, how easy is it to get a quick half inch of rain from a cluster of T-storms? Just unlucky and there were several slugs of convection and synoptic forcing moving through just 25-50 miles to the northwest of PWM throughout the month. That gradient from like 1" to 3" is pretty sharp overall. Have and have nots.

I don't know if that's ground based (like CoCoRAHS and COOPs) or radar derived, but that map looks pretty darn accurate, if a little under-done up this way. Local stations were just around 4" here and 5-6" a couple miles west into the Spine axis (J.Spin for example). Can certainly see the orographic enhancement there in the Adirondacks, Greens and Whites.

Interesting little area there in coastal plain of NH/ME of extremely low rainfall. Just unlucky there I guess. Looks like you go half a county north and it's 4-6" on the month of September.

View from a hike today.

No idea but to me, most cameras do not capture fall foliage accurately. They can't figure out the vibrant colors and widely different colors. Everything tends to blend to a muted look. I posted above a comparison of my iPhone's version vs Canon's version. All I know is at the ski area, just like my wife's frustration today, the vast majority of guests visiting and taking photos of the foliage end up taking a bunch of photos and then say "wow, my camera just can't do this justice. It looks so mundane when in real life it is magical."

Speaking of iPhone photos... the above photo was taken with a real camera, Canon 7D Mark II. This bottom photo is the iPhone 6 version of that scene:

I saw PWM had it’s 3rd driest September on record...only missing the record from 1948 by like .13”. Thats crazy, they had under 1/2” of rain the entire month of September...I had no idea it was that dry. We had 4-5” generally in the northern third of VT. Hard to believe PWM downstream couldn’t muster more than like .45”. There were a few heavy West to East rain events but they must’ve gone north of PWM.

I was in Nebraska Notch area of Stowe today and the Lake Mansfield Trout Club....wow that whole area was real vivid. My wife was getting very frustrated that her iPhone 10 couldn’t accurately depict the vivid colors (I was shocked at how bad the color was on her phone photos, lesson learned cell phones not good at showing real life color), but luckily I had my 7D with me as always.

That’s insane. The A/C bills must be through the roof. Turn it on in April and leave the A/C on until Thanksgiving?