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  1. powderfreak
    Crazy how that 500mb layout is going to give us a couple days of below normal temps at the surface (at least up this way). Pretty colors aloft not translating to the surface.
  2. powderfreak
    It looks like something where the precip shield changes over to some 1 to 3 mile -SN for the final few hours above 1,500ft up near Rangley.
  3. powderfreak
    Looks like last night's 18z GFS sniffed it out first. What a beast of a model.
  4. powderfreak
    Cool shot from Castle Mountain, Alberta... good mid-winter storm in September.
  5. powderfreak
    Cut Bank, Montana Obviously didn't snow 7 feet, so probably drifting off roof there but still... that's incredible for September. And Cut Bank is <4,000ft in elevation...like Picnic Table elevation in the East.
  6. powderfreak
    Yeah the high cirrus moving in might be the difference between widespread 30-32F and a bunch of 33-37F type stuff tomorrow morning. The ASOS stations at MPV and MVL had wind until just the 8pm hour they are now reading calm. But I think we'll both be squarely into frost advisory range of mid-30s.
  7. powderfreak
    Good to know... it's complete hogwash that run but still the first real run of the season with real cold season synoptics. I'll just post that so you can field questions of "How much for Rangley?" during your next shift, ha.
  8. powderfreak
    18z GFS is a step in the right direction for Friday...
  9. powderfreak
    Got some rain coming this week it looks like....
  10. powderfreak
    Already in the 40s at 7pm.... Frost Advisory in effect. Probably will have the heat on tonight, this afternoon just didn't warm the inside up like it has in the past.
  11. powderfreak
    Yeah it's true. I've never had a foliage season in a decade in Stowe that I felt was "poor" or lackluster. It's always vibrant. I don't know if its the more consistent rains from orographics or the type of tree species and better species diversity compared to the Adirondacks and Whites.... but I never feel like a foliage season isn't working out as expected. There are always high expectations and it seems to happen that way every year.
  12. powderfreak
    Color comes before white.
  13. powderfreak
    We'll keep trying.
  14. powderfreak
    This afternoon... you can see one of the golf holes there at Stowe Mountain Club. Taken in harsh mid-afternoon light but still good color. I think the foliage up here is par for the course, har har har.
  15. powderfreak
    Yeah this was the first day that really felt like an autumn air mass in the sense that despite full sunshine, it could not warm above the mid/upper 50s this afternoon. We've had a few cooler afternoons but all of them so far have included clouds/low ceilings or rain. This was that first time where it was like, "yep, that sun isn't going to get it done" today. 55F and full sun and decent mixing is definitely a cool air mass.
  16. powderfreak
    Hiking around today, the color is pretty good, IMO. It'll be peak soon but still green scattered around. I think there was the fast change a week ago and now it's like a pause before another wave of color comes? Some green and some trees with full leaf drop too but 75% color.
  17. powderfreak
    Add us to that. Daytime high of 57F at MVL despite full sunshine... 61F at 12:00am will be the daily max though.
  18. powderfreak
    Montana still getting buried.
  19. powderfreak
    Picnic tables have been deployed in winter formation at 875mb. Maybe we can ice them up or cover them in pellets/graupel later this week. 43-44F up here on the cheap thermometer.
  20. powderfreak
    Damn on my way to your house haha.
  21. powderfreak
    Yeah it could be 10-15F warmer and it would be a bit more COC. It is a tad on the cool side despite the sun...sun doesn’t have that warmth it did a couple months ago. Like you want to go out in shorts and a t-shirt and then step outside and it’s like nope.
  22. powderfreak
    Today is full on autumn as you draw it up. We've got full sunshine here in town and despite the sun, it's only 53F. It looks a lot warmer out with that sun out there... but 40s and 50s in sunshine at noon is legit.
  23. powderfreak
    Ha, I was thinking about that looking at the snow forecasts. Some peaks were forecast to get like BTV's entire annual snowfall in one storm. Then this guy with his trash can gets more snow in one day in September than Boston's annual average snowfall that we spend 12 straight weeks tracking for.
  24. powderfreak
    Early this morning was actually the first time this season the northern summits of the Greens got down into the 30s. 36F for a min at MMNV1 (previous low temps were 40F on 9/13 and 9/18). No fake cold at the summits, 30s with 30-45mph winds and wind chills in the low to mid 20s.
  25. powderfreak
    Looks like upslope heaven with the current northeasterly flow. Moisture and cold air moving down the eastern slopes into the northern plains...a bit of blocked flow would just wreck them. You'd want to be right there at the base of the barrier when that much vertical relief is blocking the flow.
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