powderfreak

Ha, in the Mad River Valley this week. Black bears are the best wild animal we have. They have no predators but also aren’t programmed to be predatory. They just wander around curiously.

I wonder if the time of year and amount of outdoor tourists there are factor into the lead time. West Yellowstone and Big Sky areas... that place is teeming with people in the "warm" season. And most of them are not prepared for a wet snow... from those camping, hiking, etc. Even some road impacts in the higher areas? I guess hundreds of thousands of people visit Yellowstone each month from June-Aug.

I will say normal June weather for a stretch has been delightful when the sun is out. Normal for this date is 73/49 locally at the MVL ASOS. Today featured 72/49. Climo average day on the dot. I mean, this is nice weather. Sometimes seeing what “normal” is can be fun. This scene was at 7:45pm too. Sunset isn’t until after 8:30pm these days. It’s awesome, can be outside 7-9pm with no light issues.

A poster is going to lose their mind if you start talking about BD possibility during the heat hype-up period .

Nahh, if he wrote it he would’ve done it back in late March.

It’s fascinating. I agree, I can’t see how she gets convicted. Too many weird things to not cast reasonable doubt. The state police investigator was obviously biased too. In the end it’s not whether she did it or not, it’s whether they proved she did it. And that seems to be a stretch right now.

Yeah it was widespread heavy rains but more mundane big totals... however, I do not remember a summer like last year where regularly entire towns would get like wiped off the map in some historical flash flood. I feel like there were a good dozen events spread from VT/NH/ME/MA/CT/RI of like localized obscene rainfall... just infrastructure decimating short-duration rainfall. By the end of the summer, some town getting 7" in 3 hours was like "oh, there's another place destroyed."

I’m up in NVT and I know about it and see constant updates on social from a wide variety of sources. Isn’t this a super high-profile case?

Yeah I guess ORH at 70F instead of 72F average. I was just trying to clarify if when folks say it’s chilly, is it based on normal or is it just anything not full HHH summer now considered chilly.

BOS is averaging above normal past 4 days. Feel like that’s still important to note. Today might end up -1 though.

We’ve had some of our hottest days in NNE early in the season in May and June the past 5 years or so. We’ve had some real record scorchers.

SLK saw a high of 53F this afternoon. Average high is 71F. Same max temp departure that would trigger 91F on the hot side at that 1600ft+ elevation. Guess there has been some relatively cool air lagging behind the trough axis.

Been a raw day. Folks lighting up the wood stove I’ve seen on social, ha. The 1,500ft level has been living in the low-50s all day and dipping into the upper 40s with upslope misery mist and light rain occurring. A cold season precipitation vibe, not convective. Ski area was quite damp, while at home it was a much reduced misery mist and very fine droplets (drying out in the valley). I hate wasting some of the longest days of the year on this crap. Need clear skies and sun. Don't care the temp, just need that late sun in the evening.

Not sure you want to chin up in that situation.

I don’t know, it’s not like DIT to hype up something he wants. Very out-of-character. It might have legs.

+1 to +2 would be a big improvement over some recent years, ha. Let’s goooo. Big winter.

Today was the worst yet. High of 60F at MVL. All day in the 50s with brief hit to 60F. Now this might actually get a negative departure.

Yeah it’s been raining for days up here NW… had another round move through this AM. Think we are near 2.50” since Friday AM. It’s been nice though for the garden, as it hasn’t been high rain rates, or raining all the time. Just frequent soaking rains for the vegetation.

Like the boiling frog myth… just a slow steady rise but nothing earth-shattering. Just the most mundane way to get ridiculous departures.

This trough produced two +1 days at BDL. It’s wild to me that we needed that trough just to get near what temperatures should be at this time of year. I do hope we can see a legit like 5 day period averaging like -5 departures again sometime to see the reactions.

We’ve seen the monthly departures at ORH and BDL cool off to only +5 to +6… need to get them back up to the baseline of +8 or so. It’s just absolutely wild how warm it’s been for so long back to last November.

Over 2” in the past 3 days… occasional showers over a long duration. The vegetation has loved it. Still that light green of new/young growth in the trees. Moody day in the mountains. Multiple days of cyclonic NW flow. This is what that looks like when it’s cold aloft and there’s topography as a barrier.

I feel like a breeze is a game-changer at those temps/dews. Like stagnant air at those levels, god that must be awful. Which sort of makes me curious to experience it at the same time, ha.

It took low dews, clouds, wind, to produce a climo normal day.

Gotcha, I just got the sense from some of the posts that people expect more warmth this time of year. However, guess when the first 7 days of June starts sustained +7 to +8 at BDL and ORH, you start thinking that’s normal. Then a “normal” day near average feels like it’s way below the set baseline. Its pretty crazy that we get a deep UL trough and it just cools off the +8 to 0 and everyone is like wow this weekend was chilly. The highs at ORH and Kevin’s should barely be clearing 70F this time of year as a baseline and BDL record lows are still in the 30s. Feels like it would take an act of God to get a min of 38F at BDL right now in June, ha.