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Yeah great spot. Out watering the garden right now. Soil is dry dry dry.

Excellent day with partly sunny skies and did a great hike up near Lake Willoughby with the wife and dog. Temps near 80F though could feel the humidity ticking up. Time to go water the garden. Been a struggle to keep it from drying and burning up.

Seems to be sunny every day up here, ha. CLR is a common ob in the desert up north.

40s this morning felt amazing. SLK snuck into the 30s.

I'm not sure I've ever noticed it like I did tonight, but just got back from my usual 3-mile loop with the dog through the woods and fields... the temperature difference right after the sun went behind the mountain between out in the middle of the field and then along the wood-line was crazy. It felt surprisingly chilly out in the soccer and lax fields within minutes of the sun going behind the ridgeline but then where the Rec Path wanders along the wood edge with the canopy overhead it honestly felt 10F warmer. For some reason I don't remember ever really "feeling" it like that before. But really shows you how certain stations, and the airport ASOS stations, plummet this time of evening and any given location's temperature is really governed by the amount of vegetation nearby (like within 100 feet of the sensor).

75/48 is f'in beautiful.

82/54 this afternoon here. First day in a long time not being damp all day from dews over 65F. You forget how nice normal summer weather is as 82/54 is pretty dead on average here. Breeze felt dry too. It actually poured this morning too at the mountain finally. Wind goes NW and it finally rains.

Hah looks about right up here. My driest summer in quite a while.

To be fair he did say he can't remember the last time he went below 70F. Usually he implies everyone but that post was pretty specific to his location.

Ha that's awesome! I've never seen that before. The upslope into the Spine would be insane if Lake Champlain was a few miles wider. Looks like you could get some Finger Lake like streamers off Lake Merrimack and south of the CT River. Cyclonic flow after a nor'easter would be a lot more interesting or more folks if we were getting narrow bands of +SN falling downwind of those bodies of water in CT and Mass.

Yeah that's crazy. Gene must be just far enough north to get into the zone we are in up here too. That axis from like ALB-POU to CON-ORH has been very consistent drenching almost daily it seems. My dad was home in Albany the other day and said he had like 3.5" of rain in the garden gauge from that day alone (looks like the 4th of August on CoCoRAHS in that area was 2-4"). Up here even JSpin's orographic jackpot zone is only 3.33" since July 1st.

Ha yeah people have noticed the sun. Its weird, the mountains often in the summer go through long stretches of afternoon t-storms and clouds that billow up around 1pm off the terrain...but not this year. Just been dry dry dry. Thank god it isn't winter lol. Just saw the Underhill, VT CoCoRAHS station that is often one of the wettest spots in the state on Mansfield's west slope has had only 2.22" of rain since July 1st. That's unheard of there during the summer months where storms unload moisture as they move from humid Champlain Valley air into the 4,000ft wall. Meanwhile down in Wilmington, VT by Mount Snow that station has had over 15" of water in that same time.

Never seen grass burn and die up here like this year. It's crazy.

I've had less than that since July 1st, lol. I'm around 2.75" since the start of July. Can see the precip anamolies quite nicely. CNE/SNE (aside from SE MA) are drenched.

The amount of rain in parts of CNE and SNE is staggering. I think we are under 25% of normal up here since July 1st.

It's still humid. That is all.

I've only got 1,200 square feet but the electric bill was $68. Ran AC on four days in July, but not all day.

That's unfathomable to me. A dew of 11F when it's 110 out. 71/71 with some low ground fog in the backyard after the brief rains. It's humid.

That's incredible. BTV had that during those record 850s back in July.

Ha I've started doing that while hiking this month...sweat towel necessary when dews of 65F or higher just to keep your sanity and eyes clear. Yesterday I went up Mansfield to 4,000ft in the middle of the day and it was hot/humid even at the treeline. It has been quite the stretch of humidity and dews, IMO. We've stopped getting our 2-3 day dry air breaks and it just feels humid all the time. Dog days indeed.

I have been having flashbacks recently and looking over recent winter shots... this was a stretch from late January to mid February 2017. 105" in 22 days at the High Road and this photo is from somewhere in the middle of it.

The 2pm ob up here of 91/68 is another day of about as hot as it gets here. The record heatwave in July had 4 days of 92F, so today was only a degree off tying the hottest afternoon of the summer. 6 days of 90F or higher at MVL since July 1st when the pattern changed to hot...we've recently had entire summers without a 90F reading but we've done 6 now in the last month now.

Was hot today for sure. 88F with dews of 65-67F at MVL... that's some summer wx.

Ahhh that may make sense. The Brewfest is pretty heavily patrolled for obvious reasons...large amounts of intoxicated people there for the sole reason of drinking beer.

Haha no but was at an event for Ten Bends Brewery (a friend owns it) for their two year anniversary party. Completely off-topic but Oddly enough on the drive home in Stowe the wife and I saw a Berlin or Barre City Police (couldn't read it fast enough) unit pull over a vehicle on RT 100 in Stowe, and then we passed a Montpelier PD unit on the side of the road...and for the life of me I couldn't figure out why those two departments would be up here, 30-45 minutes away doing traffic enforcement.