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Models were showing .75-1.5" of rain up here for days... even POPS were very high. Got 0.06". One of the bigger model busts in a long time.

Mental illness is a tough nut to crack. A really good friend (lived together for years) had a brother who had mental health issues and could completely separate himself from reality with the right trigger. The family would bring him to the local hospital when he would have these episodes and it was the hospital policy that he had to be admitted for 24 hours for observation. He could be completely normal 98% of the time and then off the deep end the other 2%... including getting violent. So this one night he starts to show signs that he would go into one of these episodes...the family brings him to the hospital and for some reason, the hospital cleared him to leave after seeing him. Every other time they kept him for 24 hours of observation when this would happen. But not on this night. A couple hours later that evening after getting home from the hospital, he murdered his mom (my good friend and roommates mom as well, seeing as they were brother/sister). The next morning he had no recollection of it at all when the State Police questioned him. I was home when my friend got that phone call and I'll never forget that moment in my life, when someone found out their sibling killed their mother. That was about the saddest funeral you could ever think of. And all the while, everyone asking why the hospital released him when every single time before that it was a mandatory 24 hour stay. Needless to say, that hospital's insurance company paid up as if they just followed their own policy of observation period, my friend's mother would still be here. How do you combat that? No idea because what if in that mental state, the police were called and he killed a police officer or multiple people? He obviously didn't want to kill his mother, he loved his mother, but he was completely detached from reality at that point in time.

It's all been respectful discussion but it has certainly run its course in this forum. Even for a banter thread...politics was rarely allowed.

Best way to put it.

Weird how it feels that if we were talking about a winter storm in the extended, you'd be convinced it was coming right for you . But guess the +KFS index seems to enjoy drought and pushes rain away. Its so far out there I think just about anything is possible.

Already 71F after the 43F low this morning. Perfect Chamber weather. Breezy, and fair with low humidity.

Some thunder and rain. This is about as exciting as it gets these days. We need some more active weather. Some years it seems there are T-storms every 3 days. Not this season though. Great weather is boring weather.

These are the best summer days. Warm to hot in the afternoon but with low dews it's just nice summer weather. Up to 81F here after a low of 45F with cobalt blue skies overhead.

Tons of them around the ski resort up here too. The other day we watched a big guy run across a ski trail near the base while watching a mom and two cubs play 1,000 vertical feet higher up on the Hayride trail. Bears everywhere. We also just found a dead baby deer carcass near the base of the Mountain Triple lift, with what looked like big bear tracks nearby. I still don't think a bear would've killed a fawn but maybe he went to check it out after the fact? Possibly a bobcat or fisher cat initially killed it?

Was out at a wedding reception in the Northeast Kingdom of VT... this photo was from Lowell Mountain pass about 45 minutes north of Stowe. That's Jay Peak there as the high point along the Spine. Can see how the axis of the Green Mountains leads to orographic lift. It's just a wall coming from both the east and west.

Something like 1,000 calories a minute he was consuming? Crazy binge for the stomach.

Now this is weather that's more like it. A low of 42F and now back up into the 70s with no humidity at all. SLK hit 34F haha... crazy they were having lows of 70F and highs of 90F and then can drop near freezing right after that.

Like Dendrite said, very shallow cooling last night. Low of 60F at MVL 700ft but a low of 74F up at 1,500ft. Already up to 84F (24 degree increase) this morning.

Today is now much better than previous days. Air quality has cleared out and those 75F dews and now 63-65F. It's amazing how different that 10F in dews makes. The sky is blue again, not milky. Crazy how refreshing low to mid 60s dews feel.

That's the worst... if it rains in these patterns you want like an inch, to evap cool. The worst is like 0.01-0.05" to wet the ground but not enough to cool the air...the dew rises like 5-7F immediately after.

The heat wave finished off the snow at Stowe for good. This was yesterday (photo from a friend), last pile left. Made it till July 4th in past years but record breaking heat did it in. Shut 'em down. No more snow on Mansfield.

Only had 0.05" last night and like 7 miles north had over an inch. Multiple reports in N/NE VT of over 2" of rain last night. Must've really lit up overnight.

A nice synoptic soaker tonight, almost like a winter storm radar.

The crazy thing is the other PWS around him at Bretton Woods are just like a few hundred feet higher and often look to be like 10F warmer at night. It is nuts how little things matter in radiating. They moved the MVL ASOS two summers ago to a spot that is 30 feet lower in elevation and about the bottom of the airfield (730ft to 700ft)... I think it gained MVL another couple degrees of rad cooling just by re-siting it next to the stream and field bottom that winds through the airport. 30 feet won't really impact the daytime temps, but at night, going 30 feet lower in an already radiating field can get you an extra couple degrees. SLK had another freeze at 31F and the Adirondacks are a good example of the temp ranges at night. You have some spots that can't get lower than 45F at 2,000ft but at 1,500ft SLK can dip below freezing because it literally is the lowest point around. Same with Alex by the river...in NNE its sort of like if you can flood from a stream or river, you probably radiate like mad because you are literally the bottom of the drainage as the cold air settles in at night.

The number of Top 10, Chamber of Commerce type days this spring and early summer is incredible. After April's disaster of cold and snow/mixed events (but nothing large, just a lot of 1-3" stuff, even ZR/IP), May flipped a switch with large diurnal ranges and copious sunshine. June has continued that. The majority of days in June have have minimums under 45F and 5 or 6 days have featured 30s in the morning. Tonight should be another seeing as temps stayed in the 60s (low starting point) and dew points that got into the 30s late this afternoon. The day's shallow cumulous have dried up with the lack of insolation and the temperatures are starting to drop fast. Here's a shot from today's hike...It really has been a great stretch of weather for the last month or two.

Frost threat again tonight. Was at the gym where TWC was on and this started scrolling on the screen about frost tonight. Some spots could get their 3rd frost of June...a few COOPs have had freezes. Crazy month. Including the cities of Star Lake, Saranac Lake, Tupper Lake, Dannemora, Lake Placid, Newport, Island Pond, Johnson, Stowe, St. Johnsbury, Montpelier, Bradford, Randolph, Enosburg Falls, Richford, Underhill, Bristol, and Ripton 354 PM EDT Mon Jun 25 2018 ...Localized Areas Of Frost Possible Tonight... The potential for localized areas of frost will exist tonight across the northern Adirondacks of New York and parts of north central and northeast Vermont. Temperatures will fall into the upper 30s across these areas after midnight tonight and some localized areas will get into the lower to mid 30s just before sunrise on Tuesday...especially those locations in or near sheltered valleys. If you live in these areas and have any vegetation that is sensitive to frost and cold you should to take the necessary steps to protect them tonight through early Tuesday morning.

September vibe out there today. 66/42 at 2pm in the valley with puffy Cu over the peaks. Nothing like breezy NW flow, low dews and sunshine with temps struggling into the upper 60s. Was an amazing hike on the big hill today.

Dropped 11 degrees last hour at the airport...like a heat vacuum in the valley fields when the sun goes down behind the mountains.

And humans.

77F this afternoon with low dews and full sun.... so many of these amazing days this June. And even May was one of the nicest months in NNE that you can get. We may pay the piper at some point after 2 months of Top 10 days. Monthly mean is 73/44 and -2.1, almost a 30-degree diurnal range in the means. But not quite as nice of weather as May with a 31-degree diurnal range in the means. That range is important in that it shows a lot of clear, sunny, dry air mass type weather. The wet and humid months usually only have more like a 25F diurnal swing in the means.