powderfreak

This is awesome! Been a while since I've seen a sight like that at home with wet snow that isn't like 3-5" but 8"+. It's not a true blue bomb until the windward side of the trees have 6" of paste going up and down the trunks. I get to see that on the mountain all the time (not that hard when you have the ability to search up to 4,000ft in elevation to find the rain/snow line) but haven't had one in the valley at home in a while. I love going just like 300-500ft higher in elevation from the actual rain/snow line and its just pure paste on everything. By the time you are 1,000ft above the rain/snow line its back over to pretty much powder. Would love to see a good blue bomb at home one of these seasons. Like a solid 8-12" of pure cake.

Ahhh the March storm named Stella...that's remembered around here by skiers like Nemo in 2013 in SNE. I recorded 37" at 1,500ft and 52" at 3,000ft in 48 hours. BTV was over 30" too. We actually got a bit shafted in town with 20" as the best banding was in the Champlain Valley down to BGM. Huge gradient in the few miles from here to the base of the mountain. That storm even went a bit too far NW for areas east of the crest lol....though 20" in my yard was still the biggest storm here since March 2011 brought 27".

May be a forum first. Snow map from the NAM in August.

Then in January we get these regimes that resemble September/October, lol.

Here comes fall. BTV already forecasting highs in the 50s under partly sunny skies for Friday. Crisp airmass if we can stay below 60F with sunshine this time of year. Thursday Night....Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid 40s. Friday...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.

12z GFS with an early season frost threat at Day 5. The GGEM at 120 hours as well looks pretty chilly to start September. Even sub 540dm thicknesses tickling NNE.

It's true haha, we definitely mostly forecast with our emotions and not actual data & facts. JSpin especially, that dude is all emotion when it comes to weather, very little hard data ever posted. Its almost like we have him confused with someone else on here that's known to blame others for weather he doesn't want?

You can just picture the posts this winter.... every cutter will be because of those who enjoyed a trough in the summer. Sort of like those posts where everyone knows a cutter is coming except one poster who refuses to believe it. Then the day it rains you get littered with "well all of you forecasting a cutter got your wish, a rainstorm in January" posts.

Ahhh if only we could control the weather... naturally if this winter isn't that good it will all be because of those who enjoy temps in the upper 70s in the summer ;). 45F this morning for the low at MVL and I had 47F on the car driving into work. Actually turned the heat on in the car too. First time for that in a long time.

Would be a nice pattern in the winter. Ridge out west, trough in the Lakes and Northeast.

I agree it's not chilly...it's still shorts and t-shirts. But at least where I am it has been solidly below normal compared to the mean of the previous 30 summers. We'll have to see how the day 5 Euro does...it's been steadfast with a huge trough moving through for 4-5 days.

It's more those that call it like they see it? Total honesty, how many times this summer have you really thought it was going to get sustained heat in New England? Not your wishcasting finding a tweet or two musing about maybe some warmth in 2 weeks. The fact of the matter is this is what this summer is. Who would constantly forecast heat this summer given the available model guidance?

Haha yeah it's like how many cool shots this summer have verified much warmer than expected? Why change now?

lol you wouldn't come close to 77-80F in that.

You've been in the 70s most of the last month there in Tolland, that's true. Why change now. That is one good trough on the Euro...4-5+ days of H85 temps under 10C for everyone. Highs might get to 70F in the torch spots verbatim, but hill towns would be mid-60s at best. I agree it's likely overdone with the duration of the trough, but who knows.

Maybe an early flip to -DIT?

I will say most summers "not quite reach heat wave status" is pretty meh but this summer you are right....that's a torch to even get a couple days near 90F in the hot spots while most of us are in the 80s.

More of the same...it will get hot and humid (and hazy) at times, but transient in nature is the theme so far.

Yup and by the end of the month it's near peak foliage in the mountains...can even snow/graupel across the summits in 6 weeks with a good cold shot on NW flow

Sounds about right. May be bringing in the change too early...probably more like Sept/Oct when the heat really arrives.

10C is highs in the 60s to maybe low 70s torch spots. Early fall airmass.

That's what last night felt like. We lost 21F in 4 hours and 19F in 3 hours during the evening. Those are the fall-like airmasses and there have been a bunch of them in the past week to 10 days it seems. The stuff where you've got shorts and a t-shirt on at 7pm but then you're closing windows and slider doors by 9-10pm 6pm...75F (full sunshine) 7pm...73F (still with sun out but growing shadows) 8pm...63F (sun goes behind Mansfield and the bottom drops out, losing 10F in an hour) 9pm...58F 10pm...54F The night before was the same way... 72F at 6pm and then 52F at 10pm, 20F in 4 hours. With low dews, as soon as the sun hits that critical level its off to the races as heat radiates out incredibly fast.

8 to 10 day mean on all the major global models really has the look of an all-out torch. Talk about persistence, lol.

Last summer was hot. I think BDL had like 17 days of 90+ in just July alone. Compared to like 3 this year or something like that.

We don't expect anything less...summer in Sept and Oct.