powderfreak

Our bodies have acclimated nicely. But we may also need to start defining torch as daily maximums or something. The nights are just relative infernos compared to climo while the days are just warm.

Yup. 62F this morning for a nice +7 to start the day.

It’s an impressive gradient. Whatever large scale set-up is causing this, where the frontal boundaries have continuously set-up over the same swath… it’s crazy how stable the precip distribution has been the past two months. The jet will sink south as the sun angle lowers. It’s been residing pretty far north these past two months near record average temperatures. As things cool, it’ll drop south. It’s interesting that places in the axis of drought through CNE/E.NNE (over the past two months), got decent rain after the cooler/normal interlude. Temperatures were a bit cooler and it rained hardest a bit SE of where it has been.

The irony is this idea that warm, humid weather is nice while cooler weather leads to a cold rain just keeps getting proven wrong. We had 3 nice dry days with normal temps and COC dews… literally the minute the dew rose above 65F it started raining again.

There’s an anomalous swath through here of 14-18”. Highest is 18.77” in Starksboro. Pretty uniform swath too. Its localized but yet still widespread if that makes sense. Drops off sharply SW of Montpelier, and especially SW of Orange County.

0.19” today, and about 0.50” past two days to keep the shrooms happy. Think that just pushed us past 16” since June 1st.

Its incredible. It’s a continuous torch overall. Sure we get an occasional 1-3 days of climo normal temperatures, but it just wants to be warmer than normal at least excuse possible. And not just slightly above normal.

82/55 this afternoon… felt about normal and normal summer is good summer. Excellent day.

Nice weather is boring weather this time of year. The more uncomfortable, the higher the post rate gets (cold or warm).

79/55 at 6:30pm down in the valley, about 5 degrees cooler here. A third climo normal day in a row! How’d we get so lucky.

The irony is that’s spot on normal. Doesn’t get any more normal than that. Normal value for MVL is 79/55 (yesterday’s climo report)… It’s wild that for every 85F max, we should match it with a 73F max. Instead it’s like you get a normal day or two then retorch.

Do we ever see a below normal month again? Ha, not even really joking.

79/55 right now at 6:30pm. You just feel bad for the kids at summer camp and folks who can’t make summer memories in this weather today.

Fairbanks looks pretty nice this weekend, ha. 78/53, 82/57, 87/61 with sunshine until midnight.

Yeah no one wants this. Why can’t we just get some normal weather lol. It wants to be record warmth (means) or a cold rain. Let’s go for 84/55 and Cu. Central/North VT doesn’t need another 2” of rain though.

Also, the irony about the bolded is that during this stretch, rain has impacted more days and kept folks inside up here more than any COC weather could. It’s rained or threatened to every day. 16+ inches since June 1. Today was the first day it hasn’t threatened to rain in a long time… not shocking the minute the PWATs and dews drop, the rain threat ends. Folks up here are definitely now trained to expect tropical rains with tropical weather.

Ha, while I don’t disagree… I still think if you aren’t doing water activities there is better weather possible. Today was glorious for just about anything. I hiked after work with the dog and worked up a sweat on the way up, but then something curious happened. My sweaty shirt was bone dry by the time we got back to the car. For two weeks, it was a sweatfest in all directions. Once wet always wet, ha. Today dried as soon as exertion ended. All joking aside, there’s a decent gap between 90/70 and a chilly cloudy rain. On this forum we tend to spin at as the options are record heat or brutal cold. Some nice, normal 82/55 days (climo here) work very well too.

Stockholm syndrome… being held hostage by the dews and developing a psychological attachment to them. 66/54… this is pretty “normal” for July here based on long term averages but this year it feels like it’s almost time to go pick pumpkins for Halloween.

Our average low right now is 55F on July 18th. Earlier in the month the average was low-50s. The last time the temperature here at MVL went below 61F was July 3rd. With normals of 52-55F. We are +6.7 for JULY! Those departures in January are crazy but the low variance of summer months makes it borderline unbelievable.

74/53 What is this?

The dew has finally dropped into the 50s for the first time in what feels like two weeks. Air is fresh and clear again.

66/64… Ever so slightly better.

Not bad for 17 days into the month, ha. Those few hundredths today brought July’s total to exactly 6.75” over here. After 9.79” in June. The max axis this month has been a bit south of here in a few of the recent rainers (they occur almost daily though). Addison to Washington to Orange and Caledonia counties.

We got 7-10 split... 0.04" here, while J.Spin probably got 1"+ just south in Waterbury. These storms have been dropping high amounts of water if you get hit by them.

@dendrite… bears are different over here, ha. Here’s a Stowe bear coming out of someone’s ceiling after looking for a bird feeder in an attic? https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9hcX73pEXs/?igsh=MWE0cGl2NTV4dTJjYg==