powderfreak

I’m not yearning for darkness, that’s for sure. Walking the dog right now, sun is still high in the sky, sweating just walking for an hour, but I wouldn’t trade for it to have been dark for 3 hours now like in December.

The past twenty years on the forums have seen many a winter weenie become disenfranchised and start to enjoy the weather they can count on, heat and torches. Really has accelerated recently, following the temperature graph, ha.

I think they are just saying that if the ASOS is off a degree or two, it’s not impacting Air Traffic safety. Air safety is the sites primary reason, climate just piggybacks on it. If that thing starts giving faulty visibility and ceiling readings, folks will be on it immediately. Temps get a lot of leeway before techs are sent.

It’s what we do on here.

Ahh didn’t think about that. Rain cooled air rolling through… despite not raining over the site, the air is briefly characteristic of a rain cooled mass.

Crazy the effect the cloud cover has. MVL here got up to 93F, then cloudy and dropped to 84F, now back to 90F with sun again. BTV in the past hour has ranged from 90F to 97F on the 5-min data. Quite the spread bouncing around.

St Johnsbury (1V4) ASOS in NE VT showing 95/71. That’s hot.

91/74 at the ASOS here. Wild. 101F heat index before noon. Its a steam bath outside.

I've seen local studies discussing the development of a nocturnal southerly jet on the VT side of Lake Champlain, being funneled up between the cooler lake waters and the Green Mountain Spine. You can see Plattsburgh, NY (PBG) on the NY side of the lake was calm all night with mist/fog and got down to 68F. However, at a time of the night when all other sites are showing calm, BTV is actually seeing increasing wind. This is some tropical stuff. Breeze actually peaks in the 4am hour when most other sites are hitting their minimums for the night. It's like the wind increases to fight off any possible decoupling.

BTV is like the Dominican Republic during these heat waves. Nights are just hot, humid and breezy southerly flow. Tropical vibes.

We knew it… this is the type of heat that gets it done. Didnt even take till the end of the heater. First night up.

MVL showing 73/70 and local PWS 71/70 here. Struggling to drop any further with those dews. Going to be a real warm night in NNE. BTV often 10F warmer on these nights. The windows are fogging from the A/C. A ground mist seems to be forming too, just high humidity and clear skies battling it out. Can only drop to the dew point really. And if the wind kicks up temps will spike.

Still 85F BTV, 88F ALB, 88F MHT?!

Almost time to shut ‘em down. Last pile of snow hanging in there, but will it make it through the week? Going to be tough.

Didn’t fall short up here, will be 90-91F today for the max at the ASOS. Its hot.

It’s all we’ve got in Greta’s world these days. 90/68 here.

Your bears don’t break into cars and act like stoned teenagers looking for snacks?

Oh we definitely get downslope warmth here though. We have 3,000ft rises on either side. That’s what gives the 40 degree diurnal ranges. BTV doesn’t get fake cold to be honest. Just doesn’t happen. Champlain Valley is wide and often well-mixed at night. They don’t decouple like east of the Spine or into the Adirondacks.

Yeah not much real weather here. Fake heat, fake cold, fake snow.

Yeah just less diurnal ranges, our records are more like 130 degree ranges. Can be 98F, or -33F.

That low of only -13F too is interesting. Guess the low diurnal ranges go with lower climo extremes… only about 100 degree range in max and min.

So you’re probably like 91/78 in the woods, while the fields are like 97/69. Might pull an 80F dew on the Davis.

What do you think your max is the next few days under the trees? Can your spot hit 93F? I don’t know what your max is in the forest.

Good post, Tip. It is interesting, it's 68F here at 11am and just doesn't have that feel of big heat coming. But tomorrow's high is 94F from NWS.

It’s always all the small unforeseen factors that keep us from regularly getting two feet of snow. High-end is rare for a reason. I still think this will be a very impactful period, regardless of where it ranks. Multiple days of high daytime heat, with high overnights due to elevated dew points… you feel this is you are outside for a long period of time. Or if your job is outside. Hopefully folks can go home to a cool environment. The toughest is working outside or needing to spend significant time outside, then going home to another hot space.