powderfreak

Ray would be in his glory if this were winter getting a solid reach around on the way out.

39F

It’s the growing season. Today felt like September but with a May sun angle… it’s amazing. The fresh light green, this isn’t tired vegetation. It’s new growth and high sun angle. This is my favorite time of year to be honest. Love winter, but the lead up to the longest day of the year with fresh vegetation and comfortable temperatures… it’s hard to beat these days. 44F currently, and MVL did hit 66F for a brief max, despite a 5-min ob not exceeding 64F.

Its tough but someone has to do it. Got up to 63F in the valley but man is it nice out.

Today's been a shock to the system... temps are struggling through the 50s to get to 60F today. Pretty chilly considering it's not raining.

Yeah that’s all we were saying. Agreed on temps remaining elevated relative to normal.

I guess I just balked at that upper level pattern providing 7-10 days of summer heat, 80s to near 90F. For his NW flow ring-of-fire he’s talking about, I want to see ridging in the Ohio Valley, forcing energy over it before accelerating SE through New England… not below normal heights there on a 5-day mean. I just interpret a NW heater flow as something else on the “charts”… not SW moist flow mixed with some post-FROPA air masses. This is the exact opposite of having lower heights to our SW.

Can you post a couple of these progs to outline this? Because all ensembles show something different. This is 5-day means from June 5-10th on both GEFS and EPS.

1.12” after emptying the Stratus this evening. Another round is en route but expect it to diminish quickly as the solar energy is gone. We’ve been a bit dry as is usual this time of year… but a good soaking for the soil with this FROPA as we start to plant the garden. Memorial Day weekend is the anecdotal start to the growing season locally.

Nice TOR just immediately outside Montreal today… every time I go to Montreal the surrounding farm land just looks like it might as well be the Midwest. Flat and wide open. Mile after mile. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0217okPGDMGNEs2cTLDA3CB2fkE6ysAhKTWFPYjwppkXRHXYU9DfLbix98tf2obXUTl&id=100003808557806&mibextid=w8EBqM

Seems like there are only two types of definitions for warm season days… absolute dumpster fire terrible cold/wet weather, and if it doesn’t fit that, then it’s filed under a glorious perfect summer day.

Shut ‘em down. Very patchy natural snow cover around the Co-Op Stake site this Memorial Day Weekend (usually recorded as a trace in snowpack if any snow is left in the vicinity of the stake). Maxed out at 91” in March, then melted but rebounded back to 90” in April. Seven and a half feet of natural snowpack with at least a couple feet of water equivalent (24-30” liquid/SWE/QPF) always takes a while to melt out. This is about normal melt out, despite the positive departures the past 6 months.

75/54 up here. Awesome.

Been an awesome Fri-Sun stretch for Memorial Day Weekend… looks like we may hold off the rain tomorrow too. Perfect hiking weather. Dog is milking those snow patches at the top of Haselton where the hiking trail goes up the Nosedive turns.

The one I find fascinating is at the highest elevations you can get buds to start to open up even with patchy snow melting out around the tree in May. See it more out west with their snowpacks, but I’ve noticed it a couple times on Mansfield at that like 3-4K feet level where patchy snow remains into May…and it’s kind of a head scratcher to me. Like the vegetation is saying we don’t care about the ground being insulated with a melting snow cover, the sun is so strong we need to take advantage of it while we have it.

Less species diversity in the colder and mountain climates? No idea, just thinking aloud. Or once the ground finally thaws up to a growing temp the sun is very high in the sky and it all explodes? It does happen fast.

72/48 and sun. Gahhh.

37F at MVL and 36.9F at the neighbors PWS. It’s chilly out. SLK at 30F.

No one will convince me otherwise but their population has to be increasing, rapidly in areas. Even a half dozen more cubs spread out in an area will increase the sightings and it can only take an extra litter of so for a local to double bear encounters. They have zero predators. They also aren’t predators. So they just exist and thrive. Humans aren’t concerned because they are docile animals who just amble about looking for easy food sources; they aren’t hunters. Live and let live type animals. I went almost 10 years without having a bear encounter in Vermont. Now I have at least a half a dozen encounters with them per warm season between the mountain and town. Something has changed in the past 5-6 years despite my same life patterns.

En route to finding a birdfeeder or dumpster in our neighborhood. Gotta stop and get out the cell phone to let the bear cross.

SNE takes the cake +1 today though, damn, low 80s and dews in the 40s is like the holy grail of businessmen. Widespread RH below 30% across interior SNE.

Feels like we went through the whole year of seasons in a few days. Deep summer near 90F and humid and now it’s September with maxes struggling to get to 70F and low dews, breeze and puffy Cu.

Great description.

What a day to be outside. Had to go find some snow for the dog.

70/39… still warm but dews into the 30s now. Nice evening. Warm 70s after 9pm with dry air. Great time to be alive.