powderfreak

It does feel good. Liking it a bit more each year. Back up home, 72F right now and despite 7pm, we’ve got another like 90 minutes of sun and two hours of light.

I will say when you say it about summer it seems like there’s a legit chance of it happening, almost likely. When there’s a hype up post about a long cold and deep winter, it’s like yeah ok sure, we’ll see. Summer has become the season where you can actually be confident in the weather you want happening.

Mostly sunny morning in ALB, hope it moves east for you guys.

Max of 75F here at ALB, currently 75F, beautiful warm season evening right now.

Yeah it’s turned real nice in ALB. 70s and sun. Out with the nieces at the local elementary school.

I was just about to delete that thinking, I really don’t give a shit either way. Not sure why I decided to fight that battle or stand on that hill . Really don’t care.

Pretty impressive ORH is at 1” of rain. That’s a nice deform band. Would be a crusher out of no where in winter for a narrow zone.

The grids looked like they had a chance of showers? Showers possible in any location, showers becoming widespread, CT River Valley may luck out with a primarily dry day sounds like a good call… dry obs and temps near 70F at BDL currently? Showers will become more widespread after 15Z today as PWATs surge to >1.0", aided by a weak 925mb jet of 20-30kt draped over eastern MA. General thinking is showers are possible in any location, but will be more widespread east of the Worcester metro area. In fact, the CT River Valley may "luck out" with a primarily dry day as weak high pressure attempts to nudge in from the southwest. While it will a dreary and rather chilly day, with little to no diurnal swing in temps from current obs (in the 50s and low 60s, west)

What is with this smear campaign of the NWS? Really haven’t seen anything wrong with their overall forecast… they said showers possible anywhere, then a more concentrated area developed in a narrow zone? What are we doing on here? lol.

See I think in the winter you would’ve taken the over and more snowy in this set-up with onshore flow. Would’ve been back to NY state with precip. But Murphy’s law says it wouldn’t have worked out in the winter, just as a mocking from Mother Nature. 3km NAM figured it out now.

I thought yesterday the rain looked to back decently west too on a lot of models I wasn’t sure where the east only or Dendrite only was coming from except for “positive thinking” like you said. Its onshore flow and wedged, easy to see it being chilly and damp. 12z Euro run yesterday looked regionwide showery. GGEM rotating stuff inward.

It’s like 55-60 literally everywhere. No one is “winning.”

Just west of him. West is best.

Bedford.

Yeah we’ve had one 69F and 4 days of 70+ in the past 5. Really been a nice stretch in NNE over the top. Black flies were noted yesterday for the first time at the mountain, though not biting or really swarming. Seemed like drunk black flies waking up or something, just aimlessly floating around. They’ll sober up and get the munchies soon.

Heading down to Albany this weekend, should be a bit better out that way. Moving my folks from ALB to SNH and my sister and her 3 kids are going from BGM to SNH too for my brother-in-laws job. Going to start spending more time down that way between CON and MHT.

76F. Just keep on torching. Up to +4.5 for May.

Remember when that was a badge of honor on the forums? 20 years ago in the mid-2000s on WWBB it was a big win to have the lowest temps, especially during the warm season. My how we’ve all aged and grown up… .

Hit 73F today. Three straight days of double digit positive departures… back in the saddle of +10s or more after 5 days of around average temps. Cold shots are -1F and mild is +12F lol.

Leaf out update… it’s making its way towards 2k feet up here. 1500ft is now turning pretty green but still some scattered sticks. 2,000ft is now seeing buds starting to open (maybe 50-50). Valley bottom at the low elevation of only 750ft is full young green/growth. Ridgeline height gets to 3,600ft for reference on the east side of town in the Worcester Range.

These comparisons have become some of the funniest posts haha. No subjective interpretation, just a quick factual status check nug drop by Dendy .

I guess “warm” is a bit subjective… just thinking mainly from a heating to cooling stand point, the page is flipping. Though I guess one could argue 58/56 rains hasn’t changed much since winter too. But the days of like 43F rains seem gone… now when it rains the dews are up near 55F.

I find myself looking at it as the warm season and cold season. We are now solidly in the warm season. Summer or spring is a semantics argument. It’s moving away from looking for ways to heat the living space, to windows open or A/C. Cold or warm season… it’s a gradual transition but feels like it’s been made. Natural snow is melting off the highest elevations to patchy cover in the spruce groves, and the valley dew points are seeing more elevated lengths of time. Evenings are mild at times. And the crisp frosts are becoming rare even up here in the NNE radiational spots. Flipped to warm season. Evening dews are elevated. People notice/feel it.

We had a min of 57F last night with occasional thunder… all jokes aside, that’s some summer night stuff up this way. Has to be close to a +20 night, ha.

Convective evening… just constant thunder over the past 45 minutes. Not seeing the lightning strikes on maps, but dog has been stressed and it’s been consistent booms every few minutes.