HIPPYVALLEY

I guess S of the Pike has had the torch this year. Honestly, it has felt like a warm, dry, slightly above normal summer here. Perhaps the lack of humidity has me unimpressed? I am pretty mank sensitive and really have not had too use the A/C that much. Electric bill running way short of last summer.

We are missing all of the precipitation this summer complete opposite of last summer. I'll take it as long as we can get the QPF in the winter...

So well done!

8 -10 white face bites put me in the emergency room a couple of summers ago. I hit a nest on mowing and it felt like burning embers shooting into my shins, at first I thought maybe the lawnmower was throwing sparks. After about 30 minutes it was insane burning and itching in my lymphatic areas and my face started to swell up. Sitting in the emergency room it started to get worse and worse and the staff kept telling me they were still nine people ahead of me in line so finally I told my wife to just tell them I was having chest pain's. They wheeled me in immediately LOL They jammed a harpoon of epinephrine into my thigh, I thought my heart was going to explode, Now I have an EpiPen prescription. The funny thing is I had had plenty of stings over the years something about the wfh really made me react poorly. Fortunately I have not seen wfh in a few years but I'm still pretty cautious around Yellowjackets.

I find this all really interesting because it's really only been on the warm side of a normal summer here. Many of the hot days have been tolerable humidity so I guess that helps. There are no accurate long term records for this part of the state but I bet we have been no more than a +2 - +2.5 for July.

We got porked here. I have to check but I believe I am under 2" for the month of July.

When you watch the long loop it's like Franklin Co had a force field up the way the storms just dissipated as they moved NE. https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/nexrad/index.php?type=ENX-N0Q-1-96

Bummer, not a drop of rain in Greenfield.

Looks like that cell south of here is warmed now

Eastampton MA

Rain and clouds temporarily knocked us down to 78F but should charge right back up when the sun pops back out.

Severe Weather Statement National Weather Service Burlington VT 355 PM EDT Tue Jul 30 2019 NYC019-VTC007-011-013-015-019-302045- /O.CON.KBTV.SV.W.0029.000000T0000Z-190730T2045Z/ Clinton NY-Lamoille VT-Orleans VT-Grand Isle VT-Chittenden VT- Franklin VT- 355 PM EDT Tue Jul 30 2019 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 445 PM EDT FOR EAST CENTRAL CLINTON...NORTHWESTERN LAMOILLE...NORTHWESTERN ORLEANS...GRAND ISLE...NORTH CENTRAL CHITTENDEN AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES... At 354 PM EDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 19 miles north of Morses Line to Hyde Point, moving east at 15 mph. HAZARD...70 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. SOURCE...Highway department reported wind gust of 76 mph in association with this line of storms. IMPACT...Minor hail damage to vehicles is possible. Expect considerable tree damage. Wind damage is also likely to mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings. Locations impacted include... Enosburg Falls, Franklin, Alburgh Village, Johnson Village, Cambridge, Montgomery Center, Montgomery, St. Albans City, Fairfax, Sheldon, Belvidere Center, Georgia, Enosburg, Swanton, Waterville, Grand Isle, St. Albans Town, South Alburgh, Johnson and Alburgh. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. If on or near Lake Champlain, get away from the water and move indoors or inside a vehicle. remember, lightning can strike out to 15 miles from the parent thunderstorm. If you can hear thunder, you are close enough to be struck by lightning. Move to safe shelter now! Do not be caught on the water in a thunderstorm. && LAT...LON 4501 7255 4459 7266 4469 7337 4501 7331 TIME...MOT...LOC 1954Z 285DEG 14KT 4529 7301 4474 7325 HAIL...1.00IN WIND...70MPH

Nice quick soaker moving through now, the garden is happy.

A lot of on and off clouds here today have limited upper end heat potential. So far 91/72 has been the high. A little less comfortable than yesterday for sure but we break tomorrow.

Already 80F in the shade here, DP70. We sweat.

CT has been roasting but NW MA has had some pretty nice warm and dry days with cool nights. It's 78F and bit humid but aren't these the summer nights we cherish?

It's been normal summer here with the expected scattering of hot days. The cool nights have made it seem tolerable. I think I've only had 6 or 7 A/C days so far (far more in the car). This afternoon I'll probably need it.

I don't get to CT or RI beaches very often but Cape Cod certainly has some fantastic white sand beaches.

I hear "ice ages" actually come about relatively fast.

Oh' wow! That's probably never seen a minute of salt water?

Nice boat! What make is that?

We had a nice 15 minute downpour drop .15" The garden approves.

Lawns around here are not exactly thriving right now.

I end up interacting with more than my share of bears for some reason and that is the thickest coat I have ever seen.

Spent the afternoon and evening at a pool party in Munson and it was just just an absolutely perfect summer night.