ski MRG Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 Who said there was going to be a heatwave? Mid to upper 80s this week is going to feel awesome, I would slit my wrists staying in the 60 and 70s and rainy all the time as you describe where you live Pete. It sounds so depressing. More 40s tonight? Well, it's certainly been suggested by our lovable but misguided hypster. Hot as a firecracker, not so much. 60's and 70's are beautiful. We've had a lot of rain but today, for instance has been a delightful mix of sun and clouds. Depressing? Hardly, a perfect Alpine environment. Hell would be living where it routinely hits the upper 80's and 90's. Yeeesh, makes my skin crawl. The lobstahs are in the pot, perfect 4th of July here. Gonna be another big heatwave fail Thur-Sat in our areas..... looks like a slightly better shot of cool air.... We don't do heatwaves very well.lol Happy 4th Rick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 Thunderstorm in Westbrook ME--pretty impressive with frequent CG lightening, and lots of dime and penny sized hail (unusual for the Portland area). Yeah...there's some nice downpours and lightning with those ME and S NH cells. Just clear and mid 80s back this way. I had a cell form just to my east and move eastward...I really could've used the cool downYou can see the outflow boundary moving westward toward the NH border from that SW ME cell. Maybe it can spark something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 Yeah...there's some nice downpours and lightning with those ME and S NH cells. Just clear and mid 80s back this way. I had a cell form just to my east and move eastward...I really could've used the cool down You can see the outflow boundary moving westward toward the NH border from that SW ME cell. Maybe it can spark something. Couple of little storms over near Fitchburg/Ashburnham... I see the dark clouds to the north Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 A few sprinkles just went through. Cool looking training thunderstorms in S ME, SNH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 Quite a storm over Amesbury/Newburyport. Gust to 41mph at one of the home meso sites. 50+ kg/m^2 VIL at times so there's quite a bit of +RA with that cell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 Flood advisory posted in SNH, That Keene cell might come down here. Been hearing some thunder from that... man this beer is good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoob40 Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 77/60, a high of 79.4, high terrain stayed in the mid 70's. Quite a beautiful day sun, clouds and a persistent breeze. Total heat wave Phail. Thankfully. Chester Hill maxed out at 80.2 and Goshen was 84. Don't know the elevation at Goshen but that's not mid 70's there or at C. Hill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ski MRG Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 Chester Hill maxed out at 80.2 and Goshen was 84. Don't know the elevation at Goshen but that's not mid 70's there or at C. Hill. Scoob, when I say high terrain I'm not talking 1400', the approximate elevation of Chester Hill, Goshen, and my house. When I say high terrain I'm talking 1,700'+. If you had checked the obs for these high terrain locales you would have seen places like Peru 1800'+ maxed out at 76, or, in other words, mid 70's. If you're going to quibble with my obs at least do your home work.lol Happy 4th o' July. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 Scoob, when I say high terrain I'm not talking 1400', the approximate elevation of Chester Hill, Goshen, and my house. When I say high terrain I'm talking 1,700'+. If you had checked the obs for these high terrain locales you would have seen places like Peru 1800'+ maxed out at 76, or, in other words, mid 70's. If you're going to quibble with my obs at least do your home work.lol Happy 4th o' July. You two are such a cute couple Thunder really rocking to the north. Great cloud structure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoob40 Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 Scoob, when I say high terrain I'm not talking 1400', the approximate elevation of Chester Hill, Goshen, and my house. When I say high terrain I'm talking 1,700'+. If you had checked the obs for these high terrain locales you would have seen places like Peru 1800'+ maxed out at 76, or, in other words, mid 70's. If you're going to quibble with my obs at least do your home work.lol Happy 4th o' July. Point taken but 1400'+ would seem to qualify as high terrain to us "valley guys" lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ski MRG Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 You two are such a cute couple Thunder really rocking to the north. Great cloud structure You've been spending too much time with the degenerates in OT. You used to be so nice,polite. Point taken but 1400'+ would seem to qualify as high terrain to us "valley guys" lol. "Valley Guys" lol, sounds like a bad musical. I remember Moon Unit Zappa had that song "Valley Girls". Anyway, it was warm today but pleasantly so. Around 80 isn't bad, we usually have a breeze from one direction or another it seems. When it gets up around 90 that's when I start to really dislike the heat. Fortunately, it doesn't happen often.lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 Scoob, when I say high terrain I'm not talking 1400', the approximate elevation of Chester Hill, Goshen, and my house. When I say high terrain I'm talking 1,700'+. If you had checked the obs for these high terrain locales you would have seen places like Peru 1800'+ maxed out at 76, or, in other words, mid 70's. If you're going to quibble with my obs at least do your home work.lol Happy 4th o' July. No, the "high terrain" is usually 3,000ft and above. Highs never got out of the mid 60s in the "high terrain" as the thermometer I was watching at 3,625ft never got above 64F today with a steady west wind to keep things refreshing. Kept getting phone calls from the valley wondering how the mountain "air conditioner" was working as folks were sweating it out in town. I love needing to wear long pants and occasionally a wind-breaker on July 4th under crystal clear skies. Oh and the natural snow is getting sparse... even so, still some natural snow left from winter '10-'11 on July 4th. You can tell the bushes that have just recently been released from winter's grip because they still don't have buds or leaves on them. The snow in this picture that is melting right now probably fell in late October or November of last year. The first flakes to fall are the last to melt. Happy 4th everyone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ski MRG Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 Hey Ray!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eekuasepinniW Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 No, the "high terrain" is usually 3,000ft and above. Highs never got out of the mid 60s in the "high terrain" as the thermometer I was watching at 3,625ft never got above 64F today with a steady west wind to keep things refreshing. Kept getting phone calls from the valley wondering how the mountain "air conditioner" was working as folks were sweating it out in town. I love needing to wear long pants and occasionally a wind-breaker on July 4th under crystal clear skies. Oh and the natural snow is getting sparse... even so, still some natural snow left from winter '10-'11 on July 4th. You can tell the bushes that have just recently been released from winter's grip because they still don't have buds or leaves on them. The snow in this picture that is melting right now probably fell in late October or November of last year. The first flakes to fall are the last to melt. Happy 4th everyone! wow. I wonder how long snow would linger in the presidentials if they had trees on the summit to shade the snow. It's always amazed me how long the snowfields linger up there on those bare fully exposed south facing slopes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ski MRG Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 No, the "high terrain" is usually 3,000ft and above. Highs never got out of the mid 60s in the "high terrain" as the thermometer I was watching at 3,625ft never got above 64F today with a steady west wind to keep things refreshing. Kept getting phone calls from the valley wondering how the mountain "air conditioner" was working as folks were sweating it out in town. I love needing to wear long pants and occasionally a wind-breaker on July 4th under crystal clear skies. Oh and the natural snow is getting sparse... even so, still some natural snow left from winter '10-'11 on July 4th. You can tell the bushes that have just recently been released from winter's grip because they still don't have buds or leaves on them. Hey Scott, nice. Our high terrain above 3k is limited to Greylock and I would specify accordingly.lol Good to see the snow. How does Stowe feel about paragliders? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 No, the "high terrain" is usually 3,000ft and above. Highs never got out of the mid 60s in the "high terrain" as the thermometer I was watching at 3,625ft never got above 64F today with a steady west wind to keep things refreshing. Kept getting phone calls from the valley wondering how the mountain "air conditioner" was working as folks were sweating it out in town. I love needing to wear long pants and occasionally a wind-breaker on July 4th under crystal clear skies. Oh and the natural snow is getting sparse... even so, still some natural snow left from winter '10-'11 on July 4th. You can tell the bushes that have just recently been released from winter's grip because they still don't have buds or leaves on them. The snow in this picture that is melting right now probably fell in late October or November of last year. The first flakes to fall are the last to melt. Happy 4th everyone! That is awesome. I actually went in my pool today. Water had warmed up significantly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 That is awesome. I actually went in my pool today. Water had warmed up significantly Do you normally just sit and look at it? Nice warm July night. Fireflies are going crazy - appropriate for the 4th of July. 75/65 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherMA Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 High of 88 here so no heat wave but great above average hot summer wx. Looks like upper 80s for a while then low 80s and dry later this week. Nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ski MRG Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 Do you normally just sit and look at it? Nice warm July night. Fireflies are going crazy - appropriate for the 4th of July. 75/65 Whenever I see fireworks I think of HT. Good fireworks in Greenfield Saturday night, better than I expected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 Do you normally just sit and look at it? Nice warm July night. Fireflies are going crazy - appropriate for the 4th of July. 75/65 Lol we opened it sort of late this year and it had been too cold for my tastes. The kids had been in it for a week or so I use it a lot for a ghetto pool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 wow. I wonder how long snow would linger in the presidentials if they had trees on the summit to shade the snow. It's always amazed me how long the snowfields linger up there on those bare fully exposed south facing slopes. Yeah it would be ridiculous if they had some dense shade up there in that 4,000-6,200ft range...especially the 5,000ft+ elevations. The Greens get good natural snow but are relatively low in elevation when compared with the Presidentials (and Whites in general). That extra 1,000-2,000+ feet in elevation at this latitude makes a huge difference. Those snowfields last so long because they are like 20-50 feet deep from wind-loading all winter long. That's what happened with the patch of snow posted above... it was a depression in the terrain loaded from west winds. I bet if you threw a few more mature trees in the wind-loading zones of the Presidentials to shade the transported, you could keep snow close to all-year-long. However, that is likely why there are no mature trees in those wind-loaded areas... the growing season is already almost non-existent in those areas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 Got crushed in Newburyport yesterday.I didn't have access to radar, but it looked like the outflow from the cells in srn ME help spark the tstms. Shortly before 6, the wind turned north and the air got quite a bit cooler. Tstm developed along the boundary it seemed to the west, and rolled into town. Had large pea/borderline marble size hail the almost covered the ground. Lightning was pretty intense, but it was weird. It wasn't terribly frequent, but every bolt seemed concentrated where I was. I was near the mouth of the Merrimack where it empties into the Atlantic, so perhaps there weren't too many other objects to strike...I don't know, but we mus thave had 10-12 bolts less then half a mile away. 5-6 probably right down the street...enough to hear the click sound from one of the close ones. Weird to have it seemingly so concentrated where I was. Nevertheless, it was cool to see how they formed along that outflow boundary. Had a nice double rainbow when it ended, with some nice white +CG's behind it. Wish I had a camera, because that would have been an epic pic to take. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ski MRG Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 Got crushed in Newburyport yesterday.I didn't have access to radar, but it looked like the outflow from the cells in srn ME help spark the tstms. Shortly before 6, the wind turned north and the air got quite a bit cooler. Tstm developed along the boundary it seemed to the west, and rolled into town. Had large pea/borderline marble size hail the almost covered the ground. Lightning was pretty intense, but it was weird. It wasn't terribly frequent, but every bolt seemed concentrated where I was. I was near the mouth of the Merrimack where it empties into the Atlantic, so perhaps there weren't too many other objects to strike...I don't know, but we mus thave had 10-12 bolts less then half a mile away. 5-6 probably right down the street...enough to hear the click sound from one of the close ones. Weird to have it seemingly so concentrated where I was. Nevertheless, it was cool to see how they formed along that outflow boundary. Had a nice double rainbow when it ended, with some nice white +CG's behind it. Wish I had a camera, because that would have been an epic pic to take. Did you say "Double Rainbow"? Whoa! totally cool!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ski MRG Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 53/52, nice start to the day though it looks like it will get a little too warm for my liking. Fortunately, after 2 warmish type days we'll slip back to the nice 70's again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 Did you say "Double Rainbow"? Whoa! totally cool!! LOL, I thought if that. ......."Double rainbow....all the way......" I wonder what drugs he was on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ski MRG Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 LOL, I thought if that. ......."Double rainbow....all the way......" I wonder what drugs he was on. Evidently really really good ones.lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwiz Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 Late tomorrow afternoon/evening could be a bit interesting, especially if we develop sufficient instability. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted July 5, 2011 Author Share Posted July 5, 2011 Late tomorrow afternoon/evening could be a bit interesting, especially if we develop sufficient instability. No storms for the whole month of July? Possible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted July 5, 2011 Author Share Posted July 5, 2011 Got crushed in Newburyport yesterday.I didn't have access to radar, but it looked like the outflow from the cells in srn ME help spark the tstms. Shortly before 6, the wind turned north and the air got quite a bit cooler. Tstm developed along the boundary it seemed to the west, and rolled into town. Had large pea/borderline marble size hail the almost covered the ground. Lightning was pretty intense, but it was weird. It wasn't terribly frequent, but every bolt seemed concentrated where I was. I was near the mouth of the Merrimack where it empties into the Atlantic, so perhaps there weren't too many other objects to strike...I don't know, but we mus thave had 10-12 bolts less then half a mile away. 5-6 probably right down the street...enough to hear the click sound from one of the close ones. Weird to have it seemingly so concentrated where I was. Nevertheless, it was cool to see how they formed along that outflow boundary. Had a nice double rainbow when it ended, with some nice white +CG's behind it. Wish I had a camera, because that would have been an epic pic to take. Your phone?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 Your phone?? Can't get a nice pic with my phone. it sucks. Also, it's tough to get a pic of lightning behind a rainbow, unless you have an I-phone that has video capabilities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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