powderfreak

No 40s here... fogged out at 51F last night. Only 3 mins in the 40s this month here too (lowest 43F), and a bunch of 50-53F type mornings.

Nice supporting data... now I'm more curious about why the differences are so much different. What makes the winter have higher variation over summer? Wave length differences? Insolation changes?

Today’s normal high is 85F and that’s at its peak. Monthly normal is the 84F. It is crazy though... like you I assume July average high is like 88F, but nope, 85F is the highest daily max. So all those 90-91F forecast days are at least +5s or +6s.

ORH is +3.1 on maxes, and +3.7 on mins. Pretty much a wash there and they don’t radiate. Looking at the stats, where’s this “it’s all in the high minimums” idea coming from?

That’s not what I’m seeing at BDL... NOWdata tells me the monthly normal at BDL is 84.4/62.6. Actual so far is 90.2/66.5. So maxes are +5.8 and mins are +3.9.

Yeah that’s fairly impressive for summer months when departures seem to run closer to normal than in winter. I feel like in summer +3 is harder to do than +3 in January....seems to be less variance in summer.

You’ll verify your +1 to +2 up here at the NNE runways. 1V4 is +0.7 but should come up to 1 or higher by month’s end. I’m not sure why the SNE ones are fraud runway readings though.

Another stunning day on tap... cool night with a low of 52F and yet another dry afternoon of 70s coming up. +1.3 for July, that recent high heat was enough to ensure the month finishes a little above normal.

It’s good stuff, but that’s whats great about New England... beaches to mountains, a great variety in a relatively small geographic area.

Not Cape Cod... but man, what a day in the NNE mountains. High of 78F down in the valley at MVL (dews around 50F). Temperatures on the mountain ranged from mid-60s summit to mid-70s base. Really doesn't get any nicer than this for being outdoors.

Craziest thing is how little a bunch of that pool furniture moved while the roof is getting lifted off. I would’ve figured those plastic pool lounges would be tossed in the air and all over the place if it’s enough wind to lift the entire roof off.

Looks like fun on the Cape. Nothing but business suits up here. 77/51 and scattered Cu over the peaks.

VR certainly has looked long and hard at Jay... also Smuggs. I don't know this other than knowing that they don't leave any stone unturned and would bet VR has a file on every ski area in North America. From a contact at Jay, the rumor is that VR was looking at just the mountain operations (similar to Stowe, where they didn't buy any base area lodging) and wasn't interested in the lodging/hotels/waterpark/soccerplex/golf course/etc. However, the federal receivership wants to sell it all as one package.

I don't think that's from concussions, ha. I swear I must only hear half of what my wife says judging by her reactions sometimes.

Ha, extremely valid point. I've been meaning to make a point to travel around more in the winter... I think a big White Mtn snow bomb could do it .

High of 67F today at MVL and 65F down in Montpelier/MPV.... crazy how you can go from such oppressive heat and humidity to highs in the 60s. Only in New England.

I would've absolutely lost my mind today if this were a winter storm. We had periods of light rain in town but I went hiking on Mansfield and barely had more than a few sprinkles from time to time. You can see on the radar how that gradient goes right through extreme southern Lamoille County.... that would've been a brutal cut-off in winter, ha. Probably would've had some northerly flow with snow drifting downwind despite these radar echoes ha.

They bought 17 ski areas today, but Wildcat is really the only one that I'm stoked about. Can't wait to be able to use my pass there for those nor'easters that slip too far east and bury NH/ME and smoke cirrus in VT. The other thing is in a bad winter, they have now secured some of the best snowmaking mountains in Vermont. Killington is king for snowmaking, but Epic Pass offerings include Mt Snow, Okemo and Stowe. All are known in Vermont for having relatively good conditions in those shit winters because of grooming/snowmaking infrastructure. Good insurance to have access to those 3 ski areas in a down winter.

Lol this does seem to hit a nerve, the cold vs warm records. Same as how BTV has its warmest day in 120 years last summer...but it is what it is. Still fukkin hot.

Ok, you just seemed annoyed in the original post that Fisher was saying it was incredibly hot in Boston and then said something about yes for the guys working on the tarmac.

I bet it was pretty damn hot walking through Boston yesterday lol.

Local private stations have dropped to 68F in Stowe Village... the 68F on the PWS's is the coldest temperature in 2.5 days. That's pretty impressive for up here, going that long without seeing 68F or lower. The odd thing is MVL came in with 76/59, which seems like they are still well mixed.

Looks like autumn is just around the corner there with bare trees already... is that from the gypsies?

Last night's 83F min will certainly help bring those up for BOS. Also, BOS getting the 90F by 9... except it's 9pm. Still an absolute torch to be 90F at this time of day. No way it drops below the 83F minimum by midnight at this rate.

Still a summer evening with dews of 65F... just not as oppressively hot out but certainly feels like summer. Though it certainly isn't like HFD's 88/70 reading for 9pm. Even BDL is down to 85/66... but man that HFD reading is pretty crazy for 9pm.