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83.0° F high today, which is my max so far this year. The big story with this airmass is the dews, just awful! Topped out at 77° F on my Davis. Down to 66.8° F after 0.10" of rain from convection, so no > 70° F minimum today despite having a "low" of 71.5° F last night.

Thick cloud cover this morning, 73.8°/72° F. Low clouds too...possibly some upslope going on with the cross barrier flow along with the MCS debris? It was clear with hazy sun at 7:30 AM. Overnight low was a whopping 71.5° F.

Nice day today with a high of just 67° F. Soaking it all in because the next few days are going to be pure misery! NWS P&C forecast has me at 87° F Saturday. Drizzle and clouds sure beat the heat any day.

0.21", but it gives the grass a needed drink. The water table is still high, so I don't want/need much. Dew point topped out at a whopping 74° F around noon today, which has to be pretty rare for this location. Total misery. I got a brief taste of what DC points south are like the whole summer.

Still no 80° F here with a max of 78.7° F. My Davis is in full sun until around 3 PM too, although with the FARS there's not a big difference between what it reports in the shade vs. sun. We may have some upper level cloud junk around tomorrow, so we may not do it tomorrow either. We'll see.

Wow...can't believe it's July already. Where's the time going? We're one step closer to winter. Comfortable day today, but the tough weather is just around the corner. It's coming, like it or not. July and August can be difficult months for me weatherwise and have me longing for that glorious, but dark, rainy November day where the street lights come on in the middle of the afternoon. Those types of days are the prelude to the greatest season...

I don't think that window will be open if it's cold enough to be running the pellet stove. No permit was needed, but I will let insurance know. Installers followed code. They weren't aware of anything pertaining to vent distance from window. Stove had to be a certain distance from walls and couldn't be vented under the porch. It's about 3 feet away.

We install...a pellet stove. To make a long story short, I was going to do a wood stove, but I didn't want a metal chimney on the outside wall of the front of my house. Going through the roof wasn't an option because I have a double roof as I have a roof over a roof because of my front porch. The double porch roof is over my living room. Pellet stove just vents through the wall. Don't need AC here. Likely never will. 77.6° F high today. Indoor temperature at 70° F.

1.34" through the tipper today. Quite a good soaking, but not enough to cause problems. Meanwhile everything is so beautiful after a fresh rainfall at the height of the green season. I stopped at the peat sphagnum bog a short walk from the house. It looks solid, but I wouldn't dare walk on it. I bet those dwarf red spruces are a lot older than their size would suggest.

They seem to be a little warmer quite often on sunny days. I wonder if the FARS in my Davis VP2 is responsible for the lower readings? In general I have smaller diurnal ranges than Woodford though as they will radiate a little better.

72° F high today. Still haven't hit 80° F here. In fact, the highest reading so far is 75° F back on May 19th. It would be awesome to go the entire summer without reaching 80° F. I doubt that happens, but it pretty much takes an act of God to get it to 85+° F here. Sprinkler is running on the new grass. I haven't had a significant rain since last Sunday and the top couple inches of the dirt is beginning to get dry.

48° F here, 75° F at BOS. That's about the largest temperature difference I've seen between here and there. Very glad we live here. Just gorgeous out there right now.

Perfect weather for growing grass coming up with the rainy, cool weather incoming. I've been patching up and thickening my hillbilly lawn as much as I can to make it more presentable on the dry days. The trifecta of blood sucking insects has been trying to get a meal out of me the whole time though. Black flies and mosquitoes in the shade, deer flies in the sun. There's definitely a bumper crop of them all too. Remarkably not a single tick or gypsy moth caterpillar though.

It's official, deer fly season has started here. I had a few dive bomb me late this afternoon and I managed to kill one of the bastards. It's still black fly season, and if that's not enough, there's mosquitoes to boot. It's the trifecta of blood sucking insects season now. I don't recall them overlapping as much last year. Deet is useless against the black flies and deer flies, but works against mosquitoes. I got that hat that Dendrite recommended from Amazon https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XXJBLRJ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1, so it helps keep the little buggers off my face and neck. Otherwise, temperatures are comfortable. 71° F high so windows open to warm the house, which was 64° F earlier.

36.0° F low here off a high of 54.5° F yesterday. The wind and cool weather kept the black flies totally at bay yesterday afternoon. I wouldn't complain at all if the rest of the summer was like this. 33° F up in Woodford so they likely had a light frost. They seem to radiate a little better than I do, but I CAD better.

149.8". This should do it.

144.8". That should do it for the season barring some bizarre meteorological aberration that brings wet snow in May. It last happened on Mother's Day in 2017.

Is this up by Saguenay? If so, that's a lot of latitude and this season's pattern has favored that area big time. The wiki page on Saguenay says the average is 132" per year, which seems low for that far north especially if Quebec City is 119". Heck, my average is probably around 120-125". I wish my balsams looked like that. Then again being near the southern limit of their native range (they're sparse at my latitude below about 1,500' and non existent below 1,000') they're susceptible to parasites like wooly adelgid and hemlock borers which have likely become more numerous with the warming climate.

The deer vacate my area when the snow begins at the end of the fall or soon thereafter and head for the valleys. They'll return when we leaf out and stay until the snow returns the following winter. My total for today's upslope ended up at 6.0", which was a nice surprise. I had to snow blow the driveway. By the time I was down in the valley by the MA line there was only a dusting that was pretty much all but gone everywhere except for the shady areas. It never ceases to amaze me how localized these events can be.

This is how we do "spring" around here. The recent warm up put a dent in my snow pack, but there's still 20-25" in the yard and 29" at my "stake" which is in shade most of the day. The snow has that classic dirty early spring look to it with all of the spruce/fir needles and twigs on it, but maybe we can freshen it up with a little upslope tonight. It was 51° F and sunny at 9 AM, then it was rain and fog before ending briefly as snow. It didn't accumulate so it goes in as a trace. I took a ride up by Killington yesterday and I definitely have more snow here than there is up at the top of Sherburne Pass (2,150') on US 4 by the base of Pico and Killington. The deepest pack in that area was actually just to the east by West Bridgewater even though it's in a valley.

116.3".

4.5" of fluff on the board this morning. Not bad. Depth at my stake (in the shade) is 38-39". It was sunny an hour ago, but now we're cloudy with some light snow grains that aren't showing up on radar. This is probably a weak orographic response on the backside. Congrats to the SNE crew! This was supposed to be our storm 2-3 days ago, but you took this one right out from under our feet.

Solid moderate snow with dendrites, 25° F. Looks like around 2" new. Nice little 700 mb frontogenesis band FTW.

25.9° F, moderate snow. Good snow growth. The high was 29.4° F and the 0.6" I had from last night didn't really melt at all. The radar looks decent. That band running through BGM may translate up here, which would be good. I still don't think I get much more than 4-5" though.