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It Really Was a Heat Wave II (unless it wasn't, in which case it was weak sauce)- - Obs and Disco Late June/Early July 2012

HoarfrostHubb

By HoarfrostHubb,
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ski MRG

ski MRG

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Dewpoint down to 46F now...gonna be a great night for sleeping.

Good thing Kevin already went to sleep. Maybe he put one of those humidifiers on in his room to artificially raise his dewpoint.

Haydenville and Conway both reporting DP's down into the 30's. Is that possible or are those totally suspect?

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ski MRG

ski MRG

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That sounds a bit low...one of the higher exposed spots maybe could have low 40s.

Everything at this elevation and up is between 46-49, those two stations are much lower and are showing 31 and 38 respectively. I have to think those are in error. Either way it's a gorgeous night here. As you say, perfect sleeping weather. None of this stick to the furniture weather Blizz tries to gross us out with.

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The dewpoint starts rising when you get condensation on the laminar layers of the surrounding environment. Your air mass has a certain amount of moisture in it...when you lose the heat to radiational cooling, you do not lose any moisture with it for the most part, so it can only eventually condense and cause evaporational cooling which causes wetbulbing and an associated dewpoint rise since as the air cools, it can no longer hold the moisture.

There's a lot of micro-processes that go on in the environement during radiational cooling, so I'm trying to speak in as easy layman's terms as possible. I probably cannot even explain some of the weirder stuff that happens that contributes...such as what dendrite mentioned, the lowered mixing heights hold in more moisture too.

Thanks. I won't torture you anymore about this and will resort to Wikipedia. Lol.

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Had a high of 86.4 here, 2k had a high of 82 when I left. As Wxmanmitch noted the west wind was blowing all day. Mid 80's around the 4th of July, what's the big deal? seems like quintessential summer weather to me. Certainly nothing life threatening or extreme. As much as some want to characterize this weather as some sort of intense heat episode it just isn't. The real teeth of the heat will stay far far away from here. It's the folks in the mid section of the nation that can crow about extreme heat. New england has no claim on that prize. This Summer has the feeling of one that just never quite delivers a knockout punch. It's like a Winter that never quite gels. You can sense it. The Unremarkable Summer of 2012. I couldn't ask for more. I'll look forward to watching the Olympics late this month as yet another trough sets up over us. Fantastic.

What a dumb post

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Hello everyone, new member here from Coventry, Connecticut. The high here today was 89.7F with the NWS forecasting 94F on saturday.

Welcome. One of the first things you may want to do here at AmWx is find the "ignore" button and put "CT_Blizz", LitchfieldLibations, CoastalWx and SkiMRG on it. That will filter out about 95% of posts.

Just kidding, everyone here is great and you'll have a great time. See ya around.

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BDL 76 at 1230am. 76/51 why are they not cooling more. 20C 850 right next to them on SPC meso scale map. could they roast to 100 tommorrow. perhaps

BOS at 78 as well....with a point and click of 101 tommorrow. DAMN!

I'm going to go out on a limb and say the 101 at BOS doesn't verify given MET is 94F and MAV is 93F and BOS has hit 100F exactly twice in history before 7/3, last time in 1952.

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