dryslot Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 I can always tell summer is coming to a close due to the volume of the crickets Can't believe I was still whacking deer flies today. They are usually done at the end of July There has been a bumper crop of deer and horse flies this year, I am starting to realize that it was because of the high heat and dews we have had that they have been prolonged Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 A lot of the stress trees are starting to shed as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 The last couple nights have that fall smell and feel to them Yep...awesome crisp feel after a few humid weeks. Car thermometer says it's 59F already at 9pm...colder than most lows during the first two weeks of August. Should be mid 40s by morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CapturedNature Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 Yeah, today was an exceptional August day! A high of a 69° off a morning low of 49° and temps cooling off nicely this evening. I love these kind of days! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mahk_webstah Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 70 beautiful degrees out. I hope everyone is having the best day they can have!!!! I did just as you hoped. Never had better tomatoes than this year. I took a chance and planted watermelons...harvested the first one today, enormous! very sweet and good. Made roasted tomato soup, sat out on the porch, hiked Mt. Kearsarge. A freakin awesome day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 Yeah, today was an exceptional August day! A high of a 69° off a morning low of 49° and temps cooling off nicely this evening. I love these kind of days! Congrats on the high of 69F! Was that at 650ft or 1200ft? Back up north now, and we hit 75F at MVL (730ft) after a low of 44F. Standard lapse rates this afternoon between the ASOS stations in northern VT for highs: BTV...78F (300ft) MVL...75F (730ft) MPV...72F (1200ft) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 Euro blew tomorrow;s forecast..especially for SE MA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan11 Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 52 here now. The second night of 40's upcoming. Euro blew tomorrow;s forecast..especially for SE MA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
free_man Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 We went to Kimballs in Rindge and noticed a lot of people in jackets and shawls I might be moving to near your hood soon, Princeton or up towards New Ipswich/Ashby. There's actually a very neat little house for sale in Princeton near 1150' on Hubbardston Rd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CapturedNature Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 Congrats on the high of 69F! Was that at 650ft or 1200ft? Back up north now, and we hit 75F at MVL (730ft) after a low of 44F. ... Here at 650'...It was mostly cloudy with breaks of sun here all day. My 1250' station is at the top end my sugarbush. I can't be certain what the high was there because that sensor has solar issues sometimes but I basically only keep track at my house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneypitmike Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 Another beautiful mroning out there today. Not getting Rick's 40's, but 51 ain't too shabby for the Pit this time of year. Sucks that it's Monday, but I've got a short week in store. Heading to Falmouth Thursday afternoon. Hopefully the weekend will be decent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 Feels great once again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amarshall Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 Back from Banff. The last day we had snow on the peaks around town. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 The longer range seems to indicate perhaps milder than normal weather heading into September with troughing in western Canada and NW US. It doesn't look like 90 and swamp because thicknesses aren't really high enough, but there is a front nearby...probably a wet pattern too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 The longer range seems to indicate perhaps milder than normal weather heading into September with troughing in western Canada and NW US. It doesn't look like 90 and swamp because thicknesses aren't really high enough, but there is a front nearby...probably a wet pattern too. Meh..we'll see Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 Meh..we'll see You want the swamp until 10/1? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 Back from Banff. The last day we had snow on the peaks around town. Awesome Always wanted to go there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amarshall Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 Awesome Always wanted to go there You'll never look at the White Mountains the same again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 I heard a lot of nice things about that place. Looks amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 You want the swamp until 10/1? I want something other than 75-80 and sunny..BORING Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 I want something other than 75-80 and sunny..BORING It's so nice when it's like that. This is a boring time of year coming up...heck summer is boring. Enjoy it, embrace it, get nude in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 It's so nice when it's like that. This is a boring time of year coming up...heck summer is boring. Enjoy it, embrace it, get nude in it. September is my 2nd least favorite month..April is first. Only thing saving Sept is we don't get backdoors and canes happen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 Hey Freak, how often do the peaks up there get Sept. snow, more than just flakes in the air? (say 1"+) I honestly am not that sure...I'll have to look through the coop data but we may be due. In my 8 years up here I've never seen it but a couple years back (09-10 I think) we got 2-4" on October 2nd. Ive seen rime in September but not accumulating snow. I've seen pictures of it though so I know it happens. I noticed the above exchange, and since I have all the raw snowpack data from the Mt. Mansfield co-op station downloaded from when I created the Mt. Mansfield 24” snowpack plot, I scanned through the September numbers back to 1954. Since the collection of actual snowfall at that station can be a bit dicey, I first checked the snowpack data that I had, and found three occurrences of September snowpack at the stake: Date Accumulation at the stake (in.) 9/15/1959 1 9/16/1986 4 9/17/1986 2 However, assuming they have historically been using the same practice of reporting the depth of the snowpack at the end of the day (~5:00 P.M. or so) as they do now, it was likely that there was overnight September snowfall that simply didn’t make it through the entirety of many warm, September days to be reported from the stake. Therefore, I also checked the snowfall data, and found that indeed there are a fair amount of reports of September snowfall: Date Snowfall (in.) 9/15/1959 1.00 9/24/1966 0.50 9/2/1967 0.30 9/25/1967 1.50 9/22/1976 1.00 9/28/1980 0.50 9/16/1986 4.00 9/24/1989 1.00 9/21/1991 1.00 9/28/1991 0.30 9/29/1991 1.00 9/30/1992 0.30 9/23/1998 0.30 9/30/2009 0.02 Not all of those reports are an inch or greater, and there are a few years with no data, but accumulating September snow does happen on Mt. Mansfield, at roughly a couple times each decade. About half of those reports are an inch or more, so accumulation at that level is about once a decade. I’m not quite sure what was going on with the 2009 number, since one doesn’t generally report snowfall to the hundredths of an inch; perhaps they are reporting a trace on that one. Not surprisingly, September snowfall is more frequent on Mt. Washington with a couple thousand feet of extra vertical – the September monthly average there is 2.2” inches, and the monthly maximum is almost 8 inches, so accumulating September snow is probably fairly common. I also scanned the Mt. Mansfield data for August, and there was even one report of accumulation there: Date Snowfall (in.) 8/28/1986 0.20 Since there was also mention of October, I took a look at those data as well. Because accumulating October snowfall is already fairly common even down here in the mountain valleys of the Northern Greens (out of the six season’s worth of snowfall data I have collected here, four Octobers have seen accumulating snowfall, and the average is right around an inch) I figured that getting October accumulation on Mt. Mansfield must be almost a lock. Indeed that’s the case; after checking the snowpack data from 1954 – 2012, there are only a handful of seasons without reported snowpack, and one of those seasons did at least show some snowfall: Seasons without reported October snowpack on Mt. Mansfield 1956-1957 1963-1964 – 0.1” snowfall 1971-1972 1973-1974 1985-1986 1996-1997 2007-2008 So essentially it’s about twice a decade that there is accumulating snow on Mt. Mansfield in September, and about once a decade that there isn’t accumulating snow on Mt. Mansfield in October. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radarman Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 ... Great stuff, thanks!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baroclinic Zone Posted August 20, 2012 Author Share Posted August 20, 2012 PVD back under +2 for the month now. +1.9F. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoastalWx Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 PVD back under +2 for the month now. +1.9F. I suspect BOS will end up near +2 or so as well. I think it may end up just above. Another warm month, but only 1 90 degree day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professional Lurker Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 We went to Kimballs in Rindge and noticed a lot of people in jackets and shawls I was going to head there this past saturday as I headed to the fireworks fest. Damn bomb threat... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 Back from Banff. The last day we had snow on the peaks around town. That's awesome. The first snows in the high peaks of the northern Rockies is just the start... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 Late August..typically when the lawn is at it's worst..not this year...Humidity and numerous t storms FTW..WOW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 Late August..typically when the lawn is at it's worst..not this year...Humidity and numerous t storms FTW..WOW A little off on the striping of the lawn... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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