adk Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 Based on a trace or more reported on the MVL F-6 climate report: A trace or more recorded on 47 of the last 57 days. It rained on 25 out of 30 days in June. It has now rained for 12 days straight with the lowest 24 hour rainfall being 0.16". It just started raining again. That's effing incredible. Yea, there is a persistant training storm line right over Huntington right now. Easy 1-2 inches in the last hour. As for the fireworks. They are on in BTV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaineJayhawk Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 Just took a stroll here in Portland. A pleasant 73/65. I see inland sites are in the pressure cooker with 80+/70+ ...alas, but it is summer after all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 Just took a stroll here in Portland. A pleasant 73/65. I see inland sites are in the pressure cooker with 80+/70+ ...alas, but it is summer after all. Yup, 81F/72 here and so it begins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 Based on a trace or more reported on the MVL F-6 climate report: A trace or more recorded on 47 of the last 57 days. It rained on 25 out of 30 days in June. It has now rained for 12 days straight with the lowest 24 hour rainfall being 0.16". It just started raining again. That's getting close to 2009 territory, when I recorded at least a trace on 49 of 56 days, June 9 thru Aug 3. 44 of those days had measurable. Gardening (and timber harvesting) was a cruel joke that "summer". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 12 straight days of measurable here as well. I've had at least a T in 33 of the last 46 days...pretty impressive being downwind of the mtns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 12 straight days of measurable here as well. I've had at least a T in 33 of the last 46 days...pretty impressive being downwind of the mtns. I'm just impressed with how widespread the last 12 days have been with regards to rain...to get large chunks of the region to see almost two weeks of daily rain is one persistent pattern. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 Wow the top of the mountain is clear! Haha haven't seen the ridge line in a few days it seems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 June rainfall from BTV....(I was wondering why the Stowe CoCoRAHS number is so low at 6.77", but it looks like that number is missing the last 5 days of the month, so it may be up to 2" too low and would better fit with the surrounding numbers). I also think that J.Spin's location may have been the wettest low elevation spot in the North Country, with 11.13" of liquid, and it fits with the graph being right along the axis of the Spine where the Winooski Valley cuts the mountains. ""Here are the final totals for the month of June. Amazing amounts, especially near the mountains. Mt. Mansfield had the most as you might expect with 14.06" total, but several locations in eastern Chittenden County reported over 10" for the month. If you would like to contribute your daily rainfall to help make these maps more complete, sign up to become an observer for the CoCoRaHS volunteer network! http://www.cocorahs.org/" I was surprised that I didn’t see my June total on the map, but there are other CoCoRaHS sites not present on there as well, so perhaps it just displays numbers for the co-op sites and some other categories, while using everything to generate the coloring. Anyway, since I starting monitoring liquid in 2010 for CoCoRaHS, it’s the wettest month recorded at our site, beating out the previous record month by more than 2 inches. I pulled up the CoCoRaHS numbers for the month (table below), and it does look like there is one site in Jericho that received a bit more rain than us. That site is in the 600’–700’ elevation range, so really just a touch higher than our location. They’re part of that purple blob that sits off to the east of Burlington. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klw Posted July 4, 2013 Author Share Posted July 4, 2013 I cleared another .4 from the gauge this afternoon. It just started raining again and thunder has been going for about 5 minutes. Oh we'll times to close the windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dryslot Posted July 4, 2013 Share Posted July 4, 2013 At least i got 6 holes in tonight.............. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klw Posted July 4, 2013 Author Share Posted July 4, 2013 Looks like central Central VT is getting hammered tonight. Small area but he storms at not moving much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted July 4, 2013 Share Posted July 4, 2013 Looks like central Central VT is getting hammered tonight. Small area but he storms at not moving much.Yeah, we've been on the fringe since about 8:45 or so, just about the time I finished up with the lawn and jumped in the pool. It was a short swim after I heard the first rumble. Lightning looks like it is off to the NE now, towards Groton and the rain has pretty much stopped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CardinalWinds Posted July 4, 2013 Share Posted July 4, 2013 Cold front...lower dews...for the love of all that is good...when?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Spin Posted July 4, 2013 Share Posted July 4, 2013 Finally got fed up with relying on nearby stations and a crude rain gauge for precip amounts, so ordered the standard CoCoRAHS rain gauge and will try to become a regular CoCoRAHS observer. Will be sweet to have a gauge that measures to hundredths and not nearest quarter inch lol. That’s excellent PF; the CoCoRaHS-style rain gauges are relatively inexpensive and basically bomb-proof – hard to go wrong with that investment if you want to monitor liquid. The only potentially “fragile” spot I’ve seen is along the top rim of the outer cylinder. On the one I’ve got, there is a razor-thin ridge of plastic up there – it may be an effort to prevent snowflakes from hanging on the rim if one uses their outer cylinder to catch snow, or it may be for easier coring of the snowpack. I hadn’t noticed this subtlety when I first got the gauge, so there are a few chips in that ridge that I created when tapping the last of the liquid out of the big cylinder while pouring it into the small cylinder for measurement. Now that I’ve seen it, I just don’t tap the end of the cylinder on anything, but instead tap the back of the cylinder itself when I’m emptying it. In terms of winter precipitation, we’ve certainly talked about the potential deficiencies of snow collection in a cylinder vs. on a snowboard, but you really can’t put a price on having that big cylinder out there for mixed precipitation events. The denser the precipitation (rain, freezing rain, sleet, wet snow, granular snow, etc.), the better the cylinder seems to do, since the precipitation is often falling more vertically, and it has less tendency to hang up on the edge of the cylinder and clog it. If you’re trying to monitor liquid in winter storms with marginal temperatures and/or mixed precipitation, there’s nothing better than having your big cylinder there to back you up if your snowboard’s catch has been washed away. This area from Huntington to J.Spin got hit pretty good yesterday with around an inch of rain.... now radar is indicating over an inch in the past hour and not moving very quickly in that same area. Yeah, 1.21” in the gauge this morning – July is picking up right where June left off, with 2.63” of liquid just four days into the month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N. OF PIKE Posted July 4, 2013 Share Posted July 4, 2013 Looks like more big boomers Montpelier And northward . Burlington spf radar light this area up starting early to mid pm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allenson Posted July 4, 2013 Share Posted July 4, 2013 Well, we almost made it through the period without any rain but a rouge batch of thunderstorms came overhead last night from around 10:30--midnight. 0.22" fell, so not too bad. Lots of thunder and a few nice flashes of lightning. Just to be snarky... I guess I meant more specifically with the big ridge off shore, the low in the middle of the country and the tropical S->N pump that's been in place. Most impressive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted July 4, 2013 Share Posted July 4, 2013 Min was 68 so it wasn't too bad in the house with the dual window fans. Thank god for radiational cooling. Already up to 80/72. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted July 4, 2013 Share Posted July 4, 2013 I can't remember seeing either the tropical water pump or the (April-May) Canadian-air sunfest last as long as they have this year. "Only" 11 days in a row with measurable, lowest was 0.06 on 6/27. The 12th day had a trace, back on 6/22. Weak TS yesterday afternoon dropped 0.10"; Mt.Vernon, 2 towns to my south, reported 1.28" and GYX had svr warning for that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted July 4, 2013 Share Posted July 4, 2013 87/73 with some SCT Cu/Ac now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted July 4, 2013 Share Posted July 4, 2013 A quick look at our 12-day rain streak that is on-going... Here in Stowe it looks like we are *only* averaging about 1/2" per day over those 12 days. Underhill on the west side of Mansfield is similar... Meanwhile, J.Spin's location (Waterbury 3.0NW) is not that far off from averaging 1" per day. Man, 9-10" in 12 days is pretty damn impressive. That's rainforest quality right there. Since May 8th, we've had 16.5" of rainfall in Stowe, with Underhill and Waterbury at around 19". The ground is wet. And this was yesterday's rainfall... looks like Huntington won the ark prize for the day with over 3". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxeyeNH Posted July 4, 2013 Share Posted July 4, 2013 one shower/storm popped about 5 miles to my SE just now. Looks like a dry day for the vast majority except of course N VT. 85/61F as of 1pm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eekuasepinniW Posted July 4, 2013 Share Posted July 4, 2013 I'm gonna flip my sh*t soon if it doesn't stop raining right after I finish spraying the gardens down with fungicide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eekuasepinniW Posted July 4, 2013 Share Posted July 4, 2013 suns back out... sweet mother of god is it ever humid now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxeyeNH Posted July 4, 2013 Share Posted July 4, 2013 Couple of interesting musings. That shower that popped up went right over Lake Winnipesaukee which promptly killed it. You could see the Cu field dissipate downwind of the lake. On a unrelated note last night at sundown there was only one thunderstorm south of me and that was over NYC. I have an unlimited view of the south horizon and as the sunset around 8:45pm I could see the distant anvil lit up by the setting sun. NYC is around 200 miles SW of me. I thought that was very cool. My dinner guests sitting out on the deck did not believe me but I know what an anvil looks like and radar showed it was the only one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klw Posted July 4, 2013 Author Share Posted July 4, 2013 This weather blows Oh yeah well maybe the rain hates you. How can we appreciate the sun if we don't have the rain? http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=HWNy-SdVIKk&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DHWNy-SdVIKk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaineJayhawk Posted July 4, 2013 Share Posted July 4, 2013 A short hike today - anticipating a much longer one above treeline on Sunday and didn't want to tucker out my hiking partner. I had read about the fantastic ledges on Hedgehog Mountain, and at 4.8 miles it was sufficiently short. Hedgehog is nestled in between the Kancamagus Highway and Mount Passaconaway. At a little over 2400' it certainly isn't an intimidating peak but it packs a wallop in terms of views. It was already 68° when we arrived at the trailhead at 7:15am, with nary a puff of a breeze. The insects were annoying for about the first time this season. After about 75 minutes we reached the ledges below the actual summit. As advertised, the view was splendid ... ranging from Chocorua over to the Tripyramids. We sat for some time then continued onward. There were more views from the summit, but mostly of the peaks we had seen lower. For whatever reason, Sara and I both thought that there was another set of ledges on the summit area, but it was just the small summit outlooks. Another ledge much lower provided some nice views also. On that ledge I recorded a temperature of 90F. Back in the shade of the forest I measured 78F. A hot one! Looking forward to a couple of days of Splashtown before Sara and I make the trek to 5k or 6k on Sunday. [ attachment=101123:942115_540454819324813_779881052_n.jpg] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eekuasepinniW Posted July 4, 2013 Share Posted July 4, 2013 It's kinda weird how instantly the temp free-falls if the sun goes behind a cloud for more than a minute. Just abruptly fell to 84 while LCI is still 91. The haze seems to have largely blown out... I can see all the mountains for the first time in a few weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted July 4, 2013 Share Posted July 4, 2013 It's kinda weird how instantly the temp free-falls if the sun goes behind a cloud for more than a minute. Just abruptly fell to 84 while LCI is still 91. The haze seems to have largely blown out... I can see all the mountains for the first time in a few weeks. It's a clean air mass thanks to the retrograding ridge. I should run a hysplit trajectory to see where out air is originating from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted July 4, 2013 Share Posted July 4, 2013 lol...83/79 on the Davis after a weak shower moved through just to the NW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted July 4, 2013 Share Posted July 4, 2013 Flash flooding in progress in Stowe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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