mreaves Posted July 7, 2015 Share Posted July 7, 2015 More smoke from Canadian wildfires tonight? We have a campground just down the street so we sometimes smell smoke that's not from Canada. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nittany88 Posted July 7, 2015 Share Posted July 7, 2015 More smoke from Canadian wildfires tonight? We have a campground just down the street so we sometimes smell smoke that's not from Canada. Yeah its been overhead for days, hopefully the southwest flow aloft can scour it out today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted July 7, 2015 Share Posted July 7, 2015 Yeah its been overhead for days, hopefully the southwest flow aloft can scour it out today. Awesome firey sunset last night though like Key West style. The big orb dropped below Mansfield's ridge line, and by that time there was so much haze obscuring it, that it was just like one big fireball in the WNW Sky. I bet it looked sick over the lake from BTV land. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nittany88 Posted July 7, 2015 Share Posted July 7, 2015 Awesome firey sunset last night though like Key West style. The big orb dropped below Mansfield's ridge line, and by that time there was so much haze obscuring it, that it was just like one big fireball in the WNW Sky. I bet it looked sick over the lake from BTV land. Yeah I was at the office and could see the big orange ball, not close enough to the lake here to see it though . The moon the other night even had that orange-y yellow glow to it. Also not too often you want winds from the southwest to get better air quality haha. But the past couple of summers with the deep ridge and warmth out west, the NW winds here have brought in their smoke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ApacheTrout Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 0.01 inches here. The forecast of heavy rain happily qualifies as a bust here. Edit @ 7:17 am: D'oh!!!! I spoke too soon. It's pouring now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxeyeNH Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 Noon and front now well south. Blue skies NW breeze 69/62F. Storm total (warm and cold fronts) .15" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 I only had around a quarter inch of rain in the gauge this morning, so I was surprised to see how much it rained just on the other side of the Spine. I didn't see radar as it was moving through, but looks like there was some solid blocked flow enhancement on NW slopes of the northern Greens. I was surprised to see Jeffersonville Co-Op just on the other side of the Notch picked up almost an inch of rainfall. You can also see Richford on the west side of Jay Peak also picked up almost an inch. Must've been some low level veering along the front, really squeezing out that liquid on the west side of the northern Spine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 Apparently there is a space weather conference going on in Stowe this week. http://vtdigger.org/2015/07/02/dr-carrie-black-to-speak-on-space-weather-in-stowe/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxeyeNH Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 Looks like a nice soak from about Brian in Central NH down south. Extrapolating the radar right now at 5pm it looks like a near miss for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 Looks like a nice soak from about Brian in Central NH down south. Extrapolating the radar right now at 5pm it looks like a near miss for me. Just sprinkles with that first batch. It looks pretty meh. Hopefully I can pull off at least a tenth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 Just sprinkles with that first batch. It looks pretty meh. Hopefully I can pull off at least a tenth hundredth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 About to bid adieu to NNE for a couple of weeks and head south to SW GA and Panama City FL. Probably not quite as cool and refreshing a summer down there. Haven't decided whether to detour through the Outer Banks or the Smokey Mts. on the way home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 About to bid adieu to NNE for a couple of weeks and head south to SW GA and Panama City FL. Probably not quite as cool and refreshing a summer down there. Haven't decided whether to detour through the Outer Banks or the Smokey Mts. on the way home.You're doing this snow bird thing all wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxeyeNH Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 About to bid adieu to NNE for a couple of weeks and head south to SW GA and Panama City FL. Probably not quite as cool and refreshing a summer down there. Haven't decided whether to detour through the Outer Banks or the Smokey Mts. on the way home. Definitely do the stretch of beach from Panama City west to Destin. Up until about 25 years ago this 35 mile stretch of barrier island which is now called 30A was mostly just dunes. All built up now with very upscale communities such as Watercolor. Beautiful area. Can't imagine what will happen when a major hurricane hits everything is so new. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted July 12, 2015 Share Posted July 12, 2015 Hot day. Currently 83F at home and 80F at the office at 1,500ft when I left about a half hour ago. What's interesting about this graphic is that BTV and Plattsburgh have such different temps, yet both are similar elevation, just on different sides of the Lake. BTV definitely runs a lot warmer than PBG, which is interesting just given its different shores of the lake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted July 12, 2015 Share Posted July 12, 2015 S NH was torch central today CON 92 ASH 91 MHT 90 LEB 90 DAW 4 straight 89s so probably 90 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted July 12, 2015 Share Posted July 12, 2015 Up this way, this is what I've seen so far.... 4,000ft...70F (MMNV1) 1,200ft...83F (MPV) 750ft...86F (MVL) 300ft...88F (BTV) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted July 12, 2015 Share Posted July 12, 2015 The past couple days are a good example of why MVL is -1.2 on the month, while MPV is -3.2 (the usual -1.5 to -2 difference between the two sites). Given that the two sites supposedly have the same climo normals (despite 500ft elevation difference), this is how MPV ends up so much below normal. Its like running the MPV numbers against the MVL climo. Saturday... MPV...82/53 (68F mean) MVL...86/54 (70F mean) Sunday... MPV...83/59 (71F mean) MVL...86/64 (75F mean) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 The past couple days are a good example of why MVL is -1.2 on the month, while MPV is -3.2 (the usual -1.5 to -2 difference between the two sites). Given that the two sites supposedly have the same climo normals (despite 500ft elevation difference), this is how MPV ends up so much below normal. Its like running the MPV numbers against the MVL climo. Saturday... MPV...82/53 (68F mean) MVL...86/54 (70F mean) Sunday... MPV...83/59 (71F mean) MVL...86/64 (75F mean) Still better than the 102F that my car thermometer hit outside of Macon, GA today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nittany88 Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 Hot day. Currently 83F at home and 80F at the office at 1,500ft when I left about a half hour ago. What's interesting about this graphic is that BTV and Plattsburgh have such different temps, yet both are similar elevation, just on different sides of the Lake. BTV definitely runs a lot warmer than PBG, which is interesting just given its different shores of the lake. PBG is much more susceptible to the Lake breeze. Its a daily occurrence just like a seabreeze. It's epecially bad on any south wind days because the valley orientation near PBG is such that it funnels SE for a brief bit, enhancing the lake breeze off the lake. The only way that PBG can be warmer than BTV is on a strong SW wind when they downslope off the Adirondacks. Then they can torch. The ASOS for PBG is also directly on the lake, whereas you know BTV is a few miles in and up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 PBG is much more susceptible to the Lake breeze. Its a daily occurrence just like a seabreeze. It's epecially bad on any south wind days because the valley orientation near PBG is such that it funnels SE for a brief bit, enhancing the lake breeze off the lake. The only way that PBG can be warmer than BTV is on a strong SW wind when they downslope off the Adirondacks. Then they can torch. The ASOS for PBG is also directly on the lake, whereas you know BTV is a few miles in and up. Ahh that's good info. I don't know why I always thought the airport was actually further from the lake than BTV is. I know Plattsburgh itself is on the water, but thought the airfield was a ways inland as they certainly radiate better than BTV it seems a lot of times (but being protected from the nocturnal low level jet on the VT side would help with that). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nittany88 Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 Ahh that's good info. I don't know why I always thought the airport was actually further from the lake than BTV is. I know Plattsburgh itself is on the water, but thought the airfield was a ways inland as they certainly radiate better than BTV it seems a lot of times (but being protected from the nocturnal low level jet on the VT side would help with that). Yeah the old Clinton County Airport was further inland, but the Plattsburgh Intl Airport is right on the water (well across the street): https://www.google.com/maps/place/Plattsburgh+International+Airport/@44.6524019,-73.4684758,14z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x4cca388332c0ed77:0x613bcf88d1f8545e As far as the radiative cooling, it is weird that it radiates so much better, but like you said it could be because its more protected from the nocturnal southerly jet, possibly because of the mountains near Willsboro: https://www.google.com/maps/@44.4488125,-73.5684686,10z/data=!5m1!1e4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 I can see a nice CB to my east over the mountains. Looks like it could get a little dicey on Mansfield. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 I can see a nice CB to my east over the mountains. Looks like it could get a little dicey on Mansfield. Fascinating storm initiation over the mountains... you've got ones firing over the High Peaks of the Adirondacks, then a line popping up directly over the Spine of the Greens, and more getting going over the Orange Heights up through Coles Pond. Very, very closely tied to terrain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 Fascinating storm initiation over the mountains... you've got ones firing over the High Peaks of the Adirondacks, then a line popping up directly over the Spine of the Greens, and more getting going over the Orange Heights up through Coles Pond. Very, very closely tied to terrain. It definitely is as the higher terrain is giving a boost to those lapse rates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eekuasepinniW Posted July 13, 2015 Author Share Posted July 13, 2015 I'd love a time lapse of the storms popping over those mountains. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 It definitely is as the higher terrain is giving a boost to those lapse rates. Big thunder now at Stowe/Mansfield. That sounded a lot closer than it looks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 Man its still sunny out but this is just constant thunder. Must be some good lightning in that thing. Looks like its still between Mt Mayo and Bolton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 I'd love a time lapse of the storms popping over those mountains. Yeah I was just trying to think of any cams from the Champlain Valley looking east towards the Spine. With sunny skies in the valley, I bet someone caught a sick time lapse of simultaneous initiation up and down the Spine from Killington almost to Mansfield. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 Currently 95F at TLH. Maybe a degree or two cooler where I am about 30 miles north. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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