How is the weather?

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Hurricane coming here, should be a tropical storm by the time it reaches me.  Any posters in Florida?

Wonder how JBS is faring?

[krummholz]

How are things going for you in Vermont these days?  I imagine that it's been a nightmare for folks in the worst hit areas...trying to dry things out and rebuild.

They've had things like various types of fundraisers and setting up go-fund me pages for various farmers in the area.  Between a horrible late frost and a lot of areas getting flooded, a number of farmers have been hurting.  Areas (including community gardens) that had rivers overflowing into them have had to pull up everything due to concerns about contamination.  If this were at the end of the season, it wouldn't have been quite so bad.  I also read that some areas might not be able to be planted for years due to soil born diseases that can stick around for ages too. 

PD

What a disaster for those farmers! I'm so sorry to hear this. There has been lots of crop damage here as well, though I haven't heard about any GoFundMe drives.

Things are just about back to normal in Montpelier now it seems, though some businesses are still closed pending remediation of other final cleanup efforts. Though we haven't had any more flooding, all streams and rivers are still higher than normal. And we just received another 28mm of rain today - over an inch. It's been an unusually wet summer nearly from the start, and the weather pattern shows no sign of changing.

Locally the only impact of all this water seems to be an unusually large number of insects - mosquitoes everywhere, some carrying West Nile and even EEE. And ants, tiny ones - my apartment is completely overrun with them and neither Terro baits nor those left by a pest control company have been able to do anything to get rid of them.

On the plus side, I actually saw a honeybee the other day on a hike - the first one I've seen in several years.

[JBS]

Wonder how JBS is faring?

Oh, I'm fine--I'm near Fort Lauderdale, well away from the main part of the storm. A line of squalls came through last night when the center was due west of me (but a couple of hundred miles away) and it was pretty breezy today.

But it's the other end of the state that got hit.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

What a disaster for those farmers! I'm so sorry to hear this. There has been lots of crop damage here as well, though I haven't heard about any GoFundMe drives.

Things are just about back to normal in Montpelier now it seems, though some businesses are still closed pending remediation of other final cleanup efforts. Though we haven't had any more flooding, all streams and rivers are still higher than normal. And we just received another 28mm of rain today - over an inch. It's been an unusually wet summer nearly from the start, and the weather pattern shows no sign of changing.

Locally the only impact of all this water seems to be an unusually large number of insects - mosquitoes everywhere, some carrying West Nile and even EEE. And ants, tiny ones - my apartment is completely overrun with them and neither Terro baits nor those left by a pest control company have been able to do anything to get rid of them.

On the plus side, I actually saw a honeybee the other day on a hike - the first one I've seen in several years.

Glad that things have dried out--at least somewhat.  And yes, it has been a very wet summer.  Rather a sharp contrast to all of the dry ones that we've had lately (with leaves falling off of the trees during the summer).  Lots of green lawns around here!  I haven't had to turn on my hose all summer.  I do hope that Idalia doesn't plan on visiting our area though.

Oh, I'm fine--I'm near Fort Lauderdale, well away from the main part of the storm. A line of squalls came through last night when the center was due west of me (but a couple of hundred miles away) and it was pretty breezy today.

But it's the other end of the state that got hit.

Glad that you're o.k., but sorry to read of all of the flooding in other parts of your state.

PD

[LKB]

Floridians will pick up the pieces and move on, l doubt ( though in truth l haven't checked ) there's another US state with more experience recovering from a hurricane.

[DavidW]

Here post-storm we've had extremely beautiful weather.  High 60s to low 80s, perfectly blue clear skies, and low humidity.  After all that intense heat and humidity it is like something out of a dream!

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Here post-storm we've had extremely beautiful weather.  High 60s to low 80s, perfectly blue clear skies, and low humidity.  After all that intense heat and humidity it is like something out of a dream!

Did you get much rain, wind, etc.?

Beautiful here too...can't complain!

PD

[DavidW]

Did you get much rain, wind, etc.?

Beautiful here too...can't complain!

PD

Plenty of rain taking us out of the drought.  No wind.  Just what we needed here.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Plenty of rain taking us out of the drought.  No wind.  Just what we needed here.

Was much of it able to sink into the ground though?

[DavidW]

Was much of it able to sink into the ground though?

It is very sandy here so yes it absorbs it very quickly.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

It is very sandy here so yes it absorbs it very quickly.

Cool!    Happy for you!

PD

[DavidW]

The weather here is absolutely amazing!  I sat outside reading yesterday evening and it was room temperature with the occasional breeze.  I just enjoyed a long walk in a sunny day 75, not a cloud in the sky, dry and comfortable.

[71 dB]

It was one warm Friday in Finland. +22°C in late September!

[JBS]

It was one warm Friday in Finland. +22°C in late September!

22C on 22 September...
BTW, Happy Baggins Day to one and all.

[krummholz]

It was one warm Friday in Finland. +22°C in late September!

Hey, we have you beat... 23º C today! (also unusual in late September in central Vermont, USA)

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Looks like our brief string of nice sunny days will be coming to a close today; trying to think if I need anything from the farmers' market before it starts raining.

PD

[71 dB]

Hey, we have you beat... 23º C today! (also unusual in late September in central Vermont, USA)

Something like +12°C would be normal in Helsinki this time of the year. Today we have much worse weather than yesterday: +16°C and raining.

[krummholz]

Something like +12°C would be normal in Helsinki this time of the year. Today we have much worse weather than yesterday: +16°C and raining.

That makes sense, considering how far north you are. Our weather today is still not bad: filtered sunshine through a high overcast, and 17º C. (The high overcast is from TS Ophelia and is the only impact we expect to feel from it, this far inland.)

[71 dB]

That makes sense, considering how far north you are. Our weather today is still not bad: filtered sunshine through a high overcast, and 17º C. (The high overcast is from TS Ophelia and is the only impact we expect to feel from it, this far inland.)

From Finnish perspective the US is almost in the equator and very warm (kind of applies to places such as Florida and Texas), but the US is a very large country and reaches quite up north. You are about as north as Venice (still quite south from Nordic perspective). How much/often do you get snow in Vermont during the winter?

Sometimes we have so warm winters there's hardly any snow on the ground in the winter in Helsinki (It can be as warm as +5°C in January/February), but the last few winters have been real white winters with about 2 feet of cumulated snow in Helsinki. Snow is important, because the winters are very dark up north (short days) and the snow reflecting the light from street light, buildings etc. makes the darkness less dark. If the sky is covered by clouds, the city lights keep reflecting between snow and clouds and it generates a kind of dim "half-night" where the sky (bottom of the clouds) is colored rose-quartz. I love it. It is so pretty and fairy-tale-like. If there are also large snowflakes hovering slowly down and no wind, the scenery can be really magical! All the snow on the ground dampens the noises of trafic etc. so it can be very quiet and peaceful. Cold winter air is typically very dry, but if it is snowing, there is typically more humidity and the the air is pleasantly fresh. That's one gift of winter, but it requires the right weather conditions and there are really only a few days per winter like this, if any. Better be out enjoying it when it happens!

Looks like we are getting a nice Sunday here the temperature reaching +18°C!

[krummholz]

From Finnish perspective the US is almost in the equator and very warm (kind of applies to places such as Florida and Texas), but the US is a very large country and reaches quite up north. You are about as north as Venice (still quite south from Nordic perspective). How much/often do you get snow in Vermont during the winter?

Sometimes we have so warm winters there's hardly any snow on the ground in the winter in Helsinki (It can be as warm as +5°C in January/February), but the last few winters have been real white winters with about 2 feet of cumulated snow in Helsinki. Snow is important, because the winters are very dark up north (short days) and the snow reflecting the light from street light, buildings etc. makes the darkness less dark. If the sky is covered by clouds, the city lights keep reflecting between snow and clouds and it generates a kind of dim "half-night" where the sky (bottom of the clouds) is colored rose-quartz. I love it. It is so pretty and fairy-tale-like. If there are also large snowflakes hovering slowly down and no wind, the scenery can be really magical! All the snow on the ground dampens the noises of trafic etc. so it can be very quiet and peaceful. Cold winter air is typically very dry, but if it is snowing, there is typically more humidity and the the air is pleasantly fresh. That's one gift of winter, but it requires the right weather conditions and there are really only a few days per winter like this, if any. Better be out enjoying it when it happens!

Looks like we are getting a nice Sunday here the temperature reaching +18°C!

Actually Venice is north of 45º N; we're just above 44º, about the same latitude as Avignon. Yes, the US is far south of Europe but our climate is much colder than you'd expect, because western Europe at least has the benefit of the warm Gulf Stream current. Central Vermont, in particular, gets quite cold temperatures in the winter - we saw -31º C once this past January, and temperatures in the -20s C are not unusual during cold spells. We do get a fair amount of snow - half a meter of accumulated snow is not unusual here in January and February. But on the other hand, we often see temperatures in the low 30s C during the summer months, especially now that the climate is warming, and summer temperatures can stretch well into mid and even late September. We will probably see highs in the mid and upper 20s again this year - though not today, and we've actually seen a bit of rain from the outermost bands of TS Ophelia.

I'm a little surprised that Helsinki sees +5º in the middle of winter - must be the moderating effect of the Baltic.