The Perfect Summer Day?

My vote for the day with the best weather of the year was yesterday.  

My nomination for the most perfect weather day
was Sunday in western Vermont, as viewed
in Huntington, Vermont yesterday.  

Here in western Vermont, the sky was a deep blue, flecked with just a few small, puffy cumulus clouds.

The air was free of haze, so the Green Mountains practically glowed in their emerald glory.

It was the quintessential blue/green summer day in Vermont.

After a cool early morning that had me sleeping like a baby the day turned warm, but certainly not hot, and the humidity was low as could be for early summer. A very light breeze completed the perfection.

People always make a big deal out of and savor perfect weather. I know I do.

Of course, perfect weather is in the eye of the beholder. And you have to be in the lucky sweet spot geographically on a given day to get such sterling conditions.

For instance, just over the mountains from me in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, it was a nice enough day, but there quite a few clouds mixed in during the afternoon.

I, and many others regarded Sunday as probably having the most perfect day of the year, but I'm sure a number of people disagreed with me. Some people would have probably preferred it to be hotter and more humid, making it more conducive for swimming.

There's probably a minority who would have preferred a rainy day. A few probably hate summer, and would have been content with a cold winter day.

Unlike most weather phenonmenon, you can't quantify what constitutes a perfect day. Yes, you can precisely say the high temperature Sunday in Burlington, Vermont was 77 degrees, and you can say the dew points were very comfortably in the upper 40s most of the day.

It also didn't hurt that the great weather hit on a weekend.

But is that perfect? To me, yes. To you, maybe not.

Was it the most perfect weather day ever? How do you establish a record like that? You can't compare it to other days, like you can during big heat and cold waves to determine whether you actually set some sort of new record extreme.

It's also hard to give a head's up that a perfect day is coming. The forecasts for a sunny, pleasant day with low humidity ahead of Sunday's weather were accurate. But meteorologist couldn't exactly issue a "Perfect Day Advisory" in their forecasts the way they could issue a "Severe Thunderstorm Watch"

So you don't worry about what is a perfect day and what is not. You just savor it, like I did yesterday.