Snowedin

It seems to happen faster every year. Hopefully the upcoming El Niño will offset some of the gloominess until the pendulum swings the other way by providing us with multiple day rain events and subsequent periods of frozen mud shortly thereafter.

Yeah it was kind of eerie after spending some time outside Fri afternoon and they were singing almost nonstop. Then we go from late summer to early fall just like that. Hopefully we can get at least a week or so of “Indian summer” before the door fully slams shut by mowvember.

That’s gotta be it. They’re so small you can’t even see them until they’re right on top of ya and start taking little nibbles. I sit outside a lot in the summer and they’ve been having a field day on my legs. I’m seeing a whole bunch of chippies running around too. They must sense the changes coming for next week.

The stinkers are everywhere around here. That plus tiny little flies swarming around anything slightly fleshy and warm. On a positive note this little bit of dewiness feels amazing. Summer is still hangin on at least until the next round of dampness overtakes us.

I’m not switching over until after Christmas Eve. Then it’s official.

Yeah must be just my little corner of swampville keeping that underground moisture flowing more than surrounding spots. We live in an odd area of town literally surrounded by swampland and at nearly 200’ in elevation. Of course it’s pure conjecture on my part but I wonder if that plays a role. The acorns have been dropping like mad in the last few weeks so there’s that lol.

Weird, hardly any noticeable foliage here aside from the leaves having a more faded look. That’s probably mostly to do with having a fairly dry summer. I’m sure within a couple weeks we’ll start seeing the change. New England's many micro climates and eco diversity is always fascinating to witness.

I had to smoosh a couple slow flying skeeters that were getting a little too close earlier. It def has that mid June feel right now with all the moisture in the air, minus a couple hours of daylight.

Thats what she said.

Embrace the hose baby!

More rain than our average snow event in January Looking at just over 3.5” here and a few good limbs that will undoubtedly need to be tossed!

Another nice band rotating through with some good gusts mixed in. Honestly this storm has been fun to track and experience, especially this evening with all the rain and the classic howling wind sounds we’ve come to expect during a coastal storm. It sort of feels like we’re making up for all those missed t-storms that always seemed to fizzle out west this past summer, although nothing beats a couple good house shaking rumbles. For now, let’s keep that firehose going!

Dumpage right now..it must be a hell of a sight down in places like Brant rock, scituate, revere and the usual spots with waves crashing against the shore. I think we’ll see a few good boulders, maybe even the odd old scooner or two washed up when things begin to settle down late sun!

That’s crazy but not totally surprising. I gotta do some digging on the mechanics behind that one as I don’t think the forecast ever called for gusts to reach higher than 60 at the time, which is still pretty respectable. I’m still finding trees and phantom limbs down when I go for walks that I’m willing to bet are attributed to that storm.

Just a quiet little town called norwell. I think I’m just a little southeast of Scott. We happen to be about five miles from the ocean so big wind events are nothing new around here but there’s been a few bigguns over the years. That 2021 storm was on another level though, never experienced winds nor damage of that intensity before.