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Yea, good question. Speaking locally, maybe just hope some of the mid slope and higher hillsides(1000-2500ft) where many of the maples are aren't radiating and staying a bit warmer? No idea, but this is legit fall airmass, prob pretty chilly even hillsides.

NEK starting to pop some reds and oranges..

Got to 29F here. Some other spots radiate better then me down the hill 400-500', maybe some 26-27F readings locally.

Woodford VT reported 62" during that 5 day stretch. Savoy Mass 57". Mitch would have been buried in his current spot if he was there, probably near 60" also I would guess. I wasn't here obviously yet, but I heard it was 16-22" with a lot of rain mixed in here in the low lands of SVT.

Yea l, agree. I found the post a few years back, I don't know where it is now, but I remember the person mentioning it wasn't a drift and it was "on the level" or something like that.

I recall one of the posters in the Mid Atl forum saying they had a 55" depth, which is almost hard to believe in MD outside of Garret County. But then again, we are talking Parrs Ridge which peaks through the clouds..lol. I don't think I had higher than maybe low 30s as peak depth over the border in PA where I was living at the time. (Western Philly burbs)

Its no match for the infamous Parrs Ridge..aka the Himalayas of Northern MD..lol

Well, I know the 3k NAM certainly hates that area. March 93 could be coming up the coast and it would still print out .1-.2" qpf..ha. It does it with every storm.

65-70" average in Whitefield? Wow, that seems low, but you would know better than me ORH was low 60s and now upper 60s average now right?

Yep, exactly the elevation I was thinking and Alex confirmed. Inside looks awesome too.

Yea, it may be in HIE, but looks like some decent elevation. Killer views right there.

80 years of reliable COOP data here and this will be driest Sept back to 1940 if pattern holds with no rain. Driest was .62", currently under .50". Hopefully something pops up in the next few weeks.

Feel like its going to be an earlier peak this year compared to the previous years, especially with the upcoming forecast of chilly to cold nights and sunny cool days. Seeing some hints of red starting to turn higher up even all the way down here.

Looks like the western us smoke has made it over here..very milky sky out.

Took out my ACs as well today. Wasn't the Herculean task some NE CT posters make it out to be..ha.

Phin will be banished to the NNE thread by mid Jan. SNE will get sick of all his snow obs and will start hearing crickets on his posts a la PF when he posts upslope radar screen shots..ha. Ray will chime in with his "nobody cares about snow in deer labia and moose knuckle" comments to confirm the banishment.

Yea l, I saw your pics, that is really brutal man. Summer rain was probably close to average here, maybe a smidge below. There were some dry spells in summer where there was some browning, but nothing like that. 5 years here lawn has never really gone fully dormant. Always seems to be enough timely rain. We get those hudson valley tornado alley cells that die out and just rain here..lol

Heavy Sept lawn..been dry even up here though. Less then .50" for the month and nothing in the pipeline precip wise it seems..hopefully the cool weather keeps it green.

My wife grew up here (SVT) and has really no interest in weather or really any sense of climate norms, but the one anecdotal thing she always mentions is how warm it always is around apple picking season (mid- late Sept) now and how when she was kid in the 1980s she recalls wearing fleeces and jackets. Recently it seems like its always shorts and tees and swarming yellow jackets with side dish of back sweat.

Looking ay the most reliable COOP in SVT (Peru) snowfall is almost identical for the 1980s and 2010-20. Average snowdepth is a little higher in the 1980s. Interestingly, 2010-20 is the only decade without a max depth over 40". Records started in the 1940s.

He's definitely going through some type of metamorphosis....heat and dews first and now JSpin 50:1 fluff.

I've never actually done it with sand, but that definitely seems to be the preferred method. I would need a dump truck of sand to level my yard.

Its definitely better to be a little earlier than later. Couple factors are temps like you said, and also increasing shade as the sun angle lowers. Last year I had to do an emergency seeding of an area like 20 x 20 that was an old garden bed that we were relocating. It was sometime late in mid/late Sept I want to say I did it which is way late in this area, which i knew but tried it anyway. It all came up ok, but never grew much as soil temps got chilly into OCT. The biggest factor in not being totally successful was that area went from getting 10 hours of sun to 2 hours by OCT, so it had shade and soil temps dropping too fast.. If had started in AUG prob no issues. Im starting an overseed right now in a small section to give it time to establish.

Got it, thanks.

@dendrite @tamarack A big nursery nearby here is going out of business and they have a decent size chestnut tree at 85% off. I dont have the tag right now to see what type it is or where it comes from, but I was going to maybe buy it today. I know you guys have experience with these on some level. Its $300 plus dollar tree I can get for 45-50$, but dont wont to if there is a high chance of it getting whatever knocked out the chestnuts. Anything I should be looking for specifically with this tree?