winterwx21

Some sun has come out here.

The rain has pushed to the north. Picked up 3.65" here. A lot of rain obviously and flooding in some spots, but thankfully nothing like Ida. Last night I moved my cars to higher ground to make sure they wouldn't get flooded again in case the worst case scenario of getting 6+ inches of rain happened, but thankfully that didn't happen.

Lots of close lightning strikes with this cell, and some 40mph wind gusts. Nice storm.

72 degrees here. No surprise that temps went higher than forecast.

Above normal temps and above normal snowfall has become a good bet. It's what we've seen so much of in the the last 2 decades. We're able to pull off big snowstorms in warm winters and mediocre to lousy patterns in this new climate that we have. It has become a Colorado-like climate with the combination of warmer temps and plenty of big snowstorms.

Had a high temp of 78 here today. Yesterday I went up to Swartswood State Park in Sussex County. I thought there would be a decent amount of color, but it was still mostly green. Amazing to still have mostly green in extreme northwest NJ in late October. What an October this year.

62 degrees here right now. I knew we would manage to make it to the low 60s today, but obviously it does feel cool after how warm it has been lately. Still looks as if we'll see mid 70s wednesday and thursday. Maybe as high as 77 here thursday.

Yep. Tuesday upper 60s to near 70. Wednesday and thursday mid 70s, and near 70 on friday. A very warm week except for 1 normal day on monday. And the cooldown next weekend only takes us back down to near normal.

As SACRUS said, the warmup mid next week looks significant. At least mid 70s wednesday and thursday. The cooldowns, like the ones coming for this sunday/monday and next weekend into early the following week, aren't very impressive with high temps still making it to the low-mid 60s.

After our little cool shot sunday into monday, the warmup for mid next week is looking more and more impressive. Probably well into the 70s wednesday and thursday next week, before the next cool shot for the weekend of the 23rd.

My vegetable garden is still going strong too. Still lots of tomatoes and peppers. I love winter obviously, but I always hope that the first frost comes late. Thankfully the cool shot coming around the 22nd of october doesn't appear anywhere near strong enough to threaten frost here. Want to extend the growing season as much as possible. Hopefully no frost until early november. And I have some more hardy plants like raspberries that keep producing until a hard freeze. Some years I am still picking raspberries in late November. I'm hoping it stays mild until late November, and then bring on winter.

That's the important thing to me. I don't mind if a winter has warmer than normal temps as long as we get a good amount of snow. Since the winter of 2002-2003, we've had average to above average snowfall in 14 out of 19 winters. And of course many of those were way above average snowfall. So we're on a very good run in the snowfall department, despite the winters having mild temps overall.

80 degrees here now.

Yeah 12z Euro gets the rain out of the way quickly sunday night.

Thank you!

Thank you! And happy birthday to you in advance! I'm turning 44 on tuesday.

Nice to see a decent amount of sunshine this afternoon. The temp popped up to 77 here. Plenty of upper 70s days coming, tomorrow and again next week. We'll see if we can touch 80 a couple times.

Apple picking is a nice activity. Have a great birthday! My birthday is next week as well, on tuesday.

It's going to be close friday. It might stop in the upper 70s due to too many clouds.

I think we have a decent chance of hitting 80 next week. I love warm weather in october.

70 degrees here, and it feels great with the dewpoint in the low 40s. Perfect Fall day.

Had a few moderate downpours here with a few rumbles of thunder. Picked up about a quarter inch of rain.

1.45" so far. Had some very close lightning strikes as well.

Coming down in buckets here now. Easily gonna get over an inch of rain from this line.

Yeah, I was just gonna mention that Euro doesn't bring the rain in until thursday night.