Stormfly

Could always use the big snow blower to capture leaves! :-D

Nothing for us but wet breezes.

Gator blades on the ZTR take care of the leaves.  Multiple passes.  Deck in highest position around maple fields, those are crazy!  Even so, sometimes have them over my feet up front!  But eventually they succumb and get sucked under the 60" deck and shredded.  Over and over until it's all nice and chopped up.  No windrows.  Good fertilizer. 

Heard Katydids the last few nights.  Yep close to the middle of Nov!  Went out in the woods looking for fireflies, didn't see any and would have been floored if I did!  The latest I've seen them come back is October 07, 2018.  This year they were in and out quickly.

Looking forward to rain and mud in the pasture.  Then we freeze over in Feb.  Those are the worst.

And the best way to get rain is leave firewood untarped!

Took a tower down this weekend, felt like working in early Sept.  Sheesh, don't remember this kind of warmth in first week of November since 1982.  That "Indian Summer" was hot too, I dropped a hollowed out oak and just below where my bar went through was a void with 3 baby squirrels.  I'm no fan of the pesky rodents but I could not stop thinking of the sheer terror they must have felt being perhaps 1/2" at best below a chain whipping by at over 60 mph slinging oil around!

"Positive" news is good for stocks indeed.  Pump and dump, baby! ;-)

Warm Novembers tend to be good for winter.

Ripping winds here.

Air filled with leaves and (pine) needles.

ETA for Belize?

Sorry, could not resist.  Speaking of resist could you imagine getting all the way to Ω before Thanksgiving in the 'States?

You're right, replace warm with snow drought and it would be correct. ;-)

52 minutes ago, BristowWx said:

You saying that just put our winter situation in perspective.  Of course just takes one good hit early in the season to blow that out of the water.  

2009-10...

December, then Jan was warm and Feb came along.

So yes.  Have to wonder if we'll ever see another year like that in our lifetimes.

The best events just seemingly come out of nowhere. ;-)

I saw that map and thought it was snow total for a single storm.  ROFL!

1 hour ago, George BM said:

We need another "No Thunder" severe risk here. 

I do remember getting warned for severe thunderstorms where there was zero lightning detected and (of course) no thunder.  I suspect it was based on wind only and while we did not see severe criteria wind, it was some gusty showers and pea sized hail.

Sometimes we never get warned and experience ridiculous CG too!  I pay attention particularly to lightning as I've been knocked out numerous times when working on fence lines and cabling that picked up charges from hits miles away.  Not fun at all.  It's like that sensation of hitting your so called funny bone (elbow region) but amplified 1000 times through your entire body.  I've been "sunburned" by side flashes on my neck and arms too.  This is why family members move away from me during bad storms!

I love to watch (lightning) but thanks to tech I can do it remotely through movable remote controlled cameras.  If it's not too bad I'll take a gander off the porch but those close ones I back off and retreat.

Tropical storm warning for Atlanta and High Wind Warning for Gatlinburg (TN).

Interesting for sure.

Here?  Just occasional rain showers.

It's going to be a M winter.  Where the M stands for mud.

Yeah it will be cold and dry and every time there's precip it will be warm enough to be rain.

That's Maryland winters for you.

And if it's going to snow, it needs to be thundersnow.  Imagine an all night snow storm with thunder and lightning. :-D

8 hours ago, yoda said:

Hmmmmm

Not even close for the MA.  Zeta will be a non wind event for us. 

Right now it looks like the best winds will be Monday, out of the NW (figures).

Sat looks good for bucking (logs), have to play catch up.

But the mud is going to be a problem.

If it's going to be in the 20s I'm gonna have that barrel glowing cherry red!

3 hours ago, George BM said:

Yeah. Far eastern areas had fantastic wind events this spring. I also remember the southerly winds during the pre-dawn hours of, I believe, Monday, January 25, 2010. Some of those gusts were legit (nearing 50 mph here). And yeah... peak gust from Isaias here... 29 mph.

We'll get a good event at our respective locations again eventually... probably.

Will it be within the next year or within the next millennium? That's the question. 

You are correct, I just checked my videos and it was early AM those rolling gusts out of the south came through.  01/25/2010.  Quite warm that morning.  Messed up one of my Maples and a limb took out part of my estate fence.  Takes 50knot+ winds to start wrecking deciduous in winter here.  We had it logged and fence boards replaced in no time which was a good thing considering the whooping we dealt with in Feb!

Another impressive event was March 27-28 Nor'easter!  The day the Colts shipped out.  Got a whopping 7 inches of slush on forecast of rain changing to snow, little or no accum.  Quite windy at night and second lowest pressure 28.88 in AM.  28.53 in/Hg is all time record 03/13/1993 for us and probably everyone else in this area!

14 minutes ago, George BM said:

I'd love to have at least 35+ knot gusts w/ wind-driven rain from a remnant tropical system at least once in a while here... at this point it doesn't have to be a Hazel , 1933 hurricane, 1878 Gale or Isabel redux to make me happy...

December 19th can't come soon enough! Oh wait- that will be a westerly wind event though. 

The best event this summer was Isaias and here it was quite weak, the peak (actual max not 3 second gust) here was under 40mph.  Even so, those breezy conditions were enough to bring down a junk tree into some overheads which created a 200+ customer outage here.

As far as best event for strong southerly winds for us, this year, was the April 13th storm.  That was enough to make our front door weather stripping play the kazoo, albeit briefly, but the last time that happened was Irene!  We had a nasty storm in 2010 before the big blizzards with some big gusts too and pretty much before that would have been Isabel.  That was so much blowing that my wife had to shut towels under the door because it was obnoxious like living in an apartment with the kid next door bringing home an instrument from school band for the first time!

Going to be too far away to amount to much for us.

Too bad, I'd love to have some 50+ knot gusts out of the E or NE to help with some trees that need to come down!  These ivy wrapped conifers are a NIGHTMARE.  They'd probably tolerate 100MPH out of the east but 55 out of the NW and they'd fall through the pool house.  No thanks to Mr. Murphy.

Jan 25, 2000...

I like surprises but that one was the best!

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/Blizzard

Lower to mid 40s is nice fall firewood harvesting weather.

Too bad the few hundredths of an inch of rain (so far) have essentially spoiled things!

21 hours ago, GATECH said:

Colorado weather is fun, when I went to school out there in Greeley, In 1992, in March we went from 80’s and sun midday, to thunderstorms with tornadoes in the afternoon, to raging blizzard by midnight.  Next mourning 3 feet of snow on the ground.  That was a lot of weather in 24 hours!

Ditto for central OK.  March, 1989.