gravitylover

Flakes

Anyone else getting flurries? I missed out on them during the day.

Well that was fun. Tornado warning and we headed for the basement. Of course I stood outside and listened for it. I could hear the wind absolutely roaring but there wasn't much wind here which was weird. Then I saw a few minutes later that just north of me in Brewster they got whacked pretty hard. I think our member drvts was right in the line of the rotation but he might be 2 or 3 miles too far west.

Wet spring led to a lot of growth, then when it dried out that growth took off. The leaf carpet in my backyard is definitely thicker than usual.

That's a cool page. Thanks. Too bad there's only one well in my area. Mighty soggy day today. 44* and drizzly, yuck.

Ya couldn't order a nicer day if you tried. I'm good with some awesome storms but then in between it should be like this. Nunathat 23°day stuff

Perfect work on the car in the driveway weather. I'll take a few more months of this please.

I want a mini goat. No more mowing and free fertilizer for the garden.

I'm good with lower oil bills.

I honestly don't know what I'd rather have at this point. Emotionally it's going to be snow but then life in America will move indoors and I don't want that, I want to be able to keep.eating outside at restaurants. Maybe the early snow curse is a good thing this year.

Who else is seeing snow? I love when lake effect streamers make it all the way down here.

It melted off here before the temp dropped and then it did a fair job of drying out so I missed the event It was nice and crispy with a really thick frost though. It has been a steady rain since about 10 this morning but only up to .4 so it's been pretty light. Things are finally back to that thoroughly soaked point from last spring but 20cm down the moisture is still pretty low. I'll get a soil moisture reading after it ends tomorrow, I got a new cool electronic tool for the garden that should also work for this purpose if I dig a little hole.

Yeah I think it's best left for slug food at this point. Most of that bed will be turned in next week and left to compost itself other than the carrots which should make it through a freeze. I love when storms end with a really good, big flake, heavy blast and this one isn't going to disappoint.

Got a good moderate to heavy blast moving through right now but the temp is up and the earlier accumulation is melting back pretty quickly. I went outside and made a few snowballs and tossed them at the wilted mess that my garden is. Tomatoes have lots of new flowers, strawberries are still flowering and look pretty happy but parsley and cilantro are laid over, carrot tops are squashed (but ought to come back just fine if the freeze doesn't get 'em and the potatoes don't seem affected at all. Ya gotta toss a few snowballs the first and last snows of each season, it's a rule

Ooh good reminder, gotta turn the water off to the spigot too. My lettuce and tomatoes are probably goners

Down to 32/33 now and pretty much sticking to everything with huge flakes falling at a pretty good clip. I think some of the local stations are freezing up because the precip amounts haven't changed in the last hour or so.

34* W5-7 SN All snow now and the temp is dropping pretty quickly. I haven't been out and I'm not going to but I bet those blocked up storm drains have some huge puddles from the heavy rain the last few hours which will start to freeze soon. I'm glad I have a video call that I have to be on between 2 and 3 so I'll just stay home and not go out and deal with the mess.

Not ripping but it is snowing. 36° so it won't stick.

Closing in on 2" now. 41° with a stiff NNW wind.

You old guys gotta be careful with that stumbling

Driving around today I was really surprised at how high the water level is in some of the reservoirs. Usually by now they've drained them down 10 feet or more. Up to 1.4" on the day so far.This is the good solid soaking we've needed for a while. I hate it but I'll take it.

46* and .65 so far with steady rain. Miserable day but we sure do need it. @Juliancolton, I don't think you can really call it until about 4am when we see where the snow sets up. I know you'll need to get well south of me if you want leaves on the trees, even right on the river in Peekskill is pretty much done already. I don't know about the high country in NNJ but from some mtb pics over the weekend it looked like it was pretty good. edit: Actually, after reading Walts thoughts NNJ and SW CT are probably your best bet for snowliage. @Brian5671 what's the leaf/color situation down by you now?

November is looking like it's going to start cold then warm then ...?

I saw that and thought the same thing. Usually I'm all in for anomalous early snows but I really need to get something done tomorrow morning and don't want to put it off due to dumbasses doing dumbass things on the roads. It can't wait until the afternoon because I have a video conference I have to attend between 2-3 and the place is closed over the weekend.

.3 here also.