gravitylover

Damn skunked again on a meteor shower. This one tonight is supposedly super rare and only lasts for 15 minutes but of course it's cloudy. Again

Well how'd that weather go for you today Julian? It looked like it was white for a while. When I left home this morning to head for Syracuse I was going to head up the Taconic but as I came around the north side of my hill I could see winter about 5 miles away. When I left home it was 39 in the driveway and the north side of the hill was 37 and I could see snow falling just a bit north of me so I changed my plans and went out to Rt 17 and up 82 to stay south and west of winter. It worked. The whole way out across the river I could see winter to my north and it finally stopped looking grim around Middletown where it went to partly sunny until I got to 81 but it stayed warm (38-40) the whole time.

What's the average high temp for around here now? It seems that my 40 this afternoon is pretty low. Another dreary day, I was hoping for some sun and a breeze to dry things out a little. Guess not...

Wow man, just wow.

1.3". There were some pingers as it pulled through before sunrise. I'm ok with no ice accumulation. 35* now and headin' up. Looks like an alright rest of the week coming up.

1.1" and it's up a half degree putting it at just about 34. Beautiful

Great. Now it's 33 and getting windy and drizzling harder. Yuck.

Days like this are pretty depressing. When it's heavy mist/drizzle from ~6am on and it stays at 40* or under the whole time it's just miserable to be outside. At least it's not windy too.

REI = No. I'm an independent retailer supporter. I know too much about the inside workings of REI to ever want to support them. They're also doing a pretty good job of ruining the opportunity for those indy shops to make a living by working with what's an unsustainable margin for them.

Well the forest seems to have gone into hibernation quickly this year. Even though it was warm today it's pretty much frozen solid where I was late this afternoon. There's a bit of fast flowing open water but slow spots were iced over, puddles are blocks of ice and everything is firm and asleep. It's weird because there's usually still some signs of the summer that was but this cold snap shut that right down. No bugs is nice

I guess I missed on the sarcasm. The wind there is terrible. I don't remember it being such a problem before that chair though but my memory may be clouded by rose colored lenses I'm saying, in general, I really miss surface lifts. You could always stay out skiing when they were everywhere, chairs also used to be much lower and below the top of the tree line so they could keep running longer. Just look at the phenomenal run the red chair had at Magic, that sucker hardly ever closed.

Boy it's nice to see low min's rather than hig for a change.

When there's wind? Yeah... I love t-bars and pretty much all surface lifts except rope tows.

Got down to 15, up to 23 now.

Got down to 15 here on the hill, crept up a degree already with a crystally clear and super colorful sunrise going on.

I got stuck behind a brine sprayer truck on Rt 100 in VT for about 20 miles a few years ago. It was one of the worst tasting experiences of my life. Even with the charcoal air filter and recirc on I could still taste it and it made my eyes tear up. I pulled over for a few minutes hoping it would either get far enough ahead or turn off but no such luck, I caught up to it again and couldn't get around it until we got to Rt 4 at Killington. Horrible... I couldn't run the heat after that because the filter was filled with salt and kept spraying it into the car so I had to race down to Rutland to the Subaru dealer to get a new one before they closed so I could keep heading home.

It white rained just enough in some parts of town that there is a slushy, now frozen, coating on cars and bbq grills. Temp is down 28* since I woke up this morning, it's brisk out there with a nice sunset going on.

This says you're pretty close http://www.nysmesonet.org/weather/maps/soil-temperature-25cm

I just noticed that. There's so much good info on the mesonet network.

The official depth for measuring soil temps is 4" I think. This is a good idea, if it works I could see doing the same thing. That 15* drop in Brewster confirms my suspicions. It's significantly more uncomfortable than it was early this morning.

^^ Perfect. It looks like winter but the road and driveway are good to go. Hopefully it gets to dry before it freezes. All I'm getting is enough white rain that it looks good against a dark background.

Looks like the precip is ending just as it starts to flake. Nice to see though...

Pretty much looking like we need to head up to Julians place if we want to see more than a dusting tomorrow. The west slope of the Berkshires a little further northeast of there could see a decent little thumpin'.

It's 40 years ago this month since I've seen him on stage. Looks like the first mt bike ride in the snow for the season is coming up this week. Who's joining me?

I lost both of mine and there are a few others either dead or nearly so in the neighbors yards.