gravitylover

Thankfully we've lost almost all the leaves up here now.

Active? Yes. The part about wet or white can't be answered until March or so

Well that clear line almost made it. I was on the still cloudy side with blue sky just to my south and west. It got bright enough with hard peeks of sun that sunglasses were necessary especially right at sunset. Now it's wet. At least it's not cold and dreary.

Did you notice how awesome the color is on the Larch trees this year? There are some stands along 17 and on the north facing hillsides on the south side of the road that are really hot this year. What a miserable day yesterday was, once the wetness started in the morning it didn't give up until almost 9pm here and left me with 1.45" on the day. Looks like this week after today is going to be more of the same

Of course I've been in Buffalo and it's been marginal with a few sprinkles. Windy and cool. Fall. Now I'm in Ellicotville and it's cold. It was nice on the drive out here...

I only ended up with .63 but it was nonstop, went from mist to drizzle to moderate rain from about 10am until 3 am.

It really turned into a rotten day. It's cold, wet, misty and has been drizzly all day since about 10am. Yuck.

The only time I see tweets is when they're posted in other places. I'm ready to give one up and be surprised if we end up with a good one rather than find a reason that we're going to have a good one and be disappointed. Punt... The roof collapsed on the Caldor here in Mahopac too. That building just finally went empty recently when KMart closed. The repaired roof is still intact.

Every good meteor shower this year has been obscured by clouds Every one... The recent rains really did wonders for the soil condition in the woods. It's so nice out there now (as long as you don't go down because the wet leaves are hiding the rocks and roots underneath). It's raw out there today, really feels like fall. I think it should be a few degrees cooler than the current 53 though, right?

11-12 didn't count. What, 5" or so for the whole cold season but over a foot in October. Blah. Reality is that I probably wouldn't be totally disappointed with a winter like that, I'm having too much fun mountain biking right now

What's the timing of the rain in the NW CT hills today? It's beautiful up here this morning at Mohawk Mtn, we have a booth on the deck at the Fall Festival, the mist just finished rising off the lake, it's about 85% leafed out in full color and there's an acoustic band playing down on the lower patio. Nice...

Heavy frost this morning in Mahopac. As I went north into the NW CT hills the freezing fog and peak leaf color was beautiful as the sun came.up.

I thought I saw lightning last night after the living room lights were off and I was watching tv. It's been raining on and off here for the last two hours with pretty much nothing showing up on radar. Just a raw and nasty day out there.

I wouldn't call the ground saturated at all. I bet that it's nearly dry 4" down. This was the first rain of consequence in quite some time. In a lot of places, around here anyway, the ground was so dry it had contracted to the point that rocks just get knocked loose when you walk or roll over them (on the mt bike) and deadfall was tinder dry rather than the soft almost sponge like texture it has had for almost the last 2 years. This is a nearly perfectly timed storm to get the soil moisture up a bit before winter. Now it will accept more moisture and will be able to freeze thoroughly rather than just in pockets which can lead to better snowpack retention due to fewer warm insulating pockets at ground level. Getting ahead of myself a bit maybe... If you took I90 as a base point and go north about 100 miles they're just getting wasted and have been for at least the last 3 hours that I've been awake. They've been under 35dbz returns since 5am and the wind looks to be pretty bad too. Yuck.

The guy a few blocks away from me has 3.15 and 2 miles away 2.98 so you're pretty close to what I'm seeing here. KDXR seems to only be showing 1.85 though which is a lot lower than surrounding less official stations. Unfortunately the Brewster mesonet has no precip record for this one, Somers has 2.73 and Dover 2.46. I'm glad it's not as windy as down on LI or along the coast, too many weak branches and widowmakers still hiding up the trees for my comfort.

3.15" here. It's windy but nothing too terrible, station .3 miles away at the same elevation and pretty much the same exposure as me has 6mph with gusts to 21 and down in town it's nearly calm with gusts to 15. It looks like the Upper Hudson Valley/Lake Champlain and Adirondacks are having a rotten morning.

1.65" wind is still under 5mph with the occasional 10-15mph gust.

1.65" now. Good soaking going on.

We were at about 60 percent this morning in many areas, wind sheltered is still around 80-85% but it has been raining leaves more heavily than water so hopefully if that SJ moves through here it ends up mostly harmless. .55" so far.

You know how when it's not raining you want it to rain but when it's raining you want it to be nice... Yeah that's today. After such an awesomely nice golden hour ride yesterday I want another one NOW.

My tomatoes are still growing but not ripening. I'm thinking that I need to pull them and bring them in where it doesn't get so cold overnight to finish. Peppers are doing great too and carrots are still cruising along. All of my lettuce went to seed but there's one nice garlic clove left. Nice and crisp out there right now, this afternoon was awesome in the woods. Man is it dry out there but strangely the reservoirs are still bank full.

Actually you have lots of green along the Taconic too. I was amazed driving through on Thursday. I"m in Stockbridge for the weekend and the dichotomy between the intense colors and late summer greens is pretty great.

I think the leaves turn in response to shorter daylight hours. I do think the temps also play a role in some aspects of it. The most recent cool shot was the coldest yet and the trees were much more vivid after the cold night than the afternoon before, I know that's anecdotal but I've watched it happen plenty of times before. I also think that a good windstorm like we just had blows off the weaker leaves and now what's left will look great today after the cold still night last night. I'll let you know

Even though it's dry out it has that raw feeling, it's cold and windy, leaves are falling like snow... and Don is talking about a 70% chance of warmer than normal. I dunno man, it feels awfully fall like out there

Gotta love being right on the edge of a weather system. It's dank and overcast to my east, mostly cloudy overhead and bright and sunny to my west. Judging by the leaves falling the wind id swirling not moving in any particular direction. The cloud bank is fluctuating so sometimes it's bright and (almost) sunny and then a minute later it's dark and gloomy. Pretty cool.