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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.

17 on my hill this morning. Strangely enough now that it's back above freezing (36) things that were green yesterday are still green, lawns are still looking pretty good and the trees that hadn't dropped their leaves after the wind a few days ago still haven't.

18* out there. This should put the bugs down for the season.

For the first half of the 80's when I still lived in Oceanside there was only one storm that really sticks out in my head, the others were pretty forgettable. Those were the years that put more than half of the ski areas in the region out of business because they couldn't invest in snowmaking. As you went further north it wasn't bad at all but below I90 was pretty terrible.

Did anyone get more than a dusting?

23* low a few minutes ago with a dusting of snow on colder surfaces. The last hour or so of precip last night was white rain and it froze on the grass and car tops and it looks like snow so I'm calling it snow.

.45" and the wind has finally turned over to predominantly northerly, temp is 33 and it's flurrying. In town it's 35/36.

It's barely drizzling here now. Looks like the precip is going to shut off before it gets cold enough to be snow.

I need to do that final mow too but it's still really wet under the leaves that need to be chopped up and the mower blade is shot so it keeps stalling. I'm gonna give it one more day. Are we really going to get snow Thursday night or just some white rain that looks good for a few hours?

No but I wouldn't mind a repeat of 11/12 65* Christmas eve mt bike ride was really nice and 70* rounds of golf in January were pretty good too.

So is a hard freeze pretty much assured tonight? Do I go out now and pull the unripe tomatoes and peppers and let them finish in the house even though they'll be pretty small or do I chance them freezing and getting ruined?

Looks like 1.25" here for yesterday and early this morning. Boy that was a fun drive home from the Capitol District last night. I had to go to Williamstown MA after Cohoes so came down Rt 22 and it was challenging to say the least. Branches and stuff flying everywhere combined with wet leaves and crap visibility made it easy to stay awake.

What a day. Yuck. It got so wet again that the tail end of the garden season brought a bumper crop of slugs under the layer of wet fallen leaves. I have one tomato plant that's still spitting out fresh fruit and the peppers are still poppin' too.

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.

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?

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...

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.