gravitylover

I think it's the very wet late season and accompanying warm soil temps and the lack of cool nights to start the trees producing the sugars that create the vivid colors. I think it's a similar process to how Maples are better sap producers in the spring when it's warm days and cold nights. Lets see if the trees that are still summer green turn rapidly now, especially after the next two nights, and if they get vivid or just fade away. I'd say that it's well over half of the trees in the suburban neighborhoods by me are still summer/late summer green while ~35% turned and have dropped/are dropping their leaves.

Yup, I had a foot of cement. It was a mess. We had no power for 6 days after Sandy then another 5 after the snow.

It up it was pre Halloween not November. We even had trick or treating cancelled by the town here because they felt it was too dangerous for people to be out on the streets with all the trees and branches down.

Well, shoot. My wife and I have been debating whether or not to commit to a 2 day outdoor event (in the hills of Dutchess County) on 11/3-4 to kick off holiday sales for her new small business. I'm not comfortable pre-paying for a spot that may be cold and wet if this end of the month scenario plays out to the cold side which appears to be the consensus at the moment.

Wow. Look him up, he did some fun tunes. Sometimes your brilliance is truly inspiring

It does seem that a lot of models have a strong signal for a significant storm in the region. Yup, tough to tell how it might play out two weeks ahead of time but I like the general agreement in the guidance.

I sure hope so. While it has been "fascinating" to watch the last 7 months it sure will be nice to wake up to blue skies and want to spend the day outside. Today is ultra gloomy

Wouldn't that be something. Snow on the ground for 3 Halloweens in this decade.

^^Boulder got more than that, my daughters friend in college there sent her some pics this morning.

It's still raining heavily and 45* where I am in the NW CT hills.

It would be nice if I was only at ~50" for the year so far, it's closer to 60 here.

More rain :sigh:

That gives a good general idea of what happened but even within it there are microclimates that were substantially higher. That and the fact that so much of the rain this year was convective so if it missed the station or got "hidden" behind a range of hills it wasn't recorded properly like the 10"+ day that the Fairfield CT area had recently. I run into a problem where that blank cone coming out of Uptons radar is directly over me and the radar estimates of rainfall are so far off it's not even funny. On a couple of those maps there's a hole over my town and the high ranges of hills here. I know that we get more rain than Danbury but on every one of them it shows up that we got less. I go through the local WU sites a couple of times a week and the numbers are usually 20-30% higher than KDXR and are at least that much higher than KPOU (frequently higher) and the two local Mesonet sites are usually 10-20% higher but it doesn't look like those were included in these maps. The Catskills are pretty well monitored because it's the primary fresh water source for NYC and there are some decent numbers coming out of this area along the Croton River system but it misses the hilly area differences. I'd say that the 'high country' areas of the Taconics and just east did at least as well as the Catskills and in some cases better so we're at that 30" (or more) also even though these maps show mid 20's. I'd like to see the similar maps for the calendar year.

-14 and we topped 100 more than once. Serious spread!

Our back door is a struggle to open and everything in the basement is getting mildewy. I'm soooo looking forward to a dry stretch so I can open things up to dry them out.

This is one time I'll look forward to getting screwed. #nomorerain We need some wind to dry things out. Unfortunately it will bring down some rotted trees and branches but I guess that's the price we need to pay.

It was kind of weird having a day that it didn't rain. It did start out super foggy so everything is still wet and the mosquitoes are thick like midsummer. Here's to hoping Michael will change things up for a bit and we can get some fall type weather here even if it's just for a short period.

Just soaked and soggy. I'm so over this isht

And again... Visibility is just a couple hundred feet with dense fog and mist. Another very warm overnight minimum too, it looks like it stayed above 60*.

This dense heavy mist is depressing.

At this point there is no such thing as a good batch of heavy rain. It's so soggy tree branches are just rotting and falling and my yard is soaked to the point that if I step a few feet off the walkways I sink to the top of my shoes.

^^Please not next weekend. I'm never one to back down from a great storm but give us a nice weekend.

Lets hear it for another rainy day

What dry few weeks? Not here. See above. It rained again most of last night.

Yeah I was all ready to ride yesterday but then it misted all day and after a 2+ month hand recovery I was sketched to go down on slick rocks and roots. Sorry I had no cell signal there so couldn't reply. It was nice, ran until 4.