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11 hours ago, Hitman said:

I’ve heard of that fair.  Big thing.

soaked here.  Bike cancel.

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.

10 hours ago, Juliancolton said:

When does that run until? I'm heading down to the Scarsdale concours now but shouldn't be back very late. I'd love to stop by and say hi if there's time.

Sorry I had no cell signal there so couldn't reply. It was nice, ran until 4.

13 hours ago, nycwinter said:

60 degrees the humidity should not matter..

13 hours ago, Sundog said:

 

Near 100% humidity and temps between 62 and 65 is not nice. I had until recently the windows open until it started feeling annoyingly sticky inside and had a nice puddle of water under my cup and on my cup. That was enough for me. 

So humid that the mist never broke all day. Everything was slimy and wet making outdoor activities not much fun. Now it rained all night and it's pea soup fog out there ruining (at least) the morning. 

That upcoming dry shot will probably get muted like the decent weather the last few and next few days did. If you had looked at the NWS forecasts a few days ago you would have planned all sorts of outdoor stuff but instead we got this...  

Yuck, it rained almost all night and now everything is soaked and soggy(er?) and my wife and I will be outside all day doing a craft fair. That's another thing that's impacted badly by this weather is outside fairs, we've had more marginal ones than good ones this year. @Juliancolton we'll be a little NE of you in Austerlitz at the historical society fair, you should come by the Looming Madness tent and say hey.

1 hour ago, SACRUS said:

More clouds today.  For a warm pattern 27 of the last 34 days have features cloudy - mostly cloudy conditions.

I'm so over this always cloudy BS. I just want a few sunny days in a row. Today is a real downer

It's 56*, misty, drizzling and cold. Heckuva way to run a nice couple of days 

3 hours ago, CIK62 said:

Next 8 days averaging 70degs., or about 11degs. AN.

5-day cooldown (14th.-19th.) seems is all we will get.   CFS looks warmer overall in the long range as it bounces around in it's own way.

The 500mb heights will go from +190m to -60m then back AN over the next 15 days.

11* is huge. Up here it shouldn't be more than just a few and that's entirely due to high minimums because the daytime temps are ~70 give or take a few.

22 hours ago, sferic said:

With all this warmth, let's go back 31 years ago to October 4th, 1987

Huge snowstorm north and NE of NYC

NW Jersey and Northern  Westchester had 3 inches while further North way over a foot.

I remember just 30 to 40 miles up the thruway from NYC it was snowing as I was in it. WCBS AM also reported a sleet pellet in Hicksville NY

What a storm

I was out in CO that year and we had a very early season round of snow in September that put down enough that we were skiing off the divide in top of the boots deep on 9/20 and by the 23rd it was deep enough to be out on snowmobiles and doing some decent backcountry skiing. The first couple of days we were using 4x4's to do shuttle runs and on the 22nd I was one of the last trucks off the pass in my Landcruiser FJ55 with snow up to the hood by the end of the day. Fun times  

30 minutes ago, NJwx85 said:

Believe it or not I saw some color change on the Thruway in Westchester at the end of August.

There are always some trees that turn very early. Whether it's due to soil chemistry or something else I don't know but, there are a few trees that change early every year by me and it's always the same trees or at least the same group of trees.

2". 

Looks like 2" here, 2.3 1/4 mi S and 1.95 a mile N.

8 minutes ago, Hitman said:

Same here.  Quite the downpour with a lot of lightening.  Roads flooded.  

When I went through Poughkeepsie it wasn't too bad but by 6 around Pleasant Valley and then over and down the Taconic it was challenging to say the least. The further south I went the worse it was though and by the time I got here it was deep on the roads. Just south of me it looks like it was/is even worse.

1 minute ago, Juliancolton said:

July '17. We're people of few words.

Oh heheh look at that 

I drove through some torrential rains today around the lower Hudson Valley and I'm getting slammed pretty good here at home right now with raging heavy rain, lightning and big booming thunder.

At the bottom of my hill the water was past the bottom of the car where the creeks are that drain the hill so if I wanted to get home I had to drive through it. Fun      

2 hours ago, IrishRob17 said:

It’s in this thread 

No this started at the end of July. I wanted to go back to March. I went back through page 2 and strangely enough it's not there but other threads are. 

13 minutes ago, SACRUS said:

 

Great image (loop) of the low clouds/fog retreating NW and high clouds building in.

72 here

 

Hmmph it's been gloomy with 1/4 mile vis fog and drizzle here all morning and it hasn't even hit 60* yet.

12 hours ago, WarrenCtyWx said:

I didn't think any areas had as much as 60" in the month of March alone. The highest I could find was the month of 45" in interior NNJ. Unless I misinterpreted your post?

Oops sloppy fingers  I meant to hit 4 so about 40" in March unless I'm forgetting something in the last week and a bit over 60" for the winter season.

Hey where's our winter thread? I want to go back and look at something. My search-fu is weak  

2 hours ago, uncle W said:

there aren't to many winters with over 40" of snow...some areas got 60"...even February as warm as it was managed to have a 4" snowfall...late December and January had a two week period below freezing with a coastal snowstorm...March produced over 20" on Staten Island...

I had ~60" in March, a decent storm in early January, below 0 a couple of times and days that barely reached the mid-teens but somehow it just didn't seem like an A winter. Yup that Feb storm was quite the fluke in a sea of warmth, I think I got something like 8 or 10". I also only used about 2/3 the amount of heating oil that I expect to use but we were still running the heat much later into the year than we usually do which is part of why I don't have the warm fuzzies for the winter as a whole, it was warm overall. 

10/11 was a good winter, would have been really great if it hadn't ended so abruptly (or was that 9/10 that just shut off?). I think it was 03/04 that was a wall to wall winter, didn't end up with outrageous totals but it started strong on 12/5 and just kept going right through the end of March. I didn't get back here until April 96 so I missed the best of it but I was here for 93/94 and remember that as the first of the great winters in the modern era. I'd also put 77/78 in as one of the good ones. I like winters with a long lasting, solid snowpack that gets refreshed regularly even if it's just a couple of wispy inches at a time.

1 hour ago, Brian5671 said:

Did you miss the 1/5 Blizzard up there?  That saved it for here-otherwise it would have been 2 weeks of wasted cold...sucked losing the heart of winter to rain and warmth-I do agree with that...March was good-but alot of the snow had trouble sticking here given the time of year-the same pattern in Jan or Feb would have been epic.

We got that here too but it still felt like mostly wasted cold because it was dry for the first week or so. I dunno, it just felt like a half baked kind of winter that was frustrating because of the early March disaster when we lost power for a week.

2 hours ago, uncle W said:

there were mild Octobers before some great winters with a variety of enos's...there have been great winters after a cold October and vise versa...

1947...

1963...

1995...

last year...

 

 

 

I have a hard time with last year being a great winter. Yes March was pretty inspiring and that early January cold shot was significant but as a whole I have a hard time giving the winter a higher grade than a B+. That warm 6 weeks and the warmth in between the snows in March just killed it for me.

Today turned out to be an ok day, a bit too muggy for my tastes this morning and not enough sun but temps are reasonable.

It's so uncomfortable out there, muggy ugly dead air   

It's looking like a mostly dry week around here but you don't have to go far and it's all about wet. I need to spend a few days on the road this week and was hoping for nice fall traveling weather and early leaf peeping.

12 hours ago, forkyfork said:

it never ends

This makes me sad  

56 minutes ago, TriPol said:

I think last winter was the first winter where we had snowcover from January - March since 2015.

End of January through February was crazy warm and we lost all snow cover.