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11 hours ago, Juliancolton said:

I'm up at Bash Bish Falls and she's roaring today... mist soaking me and the camera hundreds of feet downwind. My guess is the falls and creeks in the area are at their highest discharge levels in a couple years. Hope to hit Kaaterskill and maybe a couple others in the next day or two while the runoff is still at peak.

Cool, I've seen it running hard in the spring and it's like a much bigger falls when it's like that. Lake Mahopac is out of its banks right now, more than I remember it in the 21 years I've been here.

1 minute ago, Dakota said:

Yes, the Yorktown Heights optometrist up on French Hill.

Elevation 666'.

What a number!

I figured you'd know Jerry. Not only is he a dedicated weather nerd that wrote the definitive book on eastern NY weather,he's also a map nut. He used to be a distributor for USGS Topo maps.

If you want an accurate measurement for Westchester look up Jerome(?) Thaler and see what he had. He is the pre-eminent weather guru for the Lower Hudson Valley.

3.7" with light/moderate rain falling, 43* W/NW @ 8-10 with gusts in the low 20's. There's a disappointingly large amount of leaves still on the trees, not so much on the trees that were showing color pre-storm but the green ones are still fully loaded. The power must have flickered because the microwave clock reset to 0. Cool storm but other than a bunch of rain it didn't live up to the hype.

Up 6* at one 7 at the other, up 1mb and wind flipped to W at both now.

Meso station to my SW is off 4*, up 2mb and the wind flipped to the W, NE temp is still up but they're flipping and up 1mb. It's kinda cool having them spaced like they are.

3.3", 63* and tropical feeling, the wind is there but not anywhere near what was talked about.

Over 1.5" now and still pouring.

1.2<>1.3 and pouring.

9 minutes ago, Juliancolton said:

Yeah, let's get it over with and let this mediocre foliage season die with a little dignity. It's like when your pack is 40 days old in March, glacial in some spots and ripe in others, riddled with pine needles and snow fleas... just kill it.

I couldn't agree more. Lets get this thing done so I can do a final run through the property with the lawn mower and chop up all the leaves and sticks and put her to bed for the winter.

Heh, that's when I shovel the piles into one big one out by the street so it melts into the street not the driveway.

4 hours ago, Juliancolton said:

You know what, I'm just going to be an unabashed for the rest of today. I deserve it after the almighty summer of ennui.

 

Hahaha

Heavy rain now, steady wind = Serious leaf storm. Stick season starts tomorrow.

I was just posting to say when it started, actually at that point it had been raining for about 30 minutes already. It started raining much earlier on this side of the river than by you, I'm at ~.5" already here.

It's raining

Windy enough that it was a leaf storm in the woods this afternoon. Other than the trails being completely covered and tough to find it was an absolutely beautiful day to be mt biking.

Don't have a generator   I do have a couple of trees I'm concerned about though, especially with what looks to be an extended period of SE then NW winds. Those are the two directions I think the bad trees will be the most likely to come down from. Thankfully they both lean away from my house  We were going to deal with them this summer and a few days from when the tree guys were going to come the well pump crapped out so the $$ got redirected.

Yeah it's really starting to look like it's got whopper potential. I think I may start cleaning up around the yard and bring in all of the loose things that could fly away. Hopefully some more leaves come down before the big blow otherwise branches and trees will be falling like raindrops.

Feels like fall out there today  

3 hours ago, Stormlover74 said:

It's kinda crazy that was all going on and 30 to 40 miles away it had cleared out by 4:00

Yup. 30-40 miles to my SE Brian had a solid storm raging while we were bbq'ing dinner.

14 hours ago, IrishRob17 said:

It will never be below normal ever again. Never ever. 

We need a massive volcanic eruption. Hopefully not Yellowstone...

Yep same .75 here.  See what you can do about moving that rain out to Monday would ya

Looks like right around 1/4" here with maybe one more thin band yet to come through. So what, now it dries out until the ULL comes through tomorrow?

That's some fer real rain goin' out there. It comes in waves and the wind with each one is great. In the heaviest downpours the water is running off the hill in torrents because of the dry ground and leaves.

Yeah some pockets of good color popped over the last few days but nothing too special. I was up in Columbia County riding on Sunday and there were a few stands of trees that were nice but overall it was just okay. I made another quick run up to the NEK yesterday and there were also a few spots that were good but by the time you get to where I89 comes into VT from NH it was more sticks than leaves. This wind today/tonight ought to take care of whatever color is left but there's still a ton of green down here, hopefully that changes.

Hopefully that vibrancy won't be too muted by a few days of windy, grey, rainy weather because that will probably bring the leaves down and turn it into stick season pretty quickly.

Too much green. Like was said, some are bare, some are sort of colorful, many are just getting crunchy without really turning and some never changed from that late summer green. Oh well there's always next year. 

Was out in the woods along the Taconic just south of Rt 301 yesterday and holy cow is it dry. Wowza  Many small ponds are dry and the topsoil is just crumbly in a lot of areas. 

Another nice day today  

46 minutes ago, UlsterCountySnowZ said:

Yea I lit her up last night, first fire of season and all the dust starts burning off, lol... smells awful

 

 

got down to 35 last night, kinda surprised, air felt colder than Monday night 

Ooh the amount of smoke that worked its way into the house for a little while until the chimney heated up was impressive  Once it got going it was fine and then last night no problem at all. I guess the long wet spring loosened some crap that needed to burn off or drop out.

40 minutes ago, IrishRob17 said:

 I find microclimates very interesting and many folks aren’t even aware of them. You hear people say that they heard on the news that 3” of rain fell for example but they really have no idea how much actually fell in their yard, temps are the same thing but most people don’t care about these nuances or small details in their minds. 

I've been on that bandwagon for a long time but now have an official way to confirm it. When taken in conjunction with KDXR which is a similar distance east and another that's a bit south of that it really starts to give me a better picture of what's going on. When I add in some of the home stations on WU and similar it's pretty amazing the differences in a small area.

Beautiful day out there now, quickly approaching 60* already.