Juliancolton

"And if it snows that stretch down south won't ever stand the strain..."

I want to see the Kombucha algorithm for that.

Good waterfall day. Heading out to tour some falls in the berks as soon as I get done with the morning's email slog.

Looks like tomorrow is the last hurrah for the every-other-day rain cycle for a while. It'll be sorely missed I'm sure.

My low was 33. What was peculiar was that there was some frost on the plastic cover of my truck bed, black in color and about 5 feet high, but none to be found on vegetation or the ground. Can't explain it.

Yet another win for Team Fake Cold.

-15F on 1/7 and 93F on 6/18 for a 108-degree range here.

Yeah I think it's probably overdone on moisture and underdone on temps, though it would be a serious pick-me-up to see some flakes. Sadly I have an event on Sat morning but I was planning on shooting up to Lake Placid from there... hopefully some flakes flying in the High Peaks.

Hmmmm

The unrelenting warm fall means we're due for an epic winter, right? Law of averages and all that?

I will say that foliage locally has gotten a lot duller in recent days as the midpoint approaches... lots of green -> taupe -> drop going on. The lack of cool weather may have put the kibash on any nice colors from here out.

There's no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothes. ...except this 77/70 nonsense in mid-October, that's bad weather.

Except for, y'know... Earl '98, Dennis '05, Hermine '16, and maybe a couple I'm forgetting about

It's tradition. You think of the Gulf as the deep tropics and expect a tidy landfall, but the stretch from NOLA to Panama City is poleward of 30N, which means ET influences are often well underway.

You can already envision the classic northern GoM landfall with half an eyewall and even less of a CDO sloshing ashore.