Juliancolton

28 Some of my tomato plants had started putting out new growth and blossoms over the past few weeks but last night put the kibosh on that. Funny how the killing freeze comes at climo time despite the torch month.

Feels quite refreshing out there today. The NW gusts are probably hitting the reset button on any burgeoning leaf peeping prospects though.

Ugly. Not the yard, the yard is nice.

Wow, I wish I were that good at multitasking.

Same tree on this date last year vs. today:

Took a drive this afternoon around northern Dutchess and southern Columbia, and all I can say is the colors are a big disappointment in that particular microclimate. Lots of bare trees already giving rise to the "past peak" feel, but without any of the residual vibrancy that would normally accompany that stage... just indistinct, muddled shades of like taupe or sickly brown. I'll probably give it a few more days and then start hitting the gunks/Catskill escarpment/Taconics/Litchfield hills in rotation every day to try and find the sweet spots (of which there are always at least a few) for photography. In places like Harriman and Bear Mountain, peak doesn't come until almost November in normal years, so areas south of me go on the backburner for at least another couple weeks.

Yeah, some respectable color cropping up around here too. Probably won't be the most epic foliage season but it shouldn't be a total bust, either

Low was 32.4F almost at the same moment as the official sunrise time. It had dropped a full degree in the 15 minutes prior so if sunrise were 7:00 instead of 6:53, I likely would have been able to claim my first subfreezing of the season. A game of inches...

34.1F and still falling as I leave for the week's first sunrise hike. Probably won't break the freezing mark but it may be close; I'd feel more confident if sunrise were delayed another 30-60 minutes. We wait and see.

Yep, raw out there today. I know nothing should surprise me anymore but it's quite a shock going from a bona fide heat wave to heated steering wheel wx over the course of a few days

Nah, you had negative rainfall 3 out of 4 months. Water ascended from nearby waterways into the sky.

I mowed for the first time in a month yesterday (mostly to mulch leaves and even out the few patches that are still growing a bit) and it was intolerably dusty. We're parched. Some of the most reliably vibrant trees in my hood went straight from green to sickly brown this past week - never seen anything like it.

I like my hypothesis better.

I think everyone here knows I'm a winter boy through and through, but I do have to say the waning daylight is getting the best of me this year. Not even 8 pm and I'm soundly ready for bed...

Isn't that pretty much the way it always works?

Go away!

It's got to be a daily record for the territory. That total makes Maria the second wettest TC on record for Puerto Rico, behind only the October 1970 tropical depression which dropped a little over 40" over the course of many days.

Sickening. Reports of a kindergarten collapse from the quake while in session, with 100 children unaccounted for.

The NHC discussion pretty much corroborates the hivemind regarding ERC prospects. That ring is so large that it'll take quite a while for it to contract enough to hinder the inner core. At this point, I think it's still functioning effectively as a feeder band instead of an outer eyewall.

Really bad situation in Mexico City unfolding.

Watch out for that storm surge

Gusts to 25, hurricane season never fails to captivate in the HV.

I'm with ya on that. I guess we pay the piper for the cool, low-dew summer months. Better 70/65 now than on Christmas like in some recent years! The mugginess does make for some nice foggy atmospherics in the mornings, though.

It looked impressive on GOES-16 imagery this morning. Seems like it was mostly confined to valleys and river corridors.

I didn't set up my camera until after the substorm started fading, figured I had more time than I did. Unlike with most events, the photos I got are actually less impressive than what I saw with the naked eye just moments before. Plus, I think I had my camera shooting at the wrong bit depth so the sky is all posterized. Urgh...