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17 hours ago, IrishRob17 said:

69 did it for me 

nice

71 here. I wonder if I'm not running just a hair warm lately, but 70 at the Dover mesonet means probably not by much.

Should easily top 70F again today. As the bottom continues to fall out with averages, these kinds of days are quickly becoming rather extraordinary. Garlic and daffodils sprouting, lawn growing, bullfrogs and crickets singing in the evenings.

I was impressed yesterday by the 26L 70H swing. That must have been the biggest diurnal range of the year here. 

Just legendary amounts of leaf fall today. Crushed. 

Made it up to 74 today when the sun broke through. Still soupy now at 65/64. 

12 hours ago, BxEngine said:

Probably shoulda overseeded before this 3 days of light rain. Oh well.

I miss the drought

5 hours ago, LibertyBell said:

a pinhole?

how are they getting pumpkins to be this huge? I remember a few years ago we didn't even have a 1000 pound pumpkin.

The first 1000 pounder was 1996, so it's been a little while now, but still incredible advances over a fairly short period. It's probably the most focused breeding program in history. Thousands of growers selecting almost exclusively for size, year after year.

4 hours ago, gravitylover said:

2500 pounds? Damn.. 

A couple growers in England lost a 2907-pound pumpkin to a pinhole in late August. It would have easily crossed the 3000 lb threshold.

http://www.bigpumpkins.com/Diary/DiaryViewOne.asp?eid=334890

8 hours ago, Stormlover74 said:

Nice pic and yeah photoshop would take care of that

Yeah, content-aware fill makes quick work of powerlines. @sn0w, it would take me about 5 minutes if you wanted to send me the file at original resolution. 

Gonna declare peak in my town. Not much red locally, but lots of nice rust/sienna blanketing the hillsides.

71/45 under blue skies with tufts of wispy cirrus. A breeze keeps the sun from getting too warm on the face, and carries a smattering of red leaves to the ground with every gust. Songs will be sung of this day. 

The woods around North-South Lake are pretty close to peak today. KHP and Hunter have that slightly-past-peak, monotone orange cast, but beautiful all the same. 

Stunning colors in the NW Hills today. What a weekend for the peepers and pickers. 

30.7

19 hours ago, IrishRob17 said:

I know there were trees that dropped their leaves early from the drought but the ones that kept their leaves are looking pretty good this year in these parts. 

This has really become evident in my hood over the last 24 hours. Some spots look the nicest in quite a while.

Foliage will do whatever it wants, apparently.

From all the pictures I've seen, it looks like a great year for foliage in upstate NY and NNE. Their comparatively wetter summer really helped things along.

6 hours ago, IrishRob17 said:

.06. I’d prefer it just clear out at this point.  Hoping that band of showers to the south dries up before getting here like most everything else this morning. 

Most boring wx year of my lifetime marches on.

9 minutes ago, IrishRob17 said:

siting at 4.20"...

Lots of flashes in the southern sky currently. 

44/37 here with the breeze just about gone

Getting soaked up here. Coming up on 1.75" for the day.

I hate when there's an active major in the Atlantic and Levi's site becomes unusably slow.

41 imby, 39.9 at my neighbor's house up the street. Today definitely qualifies to be among the 50 or so top-10 days of 2022 so far. 

Some spots could see lows in the 30s tomorrow morning. It should make for nice steam around rivers and lakes.

14 minutes ago, BxEngine said:

Ive never done any fall planting at all. Maybe i should give it a shot.

Not sure how you survived this long without a constant supply of kale and parsnips