Juliancolton

I think it's here to stay, another strain making the rounds annually during the overarching "cold and flu" season. We have a flu vaccine and while it helps, we're obviously not particularly close to eradicating influenza from the natural reservoir.

Agree, thankfully there are still some small farms off the beaten path that didn't make the bourgeois repositioning into wine and live entertainment. Another soaking rainfall here this morning. My cover crops and newly reseeded grass are loving it.

LOL, it's gonna be an absolute circus this weekend. Beleaguered motorists abandoning their Subarus at exit 39 and just crawling the rest of the way to Weed Orchards. WOTHSP plunging into the river from the mechanical resonance of 100,000 Brooklynites marching in lockstep. OKX radar picking up echoes from graffiti overspray in vicinity of Breakneck.

I just took a sunset cruise up the Taconic, and boy... yesterday's weather legitimately undid a week of foliage progression. Just about everything with a hint of color is now on the ground, so the hills almost look late-summer green again.

A hair over 3" here. Pond overflowing, well is nice and full.

Don't spend it all in one place

Already over half an inch here, with more (thunder?)showers en route from GL land. I suspect it'll be hard to not verify 2-3" by tomorrow am.

It was gusty up here today as well, definitely noticed the colors attenuated somewhat. With the generally dry wx combined with last week's freezes, that'll probably be the big story for the season... leaves blazing but having no staying power.

Photographs rarely do the colors justice. Best bet is some saturated, low-grain film stock like Ektar 100 or Velvia 50, but shooting film is a PITA. It's one of those things you're generally better off simply absorbing in the moment.

Props on the early call about a strong season for foliage while I was still having doubts. It's getting more vivid seemingly by the hour. Some of the yellow tones are really golden and saturated beyond anything in many years.

OK, my area seems to be on-board now. Areas of really nice color along highways and at edges of fields. Forests are still pretty green. That mid-late week rainstorm will likely not be friendly to the first 1/3 of changing leaves, but hopefully we'll get waterfalls back as a trade-off.

I'll need to head down that way for a look-see. I've been striking out so far trying to find pockets of good color.

They found the missing 1993-2000 climate data for POU, right? I thought it was published but now can't find any trace of it.

The sun angle has been decreasing for three months.

Another perfect morning. Misty streams, frost underfoot, changing leaves against blue skies. Kind of in awe at all the bitching in the main thread about how cold it is... imagine choosing to live in NY or New England and getting pissed off when the mornings are cool in late September. Blows my mind.

Oh boy. In other news, I'm glad that I chose the top of the hill for my main garden placement about 10 years ago. Everything up there survived the freeze (or, possibly, didn't freeze at all), so basil and peppers should continue to produce for potentially weeks more. Not so with tender annuals at house elevation and below.

Earliest freeze in quite a while here. 30F with heavy frost

I really prefer not to. Sadly, with the art show circuit being Covided into submission, it's necessary this year.

It's gonna be brisk tonight. I'm shooting an outdoor wedding all night (stay in school kids) and the chill became noticeable basically the instant the sun fell behind the trees.

Yep, it had everything to do with it. There were some real beauties of sunrises/sets this week, though the wonder is of course blunted by the dismay at all the destruction at its source.

Yep, it was a nice little reprieve from the year's funk. September remains the best beach time by no small margin IMO. Looking at the logs from yesterday morning, my station actually rallied to 39.4 well after sunrise (and my initial post) when my location finally managed to completely decouple - the persistent 1-3 mph SSE breeze shut off around 7 am. Presumably the smoke layer was responsible for the delayed onset of daytime heating. Looks like we have a couple chances to get more folks their first 30s of the season this weekend before the mild-up to round out the month.

Nope, 41... rub it in while you have the chance. Not sure what the deal was there, I'm heading home from Westerly today so a bit out of the loop with wx at home. Righteous swells from Paulette out here.

44F here currently. Feels awesome, though I'll admit I was hoping to even shave another couple degrees off that. Air mass too moist still.

Agree

Wow, glad you're alright for the most part. Were I a doctor, I'd probably caution against upper-body exercise in the days after broken ribs. However, it sure does seem like people who power through it and stay active tend to recover more quickly and completely.