Juliancolton

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.

Lots of changing and even dropping leaves around here already. It wouldn't be 2020 without an all-time stinker of a foliage season I suppose.

Yeah, 2016 was the last one that sticks out in my memory as being particularly nice. It is what it is, though. For my purposes, foliage season provides the impetus to get out and shoot more photos, even though the leaves themselves are almost never the main driver behind a successful autumn image. Otherwise there's only so much ooh'ing and ahh'ing one can do through the windshield.

I can't wait to be disappointed by foliage. My favorite annual source of dashed hopes and crushed dreams.

The nice thing about having a colonial building set up way on a hill in the middle of BFE is that permits are often optional.

Storms seem to put down a lot more tornadoes around here than they used to. Not sure how much of that is real/climatological and how much is just down to phone cameras, dual pol, and all the other products of modernity ensuring no meso gets left behind. There's been talk for decades about tornado alley moving east, just didn't expect it to happen so quickly. P.S. – anyone care to guess how I feel about this humidity? Just a wild shot in the dark?

I had a pretty clear view of the storm for a few moments and there was no hint of any funnel at the time. I still would have loved to keep up with it for a while to see what it did.

It was sporting an impressive wall cloud structure a few minutes ago as the cell passed just to my north. There's no fast/good road east so I couldn't get out ahead of it, unfortunately.

That's a reasonably stout couplet over West Kill heading SE. Release the drones.

Still seeing fireflies every night. It's a strange juxtaposition with more and more sugar maples flashing color every day.