powderfreak

Tuesday looks like a chilly time to do it, ha.

Touche

C’mon, 45F with no shot of snow isn’t that stressful

I’ve long thought if you wanted a poster child for warming, BTV is it. Before the new normals came out, it felt like every month started at +2 as a baseline. The place just doesn’t cool off at night anymore for the most part.

I noticed they go bananas after those couple cool, frosty mornings like a week ago? Forget when that was but it was like 3-4 days of sun, high diurnal swings and frosty valleys. Immediately after that the leaves went nuts up here.

It’s pretty nuts in person… just acres over acres of vivid color. Coming along nicely at home, too.

70/59… feels warm out there. Saw some sun this morning but now clouded over again. Foliage on fire.

The foliage is firing as we head into October.

You running for President of the DIT Fan Club?

The red and green mix this year is wild.

My retinas hurt yesterday… the clouds just had the place glowing neon. The reds were hard for the camera to deal with they were so blown out.

With the real camera yesterday…

The reds this year are insane.

High of 56F, with mist… but foliage around the house is really starting to come along.

Playing devils advocate, wouldn’t the current environment of hyping up weather events lead to increased “hits” in forecasting high-end wx events? It is incredibly hard for an event to “sneak up” on society these days.

Andrea Gail.

Damn. 0.12” here lol.

First rain showers of the storm. Ground not wet under the trees… we might get there though.

That’s hard to mentally compute those winds at stations like CON, HFD, ALB… like what?

Made it past 2” in scattered heavy downpours it looks like.

Partly cloudy up north.

I haven’t had any precip, sky cover wasn’t even thick at sunset, ha. Thank god it’s not winter; this would’ve been tough. Instead, decent weekend outside so far.

Theres a reason a lot of folks just like to use ASOS and official stations, ha.

I guess that’s where I got caught up. They are correct for sampling 2-meter wind speed. They are just boring; like that’s the speed the wind is 6 feet above your yard. Same with temperature. We don’t like that and want to sample the free air above treetop exposed wind because it’s more sexy. The one part of it I can square is that the force that would cause tree damage is the wind at canopy top level. Like knowing what wind speed at that 80-100 foot level above ground starts tree damage would be important. It’s sort of like tarmac temps/winds vs wooded area temps/winds. Pros and cons to both sitings. The weenie set up is temp close to ground and wind 100 feet overhead.

I 100% understand what you are saying, you are trying to estimate the wind above treetop height, right? To me it’s like saying your temperature is 35F on a night the station says 45F… but saying “well if the trees weren’t there and it was open to the sky above, I’d have radiated more.” Do you live 100 feet up above the canopy? I feel like that caveat is important to mention.