powderfreak

Foliage at work looking nice.

Someone thinks you are extremely confused. It's months late.

It's definitely juiced. It would look good as a photo in that lakehouse though, that's for sure. We had some undercast this morning with the peaks poking out of the clouds, similar to a mid-winter level of undercast. The top of the cloud layer was around 3,000-3,500ft early. That's normally reserved for like December trapped moisture. Finally the sun is coming out here for the first time since Friday. Incredible low cloud period which means we are in fall... a lot less mixing than we got 6 weeks ago.

A buddy posted this from Lake Elmore next to MVL. I’d consider this weekend peak. Oddly enough it seems average despite some other areas further south being 1-2 months late.

I think today is peak foliage. Right on par with end of first week of October. Absolutely on fire.

Give it 10-15 years up in the North Country once the honeymoon phase has worn off. The desire to be colder than everywhere else wears off and you realize it’ll be cold regardless of what you want… you start to enjoy those extended periods of comfortable temperatures for things like hiking, and mountain biking outside in the spring and fall. Outdoor recreation starts to be less fun with temps in the 40s and 50s so you start to think it should either snow or be 65F and sunny like it it does in Colorado . Unless I’m looking for a reason to be cooped up inside, I’ll always pass on chilly/raw weather… but I used to love it when I first came up north. It felt like a “North Country” type of weather vibe to be cold in months you usually weren’t when living further south.

LFG! Red Sox. Season is a total success now regardless of what happens in the division series. What a game. They showed up in a big way tonight.

God that looks perfect. Chamber Weather for as long as possible.

Then again that doesn’t necessarily flow off the tongue in a WxBell or other vendor seasonal forecast for the public.. “what’s a sigma? Is that a blizzard?” I do think based on what I remember from JSpin that percentage is about right for the higher snowfall zones per SD. And 1 below being like 85%.

That's the one, thanks I always forget that. I always get tweaked when those Seasonal Forecasts come out with 125-150% of normal or whatever .

And the further north you go the harder it gets to see bigger anomalies too. Metfan can get 30% above normal a lot easier than those up north. Or at least can do it on a couple Hail Mary passes timed nicely even in a shit winter, whereas up north you need a solid sustained pattern all season long.

Yeah that’s the ALB CWA deform look for sure while everything slides east. Not ideal lol. That axis isn’t bad in NY/PA if the storm is ripping north but that’s got Miller B underneath a block look, ha.

Just as a reminder, those radar estimates are always low east of the Spine of the Greens from beam blockage. It’s likely a mix of the dark green and yellow connecting into NNH. But jeez at the widespread nature of water down south. It’s not even topographical at all, just a surge of water covering SNE and adjacent NY.

Just gave it a follow, some nice stuff on there!

Nice man! I think we are at peak up here or close to it if you like any green in it. It’ll be all orange washed soon. It is insane that Mother Nature puts this show on every year. Maybe the tree species mix in VT or something but every single tree stands out brightly. Reds are incredible.

49F with 0.03” overnight in like drizzle. 0.89” for the period since Sat AM. Crazy rain from ALB to BOS zone, widespread 2+. Been stuck at this temp up here for 4 days now it seems. Ready for a diurnal change greater than 8F soon.

Could really go for even some high overcast at this point. This constant low level stuff is getting old. Haven’t seen above like 3,000ft since Friday and even most of today was like OVC at 2,000ft. Filtered sunshine through cirrus would be a big win.

Even took screenshots 4-hours apart to show it wasn’t a one time deal. Dying laughing over here . I think the slang for this is called Pwned.

His feed is nuts. You ever feel stressed just scroll Eric’s feed for a bit.

Hard to bury the bodies when it’s this wet.

Not the worst thing to have social sites offline. If they tried to enact a seatbelt law now during the time of social media it would never happen. It’s crazy how different things would be if FB existed 100 years ago.

Getting anyone to do anything now is a wait for sure… then the occasional “they said they’d be here at 10am”… by 11am you call and they are like “who’s this?” I was just saying it’s like a local joke that the rural tradesmen are like “hey, I gave you a deal so don’t talk to anyone about the price I quoted.” Then you are like huh, wait, is that a good price or a bad price? Lol.

I always find it fascinating how that happens. Like half color, half mid-summer green.

Once a flatlander always a flatlander though. I've been 15 years now and I'm still one. I'm sure some up there definitely tried to take advantage of you in some form too, lol. "Hey bud, look, it's a little out of my way but I'll do the job if you want. You got Maryland plates and a family? Your driveway is pretty long... I usually charge $100 for that per plowing but I'll give you a deal and only charge $70 every time it snows more than 2 inches? If it snows more than 6 inches I'll add a surcharge."

Like I posted in the foliage thread, our reds are exploding. Just insane deep red down into town. Unedited out of the camera (a little dark) from this morning in town. This is low elevation (for around here, a tad below 1,000ft). Just a screen shot so not the highest quality, ha. I know the Vermont forest mix is known to be great for foliage but high-end mix of dark/deep red and green now in the low elevations.