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The GFS looks pretty favorable for the Arctic in the medium to long range with the vortex continuing north of AK in the Beaufort. There does seem to be some ridging in the Canadian Archipelago so that area could have some losses, on the other hand.

Planted tomatoes, red onions, tarragon, basil, and thyme here in the northern Poconos at 1560'...I'm not from your region but I usually post about my garden near NYC. This year I'm up north and growing less but still trying...may get some arugula in, too. Already have lots of sage, oregano, and wild mint. Red onions can take up to 150 days to mature, and I planted them May 24th here in northern PA. How will they handle cold weather in late October and early November? (We are in a sheltered valley at nearly 1600' in northern PA with an average first frost of 9/20...average last around 5/20). Any tips to speed the onions along?

What happened to Baro and the guy from the Yukon?

I had 17" in the 2/10/13 storm and 52" on the winter. Not bad at all.

2/25/10 Snowicane?

Picked up 11" down here in Dobbs Ferry from XMAS 2002. It was forecast to be mostly rain but changed over quickly to a heavy, dense snow. It took my aunt and uncle 6 hours to make the normally 2-hour trip from Albany to visit us on Christmas; they kept waiting for snow to change to rain as they drove, expecting a flip south of Poughkeepsie, but it stayed white to the coast. Hellish drive for them on I-87 but a great weather day. Still one of my favorite storms despite only receiving about a foot.

Both White Plains (HPN) and the Dobbs Ferry Wunderground station had a high of exactly 90F yesterday. That makes five 90-degree days here in Southern Westchester. We may get one today, despite last night's rain, and tomorrow should definitely be at least 90F. August is quickly making up ground for the cool start in June (my high on 6/1 was 58F and my high on 6/2 was 54F). Been a very warm stretch since early July, though lacking the extreme heat we saw in 2010 and 2011.

Only have four 90-degree days in Dobbs Ferry this season.

What are temperatures like in January and February?

You guys got a late start on 90s with the wet May and early June pattern. I imagine it's pretty much a given that every day in July and August hits 90F.

Was surprised NYC hit 90F yesterday. Today is probably too cloudy but may come close in parts of NJ.

LOL, thanks for calling me out...Got some new stuff coming along in the garden. This was one of the smaller red cabbages I harvested... Inside of a large red cabbage freshly picked. Eggplant now has a fruit, was just developing in this photo. My first zucchini, although powdery mildew and cool weather has slowed plant down. It hasn't been that hot here this year, although the last few days in the mid 80s has pushed the garden along. I should be harvesting cherry tomatoes within a week or so, regular sized tomatoes in 2 weeks, along with eggplant and zucchini. I am still harvesting cabbage, and a big green one is almost ready to be picked. Cabbage has been one of my highlights this year, excellent crop with delicious flavor. I also made a bunch of pesto with all my basil, as I have at least 20 plants. Will update this thread more as the garden warrants...

Here are some pics from this year.. Usually grow Apollo Arugula but this variety with serrated leaves is good too, looks a bit like frisee. Red cabbage planted in early April, almost ready...also have the green variety. These guys get huge. Growing slowly with the cool weather. Love fresh eggplant though, makes pasta delicious. Tomato plants have a few flowers but also suffering from lack of heat. Lettuce has gone nuts this year, bought this early April and has yielded for almost 2 months. Can't wait to harvest my first zucchini. Has some powdery mildew though... Love making salads with fresh greens from the garden.

Great thread, always follow it closely. I live north of NYC on a small suburban property so have a cooler climate and less space, but I manage a garden. Here is what I have: 8 lettuce plants, mostly oakleaf 8 cabbage, some red, some green 2 varieties arugula, mostly Apollo 1 kale 20 basil/purple basil 4 tomatoes, cherry, beefsteak, Lemon Boy and Brandywine 4 peppers, sweet and hot 2 zucchini 2 eggplant, Black Beauty and Japanese 1 winter squash, Guatemalan blue oregano dill wild mint thyme sage tarragon I have harvested a lot of greens and herbs, especially arugula and oakleaf lettuce which went nuts. Basil has gotten huge. Zucchini has several fruits but not big enough to harvest.Tomatoes are flowering and so are eggplants but no fruits yet. I have a second round of arugula getting ready. We don't have nearly the heat...most days this June have been in the 70s, a few in the 60s, and the first two days of June had highs of 58F and 54F. So it's a little different up here...I have been gardening since 2008 and learned a lot. Just started composting again, and can't wait for this year's harvest.

Definitely something wrong with the Teterboro ASOS...well north of PHL and TTN but more 90 degree days. Seems fishy.

We won't make the 2010 record with the trough moving in by later in the week, even if we don't snap the streak tomorrow morning.

You mean a good good night?NYC has been sitting just short of 90F today...85F there right now as clouds are preventing forecast highs from being realized.

Almost definitely.

August will probably be the coolest month of the summer with what models are showing and the developing Nino. It wouldn't surprise me to see a taste of fall early.

I started posting in Summer 2008, so I was on for the 08-09 winter...I was home from Middlebury in Westchester for the Dec 19-21 storm...had about 8" or so from the 12/19 event, then 3" plus icing from the second wave although it turned to rain in NYC proper. It was a huge double-barreled event in Vermont with about 10" from each storm. The New Year's mega torch ruined most of the snowpack but January 2009 was just epic in Vermont, had the fluff clipper early in the month and then the monster SW flow event on 1/28 that dropped over a foot. I left to study in Chile a few weeks later but what a great front-loaded winter that was. Your posts have been great man...you are a wonderful contributor to the forum.

This was Dobbs Ferry during the 1/27 blitz...great memories: Amazing to think how bad this winter is: last year I had nearly 30" of snowpack at 350' right outside NYC; this year, I'm thankful for a coating on the ground at 1200' in the Monadnocks.

That was probably very solid here, just managed like 8" in Dobbs Ferry. I know lots of CT/MA had 15-20" with Feb 01 though. Birch Hill Dam, MA located quite near here had 24" in that storm, and received 31.5" that month. I guess it's partially a false impression that the interior can't get big Nor'easters because of the sharp cut-offs with the last few years such as 12/26/2010 and 2/10/2010 when the coastal areas got far more than expected from climatology. I'm sure it will shift back to the interior areas and we'll see some stretched like Jan 2002 or March 1958 where the Poconos/Catskills/NY capital district/interior NNE cash in.

2/25 was not an elevation event in Central VT....Middlebury got 20" at the bottom of the Champlain Valley. We had a nice slug of moisture moving due north with that coastal low forming, classic signal for the CPV to get blasted. We barely stayed all snow though. I think interior NNE is favored with the -QBO/Nina. I'm really liking where I'm sitting though Rindge probably isn't the best place for 20"+ events since it's fairly far from the coast.

I saw +SN at the Columbia Icefields in Banff/Jasper in August 2000. We went out on the snowcat and had a great time.