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So far all the wind has been upstate. Just breezy here so far and really rather quiet right now. Did get more rain than I expected with .08 of an inch. I was not expecting much at all.

.72 inch of rain here.

76 degrees the high here today.

79 for a high here, felt good.

That is very possible and climate change is one reason why. All I am saying is the best way we can prevent them now, is thru forest management and somehow getting people to be more careful. Just like folks moving to coastal areas and therefore hurricane damage and deaths go up from years ago. Now so many more folks are living in the areas out west that were once not being occupied and therefore much more damage and death, unfortunately. Don't get me wrong, we still have to keep doing what we can to stop polluting our waters, land and atmosphere. I am an optimist on that, I think our energy pollutants of today will become mostly obsolete in the not so distant future as batteries, solar, wind etc. become more widespread.

The problem is to stop climate change immediately, we will have to completely change our life style and most people are not willing. Even if the climate was not changing, if 90% of the fires are started by people, you will still have plenty of devastating fires.

There is no doubt we have to address climate change but unfortunately that takes years. It is a fact that almost 90% of these fires are started by people. So if you really want to make headroads in stopping these fires, people simply have to be more careful or make sure the area you live in is not so fire prone by taking whatever actions have to be taken thru managing the forests. The other solution is keep the population down in areas that burn easily.

Every year these fires cause such devastation. There is little doubt that climate change has helped fuel the fires but the real problem is people. Some 80 to 90 per cent of these fires are started by people, the rest by lightning. Maybe we need more education on fire prevention, (I remember always seeing the "smoky the bear" commercials), and better forest management, now that so many more folks live in these fire prone areas.

The Atlantic, outside of sub tropical storm Teddy moving away, is free of any tropical systems. I believe the U.S. mainland has had 4 hurricanes this season and 1 of them was a major. The season is now on the decline (but certainly not over) as we are now approaching cooler weather. I think wind shear really kept a lid on a lot of storms this season.

47 degrees this morning, fifth morning in a row in the 40s

Was at Jones Beach at high tide this morning, a lot of over wash. In spots it was going under the boardwalk and inundating the tennis court area and also where they have the bands play.

41 degree low here this morning.

Temperature down to 47 degrees here. Meanwhile in Manhattan (the heat island) the temperature at 7PM was 59 at 8PM 56 and at 9PM it is back up to 58. On nights with very little wind, the range in temperatures can be extreme. My area is reporting temperatures now that range from the mid 40s to low 50s. I have two weather stations in my yard and both normally report very similar temperatures but on nights like this they can be quite different. One is about 5-6 ft. above the ground, as the weather bureau wants, and it says 47.1 and the other which is some 17 ft. above the ground is reporting a temperature of 49.9.

I got down to 46 about 1A.M. and then the temperature leveled off and actually rose a few degrees by daylight.

That wouldn't be the worse thing to happen. A cold fall can make for a long winter. Also warmer than normal temps this time of year and into October can be pleasant rather than hot.

This mornings low here was 48, I'm already down to 49 tonight.

Looks like some large surf and beach erosion the next few days. Possibly as bad as last week when Jones Beach had complete over wash. Meanwhile dropping to the mid 50s here. As spring is just a few days away in the southern Hemisphere, Amundsen-Scott weather station at the South Pole has a temperature of -70 degrees with a windchill of -103.

The last warm spell called for 90 a week out but it never materialized. The later it gets the harder to get to those type of temperatures. I will go with 80-85 and be happy with that.

Never got higher than the low 60s today. Impressive cool spell for this time of year. Most areas in central and upstate NY had their growing season end last night with temperatures below freezing.

48 degrees here this morning.

Temperatures will be dropping into the 20s in many parts of the Catskills and Adirondacks this weekend. Colors will probably be near peak before long in those areas.

Considering how liberal we have become in naming storms, I think this will be happening far more in the future. It is fine that we name more storms but it makes for bad comparisons when looking back.

It has been active, no doubt, but I bet a decent amount of these storms never would have been named in the past, especially Alpha.

Ok, so here is one reason why we are now into the Greek alphabet with tropical systems. Sub tropical storm Alpha is going into Portugal.

Low of 50 degrees here.