October 2026 general discussion

[weatherwiz]

You know you've entered Fall (or Spring) when MAV/MET differ by 7-8-9°F or more on forecast high temps (particularly when a warmer than average llvl airmass is in place).

[dendrite]

47 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Looks like a two day cold shot this weekend and then we warm up for days and days. Just enough of a tease for people to post pics of snowliage and snow guns blowing mice out, only to be replaced with shorts and flip flops early next week. 

Wish the hard freeze would hold off longer. I still have a couple of unripe fruit on the trees.

Under -12C 850s on the gfs. Terrible. 

[CoastalWx]

9 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Wish the hard freeze would hold off longer. I still have a couple of unripe fruit on the trees.

Under -12C 850s on the gfs. Terrible. 

Stone mtn farm in Belmont is putting in peaches next year. Thought of you when I heard that.

[CoastalWx]

10 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Wish the hard freeze would hold off longer. I still have a couple of unripe fruit on the trees.

Under -12C 850s on the gfs. Terrible. 

Gonna freeze up Kevin maybe too.

[Typhoon Tip]

12 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Stone mtn farm in Belmont is putting in peaches next year. Thought of you when I heard that.

Hell ... gon' be Georgian climate in a couple o coffee breaks so may as well get ahead of the investment curve.

[CoastalWx]

5 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

Hell ... gon' be Georgian climate in a couple o coffee breaks so may as well get ahead of the investment curve.

Well this is Belmont NH near LCI around 1k I think, but yeah I hear ya lol.

[Angus]

didn't know anything about this place. turning the water off at the lake house Thursday and may need to stop on way home. I never go that far up 106 when coming/going from Jordan's Ice Cream which closed for the season on Sunday!

[Damage In Tolland]

41 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Gonna freeze up Kevin maybe too.

Think will be be above 32. This thing already has moderated some off initial progs

[CoastalWx]

6 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Think will be be above 32. This thing already has moderated some off initial progs

Looks pretty chilly to me. 

[CoastalWx]

Tstms near BTV today and snow in nrn ME. 

[Typhoon Tip]

i'm always a little suss about those fast moving cold slicing waves like that.  often enough they prove to have been over amplified.   but like Scott just noted ... the ambient polar boundary appears to be gradient saturated so maybe this time we'll yo-yo 36 deg spanning 30 hours.

 

[CoastalWx]

Friday could be interesting. Wind fields are strong. It's not out of the question there could be some strong winds if tstms form. Instability overall is lacking, but it is a dynamic system. 

The CAA winds Saturday diminished some. Still could be 40 to maybe near 50mph.

[Typhoon Tip]

come to think about it ... sudden potent short duration events have also been increasing in frequency every time Gretta sneezes so heh

[weatherwiz]

8 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Friday could be interesting. Wind fields are strong. It's not out of the question there could be some strong winds if tstms form. Instability overall is lacking, but it is a dynamic system. 

The CAA winds Saturday diminished some. Still could be 40 to maybe near 50mph.

Maybe a SYR special today?

Sucks instability on Friday will be limited because those are some insane dynamics and a vigorous shortwave approaching. Maybe get a risk for some strong storms along the coast where dews could sneak into the lower 60s. 

[dryslot]

Looks like its snowing at the higher elevations up here right now, Pretty chilly here too with -RN, 39/38°F.

[WinterWolf]

1 hour ago, CoastalWx said:

Looks pretty chilly to me. 

Yup..we freeze. 

[WinterWolf]

3 hours ago, CoastalWx said:

Looks like a two day cold shot this weekend and then we warm up for days and days. Just enough of a tease for people to post pics of snowliage and snow guns blowing mice out, only to be replaced with shorts and flip flops early next week. 

But isn’t that exactly what October features most years?  I mean, who expects upper 40’s for highs for days and days in October? Nobody does.  This is October at its best…mild to warm some days, cool and crisp some days. Good Rainy days/systems too.  And even a good cold shot to boot. We take. We enjoy October. 

[WinterWolf]

22 minutes ago, dryslot said:

Looks like its snowing at the higher elevations up here right now, Pretty chilly here too with -RN, 39/38°F.

The step down continues….. 

[Brian5671]

4 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

But isn’t that exactly what October features most years?  I mean, who expects upper 40’s for highs for days and days in October? Nobody does.  This is October at its best…mild to warm some days, cool and crisp some days. Good Rainy days/systems too.  And even a good cold shot to boot. We take. We enjoy October. 

It's kind of like March-alot of everything and often windy.

[Damage In Tolland]

Nice leaf stripper Saturday . Let’s get most of these leaves down and hopefully even a few trees / outages 

[kdxken]

2 hours ago, dendrite said:

Wish the hard freeze would hold off longer. I still have a couple of unripe fruit on the trees.

Under -12C 850s on the gfs. Terrible. 

Plant trees that are appropriate for your climate.

[HoarfrostHubb]

17 minutes ago, Brian5671 said:

It's kind of like March-alot of everything and often windy.

Shoulder seasons... wavelengths... yada yada yada. 

[CoastalWx]

30 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

But isn’t that exactly what October features most years?  I mean, who expects upper 40’s for highs for days and days in October? Nobody does.  This is October at its best…mild to warm some days, cool and crisp some days. Good Rainy days/systems too.  And even a good cold shot to boot. We take. We enjoy October. 

Yeah most years we are above normal. 

[WinterWolf]

1 minute ago, CoastalWx said:

Yeah most years we are above normal. 

Ya…some years/Octobers are warmer than others…obviously.  But my point was more like what Brian and Dave mentioned…. Shoulder seasons so to speak..transition time.  One season is waiting and another is taking over, and there are variations due to the conflict. 

[tamarack]

5 minutes ago, kdxken said:

Plant trees that are appropriate for your climate.

Reliance peach is hardy to zone 5 and several friends here in the foothills grow them successfully.  Unfortunately, our rad pit microclimate is 4B; median for winter's coldest is -24.  We planted a Reliance soon after moving here in May 1998.  It would grow strongly then die back for 3 years, then 2001-02 never got colder than -12, avoiding the dieback.  That summer we had 100+ sweet peaches, then 2002-03 had a dozen mornings at -20 to -29.  The tree had died back to the ground then weakly sprouted from below the graft.  It died in August.  Tut fini.

[dendrite]

40 minutes ago, kdxken said:

Plant trees that are appropriate for your climate.

I do. They’re growing pawpaws up into Minny and Quebec. But a lot of growers are having ripening issues due to some flower bud damage from the late April cold shot that came after a few days of 70s to 80.

And there’s a lot of solid peach options for the north now…cultivars that can handle -20s in winter that are also late blooming so they can avoid late spring freezes. They’re just not the ones you’d expect to see at a grocery store. Contender, Challenger, Intrepid, PF-24, Siberian C…heck even Redhaven is decent.