October 2026 general discussion

[WinterWolf]

22 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Couple weeks? lol. Won’t freeze thru Tgiving 

You’ll freeze before that. 

[Damage In Tolland]

2 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

You’ll freeze before that. 

No. Pattern is furnaced

[WinterWolf]

What a day…Autumn at its best. Frost this morning…,67 now. 

[WinterWolf]

14 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

No. Pattern is furnaced

We’ll see? 

[WinterWolf]

15 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

No. Pattern is furnaced

5 weeks from now…we don’t know what pattern may be?  And it just takes one night.  Odds become greater with every passing day bro. 

[CT Valley Snowman]

26 to 66. It's a beauty out there.  

[Torch Tiger]

lordy

[Baroclinic Zone]

>40° diurnal here today. 28F-71F.

[BrianW]

5 minutes ago, Torch Tiger said:

lordy

Yeah. Upton pretty much just canceled all the the frost warnings for the coast here in CT...

Frost coverage at the coast, where the growing season remains in effect, looks to be patchy at this time.

[Brewbeer]

65/35, good spray painting weather

progress report:  base coats are on and drying, clear coat is next !

[SnoSki14]

31 minutes ago, Torch Tiger said:

lordy

80+ incoming 

[Typhoon Tip]

Too early/prerequisite challenged ... but indian summer like.  

The trick will be, 'does the anticyclone get under our latitude?'  Since mid to late August actually, these powerhouse high pressure nodes have been moving either bodily overhead of E thru Ontario, placing us persistently in a highly uncoupled lower troposphere relative to mid level soundings. 

We've been getting frost if not freezes under 576 dm heights - anomalous combination of metrics.   Very much so...  We've had hyper proficient RAD events as of late, which is an interesting met phenomenon probably under the nose of most people's awareness.  It feels like we're getting a normal autumn progression - though with modest positive biases, but it's kind of been lying?  so to speak.  

27 F under while this; is just another example in many

 

[Damage In Tolland]

16 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

Too early/prerequisite challenged ... but indian summer like.  

The trick will be, 'does the anticyclone get under our latitude?'  Since mid to late August actually, these powerhouse high pressure nodes have been moving either bodily overhead of E thru Ontario, placing us persistently in a highly uncoupled lower troposphere relative to mid level soundings. 

We've been getting frost if not freezes under 576 dm heights - anomalous combination of metrics.   Very much so...  We've had hyper proficient RAD events as of late, which is an interesting met phenomenon probably under the nose of most people's awareness.  It feels like we're getting a normal autumn progression - though with modest positive biases, but it's kind of been lying?  so to speak.  

27 F under while this; is just another example in many

 

You can say it’s been fake .. because it has 

[Typhoon Tip]

5 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

You can say it’s been fake .. because it has 

Ha!   

well I'm not part of that fake stuff.   Temperature is temperature...   

I'm more focusing in on the unusual nature in which we're getting a sensible autumn out of a deep summer sky - to put it somewhat poetically.   This morning the hgts are/were 582 dm ... 27 at the surface.   It's been happening a lot since late summer, too.  Maybe not that extreme but it's been unbalanced on the whole. 

If that's coincident with some discussion point than it's unintended.   

[powderfreak]

1 hour ago, Typhoon Tip said:

Ha!   

well I'm not part of that fake stuff.   Temperature is temperature...   

I'm more focusing in on the unusual nature in which we're getting a sensible autumn out of a deep summer sky - to put it somewhat poetically.   This morning the hgts are/were 582 dm ... 27 at the surface.   It's been happening a lot since late summer, too.  Maybe not that extreme but it's been unbalanced on the whole. 

If that's coincident with some discussion point than it's unintended.   

Temperature is temperature.

Oddly satisfying way of explaining it, ha.

[powderfreak]

23F to 65F today at MVL locally.

That’s how you do an October day.

[Brewbeer]

sun is going down and so is the temp, 59/39

antique honda is back in the garage, here are the money shots:

it's a touch darker than the original, there's some orange peel and some of the new-to-old-transitions are visible but all-in-all not bad for bondo

[Damage In Tolland]

There’s more leaves left on trees now than before the Oct 2011 snowpocalypse. By a significant amount 

[CoastalWx]

1 hour ago, Damage In Tolland said:

There’s more leaves left on trees now than before the Oct 2011 snowpocalypse. By a significant amount 

I actually think leaf drop has been pretty good. October 2011 was green to Halloween.

[Damage In Tolland]

9 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

I actually think leaf drop has been pretty good. October 2011 was green to Halloween.

Not here. Oaks are freaking loaded . I was looking at pics from after that storm 

[mreaves]

Drove home from Maine through the Kanc. 

[CoastalWx]

2 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Not here. Oaks are freaking loaded . I was looking at pics from after that storm 

Probably because the storm took em all down

[Damage In Tolland]

It gets overwhelming when you look up at the trees and think about all the cleanup ahead 

[weathafella]

On 10/21/2026 at 9:10 PM, WinterWolf said:

Wow Spokane….get ready for a lot of rain..yuck. 

Check your climo.  They’re east of the mountains and don’t get much rain or snow but they do get both.  About as much snow as Boston but a tad colder.

[dendrite]

1 hour ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Not here. Oaks are freaking loaded . I was looking at pics from after that storm 

I had 19” here and the oaks were still loaded post storm with partially green leaves. 

[weathafella]

Oaks seem always to be loaded.  I remember at the height of the blizzard of 12/11-12,1960 the oak at the side of our house was loaded with brown dry leaves.

[WinterWolf]

3 hours ago, Damage In Tolland said:

There’s more leaves left on trees now than before the Oct 2011 snowpocalypse. By a significant amount 

Bro…your posts don’t make any fucking sense?   I love ya…but you sound like you don’t live in SNE?  Or haven’t lived here for any length of time.  

Foliage Color has been exceptional.  Leaves are now falling like snow here. We’ve had at least 5 frosts, and two freezes.   
 

I mean, maybe you’re just trying to make conversation….and that’s cool.  But if you’re serious, you sound like you’re f’n bombed!  
 

But maybe at 1000ft…it’s a whole different world from the rest of us?  
 

 

[WinterWolf]

1 hour ago, weathafella said:

Check your climo.  They’re east of the mountains and don’t get much rain or snow but they do get both.  About as much snow as Boston but a tad colder.

Yea, maybe you missed it…but I did say I stood corrected.  I was assuming that Spokane was the typical Pacific Northwest…which was cool and moist and overcast.  But I was wrong I guess. My mistake. 
 

And if they get as much snow as most of us…that’s not too shabby. Good for them. 

[WinterWolf]

And the 2011 Snowpocalypse Kevin, was 4 days from now…which makes a whole hell of a lot of difference with regard to leave drop too.  So that statement again, is ridiculous. 

[vortex95]

16 hours ago, dendrite said:

They have IZG. Some like GHG don’t report 6hr max/mins. But yeah…still gotta update the list for some.

Right about GHG, but most AWOS sites these days do have additive climate data in the METARs for max/min.

And I did not bring up UUU (Newport RI) not plotted b/c I checked and the ASOS is not currently reporting!