October 2026 general discussion

[WinterWolf]

1 hour ago, Ginx snewx said:

What's wrong with that?

Not too much.  

[Damage In Tolland]

Cannot believe the amount of leaves left on the trees around here. Hopefully a ton come down in the strong wind tomorrow. I’ll be doing leaves into the New Year at this point 

[dendrite]

Meh. Oaks are still loaded here too. Nothing unusual. 

[kdxken]

1 hour ago, Great Snow 1717 said:

Dullest October ever??

 

 

[Damage In Tolland]

2 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Meh. Oaks are still loaded here too. Nothing unusual. 

Last several years have been 75% down by now . Especially last year . It’s odd this year for sure. What you gonna do 

[Typhoon Tip]

2 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Meh. Oaks are still loaded here too. Nothing unusual. 

we need the season defining big cyclone and wind event...

we had an autumn like this in 1987 I recall... almost 0 wind thru all of October, then... we had a wind event near Halloween and I remember as the cold front came in there were leaves in the column from cloud base to earth.  crazy

[powderfreak]

28F to 70F today.

[Ginx snewx]

90% leaves left are oaks as usual 

 

[WinterWolf]

14 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

28F to 70F today.

Impressive.  
 

But Were either of those real? I mean it wasn’t really a warm airmass, or a cold one either?  Right? 
 

Maybe you just imagined it all? 

[WinterWolf]

Just now, Ginx snewx said:

90% leaves left are oaks as usual 

Ya, nothing different than most every year. 

[powderfreak]

2 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

Impressive.  
 

But Were either of those real? I mean it wasn’t really a warm airmass, or a cold one either?  Right? 
 

Maybe you just imagined it all? 

50 degrees was the real temperature, both morning and afternoon.

[WinterWolf]

6 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

50 degrees was the real temperature, both morning and afternoon.

Yup…not cold, but not warm either…the real temp is a beautiful thing. 

[CT Valley Snowman]

3 hours ago, Ginx snewx said:

 

Oh yeah we never forget that beast.  A foot of concrete in the valley on fully leafed trees was a disastah.  Shotgun blasts and power flashes throughout the night.  Long lines waiting at gas pumps and fights breaking out in Springfield.  A solid week plus without power for many.

[WinterWolf]

35 minutes ago, CT Valley Snowman said:

Oh yeah we never forget that beast.  A foot of concrete in the valley on fully leafed trees was a disastah.  Shotgun blasts and power flashes throughout the night.  Long lines waiting at gas pumps and fights breaking out in Springfield.  A solid week plus without power for many.

Exactly.  I was standing outside at midnight just listening to nonstop branches snapping…it was a truly historic event.  Out of school for a week.  
 

Crazy part…the official forecast was for rain starting about 11am, with rain throughout the day, maybe changing to some snow after sunset here…depending on when, and if the transition occurred, would determine any accumulation.    Well, needless to say it never rained lol, started right out as snow. And surprisingly the wet cement snow-it stuck immediately.  A foot of concrete as you said, on fully leaved trees was bad news. At 3” the trees were already screaming…and then it just got real ugly from there.   But an afternoon of rain never materialized at all. Straight snow from the get go. 

[klw]

1 hour ago, WinterWolf said:

Impressive.  
 

But Were either of those real? I mean it wasn’t really a warm airmass, or a cold one either?  Right? 
 

Maybe you just imagined it all? 

[WinterWolf]

45 minutes ago, klw said:

lol….I was thinking of that scene. 

[mreaves]

2 hours ago, powderfreak said:

28F to 70F today.

It was gorgeous. Played 9 after work for the last time this year. Hopefully can get one more round in Sunday. That’s the last the course is open. 

[powderfreak]

18 minutes ago, mreaves said:

It was gorgeous. Played 9 after work for the last time this year. Hopefully can get one more round in Sunday. That’s the last the course is open. 

61F real degrees at 9:30pm here.  Can take the dog out with shorts on.

Windows are open.  Can’t do that when it’s fake.

Cherish these mild evenings before the long winter.

[WinterWolf]

4 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

61F real degrees at 9:30pm here.  Can take the dog out with shorts on.

Windows are open.  Can’t do that when it’s fake.

The real question is, would it still be real if the temp was 31 right now?  Or would that be fake? 

[powderfreak]

4 minutes ago, WinterWolf said:

The real question is, would it still be real if the temp was 31 right now?  Or would that be fake? 

It turns fake as soon as it becomes inverted.

[vortex95]

7 hours ago, WinterWolf said:

Ok. Bottom line, nothing is fake about any temp. Or any weather for that matter.   If you want to call radiational cooling fake, the same radiational cooling that ultimately causes winter time temps, and ultimately CAA,  and sound like you’re in special Ed…then that’s on you.  I think we all explained it well, and made it clear.    
 

BTW…It’s 67 out…great day…but maybe it’s fake?   

Where is @CoastalWx in this discussion?  He is oddly quiet! 

"Fake" radiational cooling cold repeated ends up making epic deep layer cold in the Arctic and builds very strong high pressure, and that spills down into the CONUS eventually. Very low 1000-500 thk and 925/850 and the sfc very cold as well.

[FlashFreeze]

4 hours ago, WinterWolf said:

Exactly.  I was standing outside at midnight just listening to nonstop branches snapping…it was a truly historic event.  Out of school for a week.  
 

Crazy part…the official forecast was for rain starting about 11am, with rain throughout the day, maybe changing to some snow after sunset here…depending on when, and if the transition occurred, would determine any accumulation.    Well, needless to say it never rained lol, started right out as snow. And surprisingly the wet cement snow-it stuck immediately.  A foot of concrete as you said, on fully leaved trees was bad news. At 3” the trees were already screaming…and then it just got real ugly from there.   But an afternoon of rain never materialized at all. Straight snow from the get go. 

I remember that storm well. It was 32° and I took out the lawn tractor to blow oak leaves off the lawn about 9:30 in the morning and flurries started about 10:00. By 11.00 there was a dusting and it snowed pretty good all afternoon. I went from Barkhamsted to Avon at 4:00 and the roads were only wet with a couple of inches of snow on the ground but the real deal kicked in about 7 o’clock when trees which still had plenty of leaves because of the very warm October started coming down while I was in Winsted with constant blue flashes from Transformers blowing. Power was going out everywhere. There was no way to get back to Barkhamsted and I had to drive down route 8 south to Waterbury and get on 84 E. to come back up 91 to get past Bradley. It looked like a tornado came through with blue flashes everywhere and I’ve never seen so many snapped telephone poles and downed wires before in any kind of storm and it wasn’t just in one area. It was everywhere. I had my old 4wd GMC and had to drive through a cornfield in Granby and finally up Mountain Road back to Hartland and Barkhamsted. There was 23/24 inches of snow by the end of the storm on top of the hill in Barkhamsted and not even a twig came down as the temperature had dropped down to 27° but at the bottom of the hill in Granby and Southwick Ma there was about 12 inches of cement like snow and it really looked like a tornado came through, the power was out for five days but in Wethersfield where my grandmother lived they were without power for over nine days.

[kdxken]

57° . Feels like summah.