J Paul Gordon

Was wondering about the NJ scenario myself before Tip mentioned it. The question is whether its NW NJ or Cape May.

We still have the rest of October and all of November before we even get to the start of climatological winter. Calling (or inferring) 24-25 is already a bust is pretty far out on a limb. Let's wait til February for that. There are lots of good chances for snow and at least short-term (as in weeklong) cold snaps, even if interrupted by warmth.

Glad to catch the positive vibes and joy here.

Drove home to Clinton the long way today, up through Spencer, Paxton, Holden, Princeton, and Sterling. The oaks are stealing the show now, thought there are some maples blazing in the lower elevations (Paxton, Princeton over 1200'). Really beautiful. With all the complaints about dulls and browns in Connecticut, I'm surprised by how lovely it is up here. Mostly golds now (maples, birches, etc.), with the umbers, deep reds/scarlets, yellows, and oranges of the oaks. Guess the little slice of Central Mass (farthest south to central-north) got lucky. High 70 (Ridgefield Condo world in Clinton) low 43. Very frosty in lowlands this morning.

Maples are passing peak now, oaks are starting. 33 low, 60 high here today. First freeze the night before (Wed-Thu) Hi 54, low 31. We've had some frost on grass and roofs for the last three nights. Warm spell coming. Maybe this will be our winter. Cold snaps followed by warm spells. Snow then melt/rain. Kinda of like its always been with exceptions here and there (more warmish ones in the past few years). Even with the over all climate warming trend, it will probably be the same just a couple of degrees higher--especially at night.

Not at all dull. It was beautiful. It was almost all country and small towns. Got up to almost 1200 feet in one place. Came down through Stafford Springs. Bright reds, organges, and yellows. Didn't notice any browns (other than some oaks). Its the same here in Clinton MA. We have a lot of oaks mixed it, so its like having two peaks--maples and others first then the oaks. They are all bright (including the oaks in their own quiet way). You must be in a bad spot, or maybe its in how we tend to see things. I've seen some dull falls, but thisn't one of them IMHO.

Hi 52 Lo 36 currently 50F 34 Dew Drove down Kevin's way on Sunday after church on way to E Longmeadow from Southbridge. Gray day, but the colors were worthy of Vermont. Looked like it was peak. The maples were stunning. Earlier this year than the last several. Here in Clinton, maples are maxing out and oaks are starting to put on their colors (bright reds, oranges, and yellows for them). Again, seems early.

Looks like a cold week relative to normal, then warm from Friday beyond for a couple of weeks. In the old days it was called Indian Summer (for those who have a frost, which looks quite possible). I don't know what the politically correct term is now. Indigenous People's Summer sounds both ridiculous and even more politically incorrect. So, on the actual weather/climate front. We will probably have a weak to practically non-existant La Nina. You can't blame the the Nina/Nino family for the warm spell. But what does it portend for November?

Reached 95% totality here. Temperature dropped from 66 to 60 in the final period. Birds got quiet. Wind died down. The light was truly otherworldly. No describing it and that wasn't even totality.

Novtember, Dectober, Morchuary, and now Februnary. Still have a solid cover of snow from the sneet we got on Sunday night, though. 40F (high 41F low 32F).

5.5-6" of solid cement paste. Packed down to 3-4 between cement patio and grass, averaged out to 3.5 after ten measurements. Temperature hung at 32F all night long. Up to 34F now.

32F Snowing heavily. Very wet and heavy. Plow came by and left sandbags at the end of my driveway--at least that's what it was like shoveling it! NWS calling for 3-5 more inches. We'll see. At this rate it may happen. Bad forecast for the daylight hours, though, with all that hype about a big burst between 10 AM and 2 PM. They should have stuck with their original forecast for the bulk of the snow coming after 5 PM.

33F, calm and nothing happening. Snow on street has melted. Maybe a half inch on the grass. NWS still calling for six inches for me. We'll see. I'm retired so no worries about driving into work tomorrow morning. On the other hand, if my daughter goes into labor tonight and its snowing hard, it'll be hard to talk my wife down. I'll have to bear personal blame for the entire (weather) event.

Still snowing here at 340' elevation. Smaller flakes now, coming dow straight. Not going to complain; the ground is white. Only problem was we had to cancel church for a big underperformer. Happens almost every year. You'll get a good one like we had on the 7th, no questions asked about cancelling, then you get something like this. C'est la vie en Nouvelle Angleterre.

Grass covered, snow on street. Coming down straight and hard. Flakes are big but not extraordinary. Temp 33.

Church in Southbridge cancelled this morning. Not happy. Looks like 6 inches possible here in Clinton but less down there. NWS says it will be worst 10AM to 2PM. Has someone in that office been smoking something?

Anything is better than nothing. The ground will be white again. Maybe 3 inches here, maybe 10 when all is said and done. We had four inches or so on the ground for our week of winter. It looked beautiful. I won't complain about a repeat.

5 inches here then sleet. Now freezing drizzle. Will it go back to snow before it's over? Temperature has stuck at 25F since this morning. Still no wind.

25 F here. Just changed over to mostly sleet with a few flakes mixed in. Measure 5 inches on patio and grass in backyard. Took six measurements and they all came out the same. No wind. Sleet should knock back what's on the ground. Its coming down pretty heavily.

So we are already on to the Jan 10 storm? What happened to the one that was supposed to be coming this weekend?

We don't usually have instrumental accompaniment to our Church music/Christmas carols, but this was pretty cool.

Wow. We might have a white Russian Orthodox Christmas! Putting on the carols.

Its always cold at the end. Welcome to Morchuary. "Old Scrooger kept Grinchday in his heart every day of the year."

59F. Heavy rain and ferocious wind gusts. I don't have an anemometer but I'd guess over 40 mph.

So will Novcember be followed by Morchuary?