Definitely past peak down in Mitch's hood. Woodford, Searsburg, Wilmington etc had almost no vibrant reds or oranges between 1400-2k.
Interestingly it looks much better up here in the same elevation range in the Magic, Stratton, Bromley area.
One thing i have noticed this year that is different from other years, is that in recent years the Maples in the low elevations around town and under 1k just have not looked that great for whatever reason. But man, there are some intense Reds and Oranges that are on a different level so far.
We are usually behind you guys, but its already looking really good down here too, fruity pebbles color splashing the mid slopes. I mean you cant draw up the weather any better--no wind, no rain, cool nights and sunny days.
Nice shots everyone...should be pretty good timing down here for Columbus day weekend for the peepers...got some family coming into town that has never been to VT in fall, should be a good show for them.
It is definitely going to green up, but there will probably be some dead spots too. Just too dry for there not to be some die off, but you will have no clue what is dead and not unless you wait a bit.
Thinking about grabbing one?
JSpin cocorahs average looks like 150" at 500'. So adjust accordingly up from there . I think that's Jspins home mountain and lives right there, so he would certainly be dialed in I would think. Your guess seams reasonable.
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We feel the same way, knowing really any day could be the last. Ours was 3 months old when we got him. Also tried the indoor route, but just no way. 10 or 11 years old in VT is pretty nice run as an outdoor cat.
He kills so much stuff, its kind of shocking..ha. I find random corpses around the yard all the time.
What do you have past 60 days?
Just peeked at Cocorahs and there are a couple stations under 1" past 60 days in MA--Yarmouth and Harwich. A Chatham observer at .46"--that's another level of Stein.
Looks like they have got some this morning though.
Seeing these pics is kind of crazy, if you made the quick drive over the border up here, you would think its the Congo or something.
Realize that is not the norm in NE obviously and some of it is just dumb luck. Hate to even say have almost another 1" today..lol.
Right, just took a look. Still looks warm with current soil temp at 80F in the tropics down there.
Looking at the historical graph, the averages soil temp drops quickly in September based on 5 and 10 year data. He could probably wait, but still think he could drop soon. But you guys have more time down there for sure. Soil temp was 59F last year on Halloween.
https://www.greencastonline.com/tools/soil-temperature
Its go time IMO. Like I mentioned before, it all comes down to irrigation and if you can water or your going to rely on rain alone. Thats the biggest success/fail factor.
There are a lot of cocorahs stations between 1-2" for AUG. Like you said probably just radar hallucinations and BTV radar beam. Today will put a few stations with higher end totals for AUG, prob more SVT and CVT.
Not in real time, I had to manually turn the little screws/bolts a turn or so. Trial and error like you said, but get a stratus so you can compare rain events.
I would check with dendrite first before you do anything..lol.
Basically below:
Each counterclockwise movement of the stops by one flat of the hexagon raises the stop and hence increases the rainfall recorded by the gauge by approximately 1% (per flat). So one complete revolution of the stop would cause roughly a 6% increase in recorded rainfall. (Raising the stop – ie a movement in the +ve counterclockwise direction – decreases the weight of rain needed to cause a tip of the buckets and hence a given rainfall amount generates more bucket tips and thus a higher rainfall reading);
Each of the two stops must be adjusted by an equal amount (and obviously in the same direction);
Nice, that will be a sweet surprise when you get that in the mail, you will probably forget about it by the time you get it.
Mine was pretty quick, want to say 3 weeks maybe? Probably quicker and easier in a smaller state.