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They’re comin’ now

Sleet making another push near the VT border, but the force field is still up

Icy sfc on the RWIS south of here at the rest area

Poundtown right now 29.4° IMG_5304.mov

Washed that right out 29.6° and SN

Sleet is on the way

29.8° and moderate now. We white.

Glad I’m starting my weekend early. The first frozen of the year is always a mess on the highway. IMG_5298.mov

30.7° -SN Coating up

I agree that each winter tends to have an overall vibe to it. 11/8 just seems a little early for me to gauge that.

Sure. I don’t get too excited either way beyond 2-3 weeks. I just don’t do the whole “feel” thing. Last Novie flipped to below normal toward mid month as well.

Voodoo

I have more leaves than Kevin

Flurries now. We winter. I probably should’ve winterized the run for the old girls.

31.6° and windy. This is the first time I’ve been cold this fall.

Maybe this year our only good snow event will be 12/24-25 and the rest of the winter will be a

Borderline there. That warm layer would probably completely melt all flakes and I don't think the cold layer is cold enough or deep enough to flip it back to IP. If you can knock that warm layer down a couple degC you may get some ice cores to survive back down into the cold layer. But that's just a snapshot in time with the WAA increasing aloft so there will probably be the typical transition zones. Maybe we can at least start encasing the bodies in S VT.

In the last 20 Novies the averages are CON 2.0", ORH 1.8", BDL 1.1", PVD 0.7", BOS 0.4". Let's not rush the season. We just barely started getting 30s at night.

Was that for sure a marten or an ermine?

Yeah it definitely appeared larger than a bobcat. I really wouldn't have believed it until I saw it with my own eyes and it's strange that my neighbor saw the same thing a couple of months ago. The people that own the 45 acres of forested land behind me are from India so maybe they released something exotic.

Yeah I said that was a possibility, but the tail appeared to be over a foot long to my deteriorating eyes.

The settlers wiped out a lot of mammals up here...mountain lions, elk, wolves, lynx, martens, etc. Wolverines were probably around here as well.

Not here. Although there have been some legit sightings in New England over the last half century. One was hit by a car in CT in the last decade. But I definitely saw a large feline with a long tail with tan/light brown short fur casually walk down the end of my driveway and cross the road Fri night around sunset. It was way larger than a domestic cat and the tail was definitely waving side to side in typical feline fashion. Maybe it was just a bobcat and an illusion of a longer tail, but if they were officially around here I'd say I was 99% sure it was a ML. My neighbor gave me the same exact description of what she saw a couple months ago. I figured it was the coyote that was eating my fallen pears, but she said it was definitely feline and had a long tail. Weird.

Does anyone have some recommendations for trail cams with good images/video that aren't overly expensive? I'm considering two. I swear I saw a mountain lion exit the yard Friday night and my neighbor told me she thought she saw one go through her yard 2 months ago (I laughed at her at the time).