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October 2012 Observations & Discussions


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The comparison in foliage progress/extent to last year is almost laughable at the moment. We are leaps and bounds ahead of last year with much of Northern New England already past peak.

10/12/11: http://www.foliagenetwork.net/images/stories/reports/northeast_us/10122011_lc.gif

10/13/12: http://www.foliagenetwork.com/images/stories/reports/northeast_us/10132012_lc.gif

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The comparison in foliage progress/extent to last year is almost laughable at the moment. We are leaps and bounds ahead of last year with much of Northern New England already past peak.

10/12/11: http://www.foliagene...10122011_lc.gif

10/13/12: http://www.foliagene...10132012_lc.gif

Without a doubt we are peaking here IMBY. Big difference from last yr

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Yeah I just posted in the PHL forum that I'm noting significant progression in the past 48 hours, probably delayed response from the cold nights. I'd guess we're borderline high color now (60%) in CNJ.

Same here on the island. Just beginning to turn in western Nassau but I'm in Suffolk today for work and the leaves have much more color. Pretty big difference over the 10 miles. Clearly a result of uhi keeping Nassau warmer.than Suffolk.

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For the last 2 years and this year as well, there's negatively tilted strong low pressures close to each other around mid-late October. This year's mid October storm isn't nearly as strong as the last two, but it's still an interesting coincidence.

2010 - October 26

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2011 - October 16

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2012 - October 18

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Looks fairly mild for the rest of the month, those who haven't had a killing freeze may be waiting for a long time before it comes back again.

Not really sure what the basis is for such a statement like this. The 12z GEFS do not show a very mild pattern over the next 16 days by any means. The mean is really keying in on the -EPO Ridge into AK in the medium and long range and have signs of ridging into Greenland.

http://www.meteo.psu...nsloopmref.html

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Not really sure what the basis is for such a statement like this. The 12z GEFS do not show a very mild pattern over the next 16 days by any means. The mean is really keying in on the -EPO Ridge into AK in the medium and long range and have signs of ridging into Greenland.

http://www.meteo.psu...nsloopmref.html

It's not a persistent very mild pattern, but it's no cool pattern either. There's the -EPO and some ridging in Greenland, but the trough focuses over the central-western US through the medium range while some ridging builds into the East starting after next weekend. Things could perhaps cool down more towards the long range though as the EPO drops and the PNA rises, but that's going towards the end of the 15 day range.

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It's not a persistent very mild pattern, but it's no cool pattern either. There's the -EPO and some ridging in Greenland, but the trough focuses over the central-western US through the medium range while some ridging builds into the East starting after next weekend. Things could perhaps cool down more towards the long range though as the EPO drops and the PNA rises, but that's going towards the end of the 15 day range.

There could definitely be mild spells with this pattern that could last a couple of days, such as the one progged in the d7-9 range, but the overall pattern does not look very warm from my standpoint. As I said, the fact that there are positive anomalies into Greenland and Alaska that we never saw last year, is never a bad thing in terms of cold in the east.

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