September 2020 Discussion

[powderfreak]

The trees are changing every 12 hours it’s noticeable.  Definitely going to peak early, by October 1st probably at this rate.  Columbus Day weekend will be stick season.

[dendrite]

1 minute ago, powderfreak said:

The trees are changing every 12 hours it’s noticeable.  Definitely going to peak early, by October 1st probably at this rate.  Columbus Day weekend will be stick season.

Yeah I was thinking that. SNE peeps coming up to the Kanc on Columbus Day weekend only seeing sticks. 

[mreaves]

2 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

The trees are changing every 12 hours it’s noticeable.  Definitely going to peak early, by October 1st probably at this rate.  Columbus Day weekend will be stick season.

I know that many think of Columbus Day as usually the peak but I don't think that's always been true.  We picked our wedding date 20 years ago, September 29th, because that always seemed closer to the regular peak, if there is such a thing.  I'm not sure if there is any data that could really back this up, just my memories through the years.   

[wxeyeNH]

29 minutes ago, dendrite said:

There's a couple of really nice stretches of color right now on 93 north, north of CON. Especially around the Northfield rest area and a bit before exit 19. It was pretty impressive on my ride home last night. I feel like it usually looks like this around the first week of October.

Color is coming on strong and very early in the Newfound Area.  My birches and aspens especially.  I usually don't peak till Oct 18th or so.  Trees must be conserving moisture as they start to go dormant.  That's my hypothesis

[Baroclinic Zone]

Interesting to read this as part of the Drought update. D4

[DavisStraight]

2 hours ago, weathafella said:

Ithaca,NY.  Taghannock Falls

That's it Jerry, there was another good size fall up there, we hiked about a mile up a trail to get there, when we were there a deer fell over the falls, it was alive but appeared to have broken its legs, animal control had to put him down. 

[TauntonBlizzard2013]

4 minutes ago, Baroclinic Zone said:

Interesting to read this as part of the Drought update. D4

Damn we’re in D4?

[dendrite]

1 minute ago, TauntonBlizzard2013 said:

Damn we’re in D4?

D3...it was posted above.

[ineedsnow]

2 minutes ago, TauntonBlizzard2013 said:

Damn we’re in D4?

D3

[Baroclinic Zone]

2 minutes ago, TauntonBlizzard2013 said:

Damn we’re in D4?

Not yet, and probably not likely either.  Would probably take another month without rain to get there.  We've been in D3 going on 2 weeks now.

[ineedsnow]

Noticed a big change in leaves today driving home from work..

[CoastalWx]

CO weekend seems to be peak near the lakes region anecdotally. I know up in the Whites it was becoming stick season at that time or close to it. Obviously some years it differed by a week or so. 

[Baroclinic Zone]

2 minutes ago, ineedsnow said:

Noticed a big change in leaves today driving home from work..

Agreed.  This cold snap triggered the leaves to accelerate color change.

[powderfreak]

18 minutes ago, mreaves said:

I know that many think of Columbus Day as usually the peak but I don't think that's always been true.  We picked our wedding date 20 years ago, September 29th, because that always seemed closer to the regular peak, if there is such a thing.  I'm not sure if there is any data that could really back this up, just my memories through the years.   

Yeah for sure Columbus Day is past peak up here pretty much every year, but it’s when the tourists come to look at the leaves.  Every year they say “looks like we should’ve been here a week or two ago.”  It’s still nice viewing but it’s that uniform orange by then...the red and yellow is gone and there’s a lot of bare trees as well.

 

[Baroclinic Zone]

21 minutes ago, mreaves said:

I know that many think of Columbus Day as usually the peak but I don't think that's always been true.  We picked our wedding date 20 years ago, September 29th, because that always seemed closer to the regular peak, if there is such a thing.  I'm not sure if there is any data that could really back this up, just my memories through the years.   

We share the same anniversary date.  Early congrats to you and your siggy other.   It'll be our 19th here. 

[dryslot]

The foliage change is early here as well, Very noticeable on color.

[Ginx snewx]

1 hour ago, Modfan2 said:

Fire fighters in Thompson (near Ma Line) have been working the same 5 acre brush fire since July, it’s deep in the ground and breaking containment 

yea that was in the dry wind from Teddy, higher humidity rest of the week and showers next week will help a lot

[mreaves]

23 minutes ago, Baroclinic Zone said:

We share the same anniversary date.  Early congrats to you and your siggy other.   It'll be our 19th here. 

Thank you and to you too.  We were 2001 as well.  It was quite a time 3 weeks after 9/11 and worrying about all the travel some of our relatives were doing and the fact that we had plane tickets to England for our honeymoon.  

[Ginx snewx]

Summer mode back in force

[Baroclinic Zone]

5 minutes ago, mreaves said:

Thank you and to you too.  We were 2001 as well.  It was quite a time 3 weeks after 9/11 and worrying about all the travel some of our relatives were doing and the fact that we had plane tickets to England for our honeymoon.  

Yeah, I recall going through the airports and there was basically National Guard troops patrolling the terminal.  We took a cruise.

[rclab]

1 hour ago, Damage In Tolland said:

That borders the periphery of the backyard/ woods. It’s kind of a diagonal line that stretches from the woods up to behind the house. There’s a public hiking trail way back in the woods that goes for many miles thru the woods in town 

I found the stone fences so natural. Did you or previous owners erect it? Is it older than your residence or the others in the area? It is graceful and unobtrusive what better boundary than earths own stone. As always ....

[Ginx snewx]

Just now, rclab said:

I found the stone fences so natural. Did you or previous owners erect it? Is it older than your residence or the others in the area? It is graceful and unobtrusive what better boundary than earths own stone. As always ....

My front and back property have stone walls. I am always amazed at the stone masons from the 1600 1700 1800 hundreds who took such time to build intricate walls. Such beauty as this stock pic shows

[dendrite]

Lots of stonewalls around here too. We have one out in the back woods, but it's seen better days.

[Damage In Tolland]

1 minute ago, dendrite said:

Lots of stonewalls around here too. We have one out in the back woods, but it's seen better days.

Jackson?

[Bostonseminole]

22 hours ago, CoastalWx said:

That's what I understood. If the euro guidance keeps coming in earlier and earlier with the upgrades they do...it's going to make the GEFS irrelevant. 

Where can you find this 35 day monster?

[dendrite]

9 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Jackson?

That was when Northfield was known as Southfield. It will rise again.

[dendrite]

6 minutes ago, Bostonseminole said:

Where can you find this 35 day monster?

Pivotal has it.

edit...will have it.

[powderfreak]

12 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Lots of stonewalls around here too. We have one out in the back woods, but it's seen better days.

[dendrite]

Yeah all of those rocks left in moraines from the last glacial maximum became property boundaries all around New England. lol

[CT Valley Snowman]

Yeah we nice and smooth soil here in the ctrv.  My uncle from Gardner Mass when he came down to visit me last year hadn't been to the valley where I live in over 15 years and forgotten how much flat  and fertile farmland was in this area.  I probably have to travel about 10 miles east or west to start hitting the stone walls.