October 2022 OBS/DISC

[dryslot]

15 hours ago, tamarack said:

Never eaten bear - hoped to try it when a friend shot a small (125 lb) critter on our woodlot, but he gave it to another friend, it stayed fur-on too long and the meat was spoiled. 

45 years ago, when I was scoping out possible road locations 10-12 miles west of Allagash during deer season, I walked to within <20 yards of a sizable bear which was scruffling the leaves to find beechnuts.  Since I wasn't using my compass, I was carrying the 7-mm Mauser, had the bear in my sights and safety off, then thought, "Do you really want to kill a bear?"  After he'd disappeared, I remembered that I was 4,000 feet from the nearest logging road and that the 2nd half of that distance was a recent harvest in a cedar swamp.  If I'd shot the critter, I might've needed to eat it right where it fell.       
(I've heard that a bear is, pound for pound, the most difficult animal to drag.)  Until I eat bear meat and like it (and I'm confident I will), I'll not attempt to shoot one.

I've had bear meat, Its good but can be very tough if not butchered or cooked correctly.

[SnoSki14]

December 2015 heat but in November? The warm anomalies are off the charts 1st half of Nov

Highs in the 70s to Vermont, lows in the 60s up to Canadian border

[dryslot]

6 hours ago, Ginx snewx said:

Regarding game food. Been to many game dinners, tried it all. Some good some not so.

My favorite is Beaver, meat is usually nice and pink and moist inside. Best cooked slowly until brought to a hot broil..

Ha, My favorite as well, I prefer it raw though.

[dryslot]

Weather looks good for opening day for resident firearm season for deer is Saturday up here, So i will be in the woods and see if we can get some venison.

[CoastalWx]

11 minutes ago, SnoSki14 said:

December 2015 heat but in November? The warm anomalies are off the charts 1st half of Nov

Highs in the 70s to Vermont, lows in the 60s up to Canadian border

Let’s do it.

[Baroclinic Zone]

deluge

[WinterWolf]

1 hour ago, Damage In Tolland said:

I had forgotten about that. Was a white Helloween. But by the next morning I believe most of it had melted 

Also the Octobomb of ‘11, which pretty much shut down Halloween.  It(cold and snow in October) happens. But I’m fine with it mild for another couple weeks at least. 

[WinterWolf]

19 hours ago, tamarack said:

Gray squirrels, sure, and I'm confident the larger fox squirrels (not found in the Northeast) are just as tasty.  I've never tried red squirrel but friends who have say the meat has spruce-pitch overtones, no surprise given the little rascals' main diet.  Gray squirrel meat has a texture similar to that of chicken dark meat, but it has its own mild taste and is very low in fat.

This is exactly right. 

[RUNNAWAYICEBERG]

13 hours ago, Damage In Tolland said:

This makes me throw up in my mouth and into the toilet 

Yea. Weird. Next up is their grandmother’s rat recipe. 

[40/70 Benchmark]

6 hours ago, Ginx snewx said:

Regarding game food. Been to many game dinners, tried it all. Some good some not so.

My favorite is Beaver, meat is usually nice and pink and moist inside. Best cooked slowly until brought to a hot broil..

 

32 minutes ago, dryslot said:

Ha, My favorite as well, I prefer it raw though.

What a couple of nasty guys...any hopes of attracting Marny Stainer to the board are likely gone.

[Whineminster]

Keep it hot until Thanksgiving.  We want the cold when it counts. 

[WinterWolf]

8 minutes ago, Whineminster said:

Keep it hot until Thanksgiving.  We want the cold when it counts. 

I agree with this…but not hot lol, mild to warm is fine.  

[CoastalWx]

Nina Fall is finally becoming established. Definitely your more classic -PNA look coming up. 

Word of caution with those RMM MJO diagrams. They aren't telling the story. They go against what some of the VP anomalies are showing...IOW maybe the 850 easterlies are migrating east..but at the same time there is a standing subsidence wave in that area over the WPAC. Bottom line (at least IMO) the colder west/warmer east look will be persistent and probably last longer than guidance shows. 

 

I do think eventually later in November we see maybe a break down with a cooler east/warmer central and west look. 

[RUNNAWAYICEBERG]

2 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Nina Fall is finally becoming established. Definitely your more classic -PNA look coming up. 

Word of caution with those RMM MJO diagrams. They aren't telling the story. They go against what some of the VP anomalies are showing...IOW maybe the 850 easterlies are migrating east..but at the same time there is a standing subsidence wave in that area over the WPAC. Bottom line (at least IMO) the colder west/warmer east look will be persistent and probably last longer than guidance shows. 

 

I do think eventually later in November we see maybe a break down with a cooler east/warmer central and west look. 

Beware it trickles further into winter while the weenie panic mode ramps up. 

[CoastalWx]

1 minute ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

Beware it trickles further into winter while the weenie panic mode ramps up. 

I fully anticipate that. Be prepared. I'm sure by mid November this place will be unreadable.

[CoastalWx]

But piggy shows some signs of breaking down a bit at the end of the ensembles...it just may become a bit more -PNA.  Regardless, I don't see any real red flags...but by later in November, we better hope to see signs of something more favorable. It doesn't have to be a classic look...just more favorable.

[SnoSki14]

22 minutes ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

Beware it trickles further into winter while the weenie panic mode ramps up. 

Get ready for weather's five stages of grief. 

[HIPPYVALLEY]

65° with heavy mist and a warm wind. Tropical.

[HIPPYVALLEY]

4 minutes ago, SnoSki14 said:

Get ready for weather's five stages of grief. 

Who cares? Let’s torch right into early December and then flip the switch.

[ORH_wxman]

21 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

But piggy shows some signs of breaking down a bit at the end of the ensembles...it just may become a bit more -PNA.  Regardless, I don't see any real red flags...but by later in November, we better hope to see signs of something more favorable. It doesn't have to be a classic look...just more favorable.

Yeah this look is totally fine for early/mid November....you can see -WPO/-PNA pattern with EPO near neutral on the 5 day mean for Nov 5-10. This pattern would naturally get better as wavelengths lengthen.

 

 

[forkyfork]

oceanic safety blanket <3

[tamarack]

 

That’s Very interesting.  The mill in Madawaska and Edmunston wasn’t there back then? 

The spruce-fir pulpwood specs at the (then) Fraser mills were essentially the same as for sawlogs at St.-Pamphile, and the stumpage for logs was about twice that for pulp.  Also, except for T16R6 ("Eagle Lake"), the land managed by Seven Islands in its St. John River District was far closer to St.-P.

Ya, that northern crown of Maine up there can do cold like few other places in the lower 48 that’s for sure.  Can be BRUTAL.  

Coldest morning of our 10 winters in Fort Kent was -47 on Jan. 17, 1979; the max that day was -8. 
(Trivia note:  On Jan. 17-18, 1979, PWM had 27.1" SN, topped only by the 31.9" in Feb 2013.  We had 1/2" on the 18th.) 
At our camp on the American side of the frontier across from St. P, it was "only" -40 that morning.  We'd planned to split 4 ways to explore various forests south of the camp, but safety mandated 2 pairs. 
(2nd trivia note:  Jan 1979 was as weird a month as I can remember.  It featured 3 of the 5 coldest mornings of our time in Fort Kent, -39, -42 and -47.  It also included 5 days in which the lows were 33° to 35°, the only >32 minima in our 10 Januarys there.  PWM had 62.4" that month, their greatest month on record.  We had 26.2", 1.7" below average.  The 5.51" total precip was nearly twice the 2.79" average.)

Been up to Escort Station a few times, another remote frigid place in winter.  How bout the airfield on the way to escort…that’s a neat runway out there in the middle of nowhere/massive forest wilderness.  Drops off like a cliff at the end of it about 100ft…sledders got killed there a few years ago drag racing, and didn’t know it was a cliff at the end.  

J.D. Iving built that AP circa 1981, at the height of the spruce budworm outbreak, so they could run their own spray program.  That area where Dead Brook meets the St. Francis River is probably the biggest gravel deposit within the US share of the St. John watershed.  Originally, they merely scraped off the vegetation and organic layer and did the little bit of needed leveling, and applied something to keep the dust down.  The "cliff" was actually the very steep embankment cut by Dead Brook.  I'd not heard about the sledder tragedy before now.
 

Me and a couple of buddies just rented a cabin in the Cross lake/Sinclair region for the winter for sledding.  We love it up there. Great people.  

Enjoy!  Best snomo trails and maintenance in the Northeast, IMO - maybe even for a wider area.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[powderfreak]

66/63 and OVC at 2200ft.

Its wild that it’s been this mild, humid and we haven’t seen anything close to sunshine.  Just low clouds and claustrophobic valley syndrome where it’s just terrain rising into thick stratus.

[HIPPYVALLEY]

13 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

66/63 and OVC at 2200ft.

Its wild that it’s been this mild, humid and we haven’t seen anything close to sunshine.  Just low clouds and claustrophobic valley syndrome where it’s just terrain rising into thick stratus.

I wonder how Killington snowmaking is going?

[CoastalWx]

A year ago was one of the most intense storms I’ve been in. 70-90+ mph winds SE of 95 with Plymouth County and the Cape basically getting high end cat 1/borderline cat 2 damage. 

[40/70 Benchmark]

1 hour ago, CoastalWx said:

Nina Fall is finally becoming established. Definitely your more classic -PNA look coming up. 

Word of caution with those RMM MJO diagrams. They aren't telling the story. They go against what some of the VP anomalies are showing...IOW maybe the 850 easterlies are migrating east..but at the same time there is a standing subsidence wave in that area over the WPAC. Bottom line (at least IMO) the colder west/warmer east look will be persistent and probably last longer than guidance shows. 

 

I do think eventually later in November we see maybe a break down with a cooler east/warmer central and west look. 

I never bought into the cold fall idea.

[Damage In Tolland]

6 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

A year ago was one of the most intense storms I’ve been in. 70-90+ mph winds SE of 95 with Plymouth County and the Cape basically getting high end cat 1/borderline cat 2 damage. 

And this year pure boredom 

[tamarack]

30 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

66/63 and OVC at 2200ft.

Its wild that it’s been this mild, humid and we haven’t seen anything close to sunshine.  Just low clouds and claustrophobic valley syndrome where it’s just terrain rising into thick stratus.

Morning low of 60.  Average here for Oct 26 is 51/32.  Light RA currently. 

[CoastalWx]

8 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

And this year pure boredom 

Absolute poke your eyes out, mind-numbingly boring. 

[Lava Rock]

dump fest in pwm