Northeast Weather Blog

Hi Mark!

They certainly are wonderful!! Although I would love to see those Aspens out there in the Rockies. I bet they're spectacular!

Our peak passed with a couple of pretty good thunderstorms. Two on Monday and another round of heavy showers on Tuesday. Then we got the Nor'easter on Thursday and Friday with strong winds this weekend. As you can imagine the colour here is gone, except for some hardy oaks that love to keep their leaves until November and almost immediately turn brown.

Not too far to the south, however, the trees have yet to peak. We had two nights of frost at my location on 9-15/16 and some areas just south of here escaped it. This gave us a wonderful display of colour throughout that long 20 day or so period of indian summer. the only problem was that it was very humid over that stretch and didn't make for the clearest of skies. Good shots of long distance were hard to come by. But the trees themselves put on the best display I have yet to see. Some perfect conditions for bringing out fall colour played into it. Heavy spring rains, near to below normal summer precip, but came in regular occurance. Then from mid august to just recently we had only 30-50% of normal precip. Then came the early frost and a long stretch of dry calm weather. There was good colour from 9/20-10/8.

Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment!

Thanks guys!!

Hopefully there's more on the way. Have to go landscape down in Port Jervis later this week so I'm sure I'll be able to get some then. Maybe I'll go visit my parents in Middletown. Both of these locations have yet to reach their peak.

Keep checking back every few days for updates. Once again, thanks for the comments!!

Hey Fish!!

There's more on the way, hopefully. I might go back in the woods today and snap a few past peask photos. Maybe some Oaks are starting to display themselves.

I have to go landscape this week where the peak has yet to come, so I'm sure I'll get a few good pics from there as well.

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That DoverDan guy just can't take the fact that his GW champion is not as envrio-friendly as he seems on the surface. The problem is that people have associated CO2/GHG emissions with environmentalism. I still believe that doing good for the environment is making wise landuse decisions and using organic products (instead of chemical/syntesized ones) and not being associated with/profit from operations that cause real pollution i.e.letting these chemicals seep into the ground.

No Dover mentioned that the groundwater was okay around the mine site but I wouldn't drink that water. Who knows how many hydraulic lines burst, gas spilled, oil leaked into the ground and all the other nasties that are involved in keeping that machinery working to get as much product out of the ground, not to mention the special zinc mine industry products that are used that we probably don't know about.

Going out for a walk through the woods now.

Hopefully I come back with some more pics!!

If there's any worthy pics I should have them posted here by this evening.

Hey Fish!

I did see that and thought that it was awesome!

I'm glad to see that the info you've been posting in your blog for these past couple of years is making a difference in people's lives! I'm sure it makes the time you put into the blog fell worth it and more!

They were very kind words.