Ok, global warming aside... it's 80 freaking degrees here in NJ yesterday?

WTF?

IT'S OCTOBER!

Patience, patience... It will get cold again.

The bigger worry IMO is that with the drought, the water table will be so low that there won't be enough seepage to produce a lot of phat ice this winter.

I was in the Adirondacks from 9/14-9/23. One of the days had squalls resulting in less than half an inch of rain; the rest of the time the days were sunny. I hiked 12 mountains and did not once have to step in or around mud. Trails on south-facing slopes were actually dusty-- it was hard to believe I was in the Adirondacks.

I am also concerned about the water tables... But I didn't want to start a panic

Yeah. You should have seen how low the water was up at Avalanche lake. Made getting around really easy, though.

It's raining tonight!

start up the snow dance, pray, meditate, etc. hopefully it will be better than last year!

86 degrees in Poughkeepsie Saturday...set a record for the date.

Funny, how many find statistical deviations from mean weather conditions so remarkable.

So calculate the probability of today being even warmer than Saturday. It's 87 right now and could go higher.

And anyway, what's statistics got to do with the delay of ice season??

Not so much "remarkable" as just F-ing annoying... I am not a hot weather person...

Give me 60's, no humidity and sunny... Or 20's and sunny...

So it's your globes that are warmed.

I was in Vermont over the weekend (Family Weekend at Middlebury College; dads go and take their daughters on shopping sprees for the winter clothes they suddenly realize they are going to need) (crap, Williams won the football game).

On Saturday night it snowed down to ~2,600'; it had likewise done so across Lake Champlain in the Adirondacks, as well. Winter is on its way, Brendan.

According to a local forester I chatted with, Vermont has not had the drought the Adks have had, and the water table is "normal."

So this winter instead of all of us being crowded into Chapel Pond Canyon, perhaps we'll be trudging up the long approach to Smugglers Notch and getting shredded by arctic winds at Lake Willoughby.

Sunday around noon, snowline in Vermont was down to 2300 feet (Appalachian Gap parking lot)

It's coming!

Amen.

Frost on the cars this morning in Danbury....40F.....quite ashock after the warm Fall we had!

Well I'm ready; I've got my fur coat.

Awwww...

That's cute....

Did your mom send it to you?

...yeah, I bet she goes to college!

How does your squirrel feel about this news?

NJ Squirrels Safe to Eat!