I was looking at the calendar and realized it’s only three months until April 2021. Looking forward to the warmer weather, trout season and hopefully a little less cold.
Spring
Average Annual Precipitation, 1961-1990
Between 1961 and 1990, the Tug Hill Plateau and Eastern Adirondacks averaged 65 inches of precipitation a year. This is the wettest part of the state. In contrast, the Finger Lakes region of the state only receives about 35 inches a year on average. http://cugir.mannlib.cornell.edu/datatheme.jsp?id=164
You Can Often Tell When Rain is Coming
You can often tell when a rain storm is about to come in the woods by a gentle breeze that mostly touches the tops of the trees. Often there will be little breeze at the ground level but you can hear the trees blowing in the wind.
The sky gets darker, you might even feel a few big drops of water. In the summer, if it’s a thunderstorm you might hear a clap or two of thunder. Then sometimes it gently ramps up, but usually it comes down strong, quickly dropping quite a bit of water on your head. You seek shelter as soon you know you will get soaked.
Just a rainy Saturday…
Just a rainy Saturday…
Compass traverse | SpringerLink
Fourth Week of May
Photos I've taken over the year during the fourth week of May. Some are from Memorial Day Weekend, and some are the week before, depending on when the holiday falls in this month.
May snow, spring polar vortex to shock parts of US in developing weather pattern | AccuWeather
An unusually chilly spring is about to turn even more shocking as cold air, moisture and a visit from the polar vortex team up to trigger way out-of-season conditions for mid-May across portions of the Northeast. AccuWeather meteorologists anticipate the upcoming pattern to bring snow that defies the norms for so late in the season and freezing conditions.
The weather late this week to this weekend and beyond may seem unreal and downright nasty after the warmest weekend of the season so far. After the temperature in New York City failed to climb to 70 degrees Fahrenheit during April for the first time in 80 years, since 1940, according to the National Weather Service (NWS), the high soared to 80 on Sunday.
Saturday's high is normally 67 degrees. The mercury will struggle to break 46 degrees that day. That is 19 degrees below normal. It was colder in 1977 though, when the mercury only reached 43 degrees.